PEGGY BAWN is a rare thing indeed. The number of surviving vessels from pioneering Clydeside yacht designer George Lennox Watson’s lifetime (1851-1904) can be counted on a careless carpenter’s fingers. Long gone are his huge America’s Cup challengers and “Big Class” racing yachts, and only two of the fleet of palatial steam yachts – the superyachts of their day – from his Glasgow drawing boards are known to survive, in fabulous condition although barely recognisable from their original appearance. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/302/PEGGY%20BAWN It is left to PEGGY BAWN to carry the flame for Watson’s groundbreaking mid-1890s work in setting the standard for moderation in sailing yacht design, work that has never been challenged – only endorsed by those who followed his lead through the 20th century, especially Olin J. Stephens, who was a self-confessed Watson fan. PEGGY BAWN’s gilded “fiddle” bow was anachronistic even at her launching in 1894, partly a past fad, partly practical, undoubtedly beautiful – an interim stage in the development of extending immersed waterlines for faster sailing when heeled with a more buoyant hull – but it conceals the fact that when her award-winning restoration team began assessing what they’d found in a County Waterford hay barn in 2003, they quickly realised that the “numbers” – yacht designer speak for the various ratios that define a hull – were simply a scaled-down version of those for Watson’s famous royal racing cutter Britannia of 1893. Her name gave rise to the so called “Britannia Ideal”, as she was and is considered the epitome of sea kindliness. PEGGY BAWN's present owner can vouch for that from fourteen seasons of racing and cruising aboard her in northern and Mediterranean Europe, and east coast USA. PEGGY BAWN is quite simply the best behaved yacht any of them had had the pleasure to sail. And her rebuild and restoration set new standards for documentation and authenticity. She's special.

Few British pre-war cruiser-racers have had so much love and care lavished on them, but this striking 50 ft classic yawl - Fred Shepherd’s last design - thoroughly deserves it. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/775/fred-shepherd-50-ft-yawl-19392025 AMOKURA's story is remarkable and her ability legendary. Almost as if she demanded it, her few owners over more than 80 years have always let her off the leash as a long-distance cruiser and passage racer; in present ownership she has completed the past two Fastnet Races and cruised extensively. Through the lessons learned during voyages that offer time to think, AMOKURA has been refined and improved to the extent that she is most probably a more able yacht than when launched by Moody's in 1939. Yet she is doing exactly what her designer and commissioning owner envisaged. Down below that is achieved with rather more comfort than the 1930s sailor accepted, but with no loss of charm and period feel. AMOKURA is very special, and, of course, she doesn't need to be sailed far away to be enjoyed and to give back.

RUDA was built from the best of materials and has perhaps the most characterful and deceptively spacious interior of any boat of this size we’ve seen. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/776

It might be quite difficult to write something new about Jack Laurent Giles’s legendary Vertue design, the subject of many books and articles over 90 years, often about intrepid voyages. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/769/TOM%20THUMB But TOM THUMB has always been a special Vertue, because of the astonishing quality of her original build by renowned artisans Harold Kimber and David Blake – its specifications, and raw materials, under Lloyd's ✠100A1 supervision – and now also because of the honourable restoration treatment in present ownership undertaken by Stirling & Son. All ferrous metal, often the usual suspect in denying longevity in these boats, was removed and replaced with bronze; she got a replacement deck, cockpit and enchanting interior; and, very recently, a new engine. Subsequently TOM THUMB has been well proven cruising Baltic and Hebridean waters, and is very ready for more.

When we last listed BOJAR for sale we claimed she was a yacht that might even define the term ‘classic yacht’; visiting her recently on her mooring - nothing has changed! https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/770/BOJAR I would not be surprised if the sheerline Johan Anker drew in 1937 has not moved a single millimetre such was the quality of her original build and the caring ownerships this boat has enjoyed. Her beauty remains effortless and totally unspoilt. BOJAR’s race record is impressive - although she has never competed on the Mediterranean classic race circuit, you have to wonder… With her ballast ratio at approximately 50% and very little to compromise her authenticity coefficient, what fun she could be as the new girl in sunny town!?

