I mentioned in the introduction article that Wikipedia has a C&C Custom 62 page which was instrumental in giving me contact information about “Pegaso”.
Through other contacts and the fact that I have been ‘living’ Pegaso for the last 4 years, I have met and talked to a number of people that could give me the pieces to assemble the history of the boat. I talked to Rob Ball, the designer of the boat, before he passed in Sep 2022, and met John Kelly Cuthbertson over the Internet, have conversed with Bill and Alicia Blodget (Alicia passed in July 2022 but was tremendously helpful in piecing together some boat background). I recently got contacted by her kids and hope one day we can reconnect on the boat. I met Luis Altamirano over the cruisers forum and he supplied some boat plans and other information. Jorge Altamirano long passed but Hertha is still living in Munich. Anyway, long story short, I am becoming more and more of a C&C expert, definitively what “Pegaso” pertains.
My attempt to update the Pegaso part of the “C&C Custom 62” page was rejected due to the “No original research” rule. O.K. not my loss, I guess I have to publish a book to earn the right to update Wikipedia.
But recently, I had a discussion with John Kelly Cuthbertson about the C&C HIN (Hull Identification Numbers), which he was going through and establishing a pattern for. Additionally, I learned from a former C&C worker that was involved in the “Pegaso” construction that the boat was actually out of the 61′ hull mold and just got a raised freeboard to make it a 62′ vessel.
I informed John Kelly that Pegaso has hull number 10 stamped in the starboard stern corner identifying it as the 10th hull out of the mold. This correlates to a C&C list that John Kelly has, listing Pegaso as the 10th entry. So the boat has basically the same hull as the 61′ racers that were built since the famous “Sorcery” (Southern Ocean Racing Circuit) was built.
This somewhat answers the question of how it came to a 62 ft hull, there was no new mold, just more freeboard. The question of why the HIN did not indicate #1 or #2 of the allegedly existing 62′ C&Cs has been solved.
“Scirocco” was never built (confirmed with John Kelly), I have not heard or seen anything of “Brita”, but where is the supposedly existing “Jubilation”, later “Marauder” and some reference to a “Lilia”
There is a video of a “Custom 62” called “Marauder” present. The link presented in the video does not function anymore but I must have at some point downloaded the original sales catalog from dolphin-yachts.com since it was in my C&C sister boats folder. “Marauder” is a C&C 61 with an aft cockpit and ketch rigged. The dimensions match that of “Pegaso”: LOA 62’5″ (19.05m) and a beam of 15’2″ (4.63m).
Further Wikipedia references to a “Marauder”/”Lilia” US Coast Guard registrations are falsely added as evidence and clearly are not C&C 62 related, as that boat’s HIN identifies her as an Alden-build 62′ with a beam of 12′ which is just not achievable when you take an existing 15′ beam mold and cast another hull out of it.
The question is if the “Custom” designation applies to the ’81-built “Marauder” or if that started with “Pegaso”. A Yachting magazine description identifies “Pegaso” as the first “Custom 62” and additional circumstantial evidence would also be that there was only an advertisement of the Pegaso-center-cockpit design and no other aft cockpit 62′ variant by C&C.