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Uffa Fox regatta next year A major regatta in the Solent next year is set to celebrate the work of Uffa Fox, 50 years after his death. It has been organised by the Royal London YC and Cowes Classic Boat Museum, supported by the Atalanta Owners Association and the Cowes Corinthian YC and forms part of a series of events in Cowes from 18-21 August 2022. Racing will be for dinghies, keelboats and yachts designed by Fox alone. The Classic Boat Museum will hold various events including seminars and an exhibition of Fox’s dinghies. Events will be followed by the Flying Fifteen European championships, organised by the Cowes Corinthian Yacht Club from 20-26 August, 2022. Fox died on 26 October, 1972, as one of the leading naval architects and sailing…

The Round the Island Race celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. The first race took place in 1931 with 25 entries. Nine decades later, it is one of the biggest mass-participation events in the world, giving weekend family crews the chance to compete against the sport's biggest names. Records have tumbled and eras come and gone, but the heart of the event – a spectacular, challenging day out for ordinary sailors – remains. Back in 1930, it was Major Cyril Windeler, a member of the Island Sailing Club, who first proposed a handicap race around the Isle of Wight for ‘smaller’ boats, which at the time meant between 5 and 25 tons. Still organised by the Island Sailing Club today, in this anniversary year, a new race for keelboats will…

STEINER BINOCULARS Hard to say why a pair of binoculars is so acutely desirable a gift, but maybe these new Steiners give some hint. Every bit as rugged and scientific as we’ve come to expect from the German manufacturer, the new Navigator range boasts a greater field of view, a rubber grip with particular water-repellence and the product is said to be waterproof to five metres. You can choose to have an integrated analogue compass, which is liquid-damped to absorbs ‘large shocks’ on deck, and there is also an integrated bearing marker to “leave nothing to be desired by the demanding sailor”. From £399 intro2020.co.uk/steiner AQUARAMA MODEL “The plaything of the very rich back in the 1950s,” says manufacturer Ionian Interiors. “The Côte d’Azur, Cannes, Monaco, Lago di Como… A…

Centre of the classic world After all these years, the Med is still the centre of the world, as its name implies, at least when it comes to classic yacht racing. Despite a few date changes this year (Voiles d’Antibes, for instance, traditionally the season opener, has joined the late season monoliths of Saint-Tropez and Cannes for another triple-header like last year), mostly the events are planning to go ahead in their usual places in the season’s calendar 14–16 MAY Calanques Classiques Marseille, France lanautique.com 21–23 MAY Les Voiles de Cassis La Ciotat, France portdecassis.com 11-13 JUNE Vela Classica Costa Brava L’Estartit, Spain velaclassicacostabrava.com 16-20 JUNE Argentario Sailing Week Porto Santo Stefano, Italy, argentariosailingweek.it 23–26 JUNE Superyacht Cup Palma, Mallorca, Spain thesuperyachtcup.com 18-20 JUNE Les Voiles du Vieux-Port Marseille, France,…

“Let’s get the rags up,” comes the call from Charlie Wroe. The sun is shining and there is a light southerly breeze off Cannes. I am on board the magnificent Mariette of 1915 which is just about to take part in her first race for over a year, following a major refit at Pendennis Shipyard and an extended cruise to Norway and Scotland, at Regates Royales. Twenty-four crew are poised and ready for action. Mariette was designed as a gaff schooner by Nathaniel Herreshoff and built in steel by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. In 1949 her rig was converted to an easier bermudan staysail configuration but in 1994, when Tom Perkins bought her, the original rig was restored. She has been raced hard ever since, firstly by Perkins, then by…

+44 (0)207 349 3758 Yard News Email: steffan@classicboat.co.uk SUFFOLK Woodbridge boatyard launches IOD Falcon It’s good to be reminded that a wooden yacht, well cared for, can outlast her owners and sail on through several generations writes Claudia Myatt. That sense of continuity is all the more marked when a boat stays in the same family. Sir Michael Harrison bought International One Design Falcon in 1984 and kept her on the river Orwell in Suffolk where he raced her and also used her as the family cruising yacht. Built in 1956, Falcon had no engine “but we never missed picking up a mooring under sail,” former crewmember Bertie remembers. Sir Michael died in 2019, aged 83, and his son Edwin became Falcon’s new owner. She was showing her age and…

The holy trio of hand tools for a builder of wooden boats comprises the saw, plane and chisel, but of these the saw is by far the most useful. With a saw you can fell trees, shape any part you care to mention, and cut joints that are watertight. Although, to be fair, that’d be the work of a whole suite of saws as different in bite as a grey wolf from a chihuahua. Göran Fredrik Göransson founded Sandvikens Jernverks – better known by the brand name Sandvik – in Sandviken, Sweden some 150 years ago, and the firm quickly rose to prominence on the back of Göransson’s pioneering success with Henry Bessemer’s patent method for oxidising impurities in steel. Today the Sandvik saw business is owned by the American…

