Panerai British Classic Week Event programme 2016
British Classic Yacht Club
PANERAI BRITISH CLASSIC WEEK
PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY THE BRITISH CLASSIC YACHT CLUB AND SPIRIT YACHTS
EVENT PARTNERS
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British Classic Yacht Club
PANERAI BRITISH CLASSIC WEEK WELCOME Welcome to the programme for the 15th Panerai British Classic race is decided on the morning in question, to ensure the best Week, which this year has been kindly compiled by our friends at sailing dependent on the Great British weather! Classic Boat in association with Spirit Yachts. This year’s regatta, There will be a full programme of events each day for the the British Classic Yacht Club’s flagship event, will take place in Cruising Class, taking them to some of the best venues in the Cowes from 16 to 23 July. Solent before returning each evening to join the Racing Fleet for As Regatta Chairman, and as a keen competitor myself, it is a a rich social mix ashore. This year we are particularly pleased great pleasure to introduce you to what has become the highlight of to invite a small selection of notable classic motor yachts to the British classic sailing calendar. join the Cruising Class. We are sure this innovation will enrich The following pages detail an eclectic selection of this year’s the cruising division and create an even more enthralling entrants, reflecting the extraordinary variety of magnificent spectacle in the Yacht Haven. craft attending. The raison d’être of the British Classic Yacht Panerai is once again our principal sponsor and we are Club is its fleet of beautiful yachts and this year’s entries certainly grateful for their continuing support and high level of make for a compelling read. enthusiasm for classic yachting, not just at Cowes, but at all For those of you in far-off climes, and who have perhaps never other Panerai regattas in the Mediterranean and the USA. The raced in the Solent, it is worth noting that the waters around the level of support from Panerai and their extraordinary degree of Isle of Wight present some of the most challenging racing professionalism are much appreciated and enjoyed by the classic conditions anywhere in the world. With complex, fast-flowing yacht scene worldwide. We are also grateful to EFG, which has tides, sandbanks and rocks, as well as commercial shipping enhanced its support this year and will again be sponsoring channels (not to mention the Cowes ferries ..!) this is truly one of the Around the Island race. the greatest sailing venues for the classic yacht enthusiast. Mary Scott-Jackson will thankfully be running the regatta office Race management will once again be in the very capable hands with her usual good humour and unflappable efficiency and, whilst of the Royal Yacht Squadron, which for the last two years has we can’t guarantee the weather, we can promise an exhilarating given us excellent weeks of varied and exciting racing. To add to and enjoyable week of sailing! I look forward to seeing many of the action on the water, this year we will have a tracking system on you in July, and for those not attending I do hope you will consider board each yacht with real-time position information screened joining us next year. online and in the Panerai lounge ashore. After much discussion, the Around the Island race will come back into the points structure and, in acknowledgement of the Sean McMillan challenge involved in undertaking this race, there will again be a Rear Commodore (Sailing) full 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize structure in each class as well as the and Regatta Chairman, existing line honours and 1st overall trophies. The direction for this British Classic Yacht Club
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PANERAI BRITISH CLASSIC WEEK PROGRAMME
British Classic Yacht Club
PANERAI BRITISH CLASSIC WEEK REGATTA PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 16 JULY WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 12:00 Berthing available at Cowes Yacht Haven for regatta 08:00 Regatta Oce open entrants. Regatta Oce open for registration and picking up of Coee in the Panerai Lounge regatta packs (including Social Tickets), battle flags and race 08:30 Skippers’ & Navigators’ Briefing in the Bar Marquee on CYH charts (The Regatta Oce is situated in the Cowes Yacht Haven 10:00 RACE 5 – RYS Line (Class Start) First Warning Signal oce building – up the right-hand stairs) 14:00 LADIES RACE – RYS Line Fleet Start (Not part of points 19:00 WELCOME SUPPER – AT COMMODORE’S HOUSE. By kind series) First Warning Signal permission of John and Jane Terry. (Catering provided by David 15:30 to 20:00 Bar Marquee open Rogers and his team from All About Catering) 17:00 to 19:00 Hospitality in the Panerai Lounge 19:00 Daily Prize Giving in the Bar Marquee on CYH SUNDAY 17 JULY 19:30 to Midnight BBQ & CREW PARTY AT COWES 08:00 Coee in the Panerai Lounge CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB 08:00 Regatta Oce open for registration and picking up of (CCYC is open to all competitors so even if you are eating regatta packs (including Social Tickets), battle flags and race elsewhere, you are more than welcome to come along for a drink charts (The Regatta Oce is situated in the Cowes Yacht Haven after your meal) oce building – up the right-hand stairs) 09:00 Skippers’ & Navigators’ Briefing in the Bar Marquee on CYH THURSDAY 21 JULY 11:00 CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE – Parade of yachts and classic 08:00 Regatta Oce open motor boats past the Royal Yacht Squadron Coee and Croissant in the Panerai Lounge. 12:30 RACE 1 – RYS Line (Class Start) First Warning Signal 08:30 Skippers’ & Navigators’ Briefing in the Bar Marquee on CYH 15:30 to 18:30 Bar Marquee open 10:00 RACE 6 - LONG INSHORE RACE sponsored by CLASSIC 16:45 Daily Prize Giving in the Bar Marquee BOAT – RYS LINE FLEET START First Warning Signal 17:00 to 19:00 Hospitality in the Panerai Lounge 15:30 to 20:00 Bar Marquee open 19:00 Skippers’ & Navigators’ Briefing for the Around the Island 17:00 to 19:00 Hospitality in the Panerai Lounge Race on the Platform of the Royal Yacht Squadron 19:00 Daily Prize Giving in the Bar Marquee 19:15 to 20:45 WELCOME RECEPTION AT THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON FRIDAY 22 JULY 08:00 Regatta Oce open MONDAY 18 JULY Coee and Croissant in the Panerai Lounge 06:30 Panerai Lounge open for takeaway coee and Regatta 08:30 Skippers’ & Navigators’ Briefing in the Bar Marquee on CYH Oce open 10:00 RACE 7 - RYS Line. First Warning Signal. Sponsored by 08:00 RACE 2 - AROUND THE ISLAND RACE SPONSORED BY SANDEMAN YACHTS FLEET START EFG INTERNATIONAL 15:30 to 20:00 Bar Marquee open RYS Line, Fleet Start First Warning Signal. 16:30 to 18:30 Hospitality in the Panerai Lounge 10:00 AROUND THE CANS RACE - For yachts not participating 18:30 Daily Prize Giving in the Bar Marquee on CYH in the Around the Island Race (Not part of Points Series) 19:30 for 20:00 until 01:00 16:00 to 20:00 Bar Marquee open PRIZE GIVING DINNER in the Event Centre on CYH with live 17:00 to 19:00 Hospitality in the Panerai Lounge music and dancing. (Competitors not attending the meal are welcome to come into the Event Centre for the Prize Giving and TUESDAY 19 JULY the dancing.) (Dress Code: Smart Yachting – Jacket & Tie). 08:00 Regatta Oce open Coee in the Panerai Lounge SATURDAY 23 JULY 08:30 Skippers’ & Navigators’ Briefing in the Bar Marquee on CYH 12:00 All yachts depart 10:00 RACE 3- RYS Line (Class Start) First Warning Signal followed ASAP by RACE 4 – RYS Line Fleet Start 15:30 to 22:00 Bar Marquee open 16:30 to 18:30 Hospitality in the Panerai Lounge 18:30 Daily Prize Giving in the Bar Marquee on CYH From 18:30 ‘OPEN YACHTS’ PONTOON PARTY’ – view the RACE SPONSORS yachts whilst listening to live music and enjoying refreshments sponsored by BCYC and CLASSIC BOAT. Food will be served in front of the Bar Marquee and tickets are available in advance from the Regatta Oce. A limited number of tickets will be available on the night.
