RESTORATION NOTES 

because it's bulletproof and we wanted her to last another century THE TIMBER: Oak from John Barchards for the frames, with patterns sent up for the rough milling; Herefordshire oak for the deck beams from Capps & Capps (cut from the same forest used to rebuild Windsor Great Hall after the fire); and eki for the keel and sternpost, "because it's bulletproff and we wanted her to last another century."

THE RIG: "She had terrible weather helm, so we extended the bowsprit by several feet and shortened the boom slightly to try to counteract that. The rig was drawn by Ed Burnett on his CADS programme, and she has a slightly higher aspect ratio to the rig than she used to.”

THE BALLAST: “We weren't sure how much ballast to put in each frame bay, so Ed just brought along his laptop spreadsheet and at a touch of a button it told us where the lead needed to go.”

THE ENGINE: “We used to have a vast and loud Bristol bus engine that hogged the bottom of the companionway.  If we were to have the traditional passage to starboard into the main saloon, then we needed the engine further forward and to port. The solution was hydraulic drives to twin screws, with the back half of the engine cover serving as a chart table. It has made the boat amazingly manoeuvrable.”

THE TABLE: “David Walkey put his foot down when it came to the saloon table - I wanted something much smaller, but he made a magnificent folding table which can seat eight, which I'm delighted with.”

THE COLOUR: “It is similar to Luke Powell's boats, but I like to think he got the idea from us! I chose it after admiring the undercoat on Kindly Light...”