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Building Thembi pt4 Repairing blocks Lazarette Rudder and interior p64 Boatman’s notes p66 Waterproof charts p68 EDITED BY PETER WILLIS YARD NEBRISTOL WS LITTLEHAMPTON replica as he and designer Mischief at Underfalls Ed Burnett had to work from yard and, right, John Mischief photos – matches her in Hillyards not Raymond-Barker dimensions (LOA 45ft, beam launched 13ft 6in, draught 7ft 6in (13.7 moving There was a good crowd at x 4.1 x 2.3m). Rumours that Hillyards is to Bristol’s Underfalls yard in Mischief will be heading to leave its Littlehampton yard November for the launch of Scotland in the spring to work have been fi rmly quashed by John Raymond- as a charter vessel MD, Simon Cullingford, great- Barker’s pilot , with Tilman-inspired nephew of founder David Mischief. Her bright Mischief Expeditions Hillyard. “There are no plans yellow hull refl ects (see p42). at this stage, and no developer the colour of the John has already has approached us,” he told original, sailed by laid the keel of CB. “If one did come along explorer-writer Bill another 45ft pilot we would retain a presence.” Tilman from 1954 cutter, Morwenna, The fi rm is, however,

until she sank in the Arctic which is also destined for following up its opening of a CYRG PHOTO: Ocean in 1968. activity charter, this time in branch in Gosport with Elf, built in 1888 as a state of the art racing by George F Lawley of Boston, Massachusetts, is The original was built in the Channel. Traditional another in Chichester coming to the end of a 17-year restoration. Her owner, Rick Carrion, who discovered the 35ft (10.6m) Cardiff in 1906, and John’s plans to have her at Harbour, at the Premier in 1971, created the Classic Yacht Restoration Guild to co-ordinate chiefl y volunteer effort. The

PHOTOS: MIKE SMYLIE PHOTOS: reconstruction – not quite a the London Boat Show, 2009. marina; to open in the spring. result is a historically accurate, ‘museum-quality’ restoration, due for relaunch this spring.

CAMPER AND NICHOLSON were built in the 1920s, in Adam has taken space at NORTH WALES sizes between 36 and 50ft Wicormarine in Portchester, Tender love (11-15.2m) but few survive. and engaged Salisbury- Pickle thrust The Camper and Nicholson There’s a 50-footer awaiting based shipwright Alastair Gelyce-class motor launches, restoration at Freebody’s on Garland to work on her: into limelight also known as the J-class the Thames – and this one, “back to bare – and beyond,” More on ‘HMS’ Pickle: we’re tenders, are rightly regarded the 38ft (11.6m) Islay, recently is how Adam puts it. assured that contrary to our OS: PETER WILLIS as among the most elegant bought by Adam Toop. The engine, a big Morris note in December (YN, CB T motor launches ever built. In 1994 Islay, built 1922, Commodore and one of only 234) she’s not up for sale and PETER WILLIS PHOTOS: PHO Long and thin, with small went to Italy, where she was seven left in the world, has nor is she in Conwy. Her central cabins and open extensively restored (CB108). already excited the people at present owners did briefl y wells fore and aft, they were She was then put into a the Morris Marine Register. advertise her, but are, in fact, designed for the owners of museum where she suffered Adam is hoping that Islay currently having modifi cations Herreshoff big-class to transfer damage by ultra-violet light. will be ready to be shown at done at Amloch, North Coquina between shore this summer’s Wales, with assistance from and boat, or from Thames former owner Robin James. BELGIUM Longitudinal battens KLASSIEKE SCHEPEN which to watch Traditional Boat The main work is the are placed beneath the the racing. Many Rally in July. installation of a new jet Tessa surfboat ribs along the seams of Coquina thruster system to improve This long, thin, at fi rst sight gig- the carvel planking. Having made their debut at the her manoeuvrability. “You’ll like craft is, in fact, an The boat is only a year Dutch show last year with an Islay at see her turning on a Australian surf boat, built in old, but already Koen has exquisitely-fi nished Whitehall Wicormarine sixpence,” according to Robin. Belgium. Her builder Koen De rowed her in the Atlantic skiff, boatbuilding team Kenk The system, by Dutch fi rm Gezelle did so, he says, “simply and Med, and in the Great Pol and Adri Oosterbroek were WillDo, uses four hydraulically because I love the lines.” River Race on the Thames. back again this year with powered high-pressure water In Australia they row the Next year he’s planning to another gem: a reproduction of jets, one at each ‘corner’ of boats out through the surf – the weight there, while the row from Belgium to England, the Herreshoff design, the boat, each exerting the two or maybe three oarsmen steersman, with a steering oar, and is thinking of taking part in Coquina. -rigged, clinker - equivalent thrust to a 15hp with a single oar apiece – round does his best to guide the track. Seafair Milford Haven. built, she’s 16ft 8in (5m) long, outboard, but without the a convenient mark, and then Modern boats, says Koen, Between whiles he builds and 5ft (1.5m) in the beam, and noise or water turbulence. catch a wave and surf back to are glassfi bre, but his Tessa is boats – launches, canoes and built of Bruynzeel marine ply, “The system hadn’t previously the shore. The oarsmen let go built the traditional way, using tenders – to demand, and does except for the mahogany top been fi tted to a wooden hull,” their oars and, if they can, batten-seam construction like repairs. He’s currently restoring strake. Steering is by a rope explained Robin. make for the stern to increase the old whaleboats. a fi shing boat. yoke to get round the mizzen.

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