Beautiful yachts

PEGGY BAWN’s authentic pine deck

PEGGY BAWN’s authentic pine deck

It’s always fun to turn tables on a pro photographer. Through 2004 and 2005, marine photographer Nigel Pert regularly followed the authentic rebuild of Hal Sisk’s 1894 GL Watson-designed gaff cutter PEGGY BAWN at shipwright Michael Kennedy’s Dunmore East yard on Ireland’s south-east coast. PEGGY’s […]

Come eravamo/ The Way We Were: ZEPHYR 1973

Come eravamo/ The Way We Were: ZEPHYR 1973

La Dolce Vita aboard the JM Soper/ Philip of Dartmouth cutter ZEPHYR in 1973. This archive footage released by the now grown up children you’ll see in this enchanting home movie footage may be the best proof that at 62 feet/ 18.9m on deck, the […]

Cornubia – A New Lease of Life

Cornubia – A New Lease of Life

There’s no doubt that today’s world of classic boating can be divided into at least two sections – arguably a lot more than two – but surely no-one can deny there is everything else and then there are the working boats. For some, only the […]

HURRICA V – A Lesson in Design and Simplicity

HURRICA V – A Lesson in Design and Simplicity

I repeat here that I am confident I could, on my own, sail the 1,200 miles from Australia to New Zealand. That said, the Nicholson 60 HURRICA V…

JOHAN ANKER – Master of Yacht Design

JOHAN ANKER – Master of Yacht Design

Authored by Elin Kragset Vold and Ole Engen, this book is a carefully researched and well written biography of the Norwegian yacht designer Johan Anker


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