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Captain Oates’ t Saunterer returns


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After decades of alterations and 15 years ashore, resstoration of Oates’ Sibbick yawl needed a lot of work on a very tight budget. Steffan Meyric Hughes met the couple who made it happen. Photos by Andrew Carter


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ou can get spoilt as a yachting journalist. I mean, see one million-dollar rebuild and you’ve seen them all – new bronze winches, Egyptian cotton-looking sails and interiors that range from the authentic to the bland


comfort of the soft furnishings fl oor of a department store. It’s a good thing that yachts continue to attract owners with the means to carry out rebuilds that will fortify them against the arrows of the future – but it’s sometimes at the cost of patina – and character.


Saunterer is different. The fl ush deck, twin gullwing skylights and long counter stern are enough to stop a jaded yacht journalist in his tracks. And restraint in her restoration means that she’s kept the patina of age and looks like what she is: a 111-year-old boat, brought back to life with sympathy and a determination to reuse original materials.


From1908 until his death in 1912, she was owned by Captain Lawrence Oates of the ill-fated Scott Antarctic expedition of 1911, the Oates of the


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