CB ARCHIVES
PAUL SHEATH
LOFT FIND Original Sibbick ledger and half models
Following our Charles Sibbick features in December (CB282), the designer’s great nephew Paul Sheath has been in contact with several of Charles Sibbick’s descendants on the Isle of Wight, reports Martin Nott. As well as a number of half models of fin-keel raters and one of a small, deep-keel yacht, possibly Orford White Wings, Paul found a number of family photographs including one of the Albert Yard, probably in 1902, and, most notably, the original works ledger. This book contains handwritten entries for every boat designed and/or built by Sibbick from number 76 in 1895 to 303 in 1903 when Sibbick went out of business. The ledger,
thought to have been lost many years ago, includes the name (in most cases), type, owner’s name and chief shipwright for each boat. Paul believes that having found this vital document, other lost papers may be found and he will be contacting other Sibbick descendants to this end.
I have been researching Sibbick for some years and believe that tracing the first 75 boats may be possible, the early years of his raters being well documented. The real mystery is what Sibbick designed or built between 1903 and his death in 1912. Scans of every page of the ledger will be made viewable at www.
sibbick.com. See also Letters, p97.
CB COMPETITION Design
Top: The yard Above: A page from the ledger showing, among others, Sakuntala, the fastest and most radical yacht Sibbick designed.
deadline Time is running out to enter our 2011 Design Competition, launched in CB279. The challenge is to design a sailing yacht of 26-40ft (8-12m) capable of comfortable cruising well into retirement. The prize includes a half-model of your design. Send hard copy to us at our address (see p7), marking the envelope ‘design competition’. Deadline is 29 February. For full details see
www.classicboat.co.uk/ news/cb-design- competition-2011/.
Duet 2012
Linton Hope yacht to sail around Britain
Yacht designer Linton Hope is today best remembered for hanging over the sides of dinghies clutching a rope tied to the mast; he was instrumental not only in the invention of the trapeze, but in the design of small racing yachts like the then prevalent raters. But he also drew at least 40 yachts of 60 tonnes or larger. His racing yacht gene can be seen in Duet’s narrow (ish) beam of 11ft (3.4m) over a length (including spars) of 72ft 2in (22m). She regularly races in – and wins – the annual Small Ships Race in October. This summer, she will sail around Britain with more than 200 young folk from her guardians, the Cirdan Trust.
Is your boat 100 this year? Feature her in CB! Email the news editor with ‘Centenarian’ in the subject line.
NORFOLK BROADS New dredging
partnership The Broads Authority has signed a partnership with sister authorities in Belgium and the Netherlands to work on new dredging methods. The project PRISMA
(Promoting Integrated Sediment Management) includes £800,000 of European funding to find new ways to dredge the Broads.
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