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86 CLASSIC BOAT AUGUST 2016

BOATS ENTERED


STREGA
Built 2001
Type Bermudan sloop
Design Sean McMillan/Mick Newman
Built Spirit Yachts
Length on deck 11.3m
Length overall 11.3m
Displacement 2 tonnes
Beam 2.1m
Draft 1.8m
Sail No GBR7514T
Hull colour Blue

History
Strega is one of several 37s built
by Spirit. The word ‘strega’ is
Italian for ‘witch’ as the beautiful
carved witch’s head at the end of
the tiller portrays. She is kept in
Lymington. With her regular crew
of two married couples, Strega
has raced in many events at home
and in the Med, where a highlight
has been winning her class at the
Régates Royales in Cannes.

WHOOPER
Built 1939
Type One-off sloop
Design Laurent Giles
Built Woodnutts
Length on deck 11.9m
Length overall 11.9m
Displacement 7.3 tonnes
Beam 3.1m
Draft 1.7m
Sail No GBR363R
Hull colour White

History
This shallow-draught yacht was
mostly cruised but her natural
reaching and downwind speed
exceeded expectations. Anecdotes
from Peter Bruce recall crossings
back from the Channel Islands in
the 1960s at average speeds over
10 knots! Her unusual hull and rig
were ahead of her time, and she
has achieved great wins: RTI Gold
Roman Bowls in 2004 and 2015,
Cowes Week in 2004 and 2014,
and overall at this event in 2014.

VOLONTE
Built 1968
Type One-ton sloop
Design Olin Stephens
Built Silvestro
Length on deck 11.3m
Length overall 11.3m
Displacement 7 tonnes
Beam 3.1m
Draft 1.9m
Sail No FRA4396
Hull colour Varnished

History
Volonté sailed for 20 years in the
Med, before being bought by a
Swedish sailor, and transported
there to take part in classic races
with some success. Her new
programme, under a French owner
who undertook a one-year refit in
Brittany with Hubert Stagnol, is
dedicated to one-ton classic races.
Volonté will attend the One-Ton
Revival Cup in the Netherlands in
August (see page 64).

ZALEDA
Built 1966
Type 7-M cruiser/racer
Design James McGruer
Built McGruer & Sons
Length on deck 11.1m
Length overall 11.1m
Displacement 6.5 tonnes
Beam 2.7m
Draft 1.7m
Sail No 7CR/K2
Hull colour Varnished

History
She was commissioned by the
current owner’s uncle from
McGruers in Clynder in 1965. She
was part of a move to create a
new class of 7-M cruiser-racers on
the Clyde in the mid-1960s. She
was bought back into the family
in 1996 and has sailed extensively
on the west coast of Scotland and
the south west of England. She
is now berthed on the River Dart.
This year, she benefited from a
complete instrumentation refit.

THENDARA
Built 1960
Type RORC Sloop
Design Alan Buchanan
Built St Osyth Boatyard
Length on deck 10m
Length overall 10m
Displacement 5 tonnes
Beam 2.7m
Draft 1.5m
Sail No 1853
Hull colour White

History
Thendara raced in the early 1960s
to the RORC rules. The boat was
built to Lloyds 100 A1 and the hull
and ribs remain in good condition.
Her long keel and elegant, clean
lines had the attention of a number
of owners who cruised and raced
her at club level until Chris and Liz
Day and family become owners
in 1996. Since then she has raced
in the RSYC double-handed races
and in this regatta, as well as
cruising in the Solent and Brittany.

SUNMAID V
Built 1967
Type RORC One-Tonner
Design S&S
Built Clare Lallow
Length on deck 11.2m
Length overall 11.2m
Displacement 7.3 tonnes
Beam 3m
Draft 1.9m
Sail No GBR1991
Hull colour Varnish

History
Two were built to this design, a
development of Clarionet. She was
very substantially built for the sake
of her rating, and also because
of lessons learned on the lightly
built Roundabout. Owen Parker,
sailing master on the Sunmaids,
developed twin pole gybing and
the use of separate spinnaker
winches during his time with Guy
Bowles. Current owner Lawrence
Wride had her restored on the
Humber in 2015.

YAVANNA
Built 1965
Type Long-keeled yawl
Design Alan Buchanan
Built William King
Length on deck 14.8m
Length overall 14.8m
Displacement 24 tonnes
Beam 3.9m
Draft 2.1m
Sail No n/a
Hull colour White

History
The Buchanan yawl was designed
and built by the best money could
afford at the time. Alan Buchanan
designed three boats for the Earl
of St Germans, this being the
third and biggest. She was built
by Kings of Burnham on Crouch
to Lloyds 100 A1, the highest
standard. The Earl of St Germans
was pleased with the result. She is
used for charter. classicsail.co.uk

ZOOM
Built 1951
Type Sloop
Design Charles E Nicholson
Built Camper & Nicholson
Length on deck 13.4m
Length overall 13.4m
Displacement 12 tonnes
Beam 2.9m
Draft 2.1m
Sail No 634
Hull colour White

History
Zoom was the last yacht from the
hand of Charles E Nicholson, which
he did in retirement for his friend
Teddy Haylock, editor of Yachting
World in 1950. Close-planked in
teak with plank edges glued, her
frames are of steamed English oak
in two laminations, and her entire
backbone is of teak. She was well
known and written about in the
50s and her visitors’ book is full of
famous sailors of that era. She is
based on England’s South Coast.

IAN BADLEY
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