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MAKING
NEWTRADITIONS
n the glory days of yachting, spanning the end of the 19th Spirit of Tradition yachts are a century and the first few decades of the 20th, design criteria were far more focused on elegance and efficiency of movement firm part of the classic world and through the water than is often the case today. Nowadays, Ipriorities in yacht design have changed and the number of cabins of Panerai British Classic Week and bathrooms often takes precedence. Previously, marinas were unheard of and the need to squeeze the maximum volume into a WORDS SEAN MCMILLAN given size of berth was inconceivable. Designers well understood that slim hulls were the most easily driven through the water and long counters created extra speed by extending waterline length when the wind allowed. Almost by default the prevailing look was supremely graceful; hardly surprising when designers knew they had to work with the sea, rather than attempt to dominate it. Two world wars, a Great Depression and an impoverished Europe put paid to many yachts from that period and the comparative handful that survived have thankfully been rescued, restored and re-commissioned; usually with great passion and not inconsiderable expense. The individuals who gave so much energy and resources to saving these yachts are to be thanked and our classic sailing world is greatly enriched by their efforts. These beautiful classics are, however, a finite resource and, just as in their heyday, they remain expensive and time consuming to maintain, requiring large crews and constant attention. In the 1980s, when the classic revival was gaining momentum, a few designers (myself included) were inspired by what they were witnessing and began creating yachts of similar elegance but married to newer construction methods and advances in Above: Spirit 52 Soufrière underwater hull design, foils and rigs. The relatively new wood/ racing at last year’s Panerai epoxy build technique allowed the creation of much lighter-weight British Classic Week hulls, which often made a nonsense of the √ WL x 1.4 hull speed formula! Weight savings resulted in less wear and tear, fewer crew
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required and maintenance reduced to a par with looking after a And now? I have written before in this magazine that I believe modern GRP boat. The organisers of the Antigua Classics regatta Spirit of Tradition yachts have a bright future; and more so as time deserve the credit for the first Spirit of Tradition class at their goes by. It is an interesting indication of the state of current modern event in 1996, and this lively addition has now spread to most yacht racing that previously significant fleets all over Europe are classic regattas worldwide. Spirit of Tradition yachts must have shrinking, sometimes to extinction. Yet all the great classic regattas the ‘look’ and grace of an earlier age, but they may have modern are growing apace; a trend that shows no sign of slowing. underbodies and foils, and may use aluminium or carbon rigs. Every few years there is a new hotshot modern race boat on However – and this is the big one – they must be hand-built in a the market, which then develops into a fleet. After a couple of true tradition of craftsmanship. Spray laminated in a jelly mould years, it is often the case that after huge expense the owner is left and a couple of square feet of synthetic wood won’t do. with an outdated race boat with precious little residual value. The British Classic Yacht Club has typically strict rules on The classics, however, and I include Spirit of Tradition in this, eligibility for all entries. Yachts must show considerable skill in do not have a finite shelf life and hold their value almost their construction and be built of either wood or steel. They must indefinitely. This is partly down to the skilled craftsmanship also have the aesthetics of a classic; a requirement that sometimes involved, but also the fact that great design does not date. causes much discussion in committee meetings. The differentiation A timeless, beautiful yacht will be appreciated as such between a ‘classic’ and a ‘Spirit of Tradition’ is now largely a today, tomorrow and for ever more. matter of date; the commonly accepted divider being whether the Thirty years ago there was some understandable resistance to yacht was built prior to or post 1974. This is inevitably a Spirit of Tradition yachts from the owners of older classics. This somewhat arbitrary date, but it is a reasonable reflection of the has largely faded away as all those involved accept a date is just point at which the rapid demise of traditional yacht building a date and considering the cost of creating a new hand-built happened as the upstart GRP builders got into their stride! wooden yacht, it is clear regattas are not about to be overrun At the renowned Panerai British Classic Week, the two groups with modern classics. race together in fleet races, and separately in classes. Whether by I have been designing and building Spirit of Tradition yachts luck or good judgement (and I couldn’t possibly comment…), the for 30 years. In all that time I have never built a boat for an handicapping of the disparate groups is remarkably well balanced. owner coming from an old classic yacht; they usually come from Perhaps the only observation of note is that the manoeuvrability of having owned a mainstream production boat which has failed to most Spirit of Tradition yachts is considerably greater, which calls satisfy them. Of the seventy-odd yachts I have built in that time, for consideration at starts and mark roundings! fewer than a dozen have ever come on the re-sale market, which As early Spirit of Tradition yachts are now 20 or 30 years old, perhaps reflects the great pride of ownership and enjoyment the distinction between the two groups is starting to blur as the derived from a Spirit of Tradition yacht. ‘modern classics’ gradually morph into ‘classics’. Perhaps we will Thus I hope that far from diluting the pool of beautiful yachts soon need a new class of ‘post-modern classics’… worldwide, we have only added to it.
