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RESTORATION AWARDS
Winners: Vagabundo and Mischief Classic Boat
For the first time in its short history the Classic Boat Restoration Award has divided itself into two categories, in recognition of the large number of quality restorations nominated this year. Based on size, it is split at the 40ft (12m) LOA mark. This year’s winners are, above
40ft, Vagabundo II, and below 40ft, Mischief. Each will receive one of the coveted inscribed Classic Boat decanters at the Classic Boat stand party on the opening day of the London Boat Show.
While both boats are of good pedigree, the awards in both cases are in recognition of their owners’
RESTORATION OF THE YEAR AWARD
personal involvement in the projects and their skill and commitment. The story of the 42ft (12.8m) German Frers-designed Vagabundo II restoration is one of youthful can-do energy. Boatbuilding student Robbie Fabre’s 21st birthday present turned out to need a bit more than a tidy-up – but a bunch of friends and plenty
BLUEBIRD K3
Sir Malcolm Campbell’s hydroplane relaunched
K3, launched and working, but yet to move under her own power 18 CLASSIC BOAT FEBRUARY 2012
Bluebird K3, Sir Malcolm Campbell’s record-breaking wooden speedboat has finally left her East Sussex workshop after a restoration lasting 18 years. Not to be confused with K7, the Bluebird that killed Malcolm’s son Donald in 1967 (or its replica, see last month), K3 held the world waterspeed record from 1937 to 38, set on Lake Maggiore at 137mph. The restored K3, worked on by dedicated volunteers based at the Filching Manor Motor Museum in
East Sussex for nearly two decades, fired her 750bhp Meteor engine on 30 November for the first time on Kent’s Bewl Water, flames bursting from her exhausts.
“It was unbelievably loud,” relates the K3 project’s Mike Parker. When trials begin, K3 will be limited to 60mph, not through any fear on the part of the team but to prevent over stressing the wooden hull of the 22ft 3in (6.8m) craft. Her first run will be this January at a secret location.
of Red Bull saw the bermudan ketch returned to spanking 1945 condition in time to sail at the 2011 Voiles de Saint-Tropez. See page 8 in this issue. Mischief is a rare 1935 Harrison
Butler Yonne-Class bermudan sloop of 26ft (7.9m). She’d been left on land for two decades, making her condition awful, but also helping to much of her originality. Retired CDT teacher Roy Aldworth spent six years bringing her back to a state of perfection – and almost all singlehandedly, including sourcing timber from church pews built the same year as the yacht. Mischief’s story featured in CB279.
PAST WINNERS
2007: LULWORTH 122ft (37m) Herbert White cutter, 1920 – CB219 2008: MARIA 47ft (14.3m) Harris Brothers oyster smack, 1866 – CB234 2009: CONCORD 36ft (11m) Sydney Belchambers ketch, 1937 – CB260 2010: FAME 40ft (12m) BB Crowninshield schooner, 1910 – CB268
EMILY HARRIS
TOM BENN
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