bought for £6,000, sold for £14,000; a Heard 28, bought for £16,000, sold for £37,000. There’s been a GL Watson, two Folkboats, another Buchanan... Guy can’t remember his boatography, it’s grown so long. His and Chloe’s MO these days would count for many
as ‘living the dream’. First they buy an old wreck and move in. Guy works as a boatbuilder while Chloe finds work nearby, at the moment in the local restaurant. In his spare time, Guy restores the boat they are living on with a great deal of help from Chloe who, on Saunterer for example, made most of the decisions on the interior, as well as putting hard graft into achieving the end result. They save up, sail off, then start over again. Of course, the thing about dreams is that they don’t come true – they become reality. Guy and Chloe’s reality is a life not without its privations, but filled with freedom.
SAILING SAUNTERER By keeping Saunterer in her 1930s bermudan rig, Guy and Chloe can two-hand her, fully-rigged, so, apart from at regattas, they don’t have to spend their time looking for crew, though the running backstays are bad enough, Chloe admits. Saunterer might only have been recently finished, but she was sailing last year at Brixham Heritage Regatta, with eight knots through the water and first in class. At the Plymouth Classics, they finished just a boat’s length behind a Sweden 39 in heavy airs. “It would have been a walkover for the modern yacht in light
Left: Saunterer interior: the Beken photo on the bulkhead shows her original gaff rig; the dovetailed dresser is original to the boat
Far left: Hiding the fusebox! Near left: Ex-Admiralty lamp glass from a boat jumble. The Baby Blake in the heads was found weed-covered on a beach, stripped by Guy to 80 pieces, and rebuilt
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