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RHODE ISLAND, USA

Bogie’s S&S schooner

coming along nicely

Joe Loughborough of Loughborough Marine Interests

tells us that things are going swimmingly with the

ongoing rebuild of Santana, the 55ft (16.8m) bermudan

schooner once owned by Humphrey Bogart. She was

designed by Sparkman & Stephens and built in 1935,

and starred on the cover of our December 2005 issue

(CB210). The rebuild has been considerable: 90 per

cent reframing and complete replanking.

BODRUM, TURKEY

Pilot Cutter style,

carbon clothes

C/O HOEK DESIGN

C/O SAG & BATBYGGERI BOATYARD

CB ARCHIVES

A new Pilot Cutter Classic from Dutch

SoT designer Andre Hoek is in build at

Metur Yachts for a repeat Hoek client.

The 55-footer (16.8m), has a carbon-

reinforced, glass-epoxy foam-core hull,

and will weigh 16 tonnes. Like most Hoek

boats (Metur has built fi ve), this is an

exercise in new meets old. The counter

stern and plumb bow are traditional to a

point, but if Essence 33 is anything to go

by, she’ll sail like smoke with her modern

underbody. She’s designed to be “easily

sailed by a couple” according to Hoek;

again, experience shows this will be no

false claim. Above deck, she fl ies a

1,765sq ft (164m^2 ) bermudan rig.

Mathias and Martin Ravanis, the two brothers who make up the Nyhamns Såg & Båtbyggeri boatyard, have sent us these photos of their latest

project. She’s a 1909-built, 25ft (7.6m) clinker fi shing boat, MO347 (Bessie), built by the well-renowned Per Persson Limhamn near Malmo. They

have been repairing and building traditional wooden boats professionally since 2004, and before that by taking over their parents’ garage! In

2009, they gave a lecture on traditional Swedish boatbuilding at the Traditional Boat Festival in Portsoy, Scotland. They are completely self-

taught and have already repaired or rebuilt more than 100 traditional Swedish boats. They source and mill all wood from a nearby forest.

MO347 has fi shed for 106 years... “and the years have taken their toll,” says Matthias. “We are now replacing the bow, keel, sternpost, 180m (591ft)

of planking, all frames and fl oors and the whole deck. This is so far our biggest restoration project. Finding a piece of wood for the heavy crooked

stem took nearly two months walking around in the forests of south Sweden and Denmark with a mould of the bow in search for the perfect tree.

SWEDEN

A walk in the woods

Martin
(background)
and Mathias
fi tting a plank.
From right: a
toast; alignment;
the elusive
stem timber.