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<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" LINK="#FFCC99" ALINK="#FF9966" VLINK="#FF9966">  <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC3300" FACE="Arial" ><B>History & Homes of the Sunbeam One Design</B></FONT>     |   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History Homes of the Sunbeam One Design"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14">        <A HREF="id178.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The War years"><IMG SRC="0430e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A>    <A HREF="id175.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Online resources"><IMG SRC="0440e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A>        <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="04658020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> "Yachting Monthly"</div> <bR> <div> <B>1924</B></div> <div> The <I>Yachting Monthly </I>No. 223, November 1924</div> <div> Notes from Yachting Centres - West of England</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>The Royal Cornwall Yacht Club, at Falmouth, has done well, chief interest having, however, centred on the new " Sunbeam " class of one-design boats, built by Woodnutt and Co., of Bembridge, and said to be identical in every respect with the Solent " Sunbeams." These little craft have provided good racing against each other, and their owners are full of praise of their qualities. It does not appear, however, that they are particularly speedy as compared with the generality of craft of similar size, or that they are quite seaworthy enough for the passage-making to local ports, where it has been suggested that races might be offered for them, and it would in consequence appear probable that the class will, after all, remain a purely local one</B></FONT>, and that if anything is to come of the proposal that was under discussion during Plymouth Week of instituting a class of one-design or restricted boats to take the place of the old Western one-design cruiser-racer class of 5-tonners, boats of appreciably larger and more powerful type will be required.</div> <div> Ten or a dozen of the old W.F.C. 14 footers appear to still be in existence, most of them being owned at Falmouth, where. strange to say, the class, which was formerly most numerous at Plymouth and in West Bay, has during the past few years become increasingly popular.  One is glad to hear that a strong movement is afoot in Falmouth for the adoption <I>in toto</I> of the rules and restrictions of the Y.R.A. national 14-foot class.  [etc...]</div> <div> Turning to the cruising side... the cost of building has still kept the Western yards short of new construction, notable exceptions being the new  <A NAME="1924__tern_dr_claude_worth_a_37_tons_built_by_phillip___sons_dartmouth_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Tern</B></I></FONT>, a yawl of some 37 tons, which Messrs. Phillip & Sons, of Dartmouth, have recently completed for Dr. Claude Worth, the well-known author of Yacht Cruising, and a similar vessel for W. R. Kay, Esq., just completed by the same builders.</div> <div> Good progress has during the past few weeks been made upon the hull of the 149-tons trawler type auxiliary ketch which Messrs. Saunders of Glampton, Brixham, are building for Squire Hoare, of Luscombe Castle. Dawlish. [<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0099FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:xjt60@dial.pipex.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:xjt60@dial.pipex.com">PHOTO</A></FONT>?] The interior accommodation, etc., is being arranged under the supervision of Mr. Harold Clayton, A.I.N.A., designer and late owner of the 3-tonner <I>Zinita</I>.</div> <div> Amongst interesting vessels that have been cruising in the West this year must be mentioned the beautiful 50-ton cutter <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Jolie Brise</B></I></FONT>, owned by Commander F. G. Martin, the popular rear-commodore of the Royal Western Yacht Club. Everybody was delighted to see her owner afloat after his very severe illness of last winter. The hope was freely expressed at Plymouth that he will be fit enough to take up racing again next year.</div> <bR> <div> <B>1925</B></div> <bR> <div> The <I>Yachting Monthly </I>No. 225 January 1925 (pp 186-187)</div> <div> <B>The Old Implacable</B> By Robert H. Smith</div> <div> The<I> </I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Implacable</B></I></FONT>, next to Nelson's <I>Victory</I>, the most famous ship, is which fought at Trafalgar, and is said to be older than any ship on the water today.</div> <div> She is at present lying at moorings in the King Harry reach of the beautiful River Fal in Cornwall, two or three miles up the river from Falmouth<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >. </FONT></div> <div> Yachtsmen who intend to put into that old-time West Country port this next summer should get under way and go up, for it may be their last chance of a sight of the only remaining example of the fine old 74-gun ship.