Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2023 i Classic Boat

COWES, IOW Classics in Round the Island Race The 1903 Mylne design Kelpie enjoyed a breezy edition of the Round the Island Race on 1 July, completing the 50-mile course in 10 hours and winning the Shamrock Challenge Trophy for first gaffer to finish. However the top spot in the Gaffers 1 division was taken by Nomad, the 1998 one-off gaff cutter designed by Nigel Irens and Ed Burnett. She finished two hours later but won class honours on the race’s ISC handicap, calculated by the organisers, the Island Sailing Club in Cowes. Also competing in the class were Polly Agatha (2007 Cockwells-built Pilot Cutter), Duet (1912 Linton Hope gaff yawl run by Cirdan Sailing Trust), Crystal II (1929 Fred Shepherd One-Design) and Spinaway X (1889 Plymouth Hooker). HAMBLE, HAMPSHIRE…

Cutter class Moonbeam – designed and built by William Fife III in 1903 Kelpie – designed by Alfred Mylne and built by JG Fay in 1903 Tuiga – designed and built by William Fife III in 1909 Cynthia – designed and built by WT Jacket in 1910 Mariquita – designed and built by William Fife III in 1911 The Lady Anne - designed and built by William Fife III in 1912 Moonbeam IV – designed and built by William Fife III in 1914 Ayesha – designed by Arthur Boyes and built by Aldous in 1922 Schooner class Atlantic – designed by William Gardner in 1903, replica built by Van der Graaf 2010 Adix – designed by Arthur Holgate and built by Astilleros de Mallorca in 1984 Mariette – designed and…

CONIDAW Free Dunkirk Little Ship project Yacht designer and all-round classic yacht guru Butch Dalrymple Smith has been in contact from the south of France to make an appeal for the fabulous 1939-built Conidaw. She’s a 75ft (23m) wooden Dunkirk Little Ship in urgent need of restoration. “She has an impeccable pedigree,” says Butch, referring to her boatbuilder, JA Silver, and the designer John Bain. More than that though, Conidaw has a history that, even by the standards of a Dunkirk Little Ship, is exceptional. This is the vessel that carried Churchill’s handwritten note to the garrison in Calais to hold the port “at all costs.” She was the last to leave, under German bombardment, with 165 soldiers. She was at Dunkirk the very next day, rescuing 900 soldiers. She…

Following an 18-month restoration, Peregrine’s launch took place recently at Attrill & Sons Boat Yard, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, writes Ben Wood. The owners and restorers, Martyn and Bryony Mackrill, then motored her back to her new mooring in Yarmouth. Now, it is a matter of waiting for her original spruce mast to be repaired by Lallows Boatyard, Cowes (who has already made her new exquisite spruce boom). She is also having a new suit of Ratsey & Lapthorn sails (also from Cowes), finally returning her to her original fractional rig of 1936. Martyn and Bryony Mackrill hope to have her sailing on the Solent by early summer.…

Finger-friendly saw The Shinto saw rasp is a brilliant hand tool for shaping wood but its performance is marred slightly through being aggressively toothed all the way to the tip (1). For any but the most work-hardened hands, an instinctive two-handed grip is at best uncomfortable and, if the tool gets snagged, potentially damaging. We found that jamming the rubber ferrule of a walking stick (16mm internal diameter, £1.20 from Procter Health Care) over the bared teeth is an efficient short-term solution to the problem but we have latterly bettered that by grinding away the teeth (2) to create smooth hollows accommodating the forefinger and thumb (3). The shower of fireworks sent up by 10 saw-toothed blades meeting the hand-powered carborundum wheel was an enjoyable by-product of the operation. Baby…

BARBARA The restored 1923 Camper and Nicholson yawl is alive and well and celebrating her centenary in the Med SUMMER AND SAILS Summer is in full swing, and we’ve got reports from Barcelona, Suffolk, and pilot cutters in the west country ECONOMY OF MOTION Bumped from last month to make way for the motorboat guide, here’s Faraday, an electric launch from Nigel Irens that will take a heavy load, and motor all day on a single charge PLUS… Aussie sailing legend Gordon Ingate who just won the Dragon nationals aged 91; part two of Jolie Brise’s secret diaries; and much more SEPTEMBER ISSUE ON SALE Friday 11 August 2023 Or why not subscribe? SAILING TODAY WITH YACHTS & YACHTING IN THE AUGUST ISSUE • Happy anniversary to a legend: who…

