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CLASSIC BOAT AUGUST 2016 101

STORY AND PHOTOS NIGEL SHARP

ELLY ROSE This 19-footer, another which didn’t quite make it to the water

on launch day, is an extended version of a boat built at BBA six years ago

based on a boat spotted on the beach at Beer. She has been built by

Adrian St Aubyn and will be kept in Falmouth for fi shing. Her hull is

clenched-clinker, larch on oak and she will have a Yanmar 14HP diesel.

LUCILE Dan Adam-Azikri, normally bosun on the 19-M Mariquita, and Bob

Leach didn’t quite get Lucile ready in time for launch day. Lucile is a replica

of the 1891 Gil Smith-designed cat boat of the same name and has been

built from plans provided by Mystic Seaport. Her hull is cold moulded with

four 3mm layers, two of ply in the middle with mahogany inside and out.

TERROR Jon Lloyd-Davies’s Terror is the fi rst boat of her type to be built.

Former student Mark Bestford commissioned Paul Gartside to design her

with a view to building one at his own company Boatwork Ltd, but has

been too busy to do so. Terror’s hull is strip-planked Western red cedar

with glass/epoxy inside and out. How was the fi rst sail? “I wasn’t really

expecting to get all the sail up. It was brilliant!” said Jon.

INTERNATIONAL CANOE This Phil Morrison-designed International Canoe

had been rejected by her manufacturers due to defects considered

uneconomical to rectify, so student Max Bentley acquired her and carried

out the necessary work at the academy. Max hadn’t had time to fi t all the

fi ttings by launch day so had to delay his inaugural sail.

LEAF: Regina Frei’s Leaf is an Iain Oughtred-designed 11ft 6in clenched-

clinker Guillemot. She has an oak and chestnut centreline, larch planking

on steamed chestnut ribs, and the transom is from a piece of apple wood

which Regina brought over from her home country, Switzerland.

Five new boats have recently been built by the class of

September 2015 at the Boat Building Academy, Lyme Regis

• fewer than in most years but, in terms of combined

“tonnage”, it was as challenging as ever to get them all

completed in time for launch day in June. So much so that,

when the day came, two of them remained in the workshop

and one other wasn’t ready to sail, but nonetheless the day

was a wonderful celebration for the 11 graduating students

and the scores of well-wishers who gathered on the town

slipway to cheer each launch.

LYME REGIS

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