</div> <div> Just now she is in the affectionate keeping of that shipping philanthropist, Mr. Wheatley Cobb of Flushing, (the man who saved Nelson's <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><I>Foudroyant</I></FONT> for the nation some years ago).</div> <div> She was built by the French and launched at Rochefort in 1769 as the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><I>Douguay Trouin</I></FONT>………… [...synopsis of her naval history...]</div> <div> In 1855 she became a boy's training ship for the Royal Navy in the Hamoze at Devonport, and in 1904, under certain conditions, the Admiralty turned her over to Mr. Wheatley Cobb. </div> <div> We all hope this famous battleship, a two-decker, a 74-gun ship, will not go the way of all our old wooden walls, for there are still plenty who love these old sailing craft sufficiently to help in keeping this heirloom for the nation.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Yachting Monthly</I> No. 226, February 1925 (pp.241-242)</div> <div> Reviews by Alker Tripp</div> <div> <I> <A NAME="1925___the_return_of_the_cutty_sark_by_miss_c_fox_smith"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I><I>The Return of the Cutty Sark</I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><I>, </I>by Miss C. Fox Smith. Methuen 3s. 6d</FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >The distinctive interest of this book lies in its last chapter, where we find the old ship, after her long vicissitudes, reconditioned, and once more boasting those soaring masts and tapering spars. </FONT><A HREF="id75_cutty_sark_by_opie__after_her_1923_24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Misc images">Photographed in 1924</A> … “she has undergone a wonderful transformation since she was in London three years ago<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >. Gone are the incongruous rows of sham ports which did their best to conceal the gracious curves of her hull…. Her hull reproduces very nearly the colours she showed on the day of her launch.”</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>Yachting Monthly</I> No. 226, February 1925 (p.255)</div> <div> Notes from Yachting Centres - West of England</div> <div> The Falmouth Sunbeams will undoubtedly again be well supported locally and it is rumoured that there will be two or three new additions to the class.</div> <div> [<I>Maranui</I>  - <A HREF="id132_1925___eight_falmouth_sunbeams__maranui__.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Falmouth Early Race Reports (news cutti">see FP</A> became the 8th Falmouth Sunbeam, in 1925, with <I>Caprice </I>coming along in 1926. ]</div> <bR> <div> <I>Yachting Monthly </I>No. 226, February 1925 (p.197)</div> <div>  Sir William Burton, Vice-President of the Yacht Racing Association:  <A NAME="1925___sir_wm__burton___what_is_a_sportsman_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >What is a Sportsman</FONT>?</div> <bR> <div> As I understand the breed, he is <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><I>one</I></FONT> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><I>who has not merely braced his muscles and developed his endurance by the exercise of some great sport, but has in the pursuit of that exercise learnt to control his anger, to be considerate to fellow-men, to take no mean advantage, to resent as a dishonour the very suspicion of trickery, and to bear aloft a cheerful countenance under disappointment!</I></FONT>  (qf. <I>Punch</I>, 1850) </div> <bR> <div> The interest in the proposed Ocean Race grows apace. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >A representative committee</FONT> has been formed to deal with the question, the three principal members of which are <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Mr.</FONT> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Algernon Maudslay</FONT>, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Mr. George Martin</FONT> and <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Mr. Weston Martyr.</FONT> This in itself has sufficient guarantee that the project will have every chance of materializing, but, in addition, it is most ratifying to learn that our leading cruising men are taking a keen interest in the proposed race. The letter, which appears in our correspondence columns, from Mr. Claud Worth, Vice- President of the Royal Cruising Club, probably voices the opinion of cruising men of this country, and this, with his consent, has already been placed in the hands of the Organizing committee.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Yachting Monthly</I> No. 226, February 1925 (p.255)</div> <div> Notes from Yachting Centres - West of England</div> <div> New construction is at present confined to the 150-ton trawler-yacht now nearing completion at Galmpton for Squire Peter Hoare, and a new 7-ton auxiliary yawl, building by Messrs Morgan Giles, Ltd. at Teignmouth, for Major Jarram, C.M.G., D.S.O., of Plymouth<B>.