The extensive restoration of a yacht not far short of a hundred years old and a hundred foot long can provide a mighty challenge for any established boatyard, however skilled and experienced its labour force might be. And while the difficulties are on another level altogether when undertaking and completing such a project in a distant country with absolutely no previous history of such work, the 1927 Camper and Nicholson ketch Cynara is clear proof that nothing is impossible. Cynara’s original name was Gwendolen. She was commissioned by HG Nutman who, in 1922, had bought the 1902-built, 92ft (28m) yawl Lady Beatrice, designed by Charles E Nicholson and built at Camper & Nicholsons’ Gosport yard – so it was perhaps natural that he should go to the same designer and…

BEST FOR SHOAL DRAUGHT CRUISING KOTIK 23 LOA 21ft 7in (6.7m) Draft 1ft 10in/4ft 5in (0.6m/1.4m) Rig Gaff sloop/yawl Displacement 2,600lb (1,180kg) Construction Wood Price £19,750 Designer Iain Oughtred Plans classicmarine.co.uk Kit jordanboats.co.uk Verdict The unique Oughtred aesthetics in a cruising boat size BEST FOR THE ALL-ROUNDER CRABBER 24 LOA 24ft (7.3m) Draft 2ft 4in/4ft 7in (0.7m/1.4m) Rig Gaff cutter Displacement 4,950lb (2,250kg) Construction GRP Price £89,950 Designer Andrew Wolstenholme Builder Cornish Crabbers (cornishcrabbers.co.uk) Verdict A happy medium from the master of compromise To build a boat of your own, or have a boat built for you, is as beautiful a dream as anyone could have. What could be better than to create or buy a beautiful vessel and set off on adventures unknown? And it doesn’t have to be…

Something for everyone The north of Europe is a mixed bag, more so than the Med, with everything from huge maritime festivals like Brest to the sleeker side of yachting, this year embodied by world championships in the evocative 12-M and 8-M classes, as well as a European championship in the 6s. The spectacular Golfe du Morbihan was sadly cancelled due to covid just as we went to press – but there’s still plenty on SWEDEN AND FINLAND 1-7 JULY ÅF Offshore Classic Race (Around Gotland Offshore Race) Stockholm-Visby-Sandhamn, Sweden; 220nm passage race race.ksss.se 29-31 JULY Airisto Classic Regatta Abo Batvarf, Turku, Finland airistosegelsallskap.fi 1-AUGUST Gullkrona Sailing Abo Batvarf, Turku, Finland airistosegelsallskap.fi 3-7 AUGUST Sandhamn Regatta Sandhamn, Sweden Offshore race for classic yachts and tune-up race for 12-M Worlds ksss.se…

Since Woody Allen’s 1979 movie Manhattan, the famous George Gershwin’s symphony is mostly associated to the New York cityscape but, why not transfer it to Paris, in another glamorous movie set? When Frantz Liuzzi began in 1937 to build finely crafted light dinghies and canoes in his workshop of Neuilly, he couldn’t have imagined that two decades later he would be delivering fine and fast runabouts to movie stars like Erroll Flynn. After his canoes had won many trophies on challenging river rapids in France, including during World War Two, when muscle power was more at hand than petrol for nautical sporting activities, in the late 1940s Frantz Liuzzi started a small production of inboard runabouts mostly powered by Italian BPM marine engines made in Milan. His first successful model,…

FREJA Luke Powell pilot cutter Freja is one of eight Scillonian style pilot cutters built by Luke Powell. She was launched in 2012. The current owners, a husband-and-wife crew, increasing in age, are now looking to sell. They have sailed Freja 25,000 miles in their ownership, mostly double-handed, in the west country, around Ireland, Scotland several seasons, Brittany, Spain and Portugal, and along the Swedish coast. The yacht is 42ft (12.8m) long, gaff rigged with mainsail, staysail, jib, outer jib and topsail, and is equipped with a 35hp Beta Marine diesel. The interior is very simple and traditional, with the intention of making the boat simple to maintain for bluewater voyaging: below decks hand pumps take the place of hot and cold pressurised water, heating is by traditional stove and…

Downs Road Boatyard sitting, as it does, on a suburban road in the pretty town of Maldon, seems anomalous these days of irate neighbours and glass-fronted new-builds. Given its location, it’s a surprisingly big site, sloping gently down to the River Blackwater. There has been boatbuilding here since about 1885, and in the 1970s, a number of locals, including the cartoonist Mike Peyton an Arthur Keeble, bought the plot to keep their boats on. One of the original syndicate was the father of the Jim Dines, who with wife Catherine, owns and runs the yard today. In terms of local continuity, the story is amazing. Directly across the road, just 50ft away, is the house where Jim was brought up and where his dad, who pops over at one point,…

Martha and Primrose are the middle names of my two daughters who are a continuous source of inspiration for me. The vessel, Martha Primrose, is a spectacular 50ft (15.1m) gaff yawl designed by Ashley Butler and me as a cruising yacht and built in 2012 by the many skilled hands of Butler and Co at their former premises at Old Mill Boatyard, Dartmouth, a quaint yard nestled into the banks of a creek between the overhanging oaks. I recently became reacquainted with her after some time apart and with it has brought some reflections on the nature of wooden boats. Anyone who has had the slightest involvement of building a new wooden boat, or indeed restoring an old classic, can appreciate how all-encompassing the process is. It is a task…

