A Yacht from Noss Claud Worth and Tern IV
Philip & Son and the yard at Noss are mainly remembered for their lightships and com- mercial vessels. The Company developed an enviable reputation for boat building and so, against the odds, it was not to the better known yacht building yards but to Philip’s that one of the fathers of modern yacht cruising and possibly the greatest yachtsmen of his day, Claud Worth, came to have a boat built. Yachting historian and wooden boat broker Peter Gregson tells us more:
When Dr Claud Worth ordered his new cutter from Philips Yard in 1924 there must have been considerable rejoicing at Noss Works because with it came a second order for another yacht to the same design. Two 60’ yachts to be built at the same time - that must have been a good day!
In the 1900’s leisure boating in all its forms was becoming increasingly popular and not limited to the wealthy. The Royal Thames Yacht Club had been open since 1775 and the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes had been established in1815. Both were typical of the better known and better recorded upper class yachting. The King, George V was an enthusias- tic yachtsman and ordered the greatest yacht ever built in England, Britannia, in 1893. The great aristocracy and industrial magnates of the period fol- lowed in his wake – literally. Crowds lined the cliffs to watch the great yachts racing. Boatyards and yacht designers flourished as the sport spread down the social layers as, perhaps contrary to popular opinion, yachting was not limited to the wealthy.
Dixon Kemp published his Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing in 1904, an in- teresting title because his designs in- cluded many smaller yachts and John Macgreggor had founded the English Canoe Club in 1866 and had showed what could be done on a budget with his famous Rob Roy sailing canoes.
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