Even for William Fife III's genius, ADVENTURESS would have to rate as one of his best of the best. Her lines and the proportions of her rig are exquisite; she is a wonderful size; large enough to cruise in comfort but at 82 ft on deck she can still be considered an intimate family yacht and her interior is one of the best we have ever seen. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/408/ADVENTURESS Her 2012 restoration is well documented, but there have been very few of this quality where absolutely no compromises were made and with such delicate and subtle treatment to every detail. This boat has a magic that will leave you more than smiling; an effect that might never leave you - sublime!

AMELIE ROSE benefits from the accumulated experience of being the 7th pilot cutter traditionally built by legendary Cornwall-based boatbuilder, sailor and educator Luke Powell, and from fourteen seasons of constant summer use as a successful charter vessel on Northern Europe’s Atlantic seaboard. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/768/AMELIE%20ROSE Using such a vessel as intended – and keeping it usable – is a major ingredient in a wooden boat remaining sweet, aired, efficient, and long lasting; AMELIE ROSE is a fine example of this. She is of course also infused with the grace, charm and purposefulness of the Scilly pilot cutters of old, and offers simple, stress free sailing in great comfort aboard a vessel that can't fail to become a love affair - probably at first sight.

She stole our hearts and minds last time round and she’s coming back…a recent refit has refined her interior and systems…her looks give off a kind of playful functionality and they certainly don’t offend.. In MARY ISLAY, John E. Powell - Aeromarine’s highly proficient in-house yacht designer who would subsequently become better known as an alloy spar maker - perfected a highly attractive and purposeful fusion of workboat type with yacht styling and construction standards. Dubbed a “fishing yacht” on launch, this teak wonder achieves a whole lot in her overall length, with well thought-out space above and below for cruising and pottering by family and friends. Sensibly and economically powered by a trusty Gardner 4LW, and given more than just deserts professionally in current ownership, MARY ISLAY is a very special love affair waiting to happen. Call Barney Sandeman on : +44 1202 330077. . . . #yachtdesign #yacht #yachtingphoto #yachting #yachtinglife #classicyacht #classicsailing #woodenboat #sailingboat #sailingyacht #sailing #sailinglife #sailinglove #vintageyacht #vintage #motoryacht

MAYAN is a very civilised classic yacht. Fine provenance; remarkable ownership, restoration, and maintenance history; an easily handled ‘transitional’ schooner rig; spacious accommodations; and John G. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/766/MAYAN Alden good looks - all rendezvous to offer a fabulous whole. MAYAN’s shallow centerboard-up draft of 5 feet / 1.52 m makes her particularly suitable for shoal waters at this size; great beam and hull sections make that work and she’s rarely lee rail under. For much of her life, particularly during over forty years of ownership by musician David Crosby when famous songs were composed aboard, she has also been a very successful blue waters cruiser. And in current ownership she has scored many victories on San Francisco Bay. Few yachts, classic or not, are as ready for anything - turn up and go - as MAYAN. This vessel is subject to an exclusive listing agreement with licenced California Yacht Broker Paul Buttrose (T: +1 954-294-6962 E: paul@paulbuttrose.com), and is not offered for sale by Sandeman Yacht Company Ltd. Sandeman Yacht Company Ltd. is merely providing this information in an effort to represent you as a buyer in the purchase of this vessel.

There is something very romantic about a boat that looks like this and a long ownership; he sails her often, and normally on his own.... https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/756/MISCHIEF MISCHIEF is one of the fortunate survivors of the beautiful West Solent One Design Class included in a 1990s wave of restoration and revival. The West Solent was the sports boat of its day; probably the first in the UK to be series built. Perhaps the most successful and elegant inshore waters racer/ cruiser ever to grace UK waters, they look equally as good at rest as at play. 31 boats were built by Berthon Boat Company for UK clients between 1923 and 1933, with fleets developing at Lymington, Torbay, and on the east coast. MISCHIEF has sailed there, and much further afield including cruising Europe's western seaboard to the Mediterranean in the 1980s. She has undoubtedly benefited from having just one loving owner since 1991; very well set up for short handed cruising and occasional racing. There is something very romantic about a boat that looks like this and a long ownership; he sails her often, and normally on his own. [Footage: courtesy Lee Roper]