</B></div> <div> Commander Adams, R. N., is fitting out his108ft, 231-ton yacht <I>Black Joke</I>. Most of the work is being done by the Devon Dock Co., Exmouth. She will have a pair of 90 h.p. Parson's engines and a 28 h.p. auxiliary, driving a 16 k.w. dynamo for the auxiliary machinery and electric light.The lighting batteries will be supplied by <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >the  <A NAME="1925___chloride_electrical_storage_co__100_volts_dc"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Chloride Electrical Storage Co., 100 volts*</FONT>. <I>Black Joke</I> will be rigged as a Topsail Schooner, with roller reefing gear on the main boom., the sails are being supplied by Ratsey and Lapthorn. [ The 100 volt (D. C.) system and wiring which caused the devastating fire at Carclew, and other manor houses when converting to 220 volts A.C. ]</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>The Yachting Monthly</I> No. 227, March 1925 (p.321)</div> <div>  <A NAME="1925___messrs__dixon_bros____hutchinson_ltd_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Messrs. <A HREF="id111.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dixon, Capt. Richard Travers">Dixon</A> Bros. & Hutchinson Ltd.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >, have now completed their new slipway, which enables them to deal with craft up to 100 ft. in length, thus enabling them to deal with not only the engineering requirements for M. Ls., but also any hull work that may be required.  They have also completed the fire float which they have constructed to the order of the Shanghai Municipal, Council and this has now been despatched to its destination.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>Yachting Monthly</I> No. 228, April 1925 (p.325)</div> <div> <B>The Outlook</B> by M. Heckstall-Smith</div> <div> In response to the demand for an Ocean Race to be held in British waters this year, preliminary arrangements have now been made by a number of the leading yachtsmen in this country. The Organizing Committee now includes such well-known men as Major Philip Hunloke, Senior Vice-President of the Yacht Racing Association;  <A NAME="1925___ocean_race_commiiiee___capt__r__t__dixon_mr__algernon_maudeslay"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Capt. R. T. Dixon, Mr. Algernon Maudslay</FONT> and <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Mr. E. G. Martin</FONT>, all members of the Y. R. A.  [and RCYC, since  19..; 19..; 1912 respectively] </div> <div> The fact that all the arrangements in America in connexion with this race, have been placed with Mr. Herbert Stone, the Editor of <I>Yachting</I>, will ensure their being efficiently carried out. Mr. Stone is a practical yachtsman of great experience, and has been intimately with the management of the Ocean Races from New York to Bermuda. [Note: Dixon, Maudslay and Lt. Cmdr. E. G. Martin (owner of the 6-metre <I>Enjar </I>in 1911) were both members of the RCYC.  <A NAME="1925___capt__dixon_to_purchase_v18_una___rename_her_jasmine"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Capt. Dixon was to purchase V18 <I>Una</I> from C. Warrington Smyth, rename her <I>Jasmine</I> and race with the Falmouth Sunbeam fleet during the 1927 and 1928 seasons.] </FONT></div> <div> New members in 1912 included John Chellew of Penarth, E.G. Martin (Ejnar)</div> <bR> <div> The <I>Yachting Monthly</I> No. 228, April 1925 (pp.368-370)</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A NAME="1925___ym___seaview_mermaids_and_solent_sunbeams_by"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></FONT><B>Seaview Mermaids and Solent Sunbeams</B> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >by B. R. Waite</FONT></div> <div>      The owner of a one-design, or a restricted one-design in a healthy class, may be fairly certain of a good number of season's racing: in addition to which there is the guarantee that his boat will not be outclassed and thereby depreciate greatly* in value.</div> <div>      The racing enthusiast should make certain he is enjoying perfect health; otherwise in a few seasons he may find himself the owner of a boat which, owing to its class being defunct, has a value which is determined solely by its age and condition*, or as these craft are sometimes advertised, one suitable for handicaps.  </div> <div> [*Replacement / new build cost (inflation) does not seem to have been a consideration, in 1925!]</div> <div>      <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >A description of the Seaview Mermaids and the Solent Sunbeams may be of interest, </FONT>since both these classes are now enjoying a period of great popularity, and so come under the category of healthy classes.</div> <div>      The Seaview Mermaids were designed by <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alfred Westmacott M.I.N.A. (Designer) W">A. Westmacott</A></FONT> in the winter of 1921, and were built at Woodnutts during the spring and summer of 1922. Ten boats were built, and although the last built, <I>Sheen</I>, was not launched until just before Cowes Week of that year, the class had a very successful season's racing, and as the boats proved to be so exactly what the owners required, an order was placed at Woodnutts for one more to be built during the winter, which made the class eleven strong in 1923.</div> <div>      The demands of the Seaview Yacht Club, when ordering the Mermaids, had not been very exacting, since speed was sacrificed to comfort and an easily handled boat with a moderate sail area, and one that would ride out an occasional blow at the somewhat exposed moorings at Seaview, was required.