During his 99 years, HRH Prince Philip, the longest serving prince consort in British history, made a significant contribution to many walks of life from commerce to the environment, sport, industry, science and youth challenges. He also had two personal passions – carriage-driving, for which he was a former world champion; and sailing. The sea was in his blood. Philip was an active participant at events like Cowes Week where the Royal Yacht Britannia would take pride of place in the deep-water anchorage in Cowes Roads. He was just as committed to the administration of the sport as an active patron of the International Association of Cape Horners, Admiral of the Royal Naval Sailing Association organiser of the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race, and the Royal Yacht Squadron, which…

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BONHAMS Ye Gods, it’s an ECOD Simply titled “First Home,” the subject of this watercolour and gouache by pre-eminent marine artist Montague Dawson (1890-1973) defied experts until it was spotted by east coast sailor Iain Stubbs, who’s convinced it’s one of the fabled East Coast One Designs penned by 1908 Olympic gold medallist GU Laws. As an ECOD owner and class racing captain Iain should know, and the Maldon sailor says simply: “Everything’s right about it, I’m convinced.” Its identification is also a reflection of Montague Dawson’s famed attention to detail and the accuracy of his renderings. Remarkably, of the ten ECOD keel boats built – nine in 1913 and one later – all survive to this today, and all but one still reside on the east coast around Maldon,…

SOUTH COAST 3-6 JUNE Yarmouth Gaffers Regatta oga.org.uk. Flagship OGA bash 3 JULY Round the Island Race IoW, roundtheisland.org.uk The world’s most popular race 3-9 JULY Cowes Classics Week IoWight, cowesclassicsweek.org 100+ boats in many classes 16-18 JULY Taittinger Regatta Yarmouth, Isle of Wight royalsolent.org Popular for mixed classics 17–24 JULY British Classic Week Cowes, britishclassicyachtclub.org One of the top British classic regattas 31 JULY – 6 AUGUST Lendy Cowes Week IoW, lendycowesweek.co.uk 20-22 AUGUST Cowes Spring Classics Cowes, cowesspringclassics.com Broad-church regatta for classics 26 SEPTEMBER Bosham Classic Boat Revival Chichester Harbour, boshamsailingclub.com Popular classic dinghy regatta 10-12 SEPTEMBER Hamble Classics Regatta RAF Yacht Club, Hamble rafyc.org.uk EAST COAST JULY-SEPTEMBER Barge matches thamesbarge.org.uk 3 JULY: Pin Mill (Suffolk) 17 JULY: Blackwater (Essex) 31 JULY: Swale (Kent) 14 AUGUST: Thames (Estuary) 28…

The sun never sets on classic events With classic yacht racing all around the world, it’s always the season, somewhere, from the schooners and classics of the USA to a vibrant racing and social scene in Australia and New Zeland. UNITED STATES 7 JUNE Washington 360 Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest r2ak.com 360-mile circular race in Puget Sound, off Washington State – alternative to the usual Race to Alaska (R2AK) 9-10 JULY Great Schooner Race greatschoonerrace.com Islesboro – Rockland Harbor, Maine 20+ vessels in the most evocative rig of them all 9-15 JULY Salish 100 Port Townsend, Washington nwmaritime.org Puget Sound: “The largest organised small-boat cruise in the USA” 10-11 JULY Vineyard Cup Mass, sailmv.org/vineyard-cup Foiling kiteboards, classic yachts, and everything between the two JULY (DATE TBC) Great San Francisco Schooner…

With its list of victories and world records over decades, BPM has made history in motorboat racing. The Italian firm was founded in 1931, when Messrs Botta and Puricelli in Milan (the B, the P and the M of the name) joined forces to design and make engines for sport boats and challenge the existing, mostly American, brands dominating the field, particularly in competition. The venture was an immediate success. Just one year later, BPM won the 430km (267 mile) race from Pavia to Venice on the River Po. The strength of BPM engines came from their design. Unlike engines with automotive origins, BPMs could run for hours at high revs. From the 1930s-70s, BPM’s 4-cylinder blocks of 1,500-2,600cc made up most of the production. In 1955, the Milan works…

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MARY ROSE The last schooner Nat Herreshoff ever designed, Mary Rose of 1926, flourishing in Caribbean waters these days LUELY The name means ‘softly’ and that’s just how this Oughtred-designed, flatbottomed 30ft skiffsails. SPARS Masts, booms, gaffs, yards, bumkins and bowsprits… how they’re made, and what to look for PLUS… Cruising French Polynesia by classic yacht; remembering the 1920 Olympics; a decade of young boatbuilders at Shipshape Heritage; and much more JULY 2021 ON SALE Friday 11 June, 2021 Available online. Or why not subscribe? See page 19 SAILING TODAY WITH YACHTS & YACHTING IN THE JUNE ISSUE • Scottish shortcut: through the Caledonian Canal and Loch Ness• Digital pilots: tech round-up• Mastering waves… top tips from an Olympic coach• Chartering in 2021• Guide to Ramsgate• Prince Philip - our…