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Tegwen and Fred

drilling the propeller

shaft using a custom

drill and jig set up

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Yannick works on the

interior, trying to

squeeze engines,

tanks, batteries,

control panel, chart

table and galley into a

tight space

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n 1914, Linton Hope drew Morwenna with twin

8-cyl paraffi n motors that used all the space

between mainmast and aft companion. By the 1927

Fastnet race she had a single-engine lay-out. Owner

Stéphane Monnier decided to return to a twin-engine

confi guration, but with small, modern diesels packed

beneath chart table and counter top. The area is now a

nav station and galley with two quarter berths, an

alteration that gives lots of extra volume and obviates

the need to cook in the bows.

The main mast and boom (Douglas fi r) and foremast

and boom (Sitka spruce) were in good condition and were

reused. An early experiment with hemp rigging proved

near lethal but Morwenna still has her worm-drive,

roller-reefi ng mechanism liked by skipper Robin Kenyon.

In 2013, after the end of a decade-long restoration at

Chantier du Guip, she sailed for the fi rst time in 18 years.

In 2014 she fl ew a jackyard topsail and balloon jib for the

fi rst time since the 1930s, and won the Concours

d’Elegance at that year’s Voiles de Saint-Tropez. PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHEL LE COZ

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MORWENNA

1914 LINTON HOPE SCHOONER

THE RESTORATION

PART FOUR (CONCLUSION)

ENGINE AND SPARS