Classic Boat — February 2018

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NEW BUILD

48 CLASSIC BOAT FEBRUARY 2018

Awards

2018

VOTE ONLINE awards.classicboat.co.uk

NIC COMPTON

C/O COCKWELLS C/O THE OWNER

C/O ARTISAN BOATWORKS C/O VAN DAM BOATS

BRISTOL 32 & 16

Design Andrew Wolstenholme,

build Star Yachts, LOD 32ft

(9.8m) and 16ft (4.9m)

Launched 77 years after

Operation Dynamo, the fi rst

Bristol 32 is the largest in the

pretty, strip-planked semi-

displacement, traditional Bristol

series motor yachts, for an owner

who wanted something to echo

a Dunkirk Little Ship. The

twin-engined (2 x 110hp) 32 will

hit 20 knots+ and handles rough

seas well. The icing on the cake

is her little sister, for the same

owner – the smallest Bristol yet

• the Bristol 16!

CATNIP

Designed Michel Berryer, built Van Dam Custom Boats, LOD 30ft (9.1m)

Van Dam has carved an extraordinary niche, building outrageously

glamorous wooden boats to a money-no-object standard. Catnip is an

art deco-styled, mahogany runabout inspired by 1940s Ventnor

runabouts. She seats fi ve and has a retracting Dietrich top, transom-

hung rudders, sculpted steel exhaust tips and a 60-knot+ top speed.

LAURE

Design unknown, built by Simon Hawksley, LOD 18ft 6in (5.6m)

Oil engineer Simon Hawksley packed in his job in Aberdeen and

signed up with the Boat Building Academy in Lyme Regis, to

build this 1960s-style speedboat, after an American racing

design from the era. She’s ply on wooden frames, looks a dream

and goes like stink, rock solid at 30 knots and topping out at 40.

DUCHY 35

Designed by Andrew Wolstenholme, built by Cockwells, LOD 35ft (10.7m)

One of the stars of the Southampton Boat Show was this, a larger

version of the Duchy 27 – the same designer, same builder and shares

the semi-displacement hull, along with the workboat looks and superb

build. The diff erence is the size and two-engine confi guration. There’s a

lot of space in the cockpit and below decks; a boat that can go places.

TT CORSAIR

Design NG Herreshoff /Matt Smith, built Artisan Boatworks, LOD 24ft (7.3m)

This new tender is for a superyacht, still in build, which owes much to a

series of sleek steam yachts once owned by fi nancier JP Morgan. Their

tenders were correspondingly graceful, mostly from Herreshoff , and

Herreshoff ’s design 381 was the starting point for this ply/strip boat

that will transport 12 passengers under cover at 20 knots or more.