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RHODE ISLAND, USA
Bogie’s S&S schooner
coming along nicely
Joe Loughborough of Loughborough Marine Interests
tells us that things are going swimmingly with the
ongoing rebuild of Santana, the 55ft (16.8m) bermudan
schooner once owned by Humphrey Bogart. She was
designed by Sparkman & Stephens and built in 1935,
and starred on the cover of our December 2005 issue
(CB210). The rebuild has been considerable: 90 per
cent reframing and complete replanking.

BODRUM, TURKEY
Pilot Cutter style,
carbon clothes

C/O HOEK DESIGN

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A new Pilot Cutter Classic from Dutch
SoT designer Andre Hoek is in build at
Metur Yachts for a repeat Hoek client.
The 55-footer (16.8m), has a carbon-
reinforced, glass-epoxy foam-core hull,
and will weigh 16 tonnes. Like most Hoek
boats (Metur has built fi ve), this is an
exercise in new meets old. The counter
stern and plumb bow are traditional to a
point, but if Essence 33 is anything to go
by, she’ll sail like smoke with her modern
underbody. She’s designed to be “easily
sailed by a couple” according to Hoek;
again, experience shows this will be no
false claim. Above deck, she fl ies a
1,765sq ft (164m^2 ) bermudan rig.

Mathias and Martin Ravanis, the two brothers who make up the Nyhamns Såg & Båtbyggeri boatyard, have sent us these photos of their latest
project. She’s a 1909-built, 25ft (7.6m) clinker fi shing boat, MO347 (Bessie), built by the well-renowned Per Persson Limhamn near Malmo. They
have been repairing and building traditional wooden boats professionally since 2004, and before that by taking over their parents’ garage! In
2009, they gave a lecture on traditional Swedish boatbuilding at the Traditional Boat Festival in Portsoy, Scotland. They are completely self-
taught and have already repaired or rebuilt more than 100 traditional Swedish boats. They source and mill all wood from a nearby forest.
MO347 has fi shed for 106 years... “and the years have taken their toll,” says Matthias. “We are now replacing the bow, keel, sternpost, 180m (591ft)
of planking, all frames and fl oors and the whole deck. This is so far our biggest restoration project. Finding a piece of wood for the heavy crooked
stem took nearly two months walking around in the forests of south Sweden and Denmark with a mould of the bow in search for the perfect tree.

SWEDEN


A walk in the woods


Martin
(background)
and Mathias
fi tting a plank.
From right: a
toast; alignment;
the elusive
stem timber.

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