There’s nothing more magical, mystical and romantic than sailing down your moon beam and steering by a star as you contemplate the immensity of the cosmos and your own place within it while trying to figure out if the light on the horizon is an Ocado delivery van or a bloody great container ship heading your way. So much for the spirituality. Now for the practical. For night sailing, or indeed sailing of any kind, I would recommend a Najad 50, which for the benefit of Classic Boat readers I should explain is a boat made out of a new-fangled material called glassfibre. You probably think a Najad 50 is beyond the means of a contributor to Classic Boat, but not so. I acquired one by dumping my old best…

“No, no, no,” said Enrico Zaccagni in Palermo, Sicily one day in 2004. “I have already decided that I have finished with wooden boats.” Enrico’s family had owned various boats over the years, one of which – Alzavola, a 1924 Claude Worth-designed ketch, a Bermudan rigged sister ship to Tern IV – he had sailed extensively in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. In 2000 it was clear that Alzavola needed a significant restoration but, without the necessary finance, Enrico and his family reluctantly decided to sell her. Enrico was asked to manage Alzavola’s restoration by the new owner and it was during the course of that that he decided that he would never own another wooden boat. By 2005 Enrico had established a new career advising on the purchase, and managing…

SPINNAKER WATCH WITH TURTLE Our friends at Spinnaker Watches have teamed up with the Marine Conservation Society to produce a limited edition run of watches designed with topical images and colours, including a turtle, a whale and a giant squid. Each watch is limited to 300 pieces. £370-£650 Spinnaker-watches.co.uk LUNA ROSSA SAIL BAG Classic Boat being an international publication, not all our readers will be supporting Sir Ben Ainslie’s troops come the 37th America’s Cup next summer in Barcelona. But whether you happen to be cheering for the Italian Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team or not, these nifty carry-all bags, made from discarded sails, are something we can all appreciate. The Luna Rossa team was born in 1997 when Argentine designer German Frers proposed to entrepreneur Patrizio Bertelli that he…

It was one of my most scintillating phone calls ever – straight out of the Antiques Road Show: skipper Toby Maris, calling to report that a dusty photo album had been discovered at Yarlington Country House Fair, packed with images from Jolie Brise’s cruise to Norway in 1933. As Jolie Brise’s official historian I was beyond excited – so little is known of the boat’s new owner and her movements after Bobby Somerset sold her in the autumn of 1932. Race results are easy to access but private cruises tend to slip under the radar. The album was a very rare thing. In fact Chris Hoare and his eagle-eyed wife, Diana, were no strangers to our Jolie Brise: Chris’s uncle Commander Newcombe Hoare was the man who helped fund her…

Bugatti YouYou Design: Ettore Bugatti Build: Jack Livesey, UK LOD: 11ft (3.3m) Power: Lynch 2.5kW electric motor paradiseboatco.com The great Bugatti is obviously better known for his cars, so his little Bugatti YouYou river craft, of which an unknown number were built from 1946-7, were forgotten, until Jack Livesey on the upper Thames built an amazing four new replicas. What looks like the tiny inboard Bugatti engine mounted in the bows actually conceals an electric motor, good for four knots. Which is plenty for pottering gently on the rivers. DISPLACEMENT Displacement craft are the oldest of all vessels, dating back to when man first sat astride a log. The maximum speed of a displacement vessel is limited by its wave-making: at maximum displacement speed its transverse wave length will equal…

The 30ft (9.1m) gaff cutter Cachalot that we shortlisted in our 2019 Awards for best restoration, is now fully complete, and just awaits the long-promised new suit of sails from Ratsey & Lapthorn. She was afloat and sailing when nominated, in abidance with our guidelines, but since then the interior fit-out has been finished. This year is the 125th since the launch of the Robert Sanders-built yacht, and owners Steve Yates and Beverly Daley-Yates, who have spent at least a decade restoring Cachalot, are planning a celebration on Suffolk’s River Orwell during the OGA60 Jubilee Party in early August.…

