CRAFTSMANSHIP Yard News
Edited by Peter Willis +44 (0) 207 349 1932
peter.willis@chelseamagazines.com
BRISTOL
Wolstenholme launch launched
To Bristol, and the Underfall Yard for the launch of Trevor Cherrett’s Morgana, which he hopes will prove the perfect motor launch for his self-described ‘Wind in the Willows’ style of boating. Designed by Andrew Wolstenholme, she’s 22ft (6.7m) long and 7ft 8in (2.3m) in the beam. A roomy cockpit combines with some accommodation under the foredeck to make for dayboat that can double as an unfussy camper-cruiser. As the Bristol 22, in strip plank,
she’s the first build for Win Cnoops’ new company Star Yachts Ltd. Win has already started on a new commission for the larger, 27ft (8.2m) version, the Bristol 27, with more ample forepeack accommodation, while Trevor, within a few days of launching, had whisked Morgana away to start exploring Milford Haven.
BRISTOL Truant and her dolphins
While in Bristol, I took the chance to check up on George Millar’s Truant, subject of an enlightening profile by James Long in the first issue of Sam Llewellyn’s new Marine Quarterly. Last summer (YN, CB 266), her Swedish owner Tom Evers was preparing to sail her away to Sweden. But the birth of a baby induced a change of plan, and she’s now on the market through Peter Gregson’s Wooden Ships, at £27,500.
What intrigued me was the report that the gilded dolphins on her transom were carved by sculptor Barbara Hepworth – or, nowadays, just one of them (starboard, I’d guess), the other being a relatively crude post-accident repair. Peter knew of a sister ship, also with claimed Hepworth dolphins on her transom, that was broken up in Galmpton last year. The dolphins doubtless survived – somewhere.
WICORMARINE New keel for Itchen Ferry Nellie
Itchen Ferry Nellie – 150 years old next year – has been given a new keel by her owner Scott Waddington. “We want to try and make Nellie stiffer and to overcome some of the terrible weather helm that hampered us in last year’s post restoration Round the Island Race,” says Scott. Nellie, 21ft 9in (6.6m), built by Dan Hatcher of
Southampton in 1862, has been in the Waddington family, which runs Wicormarine at the top of Portsmouth Harbour, for many years, and under
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restoration since 2003. The keel, cast by Irons Brothers of Wadebridge, Cornwall, was designed by John Sharp, responsible for the restoration of Moonbeam III in the late 1980s. Nellie will be back in this year’s Round the
Island, also with a new mainsail. Scott has also launched an Itchen Ferry Society, with a nascent website at
www.itchenferry.org. Seven boats are up there so far – other owners are welcome to join.
PETER WILLIS
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