Too bad they're making Tiara's now...what a comedown....but Max is right
about that S-2...that thing was FAST....smokin fast....BTW, Max, who ended
up buying her and where did she go?


"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"DSK" wrote in message

Maxprop wrote:
Another exception is the Graham & Schlageter-designed S2 35 CC. It was
a lower-volume center cockpit boat built on a racing hull, and it was
amazingly fast, especially downwind, but it wasn't beautiful. Nothing
on our part of Lake Michigan, short of a maxi, could outrun that beast.


I've heard of them, neer seen one in person. There were two S-2 9.2cc in
our marina, one owned by some good friends... both sailed pretty
respectably even if they weren't center cockpit boats. I like S-2 boats.

S2s were built up here in Holland, Michigan. The owner of the company was
a gent named Leon Slikkers, a displaced Dutchman, who started out building
Slikcraft powerboats, then sold his company to AMF, and was barred from
building powerboats for a period of ten years by the sale contract. So he
built sailboats, and some of the early S2s were among the ugliest, worst
performing pieces of high quality junk ever produced. He was a quick
study, however, and hired Graham and Schlageter to design his line of
cruiser/racers, and Arthur Edmonds (I think) to design the cruisers. The
results were exceptionally well-built boats with lots of upgrade features.
And they were good sailing machines. The G&S designed 35' CC was one of
his last sailing designs, and it was too bad it wasn't expanded upon into
larger boats. They were deceptively fast and beautifully constructed, if
not particularly beautiful aesthetically. Slikkers is back building
powerboats (Tiara), but he claims he'll build a fleet of 6 or 7 7.9 Grand
Slam racers if someone will give him an order and 50% down. Yeah, sure.

Max