Classic Boat — January 2018

AMENDMENT

In our November

Yard Visit, to see

Tim Gilmore at

Dolphin Quay

Boatyard in

Chichester’s

Birdham Pool

Marina, we

stated that the

exterior wood

on Graham

Johnston’s

Hunters Moon

had been

“renewed” by

Tim. This was

not the case.

The restoration

carried out by

Julian Dyer in

the mid-1990s

has remained

strong and true

to this day.

Subsequent care

by Tim has been

just to keep the

wood looking

immaculate.

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CRAFTSMANSHIP

The restoration of a 1932 Fife III-designed and built

6-M has culminated in her first trials in her home of

Inverkip Marina for owner David Cockburn. The

restoration was carried out by Tom Owens in Fowey,

Cornwall. A previous 6-M restoration by Tom – Valdai

• won a Restoration of the Year award from us, and
  Piccolo looks to be of a similar quality. David, who
  plans to race Piccolo, has a lot of history with the
  yacht, having known her since childhood, helming her
  as a boy under the tutelage of his grandfather, who
  owned her in the 1960s, after her conversion into a
  cruising yacht in 1958. He even has the original
  builder’s half model, saved from a bonfire when the
  Fife yard closed for business. We look forward to
  seeing how she fares in her first full season next year.

This 16ft 6in (5m) ‘Elfyn’ faering from the board of Iain

Oughtred is the latest from Viking Boats of Ullapool,

owned by our columnist Adrian Morgan. It’s the fifth

boat Adrian has built using Collano Semparoc instead

of epoxy, and his third in the Finnish planking material

Vendia. The centreline was in oak with solid oak stems,

with a rig by Collars, sails by Jeckells and faering oars.

The oak framing was not from the Elfyn plan, but

derived from the Woodfish faering, drawn for

traditional solid wood construction. “The Collano/

Vendia construction method has many advantages

over epoxy/ply, not least no mixing and a clean build,”

Adrian says. “Vendia is produced using sliced veneers,

so the surface exhibits the grain and character of solid

timber. My only regret in this three plank faering was

that quarter-sawn Vendia was used, rather than a

more natural crown cut which was not available in

lengths that made CNC routing economical.” The boat

cost her owner just over £5,000 for the hull.

INVERKIP, SCOTLAND

Piccolo launched,

ready to race

ULLAPOOL, SCOTLAND

New Oughtred faering

C/O DAVID COCKBURN

ADRIAN MORGAN

TOM CUNLIFFE

An 1890s-vintage dayboat from the hand of Fife III has been taking shape in the yard of time-served
boatbuilder Alastair Garland, according to Tom Cunliffe, who is a friend and neighbour of Alastair’s
and took these photos. She’s 28ft (8m) long and Alastair (right), plans to use her as his own boat
when she is re-launched next year, with much of her original material still intact. Fitting her out
internally is planned for 2018. She also still needs a new suit of sails.

LANDFORD, HAMPSHIRE

Century-old Fife ‘barn

find’ coming back to life