Donella, the prototype to the Donella Class was designed in 1956 and during the following two years was built by Messrs. Percy Mitchell of Mevagissey, Cornwall. Altogether nineteen Donella class hull numbers were assigned of which two (hulls numbers 12 & 13) were not built. Four of those that were built: numbers 5, 11, 14 […]
Boat Plan Sets Racing Yachts Yacht Register80 years ago 1939, Flica II, although never an Americas Cup challenger, was none the less notable in the International Yacht Racing Rule 12 m class. She was one of the largest I.Y.R. Twelve Metre class ever built, however some commentators deemed her to be too long, too narrow and too heavy. In fact, at […]
Boat Plan Sets Historical Yachts Racing Yachts Yacht RegisterToday, ten years after the mission started a visitor to the Laurent Giles can find either directly from the site by searching the design name, or by using the contact feature, technical and design information on all of Jack Giles designs and most Laurent Giles designs up to the end of the twentieth century. For […]
Boat Plan Sets Historical Yachts Model Plans Posters and Prints Production Yachts Racing Yachts Uncategorised Yacht RegisterThe Channel class was designed in 1937 and the list of owners of the third of class Triune of Troy is most distinguished: Triune was built in 1938 for Langley Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool, a lawyer by profession who became involved in investigating the sensational A6 murder in rural Bedfordshire in August 1961 […]
Historical Yachts Racing Yachts Yacht RegisterWhen three is not a crowd it is a triune According to Jack Giles dairy notes “the design team worked together extremely happily, Van de Stadt producing a very beautiful set of lines, and John Illingworth applying his practical knowledge to the sail plan, masting and rigging with, as results have shown, very easy and […]
Game changers Historical Yachts Racing Yachts Yacht RegisterHistoric records refer to Rhakotis as a settlement on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast before Alexander the Great founded the famous Mediterranean port city of Alexandria in B.C. 332. Alexandria was an important city of the ancient world; for more than two thousand years, it was the largest city in Egypt and was its capital for almost […]
Boat Plan Sets Historical Yachts Model Plans Racing YachtsIn 1938, a year before Whooper, the designs for Wapipi were commissioned and she commenced building in Plymouth by Morgan Giles (no connection) for Commander W. B. Pirie. When delivered she sailed under the burgee of the Royal Northumberland Yacht Club. She was later owned by Sir Derrick Gunston. Wapipi shared Whooper’s hull lines with […]
Game changers Historical Yachts Racing YachtsWhen preparing the design of the L class it was not the intention of Jack Giles to establish a new one-design class in any form; the boats were designed purely as deep-bodied, a roomy knock-about, intended for day cruising, fishing and picnicking, with as much room below as reasonably possible in a boat of their […]
Boat Plan Sets Historical Yachts Racing YachtsThe fourth and largest of Giles’ nine Myth of Malham type offshore racing yachts, at 55’ Gulvain was in 1949 the largest British offshore racing yacht to be built since the end of the Second World War. Her hull, with full reverse sheer, reverse transom counter and sweeter bow overhang represented the logical development of […]
Game changers Historical Yachts Racing Yachts1977 the Silver Jubilee year of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the R.O.R.C’s Cervantes Trophy race started off of the Lymington Spit Buoy and among the fleet were two Laurent Giles half tonners: Starlight Return and Giant Killer, both of which had been designed by Mike Pocock who for a couple of seasons led the […]
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