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POWERED VESSELS

OVER 40FT (12.2M)

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YACHTSMAN

OF THE YEAR

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too strong a word – in 1930s motor yacht

restorations has been a surprise to

everyone, but when you see a boat like

this one in all her glorious detail, it’s easy

to understand. Our cover boat last month,

she underwent a signifi cant refi t and is full

of fascinating, period-correct fi ttings.

JAMES WHARRAM

This autumn, James Wharram

held a party to celebrate 60

years since his famous

groundbreaking voyage, when he

set out across the Atlantic on a

self-designed, self-built 23ft 6in

(7.2m) ‘double canoe’ Tangaroa.

He is, today, the maestro of

traditional multihull design.

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AwardsIN ASSOCIATION WITH

CHRISTOPHER SHARPLES

By the time Christopher Sharples was elected as the

Royal Yacht Squadron’s commodore in 2013, in time to

front the club’s bicentenary celebrations this summer,

much of the ground work had been done. But Sharples

ensured long-term plans coalesced into a spectacular

and historic series of events and he proved the

perfect ambassador.

LEO GOOLDEN

To anyone who claims they don’t make them like they

used to (people, that is), we off er Leo Goolden, hard-up

boatbuilder who restored a Folkboat and sailed it to the

Caribbean, aided not by engine and satnav but by scull

and sextant. He won every race at Antigua Classic, then

skippered a 95ft ketch to the frozen north (see p66).

SPIRIT P40

Designed and built (2015) Spirit Yachts, 40ft 6in (12,3m)

We jumped aboard at the glamorous Cannes Yachting

Festival in September and found Spirit’s smart launch to

be very sprightly with her low displacement (just 4.5

tonnes) and twin 260hp diesels. Comfortable cruising at

26 knots and fl at-out nearer 40 is not to be sniff ed at

• particularly if you can do it in style, smoothly, and stay
  dry at the same time. She sleeps two in her cuddy.

NICK BURNHAM

C/O SPIRIT YACHTS

C/O LEO GOOLDEN

NIGEL SHARP

INGID ABERY