Conquest/Whiplash Update 2022

Current owner Matthew Ooms has written in from the Bahamas:

"I believe I am the current owner of Conquest/Whiplash.  Would be interested in more pictures and knowledge of its history etc. 

Now she is a live-aboard and we are currently in The Bahamas.  She is now named “Alfitairie” and before that she was called “Red Boat”.  We have owned Alfitairie for 3 years now and she has taken us to the Bahamas twice (where we are now) and to the Keys last year because of Covid.  She is our first big boat.  The previous owner did a refit but we have done several upgrades like davits and 1120w of solar. We still have a long way to go. 

She does have davits but cause she has a big back end, it isn’t easy to hoist up the dinghy so I do drag it on short passages."

 

Thanks for sharing the update, Matt!

Conquest Update 2022

We recently received an update on Conquest/Whiplash from owner Matthew Ooms;

"I believe I am the current owner of Conquest/Whiplash.  Kind of interesting in if you have pictures and knowledge of its history etc.  Now she is a live-aboard and we are currently in The Bahamas."

If anyone out there has pictures or stories to share, please feel free to send them along.

Whiplash

Some recent information submitted by Allen Peat, the original owner of Conquest, previously known as Whiplash. Thanks for writing in, Allen!

Conquest/Whiplash, was hull #6, her IOR racing no was 26776, 26 indicating her race area, I choose the 77 after Doug Peterson's design no, 77 and then hull no 6. Hull was laid up in New Orleans, by Tom Dreyfus and Palmer Johnson finished the boat in Sturgeon Bay Wis. I ordered the boat from PJ. They built several other Peterson boats in aluminum and we had many exciting races against Sleeping Bear owned by Midge VerPlank of SpringLake Mich.

Conquest I Update

A recent write-in by Ray Betts, one of the owners of Conquest:

Hi Matt

An update for you on Conquest 1.

She is owned by Garrick William, Ken Morrice and myself and is out of Crescent Beach marina in British Columbia.

Garrick saw her in Frisco or LA about 15 years ago, he was surprised to see her again a couple of years later in Vancouver BC, up for sale, (could this be a case of serendipity?) but in a very sorry state. He and a couple of other guys bought her and moved her down to Blaine WA, and then to BC a few years later.

I knew about the Conquest used as a sail training vessel for the US Navy in Annapolis, but have been unable to link the two. Nor have I had any luck in finding out the hull number.

Maybe you can help here? Out of the 26 built, how many and which are MIA? maybe I can narrow it down.

Great Blog
Regards

(Ray's original comment is attached to the main page for Conquest)

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