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BIGThe British Classic Yacht Club commodore on fatherhood, collective empowerment and having a drink with Laurent Giles
STORY ROB PEAKE PHOTO LESTER MCCARTHY
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avid Murrin tells a story about a Hamble Winter cruising the boat around the Channel. Today he says his father Series race he was sailing in, back in the mid- became his ‘best friend’, partly through their shared love of 1990s. For Murrin and crew to clinch the series in sailing, and Murrin remains appreciative of his non- the final race, they had to finish first, while their mollycoddling approach. “He believed in letting me and my Drivals had to finish fifth. So Murrin gets his crew down brother stand on our own feet as soon as possible.” below before the start and exhorts them to silently intone Murrin chose to go not to a public school but to the local the words ‘one’ and ‘five’. comprehensive, where as a dyslexic child he recalls having to “A couple of them were sniggering but most of them did “fight, physically and emotionally, to learn…it was a tough it,” he recalls. In the race, they suffered a dire start, but then upbringing”. something happened. They began to pass boats. “I pictured a He was the first member of his family to go to university, cord between us and the boat ahead,” says Murrin. At every reading physics with geophysics at Exeter, after which mark they’d clawed more distance back. Halfway through, came three years with a seismic exploration company, living his crew were flying, jubilant with every place gained and and working with native tribes in the jungles of Papua redoubling their efforts as they saw victory inch nearer. New Guinea. Who’s to say if it was boat speed or something more, but by He returned to the UK to join JP Morgan bank and a high the finish line, a heavy wooden yacht built in 1955 had sailed flying career in investment banking looked set. All was going its way past a highly competitive modern fleet. There were swimmingly, but something was missing. celebrations on deck, but was it enough to secure the series? “Murrin means ‘of the sea’ in Gaelic,” he tells me with a Then the news came through – their rivals had finished fifth. laugh. “People talk about a boat as a luxury, but for me a History doesn’t relate how many bottles of beer were drunk boat is a fundamental link to who you are. After all, I was that night in Hamble village, but one thing is for sure: conceived on a wooden boat!” Murrin’s crew never forgot the power of “one” and “five”. Murrin was on the national youth windsurfing squad and “It was a lesson that reminded me of the power of did his Yachtmaster as a teenager. He was already a collective thought and harmony, a sense of shared belief,” competent sailor when aged 24 he began paging through the recalls Murrin today with a smile. classifieds and spotted a yacht he fancied. Murrin is an interesting guy. He talks She was a 1955 Laurent Giles sloop, up concepts like collective celebrated in her day, but she’d need more empowerment – concepts far too “If you buy a than a little TLC to get her afloat again. leftfield for some – while behind him in “I got a loan from my father – with a his office flicker huge flatscreens classic, buy it for high interest rate because he was very displaying share-tracking graphs from commercial – and I broke my back the financial markets. Hard statistics on life, then all the renovating her.” one hand, meaningful ‘Murrinations’ Thirty years on, the renovation is long on the other. work pays off” finished but it has been the upgrades since Murrinations is what Murrin calls his then that have turned people’s heads. She’s blog entries. Think the rise of China, the believed to be the first classic to be fitted north/south African divide, decline of with laminate sails, in the mid-1990s, and the West, danger of Russia, the she packs a Code 0 in her sail locker. likelihood of a global war at the end of this decade. He’s not Cetewayo, in fact, is known locally for having been shy of making a prediction and was outspoken in the run-up maximised on deck for IRC racing in almost every respect to the UK’s EU referendum, about which he wrote and spoke and is still the subject of hot debate between the purists and publicly in support of the Leave campaign. the racers. (What’s less well known is that down below she Murrin has been a commentator on CNBC and other boasts an immaculate interior with period mirrors, channels, as well as a keynote speaker at conferences and cabinetry and more.) corporate events worldwide. Face to face, too, he speaks in Last season Cetewayo had a new Columbian pine mast big concepts. Some of them might take a moment to get your designed by Classic Boat’s technical editor Theo Rye, made head around, but it’s difficult not to get swept along by the by Collars. It’s two metres longer than the original and is enthusiasm and sheer force of personality. probably the most sophisticated wooden mast in the world, Five years ago he published a book, Breaking the Code of Murrin says. “It’s given the boat another serious History. The introduction explains: “Murrin shares what performance enhancement. She learned a whole set might be called a ‘grand unifying theory’ of the social of new tricks overnight.” political dynamics that have propelled us from the first A new suit of spectre sails has followed, designed by Kevin human civilisations to our present perilous position.” Sproul and built by Ultimate Sails in Hamble. The good news, Murrin tells us, is that “we can save Murrin has relished the developmental process and the fact ourselves, if we can take the necessary first steps towards a that his heavy long-keeler can now sail upwind at 28 degrees greater collective consciousness”. apparent, higher than ever, and faster than an 8-M. But he has Blimey, and I was only here to talk about sailing. not done the optimisation lightly and cares deeply about the Murrin grew up in Surrey, his father was an aeronautical classic scene. “I’ve always respected the spirit of Laurent Giles engineer, his mother a nurse. They owned a Harrison Butler, in the boat and I am absolutely convinced that if he came back Minion, and the family would take long summer holidays for a drink he’d be delighted with what we’ve done with her.
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“Optimising these boats for racing gives you a level of Now 53, Murrin owns an asset management understanding into how finely designed they were. They company with offices in Haslemere, an hour south of were the F1 cars of their day. Only by racing them and London, and amid family duties his other passion is bringing them alive do you realise that.” kite-surfing. But sailing first. “Sailing is at the heart of “There is another whole iteration to go with the my life,” he says. “We’ve lost our relationship with the boat,” he adds. “The margins are always in the last sea, but classic boats are really celebrating our history three per cent. We have a way to go yet.” as a nation. I would make the argument that democracy Cetewayo also has electric winches so that Murrin started in Britain because of the ratio of our coastline to can sail the boat into his dotage. “If you buy a classic, internal volume, because seafarers have to be buy it for life, then all the work pays off.” independent of thought – they have ultimate He has a dream of going off cruising with his partner responsibility for their actions. Consequently, it was not Melissa and four children, as he did with his parents. an accident that Britain was the first effective modern “Going sailing, you slow down and the family European democracy.” dynamics shift,” he says. “When I was growing up, every It would be easy to see Murrin’s grand theories as year we were off for the whole summer holiday. Dad grand conceits, but there’s a ready laugh if he thinks would navigate by dead reckoning. He was a he’s gone too far, and at times he displays a slightly phenomenal seaman, not a racing sailor but a navigator. disarming bashfulness. Does he have political “When I got older I learned what generational ambitions? He admits the question has been asked knowledge was. Whenever I encountered a situation at before. “I do not seek office!” he roars. “There’s a price sea I would think: ‘What would my father do?’ My for holding public office. Simply to try to make things children are the same. They don’t think they’re sailors better, to find a better way, that might make it happen. but put them on a boat and they know what to do.” But in a way it’s a calling I dread.”
