Motor Boat & Yachting — August 2017

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Editorial

A bit like kit cars of the 1980s, the majority of homebuilt boats

fill me with a mixture of concern, fear and admiration. Concern

because even the ones that do get finished often end up taking

twice as long and costing four times as much as planned, fear

because you never quite know how safe they are, and admiration

because even the worst ones are so much better than I could ever

manage to build myself.

I recall one spectacular story from my Motor Boats Monthly

days about a very likeable chap who’d bought a bare 80ft hull

up in Scotland, strapped a brace of outboard engines to it,

cruised it down to Essex, then spent all of his life savings and

most of his best years fitting it out as a sort of DIY superyacht.

It was a magnificent effort which the owner was rightly chuffed

by, and it certainly seemed solid enough, but I was never entirely

convinced that the worlds of DIY and superyachts should ever

have collided in the first place.

But every now and then, you stumble across a home-built

boat that rightly takes your breath away. The 35ft motor yacht

Thea featured on p46 is such an example. Not only is she

beautiful to look at and exquisitely finished, but she was

built from the ground up by husband and wife team Tom

and Lorraine Owen. And I don’t just mean that they fitted out

a bare hull or even glued her together from a kit of templated

parts. They started with a pile of seasoned wood and a pencil,

designed her, constructed a shed to build her in, then hour by

painstaking hour, pieced together their own vision of the perfect

boat using all their experience, skill and a great deal of love.

Despite her costing a very reasonable £45,000 in materials

and site rental, even they admit that the economics

of it don’t stack up by the time you’ve taken

into account the thousands of hours they’ve

put into her build. But that’s hardly the

point. Thea looks a million dollars, and the

enjoyment she will bring them is priceless.

FOunTaine-PajOT MY

Jack Haines gets to grips with

this luxurious new multi-hull

that really puts

the power cat

among the

monohull

pigeons

Princess TO nOrwaY

Part three of John Boyle’s stunning

video diary of cruising Norway’s

coastline. This

month, he takes

his Princess V

into the Arctic

Circle itself

GlasTrOn Gs 259

Nick Burnham gives you a guided

tour of this brand new family

sportscruiser

that puts

affordable

boating back

on the map

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the best videos with this issue

“They started with a

pile of seasoned wood

and hour by hour,

pieced together their

own perfect boat”

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