</div> <div>      The design from Mr. A. Westmacott's board produced a handsome little craft, and one that was by no means slow; the dimensions being: LOA 24 ft. 6in,; LWL, 17 ft. 3in.; 6 ft. beam; 5 ft. 5 in. draught, with 15 ½ Cwts. of lead on the keel and 1 Cwt. of movable lead ballast in two 56lb. Pigs.  A Bermudian rig was adopted with a total area of 250 sq. ft. Spinakers were discouraged to conform to the general desire for ease of handling, but a boom was fitted from the fore-side if the mast to the tack of the headsail, so that the latter could be hauled in on a run.</div> <div>      The Mermaids followed the example of that long-lived class, the Redwings, in permitting the use of sail to be apportioned and set according to the individual fancy of the owner, which has the inestimable advantage over the striuctly one-design rule, in that a boat which ahs not been doing well, may often after an alteration to her sail plan be made into a successful boat; which besides outing heart into her owner, tends to encourage the trying out of healthy ideas, and incidentally the suppression of the reverse.</div> <bR> <div> During Cowes Week in 1922, the Mermaids attracted considerable interest.  Small classes were beginning to revive after the war, and new classes were being thought of.  The Hamble River O.D. Class, after several successful seasons, was dying a natural death, and it was to the owners of this class that the Mermaids especially appealed. </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >     </FONT><A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lubbock, Capt. Basil (1876 1944)">Captain Basil Lubbock</A>, who was captain of the Hamble R.O.D.s perceiving the seeds of enthusiasm for the Mermaids, and hearing the death knell sounding for the rapidly expiring H.R.O.D.s, struck while the iron was hot, and whilst the enthusiasts were still afloat at the end of the summer, promised to build a new class himself, and managed to get two others to do the same.</div> <div>      This bold stroke was made when matters were very much in the air, since the type of boat which was to be built was not yet decided upon. Ideas were sifted, and in the autumn, Mr. Westmacott was approached to design an improved Mermaid.</div> <div>      As an ex-part-owner in a Mermaid, the writer rather object to the expression `improved' since the two designs are the outcome of different requirements: happily, however, each class is entirely satisfied with its own boat.</div> <div>      Mr. Westmacott produced a design now known as the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Solent Sunbeams. This class has a rather more drawn-out hull than that of the Mermaids, a harder bilge, more sail area, and slightly more displacement</FONT>; see <A HREF="id108.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mermaid One Design">superimposed plan of the Mermaid (shown dotted) and the Sunbeam. </A>The boats as built were: 26 ft. 5 in. overall, 17 ft. 6 in. on waterline, 6 ft beam, 3 ft. 9 in. draught, were of a displacement of 33.2 Cwts. The same weight of lead ballast was employed as in the Mermaids, 16 ½ Cwts., but the whole amount was placed outside on the keel.</div> <div>      A sail plan of 300 sq. ft. was given to them, which was to be apportioned according to the views of each owner.</div> <div>      During the season of 1923, it was thought that the Sunbeams would be improved by a little inside ballast, so 150 lbs. Was therefore allotted to each boat, the lead being cast to fit between the floors, and shaped to the skin to prevent shifting.  Next season [1926?] it is proposed to carry a further 100 lbs., making 250 lbs. In all, as experiments went to prove that, besides being stiffer, these boats do much better, especially in a jump of sea, with a generous allowance of inside ballast.</div> <div>      It is rather a difficult task to compare boats of different dimensions, and one that more often than not lays those who attempt it open to retort from courteous; however, for those who are strangers to the two classes under discussion, and the 18-footers, the writer expresses the following opinion as the outcome of having sailed in all three - those who are owners of any of the above will no doubt have their own opinions, which may or may not coincide with the following - howverm here goes.</div> <div>      The Sunbeams were not as stiff as the Mermaids, being given to the fact that they carry 20% more sail, whether they will be next season with the additional 100 lbs. Of inside ballast remains to be seen. They are appreciably faster to windward than the Mermaids, especially in a short sea; on other points of sailing there is little to choose.</div> <div>      In a breeze, their maximum speed fell short of that of the International 18-footers on all points of sailing, but in light airs the Sunbeams, owing to their easy displacement, have actually come up on, and passed then, on a wind. This happened to the writer's knowledge when racing in Cowes in 1923.