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Left and below: Cambria, rated as a J here, showed her elegant sheer Near left, Capt Chris Barkham at the helm


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Americans in 1930 and she is credited as being the first British J, designed by Charles Nicholson and built at Camper and Nicholson’s Yard in Gosport. In New York she was beaten by the Starling Burgess-designed Enterprise built by owner/skipper Harold S or ‘Mike’ Vanderbilt. She is also the last surviving J built of wood – with composite construction of teak on steel frames and that explains why she is at Portofino – the Rolex-sponsored regatta now in its third year. Portofino is a small ‘by invitation’ regatta for mostly wooden boats. This is its third year and 21 boats are attending. Portofino is a boutique harbour town 40 minutes south (by car) from Genoa on Italy’s forested Ligurian coast. Built up in the Belle Epoque, for early tourists,


it’s reached by twisty coastal roads which open up bay after bay in this area and so it’s quite suddenly that we turn a headland and see Shamrock’s imposing sailplan silhouette on the horizon. In light airs she’s moving slowly, and seems suspended on the sea – with an horizon blurred by an overcast sky – with the other yachts around her. Then from behind the headland appears Cambria, also rated as a J-Class at this regatta, but originally built, by Wm Fife III, as a 23-Metre in 1928. The sight of these huge yachts, with the smaller 6-Metres and 5.5-Metres around them and then the odd ‘teenage looking’ 12-M, is awe-inspiring and I wonder what the poets Shelley, and Byron, sailors both and early tourists in the area, would have made of them.


Above: The quarter wave starts to develop under Shamrock’s Cayman Islands ensign as the hull powers up; Elizabeth Meyer donated a Corinthian Trophy at this regatta, won by Cambria


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