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.

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.sandemanyachtco

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.

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]

GUILLEMOT is a labour of love - her last two owners have carefully brought her back to life substantially restoring her to a high level of thorough and painstaking workmanship, combined with great attention to detail and use of the best possible materials. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/369/brooke-and-co-34-ft-ts-motor-yacht-1924 The end result is a stunning vessel above and below the waterline, inside and out. Modern comforts and equipment have been incorporated into the traditional accommodation without spoiling her unique ambience. Most recently she has had new additions including her deck replaced, new caulking done in the traditional way, bright work re-varnished, engines fully serviced, new life raft, tender and bathing platform.

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.

Named after one of the brightest of stars, the William Fife III schooner ALTAIR's near mythical status in the classic yacht world is all for very good reason - this yacht has become the standard-bearer for the cause of authenticity since her landmark restoration in 1987. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/718/ALTAIR While important as the yacht that started what has become the classic yacht revival, that role is as nothing to her own status at the top of this hierarchy. ALTAIR is the ultimate vintage yacht - and surely one of the world's most beautiful works of mind and hand. Always the darling of the classic regatta fleet and often winning her class, in more recent years she has succeeded in paying homage to her original owner's unfulfilled desire to safely sail to the South Sea Islands. Her dimensions have allowed for the modern comforts that a smaller classic will not; all discreetly concealed and allowing her to cruise anywhere. Above all, she is blessed with the spirit engendered by her original designer, the incomparable William Fife III. As one of the very few classic yachts of her vintage afloat with unbroken Lloyd's ?100A1 classification, having passed survey again with flying colours in 2021, ALTAIR is in her element - as ready to cruise the world as she is for racing.

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.

The fine vessels designed and built by the Dickie family at the beautiful Loch Fyne fishing port of Tarbert were infused with varying degrees of unmistakable Scottish fishing vessel DNA married to strict yacht quality discipline learned at Fairlie by yard founder Archibald M. Dickie; the motorsailer TUNNAG (Gaelic for duck) is both no exception and a very fine, and authentically preserved example. The ingredients are all there: a bold sheerline bookended by a proud bow and sweetly curved canoe stern; astonishingly stout construction specifications; bright finished teak topsides and superstructures topped by a wheelhouse in which the amateur yachtsman could feel like a master mariner for the weekend, in command of surely the smartest little ship in the anchorage, or retire to a Pullman carriage interior in a quality of carpentry that few yards could match. And not to forget a pair of masts raked at just the right angle for an air of jauntiness, capable of carrying a fair spread of canvas. There is nothing quite like TUNNAG in offering such vintage pre-war chutzpah and yet modern practicality. She has recently received a completely new teak deck laid by one of best of present-day craftsmen and requires post-refit commissioning, including servicing of her trusty and economic Gardner engine, to have her ready for the season.

It is known that PAZIENZA raced regularly in the Mediterranean in the late 1950s, winning the Giraglia in 1959 with Andrea Giuseppe "Beppe" Croce at the helm. In 1960 she was used as an official yacht to transport important personalities during the Rome Olympics including; it is rumoured the future President Kennedy and his wife Jackie. Her tall powerful rig makes her ideally suited for both light Mediterranean airs as well as effortless ocean crossings. Since the 1960s PAZIENZA has been raced and sailed far and wide; winning ocean races as well as classic regattas in the UK and the Caribbean. Her previous owners included Pete Townshend who won Falmouth Classics on a number of occasions. Her present owners since 2004 have raced and cruised extensively, including the inaugural Transat Classique in 2008/9, taking line honours on the leg to Agadir and podium position on the Atlantic leg. PAZIENZA is currently moored on a tranquil berth on the River Dart and is lovingly maintained to the highest standards.

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.

Born into an aristocratic air of racy intrigue, SUMURUN's charms have wooed a select band of suitors since her launch at Fairlie. A legend in many lifetimes, SUMURUN is one of the most exquisite of William Fife's large 'fast cruisers'. For almost 110 years this 94ft ketch, formerly yawl, has been in commission and loved, most recently by the current owners who treated SUMURUN to a major 2017-2019 refit at Chantier du Guip. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/686/SUMURUN Return to classic racing late in 2019 was triumphant, with victory at Saint-Tropez. Rigged as a bermudan ketch since 1935, this handy configuration was retained but brought subtly up to date by Juan Kouyoumdjian. Under it, SUMURUN is perhaps consistently faster than ever yet retains the ability to cross oceans comfortably; something she has quite a reputation for. "Form is temporary; class is permanent". SUMURUN is now seriously for sale.

Little could the Victorian and Edwardian owners of six beautiful 52 feet identical gaff cutter cruiser-racers, and their young designer Alfred Mylne, imagine that more than 125 years later one of them would still be doing exactly what they'd conceived. Believed the last remaining 'Clyde 20-Ton One Design', TIGRIS has been lucky to be almost constantly and extensively raced and cruised throughout her long life. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/752/TIGRIS And many of her owners gave back, and continue to do so to ensure that this beautiful, still very practical, fast, and superbly authentic, high provenance yacht continues to give pleasure and gain admirers. A relatively recent open heart surgery refit in current ownership by Chantier du Guip concentrated on the vitally important structural elements down below, where she is effectively only a decade old.

There came a point in Luke Powell's long lifetime in boats when he realised that the wooden ones, and the skills to build them, were disappearing. He decided to do something about it the only way he knew - hands-on. Since moving to Cornwall from Kent in the 1990s, the result of this labour of love is a fleet of beautifully, traditionally built pilot cutters: EVE, LIZZIE MAY, AGNES, HESPER, EZIRA, TALLULAH, AMELIE ROSE, FREYA, and the largest yet, the remarkable PELLEW, in which Luke had the time and the task to pass-on his accumulated knowledge to a future generation. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/747/PELLEW In preserving skills in this way, the wonderful by-product has been to create a desire for experiencing and owning these vessels. As Luke says: "There's something quite profound about being on something that is not of our time... When you sail on a boat like this, it's a time machine; it takes you back to another place; it's not just an object of conveyance. Whereas a modern boat is like a car - just a factory made object that does no more than take you from A to B - PELLEW takes you through time and space." PELLEW is a faithful recreation of one of the longest surviving and best documented of Falmouth's Pilot cutters, VINCENT. The original boat was built in 1852 for the Vincent family of St Mawes. She worked for 70 years until she was retired in 1922, ending her days on the Percuil River as a house-boat. After four years in conception and build, on Saturday 29th February 2020 PELLEW joined a select group of leap year launched vessels when she was gently craned into the Truro River. One of the largest and fastest Pilot Cutters to be built in modern times, PELLEW has subsequently enjoyed the busy life of a successful charter boat. There is nothing like her.

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

In the Spirit Yachts 65 the marque has come of age, designer Sean McMillan leaving behind skerrycruiser roots to evolve something unique and of course highly attractive. Still with an eye for grace and craftsmanship of the 1930s, but perhaps suggesting how the work of mid-century British yacht designers like Camper & Nicholsons, Kim Holman, George McGruer and Angus Primrose might have evolved. CHLOË GISELLE is probably the Spirit 65 that has ticked off the most sailing locations in her short lifetime in the knowledgeable ownership of a repeat Spirit Yachts client. She made her maiden forays afloat in the Far East, and with family and friends has raced and cruised both sides of the Atlantic and the English Channel. CHLOË GISELLE's sail handling systems allow for effortless short-handed sailing, while below her beautifully lit and spacious accommodation offers great conviviality and privacy all at the same time.