An innovative regatta
The Commodore of the British Classic Yacht 60ft that historically were neglected. Secondly, to British Classic Yacht Club Club, David Murrin, positively beams when he provide a forum for their owners to share common recalls last year’s Panerai British Classic Week. cause with gentlemanly and friendly values. Lastly “It was a seminal moment for our organisation,” to encourage people to race their boats really well PANERAI BRITISH CLASSIC WEEK says Murrin, who co-founded the British Classic under IRC, so that they’re living museum pieces.” Yacht Club 15 years ago with Tim Blackman. The club’s flagship Murrin is a long-time proponent for optimising a classic yacht event in 2015 attracted a record 79 boats, including some of the for racing and has led by example with his Laurent Giles sloop most famous classic yachts in the world. It ran back to back over a Cetewayo. “You need to optimise your boat for any system,” he fortnight with the Royal Yacht Squadron’s Bicentenary Regatta, says. “It’s not something you can do in one season, it takes a few with yachts coming from the US and the Med to take part. years, but it’s a fascinating process and you see the boat go faster “You could compare world class boats with the UK fleet and and get a lower handicap. If you want to understand what a see what amazing classic boats we have here,” says Murrin. “It also designer intended in a yacht, you race it.” showed Med boats another way that classics could be raced.” The BCYC committee meets regularly and Murrin praises his The regatta takes place this year from 16-23 July, with the fleet colleagues’ “moral compass, enthusiasm and collective creativity”, packed into Cowes Yacht Haven, the dockside Panerai lounge as well as their willingness to innovate. “The people who run the oering food and drinks for competitors and a lively series of regatta also sail in it, which is quite rare, and every year we have shoreside evening events organised by sponsors. the honesty to look at the event and try to improve it.” An innovation for 2016 will be the use of trackers for each One change this year will allow members to feed back from the yacht, allowing visitors to watch races in real time on a screen. “It start to the race ocers, in the hope that windless or heavily would be hard to match our regatta for atmosphere,” Murrin says. biased lines can be avoided. Another change has seen a waypoint The club’s adherence to IRC is unstinting and Murrin says: “It is introduced o the Varvassi wreck, so no boat can be tempted to an external fairness, not one we create ourselves. IRC means the make the cut-through behind the Needles. Another has changed best boat wins. If you sail your boat well, if it’s a fast boat and it’s the traditional scoring system, with a combination of class and optimised, you will win the regatta. In the Med with the CIM fleet races aiming to give a more representative view of each system, which benefits ‘authenticity’, that’s not the case. A boat boat’s regatta performance. There will also be a cruising will do well for reasons other than performance.” programme for those not racing and a trial motorboat category. “The BCYC was founded on three key tenets,” he continues. “Firstly, to encourage the preservation of yachts between 30ft and britishclassicyachtclub.org/regatta
“The BCYC was founded to encourage people to race their boats really well under IRC, so that they’re living museum pieces”
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ATHENA BLUE EAGLE OF TONBRIDGE BOJAR Built 1939 Built 1964 Built 1937 Type 8-M Type Bermudan sloop Type Bermudan cutter Design Tore Holm Design Kroes en Zonen Design Johan Anker Built Tore Holm Built AP Milnes Built Anker & Jensen Length on deck 14.2m Length on deck 7.4m Length on deck 16m Length overall 14.2m Length overall 7.4m Length overall 16m Displacement 8.7 tonnes Displacement 3.4 tonnes Displacement 17 tonnes Beam 2.6m Beam 2.3m Beam 3.3m Draft 1.9m Draft n/a Draft 2.5m Sail No K36 Sail No 581Y Sail No N23 Hull colour Varnished Hull colour White Hull colour White
History History History Built to the 8-M rule for Swedish banker Marcus An eccentric stockbroker wanted a miniature Bojar was built by Anker & Jensen of Oslo, one Wallenberg Jnr, who had a series of yachts to yacht built to Lloyd’s A100. This fine little boat of the most prestigious yards in Scandinavia, race in the class. She was brought to Britain in is the result. The original Dutch design was using materials and craftsmanship of the highest 2002 by Avia Willment and underwent a major for clinker. The decision to make her carvel quality. She’s 30mm Oregon pine on composite, renovation. When the present owners bought sweetened and strengthened her lines. hot-dip galvanised steel and wooden frames. her in 2006, they reverted to the name of Keel, stem and sternpost are of oak, steam-bent Athena and she has competed in 8-M Worlds on ribs of elm. The 50 per cent ballast ratio makes the Clyde in 2007, at Hyères in 2009, at Cowes her very eective upwind. The deck layout is in 2012, and at La Trinité sur Mer in 2014. clean, with bronze fittings. The deep cockpit is comfortable both at sea and in harbour.
BULLA III CARIBEE CERESTE CETEWAYO Built 1971 Built 1938 Built 1938 Built 1955 Type Yawl motor sailer Type Rhodes 1752 Ocean Racer Type Limited Edition 10-tonner Type Fractional sloop Design n/a Design Philip Rhodes Design Robert Clark Design Laurent Giles Built Gerald Pearn Built Henri B Nevins, New York Built Sussex Yacht Works Built Morris & Lorrimar Length on deck 9.5m Length on deck 17.5m Length on deck 12.1m Length on deck 14.5m Length overall 9.5m Length overall 17.5m Length overall 12.1m Length overall 14.5m Displacement 24 tonnes Displacement n/a Displacement n/a Displacement 17.4 tonnes Beam 3.35m Beam 3.2m Beam 2.6m Beam 3.5m Draft 1.1m Draft 4.4m Draft 1.75m Draft 2.4m Sail No n/a Sail No NED7650 Sail No 523R Sail No K1034 Hull colour White Hull colour White Hull colour Dark blue Hull colour White
History History History History Bulla II is used as the support Caribbee was designed as an Cereste was originally named She was restored by her boat and launch for the Classic ocean racer and built in 1938 by Melody and based on the lines of curent owner, with the initial Sail fleet of charter boats. During the famous Henri B Nevins yard in Clark’s innovative Mystery design. reconstruction work allowing her the Panerai British Classic Week New York. She won as many as 36 Research shows that several other to be sailed to Plymouth to later Regatta she will be used to major sailing races in the 1950s, Robert Clark designs were in build undergo a complete renovation. support Classic Sail’s competing among them the Southern Ocean at Sussex Yacht Works at the time Prior to this work, she was raced boats: Leopard, Pegasus and Racing Conference and the RORC and that the yard manager was in and around the Solent and the Gryphis; these three boats are Transatlantic Race, not to mention Austin Farrer, who had trained with decision was made to optimise identical Morgan Giles yachts three Newport-Bermudas. Carleton Robert Clark at his design o¦ce in her racing potential. A continuing used for charter and match racing Mitchell wrote a bestseller called London. Her planking is mahogany programme of restoration, around the Solent. classicsail.co.uk. Passage East about the transat above the waterline and pitch pine innovation and improvement has race. She was, in the 1950s, the below. been undertaken year on year to ‘Queen of the Atlantic’. make her sail faster.
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CHAMOIS CHARM OF RHU CROIX DES GARDES Built 1963 Built 1963 Built 1947 Type Illingworth Maica Type 8-M Cruiser/Racer Type Bermudan cutter Design Illingworth Design Archie MacMillan Design Henri Dervin Built Construction Mécanique de Normandie Built Fife Yard, Fairlie Built Bonnin Arachon Length on deck 11.3m Length on deck 12.7m Length on deck 15m Length overall 11.3m Length overall 12.7m Length overall 15m Displacement 5.3 tonnes Displacement 8.7 tonnes Displacement 20 tonnes Beam 2.7m Beam 2.9m Beam 3.6m Draft 1.8m Draft 2m Draft 2.3m Sail No GBR1678R Sail No K12 Sail No CDG47 Hull colour Blue Hull colour Varnished Hull colour White
History History History Illingworth, who is sometimes referred to as Charm of Rhu was built to race on the Clyde. Croix des Gardes was built for a French count, the founding father of modern ocean racing, She is the last yacht built by the fabulous Fife from teak hidden from the Germans in the war. was a strong advocate of building ocean racers Yard and carries the Fife Dragon on her bow. She Dervin is best known in France for his smaller smaller and lighter. The highly successful Class was campaigned briefly by the Le Mans-winning Kurum and La Sereine. The yacht’s history III French ocean racer Maica, which spawned a driver Ninian Sanderson. In the 1980s she acted between 1947 and the 1970s is vague and her class of sisterships, was typical. Construction as a sail trainer. More recently she has cruised in original name is not known. She was restored Mécanique de Normandie (CMN) bought the Scotland, Ireland, France, the Baltic, the Canaries, in part in 1993-94 at Cantieri di Imperia. She design and added a counter to the original and across the Atlantic to the 2007 Antigua passed to a Swiss owner, who carried out more transom. Chamois is the third of the CMN boats, Classic. In 2008 she won in class at this event and work from 2001-6. Her current owner sailed her built in triple-diagonal mahogany on oak frames. the Classic Channel Regatta the following year. in the Panerai Transat Classique in 2012.
