POWERED VESSELS
UNDER 40FT (12.2M)
NOMINATIONSISLE OF EWE
FISHING BOAT
Designed and built Alasdair
Grant, 2015, LOD 21ft (6.4m)
This traditionally built
gentleman’s wheelhouse
fi shing launch with single
inboard diesel is Alasdair
Grant’s working of an almost
timeless concept, for a
customer who now keeps her
on England’s south coast.
She’s of larch planks on oak
frames, and was built at
Alasdair’s yard on the Isle of
Ewe – population seven!PEDRAZZINI SPECIALE
Designed and built Pedrazzini 2015,
LOD 33ft 10in (10.3m)
There is something universally
appealing about a solid mahogany
runabout, more so when it comes
from the third generation of a family
that has been building wooden
boats for more than 100 years, and
runabouts like this for 50 of them.
‘Pedrazzini does not do novelties or
fads,’ we reported in CB325. ‘Just
the best traditional solid-mahogany
runabouts.’ This one, the twin-engine,
40-knot Speciale, is cock of the roost.LUCY LAVERS
D&B Groves and Gutteridge, 1940, Restored 2013-15 by
David and George Hewitt, LOD 36ft 6in (11.1m)
There’s a magic to old lifeboats. This Liverpool Class
double-diagonal mahogany boat has, with a £100,000
HLF grant, been restored to her original service
specifi cation, which is minimal by modern comparison.
Just a hammering single diesel under the canopy and
‘plein air’ seating for the saved. Still, you wouldn’t say no.The owner of the restored, 165ft (50m) 1937 motor yacht
MalahneMalahneMalahne commissioned GL Watson to come up with a
30-knot tender and Jack Giff ord drew this, built in yellow
cedar strip plank with mahogany outer layer and solid
mahogany laid deck. Superyacht tenders are a lucrative niche
these days, and the usual host of half-baked follies are
emerging. This one, though, hits its mark, with a design
ancestry that harks back not to Riva, but to the original
American runabouts from the likes of Chris Craft and Hacker.BRISTOL 16
Design A Wolstenholme. Built
Star Yachts 2015, 16ft (4.9m)
Builder Win Cnoops added
another one to his steadily
growing list of these new,
traditionally styled, semi-
displacement launches this
summer, with the launch of the
smallest yet – the Bristol 16. It’s
for a customer who has also
ordered the biggest yet – a 32.
Like all of them, she’s cold-
moulded in wood and
combines a stepped sheerline
with some nice, subtle
tumblehome towards the stern.[]
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