Classic Boat — November 2017

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Getting afloat


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BOB AYLOTT

TIM LOFTUS

TIM LOFTUS

GLEN MARGARET

Garden find – last of a class


A couple of years ago, boatbuilder Tim Loftus restored a 25ft
Alfred Mylne-designed Glen Class yacht built in 1950 –
Glendhu – and we were awed by how elegant and glamorous
these yachts are. Tim has since moved to Ullapool in northern
Scotland and found – in a garden – the last unaccounted for
of all the Glen Classes – Glen Margaret, also built in 1950.
So if you want a Tim Loftus-restored Glen Class, then you’re
in luck, as he’s ready to have another go. Another advantage
of the Glen Class (besides the looks and the history) is that
they have an active – and extremely competitive – racing
scene. Most of the 19 built are still racing, and owner-
maintained. This one’s in better nick than the photo suggests.
“We will be able to save most of her centreline except the
deadwood,” says Tim. “Eighty per cent of the planking and
framing is fine, although a re-fasten is in order. The deck and
coachroof will be replaced, but the original spars will serve
again.”

Lying Ullapool, Scotland. Cost £30,000 – £40,000.
Tel: +44 7795 118651, [email protected]

WENDY MAY

Hard-weather packet
Maurice Griths is these days best known for his excellent ‘plywood box’ yacht, the
Eventide, plans for which sold to homebuilders in countless numbers during the
post-war British sailing boom. Either that, or his famous book on East Coast cruising,
Magic of the Swatchways. He did also, however, draw many traditional yachts, and
Wendy May is a beautiful example of that. She’s pitch pine on oak, built in 1936 by
the Welsh yard of Williams and Parkinson, and ga… cutter rigged. Her
commissioning owner wanted an easy-to-handle boat capable of anything – “a
hard-weather packet” in his own words. It would seem that’s exactly what he
got, as the current owner’s experience has borne out. She’s 26ft (7.9m) in
length, with a cosy, traditional four-berth layout below decks, sitting
headroom on the saloon berths, and 5ft 9in under the gullwing skylight –
enough to don trousers! Dick Durham, a writer for Classic Boat, is selling
Wendy May because he has bought a centre-board ga…er to keep on a
drying mooring. Dick has written about Wendy May in CB326 and
CB349.

Lying East Coast. Asking £13,500.
Tel: +44 (0)1905 356482, classicyachtbrokerage.co.uk

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