DAMIAN B ERICA FLIGHT OF UFFORD FOGLIO Built 1961 Built 1949 Built 2007 Built 1937 Type Nicholson Jolina Type 8-M Type Spirit 52 bermudan sloop Type Bermudan cutter Design CA Nicholson Design Bjarne Aas Design Sean McMillan Design Norman Dallimore Built Clare Lallow Built M Creese Built Spirit Yachts Built William King & Son Length on deck 10.7m Length on deck 14.9m Length on deck 15.9m Length on deck 12.8m Length overall 10.7m Length overall 14.9m Length overall 15.9m Length overall 12.8m Displacement 6.5 tonnes Displacement 9.7 tonnes Displacement 8.4 tonnes Displacement 12 tonnes Beam 2.7m Beam 2.5m Beam 3.4m Beam 2.9m Draft 5.8m Draft 2.1m Draft 2.2m Draft 1.8m Sail No 1750 Sail No GBR38 Sail No 3598R Sail No 99 Hull colour White Hull colour White Hull colour Dark blue Hull colour White
History History History History This is one of the last Jolinas built by Launched in 1949, she competed Designed and built by Sean Foglio began life as Allegro with Lallow and classed to Lloyd’s 100 A1. in the Sayonara Cup, winning it in McMillan as a fast cruiser-racer, a sister ship Marchwood Maid. Damain B was bought by Squadron 1953. She remained in Australia she participated in her first British The yachts were identical, except Leader Ronald Kellet DSO DFC of under various owners until Classic YC regatta two months Allegro had wheel steering and 303 squadron and kept in Rye, East 2012 when she was brought to later, taking second in class. Since Marchwood Maid had a tiller. The Sussex, where she was used for Britain by her present owner. She then she’s won numerous trophies, first owner of Allegro was Charles races to Calais and trips to nothern competed in the 8-M worlds in including the Singlehanded Race Vickers VC. Allegro was briefly France with his young family. Her Cowes in 2012 and in 2014 at La at Antigua Classics in 2014 and owned by Fred Miles, who was a present owner bought her in 2013 Trinité. She is based in the Channel overall class winner at the BCYC celebrated aeronautical engineer in slightly tatty condition, but after Islands and regularly participates regatta 2015. Flight had a full and aircraft designer. She spent a bracing sail on Larne Loch, the in local and international regattas. cosmetic refit over the winter of some time in the Netherlands, deal was done. She is now based in 2014/15 including a full revarnish where her name was changed to Emsworth West Sussex. for the first time. Foglio.
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GLUCKAUF GRYPHIS GULVAIN Built 1929 Built 1959 Built 1949 Type 30 Square Metre Type Bermudan sloop Type Sloop Design Henry Rasmussen Design Morgan Giles Design Laurent Giles Built Abeking & Rasmussen Built Morgan Giles Built Sussex Shipyard Length on deck 11.8m Length on deck 13.1m Length on deck 16.5m Length overall 11.8m Length overall 13.1m Length overall 16.5m Displacement 2.4 tonnes Displacement 14 tonnes Displacement 24 tonnes Beam 2m Beam 2.9m Beam 3.5m Draft 1.7m Draft 2.1m Draft 2.9m Sail No K24 Sail No 1124 Sail No GBR620R Hull colour White Hull colour White Hull colour Light blue
History History History Gluckauf (good luck) is a ‘Skerry Cruiser’, Three thoroughbred ex-Royal Navy yachts, all Gulvain was conceived to win ocean races with a mistranslation of the Swedish word once part of a select fleet of seven Morgan Giles her many lightweight technical advances and skargardskyssare “a boat fast tacking in the 43s that were used by the Royal Navy for sail yet be cruised comfortably by the owner with skerry” (archipelago). They have been called training in the post-war years, have been bought friends and family. She won her first race, the ‘flying toothpicks’, mainly by those sailing bigger and restored for Chichester-based charter firm Cowes-Dinard directly from launch. She was boats when overtaken by one. Gluckauf’s original Classicsail. Gryphis was the first to be bought in shipped to US and campaigned successfully owner was a mine owner, who had four of the 2011 and was given a refit in 2015/16. with Humphrey Barton, followed by a first to same name and class from the same yard. She finish in the 1950 transatlantic race. She was has never missed this regatta and has always raced in Greece and the US until the late 70s. finished in the top three in class, winning in 2012. The current owner has had her since 2012.
HELEN OF DURGAN ILLIRIA INFANTA KRABAT Built 2003 Built 1968 Built 1947 Built 1946 Type Spirit 46 bermudan sloop Type RORC-Class masthead sloop Type Bermudan yawl Type Sloop Design Sean McMillan Design Sparkman & Stephens Design Philip Rhodes Design Anker and Jenssen Built Spirit Yachts Built Cantiere Carlini Built Kretzer Boatworks Built Anker and Jenssen Length on deck 14.2m Length on deck 12.4m Length on deck 14.3m Length on deck 13.7m Length overall 14.2m Length overall 12.4m Length overall 15.5m Length overall 13.7m Displacement 4.5 tonnes Displacement 9 tonnes Displacement 15 tonnes Displacement 13.7 tonnes Beam 2.8m Beam 3.3m Beam 3.6m Beam 3m Draft 2m Draft 2m Draft 2m Draft 2.5m Sail No GBR8716T Sail No 4803 Sail No 44 Sail No n/a Hull colour Blue Hull colour Cream Hull colour Britannia blue Hull colour White
History History History History Built as Little Feat in 2004, Helen Illiria was built by Cantieri Carlini, Built to race and cruise in Long Commissioned by Halvdan of Durgan was brought north from one of the leading Italian S&S Island Sound and holiday in Maine, Hansen, a Norwegian yachtsman the Mediterranean by her new builders at the time. She is a Infanta completed many races, and originally named Tamara XI, owner in 2014 and taken to Spirit RORC-Class sloop with separate including a number of Bermudas. she was built in secret during Yachts for major refurbishment. rudder and keel with trim tab, to In 2008, she raced the first Transat WW2 and launched in 1946. She She is the third of 11 Spirit 46s design 1777-C2. She is one of three Classique from Brest to Agadir. was intended as an o¥shore launched since 2003 and is now in sisters, with various alterations. She has cruised the Caribbean and cruiser-racer. She has spent most superb condition. Illiria retained the traditional won her class in Antigua and St of her life in Norway, in limited She had a successful BCYC regatta counter and transom. She was Maarten Regattas. John Hall took ownership, until her current in 2015, including a third place built for Dott Ing Barbanti, who ownership in 2011, since when she owners brought her to the UK five in her very first race and a very owned her for 42 years. Andy and has raced in the Mediterranean years ago. There has never been creditable fourth in class overall. Jane are only the third owners. and Solent. a full restoration but she has been annually maintained.
