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POLAND Biggest yacht restoration to date
The biggest yacht restoration in Polish history was launched on 5 December. Work on the 82ft (25m) Zaruski started in 2005, but was bedevilled by a series of complication – or, in other words, money, reports Krzysztof Mika.
In fact, the restoration took nearly as long as her build, which was interrupted by the outbreak of the
GERMANY
Don’t throw it away In the coming years, the two-year-old Robbe and Berking boatyard in Flensburg, Germany’s capital of yachting, is hoping to build a yachting museum and restaurant around its wooden boat yard (covered in CB275). The yard is making an appeal to the
readers of Classic Boat to “please throw nothing away from the good old times!” Yard owner Oliver Berking told CB: “If you are about to throw something away, please call us or email. This applies not just to German yachting ephemera, but anywhere in the world.” The yard was only ever regarded as the first step of the
long-term plan, which is to have the museum as a centre of yachting history. “We’ve been storing ephemera for owners for many years
now, and it’s time to formalise this with the museum,” said Oliver. Call the yard on +49 (0)461 3180 3060, email to
classics@robbeberking.de or see
www.robbeberking.de.
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Second World War. She was conceived by famous Polish yachtsman, soldier and alpinist Mariusz Zaruski, impressed by the Swedish training yacht Kaperen. In 1935, Zaruski commissioned the build of a similar ketch to sail-train Polish youths. She was designed and built by Bertil Bothen in Sweden and launched in 1941, seeing service with
JAPAN
the Swedish Navy before taking up her intended role in Poland after the war. By 2003, Zaruski was mothballed in the small harbour of Jastarnia, where she was restored like for like, using 60mm-thick oak planks on oak frames, with a pine deck, deckbeams and spars. In August 2012, she should be commissioned to return to her intended role as a youth sail-trainer.
returns The second Transat Classique will leave Portugal for Barbados in December 2012. This year’s format is a bit different: two feeder races will leave France’s main centres of classic yachting – Douarnenez in Brittany and Saint-Tropez on the Mediterranean coast – and muster in the Portuguese port of Cascais. From there, they will sail on 2 December for Barbados. Last time, in
2008, there was an extra leg to Agadir in Morocco.
Moonbeam IV,
the 1920 Fife III gaff cutter of 95ft (29m), has already registered for the race, run by France’s Atlantic Yacht Club.
Yarmouth 23 sells to Japan
The Fisher Boat Company, builder of the stout GRP gaffer the Yarmouth 23, has received its first order from Japan. “This is great news for us” said senior partner Roger Barrow. “We are a new, small, family business, and we started just as the recession started, so it has not been easy to sell boats in the home market.” Roger puts the success down to web marketing through FaceBook and Twitter. Another Y23, designed by Wyatt and Freeman of ‘Fisher’ fame, was recently sailed from Britain to Brazil by her solo skipper. A new, similar boat, but bermudan, the Yarmouth 22, will be exhibited at this year’s Southampton Boat Show.
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