Two Camper&Nicholsons Sail Yachts Saved ; Restored. Famous Camper&Nicholsons Gipsy Moth IV restored rebuilt at the same period of time we did perform our Rebuild Restoration of 43 ft Camper &Nicholson Sloop Rocquette in Bucharest Romania. You may note in the photos of Sailing Sloop Rocquette after Restoration The Clear Coated mahogany Cabin we have kept the original color precisely in order to keep as much as possible the original appearance and distinctive looks of this Fine Sailing Yacht of the 60s Gipsy Moth IV is a 54 ft (16 m) ketch that Sir Francis Chichester commissioned specifically to sail single-handed around the globe, racing against the times set by the clipper ships of the 19th century. The name, the fourth boat in his series, all named Gipsy Moth, originated from the de Havilland Gipsy Moth aircraft . In 1962 Chichester commissioned Gosport-based ship yard Camper and Nicholsons to build the boat, designed by John Illingworth and Angus Primrose. Launched in March 1966, she is 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m) on the waterline and 53 feet (16 m) overall, with a hull constructed of cold-moulded Honduras mahogany. The scheduled displacement (to follow Chichesters requirements of maximum weight) was 10.4 tons, after trials increased by 1 ton of added ballast to cope with insufficient righting moment.[1] Ketch rigged, she has a sail area of 854 sq ft (79.3 m2), extendable with a spinnaker to over 1,500 sq ft (140 m2) At just a little after Midday on the 20th June 2005 Gipsy Moth IV was officially relaunched after a mamoth restoration by the shipwrights at Camper and Nicholsons boatyard in Gosport. Sloop Rocquette; built by Camper & Nicholsons in 1964 as the personal yacht of Peter Nicholson himself. What really put Peter Nicholsons name on the yacht design map was the aptly named Rocquette which he owned and raced in 1964 before selling her. Lightly constructed, with laminated mahogany frames and two skins of planking, she was the first British ocean racer to have a flush deck - made of two skins of plywood glued to laminated spruce deck beams - and had a small doghouse set well aft. In her first year, 1964, she won the Gold Roman Challenge Cup in the Round-the-Island Race against a fleet of 325 boats, an outstanding achievement, and went on to win the Britannia Cup, the New York Yacht Club Cup, and the Coronation Bowl . In 1966, Yachting World Annual described Rocquette as the first of a distinctly new type of offshore racer and her design led to later Peter Nicholson yachts such as Quiver IV and Noryema IV, who were both part of the victorious British Admirals Cup team of 1965 ,as well as influencing the Illingworth-designed Gypsy Moth IV of Sir Francis Chichester fame. Gipsy Moth was saved by Public Subscription funded Restopration Sailing Yacht Rocquette was saved resored and rebuilt by a rebuild funded by Thomas Andrew of Killalee
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 03:56:00 +0000
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