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LAUGHING GULL LEOPARD MAIDA Built 1949 Built 1959 Built 1932 Type Sparkman & Stephens yawl Type Bermudan sloop Type 6-M Design Olin Stephens Design Morgan Giles Design JG ‘Wee John’ Stephens Built Jakobson of Oysterbay Built Morgan Giles Built Alexander Stephens Length on deck 13.4m Length on deck 13.1m Length on deck 10.6m Length overall 14.5m Length overall 13.1m Length overall 10.6m Displacement 12 tonnes Displacement 14 tonnes Displacement 4.5 tonnes Beam 3.2m Beam 2.9m Beam 2.1m Draft 1.9m Draft 2.1m Draft 1.5m Sail No 136 Sail No 1125 Sail No K1 Hull colour White Hull colour White Hull colour Cream
History History History S&S design number 844 in 1948 was for Percy In the post-war years the Navy commissioned Maida infamously lost the Seawanhaka Cup to Chubb II, a wealthy insurance broker and seven identical yachts to be built by Morgan Jill in 1932. She had a varied life until a 1980s Commodore of the NYYC. Olin was given a free Giles. The yachts were used by the Seamanship refit was done by Peter Wilson in Aldeburgh. hand but did have to provide the 7ft Chubb Training Craft Division for o¡cer cadet and Since 2010, she’s been well maintained by with standing headroom below. Articles on midshipman training afloat, to replace some the current owner and kept at Suolk Yacht her construction and specifications appeared of their Windfall yachts. They were sold into Harbour. in Yachting Monthly and The Rudder in the private ownership in the 1980s and David same year. Rutger ten Broeke, her last owner, Foster has reunited three of them. They are now is an author and journalist, writing for nautical available for fleet charter, providing the unique magazines. opportunity to match race in classic yachts.
MARELLE MARIQUITA MASCOTTE MATAMBU Built 1965 Built 1911 Built 1904 Built 1960 Type Oshore racing yacht Type 19-M ga cutter Type Bristol Channel pilot cutter Type Bermudan sloop Design McGruer Design William Fife III Design Thomas Cox Design Robert Clark Built Deacons, Hamble Built W Fife & Sons Built Thomas Cox Built Moody’s Length on deck 11.1m Length on deck 29m Length on deck 18.2m Length on deck 11.2m Length overall 11.1m Length overall 38m Length overall 22m Length overall 11.2m Displacement 8 tonnes Displacement 76 tonnes Displacement 55 tonnes Displacement n/a Beam 3.2m Beam 5.2m Beam 15m Beam 2.7m Draft 2m Draft 3.6m Draft 3.1m Draft 2.5m Sail No 335 Sail No C1 Sail No N (mainsail), BY (staysail) Sail No K1726 Hull colour Varnished Hull colour White Hull colour Black Hull colour White
History History History History Beamier than a McGruer 8-M Mariquita was one of four British She was the biggest pilot cutter A one-o design commissioned cruiser-racer, but with similar lines, 19-Ms and saw racing success of her time, 10ft (3.1m) longer by an architect, Matambu is a Marelle was built for Honor Spink as soon as she was launched, and twice the displacement of cruiser/racer, originally with a and raced for a few years. She was Commissioned by Athur Stodart her predecessors. She worked in fractional rig and plywood decks cruised in Canada and Europe, and first captained by Edward and around the Bristol Channel sealed with impregnated cascover then moved to the Weldon family, Sycamore, she raced constantly until 1915 when the onset of steam cloth. She is of carvel teak planks who kept her at Suolk Yacht until 1913, when she turned to cutters consigned the sailing on rock elm below the waterline, Harbour. She was then sold to Ben handicap racing. At the start of cutters to history. She was refitted with mahogany above. A feature Pester, who sailed her to Cape WW1, she was sent to the fjords as a yacht between the wars of this boat is there’s a great deal Horn, aged 75. His book Through of Norway. She eventually found before settling on the Medina mud of brightwork to maintain, and the Land of Fire documents the her way to Pin Mill where she was as a houseboat. Since 1994 she has she has a completely varnished trip. More about her history at used as a houseboat until Fairlie been raced, cruised and chartered cockpit. She sports four large marelle-classicyacht.blogspot.co.uk Restorations restored her. in northern European waters. Anderson steel winches.
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METEOR MYSTERY II OF MEON NAUSIKAA Built 2006 Built 1936 Built 1939 Type One-o wooden sloop Type Bermudan cutter Type 8-Ton Gauntlet Design Stephen Jones Design Robert Clark Design HG May Built Farrow & Chambers Built Moody’s Built Berthon Length on deck 14m Length on deck 11.8m Length on deck 9.9m Length overall 14m Length overall 11.8m Length overall 9.9m Displacement 6.5 tonnes Displacement 6.62 tonnes Displacement n/a Beam 3m Beam 2.6m Beam 2.6m Draft 2.4m Draft 1.7m Draft 1.7m Sail No GBR460L Sail No 321 Sail No 1754Y Hull colour White Hull colour Cream Hull colour White topsides, green below
History History History Designed by Stephen Jones for use with his Mystery II of Meon is the first yacht designed by One of the earliest ‘series’ production boats family and launched in 2006. She has so far Robert Clark – drawn when he was only from Berthon in the late 1930s, Nausikaa was sailed within the UK and the Channel Islands 22 years old. A further 10 of this class were successful along with her larger 12 and 18 ton in her short history. She is built in strip-plank built. She retains her original rigging. sisters in RTI races and has also been cruised Brazilian Cedar subsequently cold-moulded The last major refit was carried out in 1999 extensively. That one owner lasted 40 years is over wth Khaya, and then a thin glass protective by John Munns. testament to her character. One early owner layer. Inside she has laminated mahogany was the novelist Graham Greene. She was frames and floors. She is of moderate substantially refitted from 2013–14. On virtually displacement and her bowsprit is purely for her first outing to this regatta that year, she won flying the asymmetric spinnaker. the RTI race out of 29 starters.
NYACHILWA OPPOSITION PEGASUS PEGGY BAWN Built 1952 Built 1971 Built 1959 Built 1894 Type Fractional sloop Type IOR Two-Ton one-o Type Bermudan sloop Type Ga cutter Design William Fife III Design Sparkman & Stephens Design Morgan Giles Design GL Watson Built Fairlie Built Clare Lallow Built Morgan Giles Built John Hilditch Length on deck 10.4m Length on deck 12.5m Length on deck 13.1m Length on deck 10.9m Length overall 10.4m Length overall 12.5m Length overall 13.1m Length overall 12.1m Displacement 5.8 tonnes Displacement 12.6 tonnes Displacement 14 tonnes Displacement 5.2 tonnes Beam 2.5m Beam 3.8m Beam 2.9m Beam 2.4m Draft 1.7m Draft 2m Draft 2.1m Draft 1.6m Sail No 1004 Sail No K3266 Sail No 1123 Sail No None Hull colour Cream Hull colour Varnished Hull colour White Hull colour White
History History History History She was built for Lt Colonel G and Opposition was built for Prime Three ex-Royal Navy yachts, all GL Watson designed her as Captain P Mackie–Campbell. She Minister Edward Heath as Morning once part of a select fleet, have a fast cruiser-racer. With her was in the USA in the 1990s, and Cloud II and launched in the spring been bought and restored for distinctive clipper bow she has the current owner bought her from of 1971, in time for the Admiral’s Chichester charter company been admired in the Med, New Kevin Sullivan and re-imported Cup. In 1973 she was sold and Classicsail. Pegasus was the final England and Baltic. She previously her from Long Island in 2004. She became Opposition, racing in the MG43 that David Foster bought competed in Cowes in 2011. Her was rebuilt by Simon Grillet at Iron Solent for two seasons before to complete his fleet of three 2005 restoration was done with Wharf 2005-2007, a big job that moving to the Clyde. The current identical yachts. She underwent authenticity very much in mind included new decks, much new owner returned Opposition a refurbishment in 2015-2016. Her and she will be racing with cotton hull planking and framing, new to Lallows in 2007 for a total sister ships Gryphis and Leopard sails from 1957 and a topsail cut stem, all new systems, new cockpit restoration. In the spring of 2008 are also sailing in Panerai British from Endeavour’s jib topsail. and new engine. Coachroof, rig she was back in the water looking Classic Week. and interior are original. as good as on her launch day.