MISCHIEF is one of the fortunate survivors of the beautiful West Solent One Design Class included in a 1990s wave of restoration and revival. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/756/MISCHIEF The West Solent was the sports boat of its day; probably the first in the UK to be series built. Perhaps the most successful and elegant inshore waters racer/ cruiser ever to grace UK waters, they look equally as good at rest as at play. 31 boats were built by Berthon Boat Company for UK clients between 1923 and 1933, with fleets developing at Lymington, Torbay, and on the east coast. MISCHIEF has sailed there, and much further afield including cruising Europe's western seaboard to the Mediterranean in the 1980s. She has undoubtedly benefited from having just one loving owner since 1991; very well set up for short handed cruising and occasional racing. There is something very romantic about a boat that looks like this and a long ownership; he sails her often, and normally on his own.

VERA MARY is a special one for many reasons, not least because we dare anyone not to take a second look at this gorgeous classic yacht that has recently emerged from deep refit looking like new without loss of authenticity. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/764/VERA%20MARY Few schooners of this handy size were built in Britain during the 20th Century, and her design provenance and second ownership by King George V’s Sailing Master on BRITANNIA, Sir Philip Hunloke, ensures that no yacht has stronger connections with sailing royalty and the era of “The Big Class”. Decades of Mediterranean voyaging and chartering from the 1940s through 1980s are surely proof of concept in her design, because she was never radically altered during a period when authenticity wasn’t always a watchword in vintage yacht ownership. VERA MARY is ready to enchant well into her second century.

From renowned designer Ed Burnett’s drawing board, HELENA was launched in the summer of 2018, her every detail fashioned by a small team of British craftsmen with a proud heritage of wooden boatbuilding led by shipwright Mike Ludgrove over a period spanning more than a decade. With lines echoing from the 1930s, she is every inch a classic inspiration from the Golden Age of yachting, yet combines all the advantages of watertight and modern construction and new and efficient systems. When we visited HELENA immediately after her return from the Mediterranean it was almost impossible to believe this was a boat that had sailed 9000 miles in one summer. She is capable and beautiful - what more can we say! https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/558/HELENA

KALEA is a ketch-rigged classic yacht with up to four twin, en-suite cabins, spacious and elegant convivial spaces, and sparkling yet stately performance under both sail and motor. Full details: https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/762/KALEA Call Barney Sandeman : +44 (0)1202 330077 It all works just as well now aboard this mid-century gem as when she was first launched into the swinging sixties Italian Riviera, the product of a fruitful relationship between high performance motorsailer aficionado Bruno Veronese, and the embryonic years of what has become one of Italy’s most famous yards, Cantieri di Pisa. KALEA’s present, UK based owners have sensibly refitted, upgraded - and repaired where age required - to bring this special 69 footer into the 21st Century without any loss of vintage charm. KALEA is afloat and very ready for her 60th season.

BUFEO BLANCO is Cesare Sangermani's superb take on a strong, comfortable, spacious, elegant - and of course beautifully built - fast cruiser capable of winning races under the RORC Rating Rule in force at the time in the Mediterranean. Originally launched as LUIMAR, she has cruised extensively under six ownerships, but it wasn’t until the classic boat revival era that her racing potential was fully realised – and some. Since 2008 BUFEO BLANCO has become one the best known and most successful boats on the Mediterranean classic regatta circuit while still enjoying family cruising to the full. 50 ft/ 6 m may be the perfect owner-driver size and BUFEO BLANCO ticks so many boxes. And she has that very special badge: she’s a Sangermani! https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/679/BUFEO%20BLANCO