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >     </FONT>At the close of their first season the Sunbeams mustered seven boats. <I>Joy</I>, Mr. F, W, Leith, leading on points; <I>Dainty</I>, Captain B. Lubbock, second; and <I>Mary</I>, Mr. F. G. T. Dawson, third. The beginning of last season proved that the boats had not been put away and forgotten during the winter. <I>Joy</I> came out with a hollow mast; oval booms and bowsprits were tried, the proportion of mainsail to headsail varied; in fact, hard thinking and enthusiasm were in evidence in every boat.</div> <div>      <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Falmouth, attracted by the type, ordered seven</FONT>, and three more were built for the Solent Class, bringing their number up to ten.</div> <div>      The racing during the summer of 1924 resulted with <I>Joy</I> again heading the class, with <I>Dainty</I> second, and Lt. Col. B. W. Bowdler's <I>Whimsey</I> third.</div> <div>      The question of hollow masts was brought up for discussion as soon as the boats had laid up, and it was decided by means of a referendum that, owing to the expense and the short life of a hollow mast compared to a solid or built one, that in future hollow masts be prohibited. The proved advantage of a hollow mast in these boats was doubtful, since only one boat, Joy, had shipped one, and as she had lead the class on points during both seasons, the first with a solid, and the second with a hollow stick, little data could be obtained for deciding the relative advantage of one over the other.</div> <div>      Two more boats are being built for the Solent class this winter, and there is a rumour that yet another may be laid down, which points to the popularity of the class. The owner of<I> Joy </I>intends to test his theory that a high narrow sail plan is more efficient than his present one, and his boat will appear next season with something in the nature of four feet more hoist.  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Mr. J. C. Mort</FONT>, the owner of <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><I>Daisy</I></FONT>, will try a new type of boom with a greater diameter in the centre than at either end, which he believes may cure the tight leach and baggy centre peculiar to so many roller-reefed mainsails: all of which tends to show that <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >the Sunbeam Class is very much alive and that they and the Seaview Mermaids have many seasons before them.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> The <I>Yachting Monthly</I> No. 229, May 1925 (pp.68-69)</div> <div>  <A NAME="1925___ym_letter_from_basil_lubbock___the_solent_classes"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>THE SOLENT CLASSES</div> <div> Sir, - Having been captain of a Solent Class since 1913, I feel that I cannot avoid attempting to answer A. H. -S's [ Heckstall-Smith ] attack on the Solent Classes in his article on “Solent Prospects. </div> <div> At Hamble we always support the local club on Saturdays, and are therefore unable to enter for the S.C.R.A races on that day, but we try to start in all other races.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >A.H. -S. compares the O.D. Classes unfavourably with the 6-metres</FONT>,  [ <I>The Yachting Monthly</I> No. 227, March 1925 (p.297) ] but he must know that we sail our own boats to and from regattas, whereas the owners and helmsmen of the 6's very often only board their boats just before the start of a race and drop over the side into their dinghies as soon as the race is over.</div> <div> The 6-metre man has his hand on the tiller for perhaps three and even four hours but we constantly have spells of steering which run into six and longer.</div> <div> The professional hands in the 6's would soon inform A. H. -S as to which of us, the owners of the International or of the O.D. and restricted classes, have the most strenuous time. Nor do any of us depend upon professional pilotage, either during the races or on the passage to and from races. If you listen to professional hands of the International Classes talking after a race… they consider, often very rightly, that the credit of a win is owing to their pilotage and their sheeting rather than to the steering of the owner.</div> <div> Since the war, the owners of Solent O.D.'s have less time and are unable to race every day in  the week…. Finally, I have looked up my racing log in order to see how often I shirked a ducking. I find that <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><U>in 1923 I started 46 times*, 14 of them reefed</U></FONT>, and that on three different occasions I was out on the Solent, coming home from racing, when a wind of gale force was recorded at Calshot.  During <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><U>last season [1924] I also started 46 times*</U></FONT>, and I think we had a still greater number of duckings. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >From 1920 to 1924, I see that I sailed 220 races in the Solent, and not one of these was a sail over,</FONT> so I hope A. H. -S. will admit that we re just as ready to face bad weather as ever we were. </div> <div> I must apologise for the length of this letter. I could have made it much longer, but have been merciful.