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RAGDOLL LE RAYON VERT SASKIA Built 1965 Built 2001 Built 1931 Type Honey Bee Type One-o ketch Type 8-M Design AK Balfour Design Laurent Giles Design William Fife III Built East Germany Built Jachtbouw Vels Built W Fife & Sons Length on deck 8.4m Length on deck 15.3m Length on deck 14.6m Length overall 8.4m Length overall 15.6m Length overall 14.6m Displacement 4.25 tonnes Displacement 14 tonnes Displacement 8.8 tonnes Beam 2.4m Beam 4m Beam 2.6m Draft 1.7m Draft 2.2m Draft 2m Sail No 1965 Sail No NED6457 Sail No K26 Hull colour Varnished Hull colour Green Hull colour White
History History History The Honey Bee came from a 1964 competition The ketch Le Rayon Vert is based on the design In 1931 Saskia was shipped to New York and won held by the Glasgow Herald and the Clyde of Lutine. The wood-core hull was built by the Seawanhaka Cup. She represented Britain in Cruising Club to design a handy cruiser/racer Jachtbouw Vels from 1997 to 1998. The teak the 1936 Olympics at Kiel, Germany and still has to sleep four and sail Scotland’s west coast. deck and teak finishing were done by Claasen. the commemorative plaque on board. In 1954, Balfour’s design was runner-up. Part-owners The interior, electronics, engine, deck gear, she was shipped to Sydney, won the famous (since 1999) Liz and Mark Rushall believe rigging and management was done as a family Sayonara Cup and stayed there for 52 years. In Ragdoll was built in East Germany. Other than project from 1997 to 2001. 2007 she returned to Britain and raced at the the fact that some papers show her previous Centennial Worlds on the Clyde where she won name was Mañana, little else is known about her the Sira Cup. She went on to win the 8-M Class previous history or ownership. at the Metre Class Centenary at Cowes.
SHANTIH OF COWES SIRIS SONNY STILETTO Built 1946 Built 1925 Built 1935 Built 1960s Type Auxiliary CB sloop Type 8-M Type One-o bermudan cutter Type One-o keelboat Design Philip Rhodes Design Morgan Giles Design Germán Frers I Design Kim Holman Built Hubert Johnson Built Teignmouth Built Frers/Guevara Built Whisstocks Boatyard Length on deck 12.2m Length on deck 14.4m Length on deck 14.9m Length on deck 8.6m Length overall 12.2m Length overall 14.4m Length overall 15.3m Length overall 10m Displacement 10 tonnes Displacement n/a Displacement 15 tonnes Displacement 3.1 tonnes Beam 3.3m Beam 2.5m Beam 3.8m Beam 2.2m Draft 2.3m Draft 1.9m Draft 2.1m Draft 1.5m Sail No GRR1523R Sail No GBR3-8M Sail No A-26 Sail No 165Y Hull colour Ivory Hull colour White Hull colour White Hull colour White
History History History History Little is known of her history Siris was raced in the Sonny was built by Frers I himself Designed and owned by Kim until Shantih was acquired by the Mediterranean in the 1920s, with with cousin Ernesto Guevara, Holman (the brief was “standing Wooden Boat Company, Camden, considerable success, including father of Ché Guevara. After just room for a bottle of Gordons”), Maine in 1993. The proprietors winning the Coupe de France. two years of sailing in local races, the boat has had a major refit brought her back to life and used Returning to the UK in the 1930s, she was forgotten during the at Suolk Yacht Harbour, with her for local day charters. She also she has competed successfully at revolutionary Argentina times. In new mahogany covering boards, raced with some success at the local & international events. Her 2006 a friend of Germán Frers II her hull stripped for an Awlgrip Eggemoggin Reach Regatta. At the recent success include a first-in- found the remains of the boat in topsides finish, deck repainted end of the 90s she came to Britain class at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez Buenos Aires. Frers II undertook with Griptex to give a non- to a mooring in Suolk. Shantih and at Panaerai British Classic a re-build with Alberto Szyjka slip finish, new chainplates, an now resides in Cowes under the Week 2015. In 1999/2000 she (Astillero Naval Szyjka) ending in underdeck jib furler and carbon rig ownership of the Fry family, having underwent a total re-build at 2011. In 2013 Sonny won Les Voiles with new sails too. undergone a modest refit 2014. Fairlie Restorations. de Saint-Tropez.
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CB338 BCYC Boats entred.indd 85 21/06/2016 17:21 BOATS ENTERED IAN BADLEY STREGA SUNMAID V THENDARA VOLONTE Built 2001 Built 1967 Built 1960 Built 1968 Type Bermudan sloop Type RORC One-Tonner Type RORC Sloop Type One-ton sloop Design Sean McMillan/Mick Newman Design S&S Design Alan Buchanan Design Olin Stephens Built Spirit Yachts Built Clare Lallow Built St Osyth Boatyard Built Silvestro Length on deck 11.3m Length on deck 11.2m Length on deck 10m Length on deck 11.3m Length overall 11.3m Length overall 11.2m Length overall 10m Length overall 11.3m Displacement 2 tonnes Displacement 7.3 tonnes Displacement 5 tonnes Displacement 7 tonnes Beam 2.1m Beam 3m Beam 2.7m Beam 3.1m Draft 1.8m Draft 1.9m Draft 1.5m Draft 1.9m Sail No GBR7514T Sail No GBR1991 Sail No 1853 Sail No FRA4396 Hull colour Blue Hull colour Varnish Hull colour White Hull colour Varnished
History History History History Strega is one of several 37s built Two were built to this design, a Thendara raced in the early 1960s Volonté sailed for 20 years in the by Spirit. The word ‘strega’ is development of Clarionet. She was to the RORC rules. The boat was Med, before being bought by a Italian for ‘witch’ as the beautiful very substantially built for the sake built to Lloyds 100 A1 and the hull Swedish sailor, and transported carved witch’s head at the end of of her rating, and also because and ribs remain in good condition. there to take part in classic races the tiller portrays. She is kept in of lessons learned on the lightly Her long keel and elegant, clean with some success. Her new Lymington. With her regular crew built Roundabout. Owen Parker, lines had the attention of a number programme, under a French owner of two married couples, Strega sailing master on the Sunmaids, of owners who cruised and raced who undertook a one-year refit in has raced in many events at home developed twin pole gybing and her at club level until Chris and Liz Brittany with Hubert Stagnol, is and in the Med, where a highlight the use of separate spinnaker Day and family become owners dedicated to one-ton classic races. has been winning her class at the winches during his time with Guy in 1996. Since then she has raced Volonté will attend the One-Ton Régates Royales in Cannes. Bowles. Current owner Lawrence in the RSYC double-handed races Revival Cup in the Netherlands in Wride had her restored on the and in this regatta, as well as August (see page 64). Humber in 2015. cruising in the Solent and Brittany.
