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.

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.

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.

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]

The 39ft William Fife/ OM Watts Cutter, PEREGRINE, from 1936, taking a stroll down the Solent late last summer on her way to supper on the Beaulieu River?she's very pure and uncomplicated, wholesome - even humble in her look ? but aren't those the special ones.. Modern yachts will take you there too, but wouldn't you rather get there in this kind of style!? Call Barney Sandeman on : +44 1202 330077 https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/ #yachtdesign #yachtinterior#yachtingphoto #yachting #yachtinglife #classicyacht #classicsailing #woodenboat #sailingboat #sailingyacht #sailing #sailinglife #sailinglove #fifeyacht #fife #williamfife #madeinscotland #vintage

HELEN is the first in a remarkable triptych of late 1930s 3rd International Rule 8-Metres drawn by experienced designer to the Rule and Olympic gold medal winning helmsman Sir Thomas Glen-Coats; built on the Clyde in consecutive years at the Mylne family's Bute Slip Dock Co. yard, where Glen-Coats was a director and major backer. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/765/HELEN They were among the last full keel 8mRs built in Britain and represent the pinnacle of truly classic 8-Metre design. At the end of her initial class-racing days, conversion by her original builder to an able, and of course fast, cruiser-racer kept HELEN very much alive, so that when the 8-Metre Class revival began in the early 2000s, she was a natural subject for restoration and application of the subtle authenticity and performance treatments allowed under the Sira Cup World Championship Rules for boats built before 1960. HELEN is very well equipped and optimised to be competitive at the next major 8mR championship and simply to be enjoyed as a supremely elegant and fleet of foot day/ weekend racer-cruiser.

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.

If any classic yacht is true to the idea that it is using and maintaining a boat as originally intended that preserves it, rather than as a static exhibit, it's TOMAHAWK. And she has the Sparkman & Stephens DORADE-descendent 'inboard yawl' pedigree and storied career to go with it: of class wins, top placings and participation in the great American inland and offshore races of the 1930s and 1940s. A mid 2000s keel-up restoration, including discreet modern comfort upgrades, ensured TOMAHAWK's longevity, allowing the cruising and racing adventures to continue, mostly by friends and family, rarely with professional help: in England, the Mediterranean, Transatlantic, the Caribbean, the Baltic, even the Barents Sea. TOMAHAWK is a rare and highly recommended opportunity. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/668/TOMAHAWK

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. 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. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/762/KALEA

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)

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.