VENEER SAW Some of the most attractively figured woods are found in the burls bulging from tree trunks and in their contorted roots but this wood makes highly unstable timber. Stresses arising in its knotted, twisting tissues while seasoning lead to such splitting and warping as to render the timber practically useless for constructing furniture, especially if subjected to the extremes of temperature and humidity which characterise a marine environment. But as a decorative layer, sliced thinly as veneer and bonded to a stable substrate, these timbers can transform the featureless planes of functional cabinetry into riots of grain, colour and texture which fire the imagination. Technically any timber less than 1/4in (6mm) thick may be termed veneer but it is often just one tenth of that in practice, designed…

With 206 entries, of which more than 100 raced, participation in Falmouth Classics this year was back to pre-Covid levels. Although the wind was perhaps a little too light at times, the weather was generally kinder than last year when it blew very hard on the Saturday. Four boats – the 1973 Van de Stadt Maija, the Falmouth Sunbeam Phantasy, the 1898 gaff cutter Kathleen and the 1907 Looe Lugger Guiding Star – secured a clean sweep of class wins in all three races, while among the other overall winners in the larger classes were the Paul Gartside-designed 2011 Alva and 1972 Swan 55 Lulotte. The event – which coincided with the Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival as it has done for several years now – also included various social…

In April 1937 a meeting was held at the Royal St Kilda Yacht Club (which, since 1961, has been the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron) to select a new one-design class, one that would be economical to build and able to cope with the often-challenging conditions of Port Phillip (Bay). The Tumlare, which Knud Reimers had designed four years earlier, had only recently come to the attention of the club, but the attendees unanimously agreed that this would be the right boat. Things then moved quickly with five boats being built by three different builders in time for the start of the next sailing season that November, and another following soon afterwards. Two of these first boats were built by Charlie Peel in Brunswick, a Melbourne suburb, one of them for…

In a world that sees all yachts as playthings of the rich, how do you make the point that yachts are valuable cultural assets as important and as worthy of appreciation as historic homes, cars and works of art? How do you value the ecosystem of expertise and skills that creates or restores them and in so doing adds value to our society? How do you give this closed world value and consideration in the contexts of economic, technological and social history? If you look on Amazon you can find 20 or more books instantly available on Ferrari and any of the other great car makers. A similar situation exists for great architects and artists but you can only find one out-of-print book on Camper & Nicholsons and one on…

Buying a classic boat is relatively easy, and not that painful. When you consider the man hours and the materials that go into building one, they are ridiculously cheap. How much to have a boat like Wendy May(the Maurice Griffiths-designed 1936 26ft/8m gaff cutter) built today? Could you even buy at any price the long lengths of pitch pine planking or the close-grained oak of her frames and massive keelson? But the rub comes with keeping it. Such old boats demand attention. Turn your back for the briefest time, and the mould starts sprouting, or a seam of caulking lets go. A boat that old demands the best, so you haunt and pester the very best sail makers, and whinge, and pout until they deign to produce the most beautiful…

Email: mailto:steffan@classicboat.co.uk Launch Day at Lyme Regis’s Boat Building Academy in June was dominated by Paul Gartside designs, writes Nigel Sharp. The 15 students had produced six boats, of which just one came from the board of another designer. The exception was Sea Girl, commissioning student Phil Bevan’s Nick Smith-designed 18ft (5.5m) traditional clinker launch. With Siberian larch planking on oak timbers, she is mainly fitted out in oak and has a Beta 20hp diesel engine. Jon Tully’s standing lug-rigged Jenny Wren is Gartside’s design number 136, and is strip-planked in yellow cedar (with all the bead-and-cove planking machined in-house) and sheathed inside and out. A noticeable feature is her side seats just a few inches above the sole boards, and her buoyancy tanks, which have large hatches so they…

Classic Boat Quiet, Convenient, Reliable and Easy-to-Use In the popular 2-4hp category, the latest electric outboards – with their integral and rechargeable lithium batteries – have transformed the market, rendering petrol motors all-but obsolete. Advantages include: › Ease of Use Switch on, twist the tiller handles, go. Almost anybody can do it; no experience, strength or mechanical knowledge is needed. › Ease of Handling The batteries are removable, and the “pass up and down” weight (the shaft/motor assembly) is then 10kg or less. › Ease of Storage These electric motors divide into components, don’t leak oil or petrol, and don’t mind which way up they’re stored. › Quietness & Smoothness Electric motors are a delight to use. › Power Forget slow speed “trolling motors”, these 1kW electrics have huge torque (more…