</div> <div> <A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lubbock, Capt. Basil (1876 1944)">Basil Lubbock</A></div> <div> <U>Captain Solent Sunbeams</U></div> <bR> <div> [Note: * <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Solent Sunbeams</FONT> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><I>46 starts in 1923, and 46 in 1924</I></FONT> , the first two years of the class.]</div> <bR> <div> The <I>Yachting Monthly</I> No. 230, June 1925 (pp.92-95)</div> <div> The Etchings of Arthur Briscoe, by Malcolm Saloman.</div> <div> The nautical etchings of Arthur Briscoe are beyond question the authentic thing; as yet they are but few, for he has only lately practised with the medium, his art having found expression hitherto in print.... he is now giving his conception of sea-beauty to the etched copper-plate. ... What matter more appropriate to the etching needle and dry-point?</div> <div> .... Reverting to the passing of great sailing ships, he tells me how a friend of his [<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id99.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dowman, Wilfred H. (1880 1936 )">Wilfred Dowman</A></FONT>] has bought the famous clipper, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><I>Cutty Sark,</I></FONT> now in Falmouth Harbour, the last survivor of a glorious epoch, almost legendry now, and having restored her, after strange vissitudes, to the condition of her great ocean-sailing period, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >wants to take her out to Australia, and does not know where to find the sailors expert enough</FONT>.  [YM article contains plates of Briscoe's "<I>Furling the Foresail</I>" and, "<I>The Burst Topsail</I>" and "<I>Oyster Derdgers</I>" - a cluster of oyster smacks anchored off West Mersea on a calm sunny day.]</div> <bR> <div> The<I> Yachting Monthly</I> No. 231, July 1925 (p.216) Notes from Yachting Centres. The South West Coast.</div> <div> At last we Solent yachtsmen are able to take down our yachting  caps from their pegs and go a-sailing the blue seas again.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >The season for the Solent Classes seems to hold forth every prospect of success and especially does </FONT>the sport and prosperity of the Solent Sunbeam Class seem to be on the increase. I am told that these boatsare being encouraged at Bembridge, but at present the idea of utilizing the Sunbeams as the local or club class is one that will not easily be realized, for the vested interest in the " club boats " is great. I, for one, are a champion of the Solent Sunbeam Class, for they are splendid little boats of a good healthy type, <U>by far the best One-Design on the Solent</U>.</div> <div> Next month I hope to be able to tell more of the racing in the Solent.</div> <div> SOLENT</div> <bR> <div>  The<I> Yachting Monthly</I> No. 233, September 1925 (p.357)</div> <div>  <A NAME="1925___woodnutt___co__40ft__seagull_ii__launch"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alfred Westmacott M.I.N.A. (Designer) W">Messrs Woodnutt & Co</A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >., of St. Helens, Isle of Wight, have installed a Type K2 6-h.p. twin-cylinder Watermota engine in the 40-ft. launch </FONT><I>Seagull II</I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >, high speed type, with a displacement of over 5-tons, belonging to Mr. Philip Carr.  The Watermota is to act as an auxiliary to the main engine, which is a 60-h.p. Wolseley, and a speed of  1.5 - 3 knots is expected as a minimum.</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>1926</B></div> <bR> <div> The <I>Yachting Monthly</I> No. 237, January 1926. (p.133)</div> <div> <B>The Outlook</B> by M. Heckstall-Smith</div> <div> Now that <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >the Ocean Racing Club has been established</FONT>, and we are to have an annual 600-mile race, it is much to be hoped that we shall have some visitors from America..... The Ocean Racing Club promises to be a very live institution, as it has for its officers Major Philip Hunloake [<I>Britannia</I>], President; <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Lieut.-Commander E. G. Martin</FONT>, Commodore; <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Mr. Algernon Maudslay</FONT>, Treasurer; and Mr. J. Western Martyr as Hon. Secretary.  Sir Ralph St. G. Gore, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >Captain R. T. Dixon</FONT> and Mr Herbert Stone are also members of the Committee.</div> <bR> <div> <B>1940</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="631838d0.jpg" border=0 width="643" height="397" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A NAME="1940___a_fresh_day_at_falmouth_by_peter_m_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>"A Fresh Day at Falmouth"</B></FONT> by Peter M. Wood          (<I>Yachting Monthly</I> & <I>R.N.V.R. Journal</I>, June 1940 p.146)</div> <div> V2; V16; V21; V12 depicted in a drawing and published during the War years, when racing was cancelled.</div> <div> The Cutty Sark, which left Falmouth in 1938, following Capt. Dowman's death in 1937</div> <bR> <bR> </BODY>