Saxonia Bawley 34ft 6in (10.5m), 1934 Scaffie 30-60ft (9-18m) Sea View One-Design 12ft (3.7m), 190-strong clinker OD fleet, 1931 Seabird 27ft 4in (7.5m) William Fife III, 2000 Selina King 35ft 10in (10.9m) Fred Shepherd, ex Arthur Ransome, 1938 Seraffyn 24ft (7.3m) Lin and Larry Pardey’s Lyle Hess cutter, 1968 Sharpie 19ft 8in, d Kroeger Brothers, 1931 Sif 19ft (5.8m) Memory Class, d Tony Robinson/RN Stone, 1979 Siris 48ft 5in (14.8m) Frank Morgan Giles 8-M, 1925 Slipper launch 25-30ft (7.6-9.1m) Andrews, Bourne End et al, 1930s-1950s Snippet (Humber Yawl) 28ft (8.5m) d George F Holmes, 1913 Truelight 35ft (10.4m) Sean Reney, 1922/1999 SMY Atlantide 115ft (35m), design Alfred Mylne, 1935 Solent Sunbeam 26ft 5in (8.1m) keelboat class, Alfred Westmacott, 1923 Solway Maid 52ft 7in (19.8m) William Fife III, 1940 Sopranino 19ft 8in (5.9m) Laurent Giles transat tabloid yacht, 1950 Sorella 27ft (5.8m), Dan Hatcher Itchen Ferry, world’s oldest yacht, 1858 South Coast One-Design 25ft 11in (7.9m), CA Nicholson, 1955 Spirit 46, 46ft 3in (14.2m) Sean McMillan and Mick Newman, 1996 Star Class 22ft 7in (6.9m) Francis Sweisguth Olympic keelboat, 1911 Stella 25ft 10in (7.9m) Kim Holman, 1959-1972
PETER MUMFORD, BEKEN OF COWES
CB 250
RAY LITTLE
Chough
Grayling
More and more people are realising how much fun you can have with a little yacht like this 1927 Albert Lukedesigned gaff sloop Chough. Her restoration, by owners David and Christine Hopkins, included some lovely touches like a paddle for a boom crutch, pebbles for ballast, and a cosy interior. Chough is a proper little yacht – old-timers would call her a ‘little big-un’!
The sun-scorched, Ballardian hell of new Valencia in 2008 is the last place you would expect to find something as beautiful as this hiding among ranks of white GRP motorboats. But Spanish marine fitter Rafa Carrio did just that when he found this Stones of Brightlingsea gaff cutter. Built in 1900 to a JF Clyne design, it’s now been restored and she sails without any electronics.
LOA 18ft 3in (5.6m), Beam 6ft 5in (2m), Draught 3ft 9in (1.2m), Disp 2.6T, CB296
LOA 37ft (11.3m), Beam 8ft 10in (2.7m), Draught 6ft 7in (2m), Disp 10T, CB243
KATHY MANSFIELD
NIC COMPTON
JEAN-CLAUDE ROSSO
Gloriana
Shannon OD
Biche
Lord Sterling’s project for a royal row barge for last year’s Thames Pageant nearly didn’t take off. Early plans in GRP by Norman Foster and BAE Systems proved unworkable. Enter Thames boatbuilder Mark Edwards and a pile of wood and, 22 weeks later, Gloriana was reality. On 3 June she led the show, testament to the oldest, and still the best, boatbuilding material on the planet.
This photo of a Shannon One-Design streaking across Ireland’s Lough Derg at double-figure speeds during the Irish Raid must count as one of our favourite images of classic sailing in 2012. The story, of how ex-Olympic sailor Cathy McAleavey forcibly apprenticed herself to grandmaster Jimmy Furey, a retired, octogenarian boatbuilder, to build the boat to a 1920 design by Morgan Giles, is even better. Read the story on page 78 – and about Jimmy Furey on page 96.
She’s the only so-called Dundee tunnyboat to have survived beyond the end of her French Atlantic tuna-fishing career (1957). She was saved in 2004 by the Friends of Biche, who raised £1 million to have her replanked, redecked, reframed and rerigged at Chantier du Guip in Brittany. Then she won two 2013 CB Awards for the boat and the yard. We hope to bring you more soon.
LOA 87ft 7in (26.7m), Beam 12ft 6in (3.8m), Draught 3ft (0.9m), Disp 11.1 T. CB290
LOA 18ft (5.5m), Beam 4ft 11in (1.5m), Draught 4ft (1.2m), Sail area 140sqft (13m2)
LOA 69ft 3in (21.1m), Beam 21ft 9in (6.7m), Draught 9ft 7in (3m), Disp 63T CLASSIC BOAT JUNE 2013
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