WHOOPER YAVANNA ZALEDA ZOOM Built 1939 Built 1965 Built 1966 Built 1951 Type One-o sloop Type Long-keeled yawl Type 7-M cruiser/racer Type Sloop Design Laurent Giles Design Alan Buchanan Design James McGruer Design Charles E Nicholson Built Woodnutts Built William King Built McGruer & Sons Built Camper & Nicholson Length on deck 11.9m Length on deck 14.8m Length on deck 11.1m Length on deck 13.4m Length overall 11.9m Length overall 14.8m Length overall 11.1m Length overall 13.4m Displacement 7.3 tonnes Displacement 24 tonnes Displacement 6.5 tonnes Displacement 12 tonnes Beam 3.1m Beam 3.9m Beam 2.7m Beam 2.9m Draft 1.7m Draft 2.1m Draft 1.7m Draft 2.1m Sail No GBR363R Sail No n/a Sail No 7CR/K2 Sail No 634 Hull colour White Hull colour White Hull colour Varnished Hull colour White
History History History History This shallow-draught yacht was The Buchanan yawl was designed She was commissioned by the Zoom was the last yacht from the mostly cruised but her natural and built by the best money could current owner’s uncle from hand of Charles E Nicholson, which reaching and downwind speed aord at the time. Alan Buchanan McGruers in Clynder in 1965. She he did in retirement for his friend exceeded expectations. Anecdotes designed three boats for the Earl was part of a move to create a Teddy Haylock, editor of Yachting from Peter Bruce recall crossings of St Germans, this being the new class of 7-M cruiser-racers on World in 1950. Close-planked in back from the Channel Islands in third and biggest. She was built the Clyde in the mid-1960s. She teak with plank edges glued, her the 1960s at average speeds over by Kings of Burnham on Crouch was bought back into the family frames are of steamed English oak 10 knots! Her unusual hull and rig to Lloyds 100 A1, the highest in 1996 and has sailed extensively in two laminations, and her entire were ahead of her time, and she standard. The Earl of St Germans on the west coast of Scotland and backbone is of teak. She was well has achieved great wins: RTI Gold was pleased with the result. She is the south west of England. She known and written about in the Roman Bowls in 2004 and 2015, used for charter. classicsail.co.uk is now berthed on the River Dart. 50s and her visitors’ book is full of Cowes Week in 2004 and 2014, This year, she benefited from a famous sailors of that era. She is and overall at this event in 2014. complete instrumentation refit. based on England’s South Coast.
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CB338 BCYC Boats entred.indd 86 21/06/2016 17:22 Q& A PANERAI BRITISH CLASSIC WEEK PROGRAMME Head of Private Banking at EFG Private Bank, Daniel Gerber
EFG supports Panerai British Classic Week beautiful views of classic boats as Ocial Partner Sponsor. Can you tell us racing in the Solent. Before this why? When we were given the opportunity my racing experience on big boats to sponsor British Classic Week, it felt like an was limited to crewing in regattas, easy decision to make. This has to be the mainly around the Solent and the most important event in the UK for classic Channel. Sailing is the perfect yachts, with a strong international appeal. balance to the working life – on the Cowes, with its long pedigree in sailing, is water there is always plenty to think the perfect location for such an event. As a about and observe, decisions to take keen sailor, I make sure I attend with a to keep the mind busy and focused on things number of our clients each year, in order to other than the day job. the knowledge, experience and skills soak up the unique atmosphere and to take involved in working with wooden boats, to part in some world-class classic sailing. Some in the wooden boat world find the build or refurbish a functional piece of art. regatta scene exclusive. Is that your It is great to see the many new builds and Will you be sailing in this year’s event? impression of it? restoration projects happening in classic I was very much looking forward to No, to me racing is just a dierent reason for boating – and that the centuries-old art of participating at this year’s event in Cowes sailing. While some sailors like just spending building wooden boats is being preserved and to have the opportunity to sail on one of some quality time on the water, others prefer and passed on to new generations of the boats, particularly for the Around the cruising with a destination in mind and boatbuilders by boat building schools and Island Race which is sponsored by EFG. others again like the challenge to measure academies in the UK and abroad. However, a recent accident has left me on their skills in racing against other boats. crutches this summer, so regrettably no My impression of the Panerai British How did you get into sailing? sailing for me. Classic Week is that there is a place for every I grew up as a landlubber in Switzerland, in a boat and that the wooden boat community place miles away from any navigable waters EFG sponsors all kinds of things from the is very welcoming and open to everyone. and only very rarely had the opportunity to EFG London Jazz Festival to Le Mans sail on the Swiss lakes as a child and Classic. What’s the attraction of sailing? What is EFG doing to help secure the future adolescent. But every time I liked it. We are supporters of the sport of sailing for of sailing? Development of young talent is a I really only took up sailing seriously in a number of reasons. It is clearly very key theme at EFG, and we support a range my early thirties after I got hooked as a crew international, which is well suited to a private of initiatives across a variety of sporting and member on a sailing holiday around Mallorca. bank like us, active in over 30 locations cultural fields. In relation to sailing, we have There I realised the potential of recreational worldwide. It has broad appeal on many supported the development of two yacht sailing and saw this as an opportunity levels, from a pastime to a professional sport. academies designed to bring on the next to spend quality time with the family and my It is also an active interest shared by a good generation of sailors. These are: EFG Sailing young children in the future. number of our clients and employees. We Academy, Monaco Yacht Club; and Optimist I joined a local sailing club in Switzerland like to think of ourselves as the private bank Sailing School, Société Nautique de Genève. and started crewing on a yacht on Lake of for sailing, and in addition to Panerai British Zürich. In parallel I took my qualifications as Classic Week we are sponsors of a range of Do you have a favourite sailing book? a skipper and started to build my miles in the leading sailing teams and events worldwide. I have read many books about sailing, Mediterranean, the Channel and around the historic, non-fiction and novels but I couldn´t UK, the North Sea and the Baltic, as well as Are you a boat owner? single out one favourite book. One of my in the Caribbean. I try to get afloat as much as I can in my favourite writers however is Sam Llewellyn Today I live in London and I am on the spare time. I own a wooden Merlin Rocket and I have devoured almost all of his novels. water whenever time permits. All three of my dinghy which I race on weekends at my local sons are enthusiastic dinghy sailors and as a sailing club on the Thames. Being a qualified What is your dream boat? family we have enjoyed many sailing cruises. skipper I also charter in the UK and abroad, She should be safe, fast, comfortable, easy Maybe one day we will take o and sail the cruising with family and friends. to maintain and a looker. She might be a seven seas on our own keel. I raced in the Panerai British Classic Week wooden boat, but I doubt I'll be building my two years ago when EFG joined in own. My practical experience in woodwork is Daniel Gerber is Head of Private Banking partnership with the British Classic Yacht limited to the occasional DIY job at home at EFG Private Bank, the UK arm of global Club and Panerai. I very much enjoyed the and I am far from a professional craftsman. I private banking group EFG International. atmosphere and spirit, as well as the admire good craftsmanship but particularly efginternational.com/efgl.com
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