DANCER has Bill Tripp Jr's distinctive and very attractive style written all over. His name means that sailing performance comes guaranteed; after all, she's a slightly smaller design sister to Huey Long's incredibly successful ONDINE II, also built by master yacht builders Abeking & Rasmussen in aluminium. In recent decades blue water performance cruising has been DANCER's calling, and she does this with comfortable aplomb. Always well maintained and upgraded during 35 years of previous ownership, DANCER’s current owner since 2022 has fastidiously refitted the aluminium sloop to the extent that very few items of systems and equipment date from earlier than 2023. DANCER is well set for many more miles of ocean voyaging and/or family cruising and classic racing. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/755/DANCER%20(ex%20AVENIR)

The opportunity to follow through - from sketches (perhaps grounded in childhood), to drawings, to reality - the design of that somehow most romantic of pleasure vessels, a traditionally inspired schooner yacht, must have been a great thrill for her designer, working with a commissioning owner up for some adventure. The idea was to carry her owning family to warmer waters in some style, without fuss and anxiety. Despite what Ed Burnett might have said below, perhaps when pressed about influences, AMELIA’s hull design is clearly a gentle evolution from the highly successful late 1990s 30 ft ZINNIA design created in partnership with Nigel Irens: a very good idea indeed. Great attention would, of course, have been applied to the special requirements of a schooner’s sail area distribution - to get the ‘drag’ in the keel profile just right. But in many ways, she’s simply a double size ZINNIA, which means that she feels much bigger than she is, sails like a dream, and rewards great pride in ownership. AMELIA has now ticked all the boxes for two owners. The first did indeed sail her down the Portuguese Trades to the warm waters of the Mediterranean where she was lightly used there until entering present ownership in 2010 when her home port moved north to Belgium. In current ownership, through much experience by use, AMELIA’s rig has been gradually and relatively subtly modernised/ optimsed for both performance and ease of short-handed sailing by a couple. While down below her accommodation has been delightfully transformed from New England style simplicity to the feel of a cosy Edwardian gentleman’s club. One can imagine spending a lot of time down there while reeling off the sea miles with aplomb.

Even in 2005 it was becoming almost impossible to find an unrestored but in commission, high pedigree early 20th Century classic cruiser-racer of 50 feet and over. PATNA was one of those rarities, and in Greg Powlesland (MARIGOLD, COLLINETTE) and Katie Fontana she found exactly the right owners to take her forward with full reverence for impeccable Camper & Nicholsons provenance and authenticity. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/712/PATNA Few and careful owners over almost a century had ensured that so much of PATNA could be preserved, but no shortcuts were taken during a five-year restoration, so that PATNA in her second century is a thoroughly practical classic yacht capable of taking her owners for long periods of voyaging in great comfort and style. PATNA is participating at the early summer 2024 Richard Mille Cup regatta in England and France.

The Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter type has long been held in the highest of esteem as the perfect all round offshore sailing vessel, and ALPHA completely fits that billing. Her long and interesting life has been guaranteed to last many more years through a major restoration and, more recently, complete re-planking in oak and deep refit, all in present, experienced ownership, undertaken by some of the best practitioners of their craft. Independent of superb craftsmanship, the key element restored in ALPHA is her ability from birth as an easily handled vessel under sail and power by just two experienced people, while offering the most comfortable of accommodation for long periods afloat with plenty of space for friends – or to work as a superbly appointed hands-on charter boat. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/479/ALPHA

The Spirit 46 truly set Spirit Yachts on the right track, and no wonder; this design has many of the answers if you are searching for modern racing and cruising performance with the emotional satisfaction of an incredibly beautiful hull form, startling ease of handling, and an interior as elegant as her external lines would suggest. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/744/ONDINE%20OF%20IPSWICH ONDINE OF IPSWICH returned to her original builder for a meticulous 2015 refit to optimise racing efficiency and cruising comfort. In two subsequent family ownerships her cruising range has spanned the length and width of the English Channel and she has been a regular racer at British Classic Yacht Club regattas; considered one of the quickest Spirit 46s on the race track. At the 2024 Guernsey Spirit Yachts Regatta she was first Spirit 46 and third in Class 2. ONDINE OF IPSWICH is a very well proven example of a design that has captured hearts and won minds – even 007 couldn’t resist!