Yachts and Other Private Craft

A beautifully shaped yacht off Calsot Spit on 17th April 2016.She is 'Chloe Racing Spirit ' a Spirit 52.

The ocean going tug ELBE seen on the on 25th May 2016 escorting Harmony of the Seas from Rotterdam.Its career with the company ended in 1976 when it was sold to the Association of Maryland Pilots of Baltimore, USA, for use as a seagoing pilot vessel bearing the name Maryland. In 1985 the vessel was purchased by Greenpeace and took the place of the ill-fated Rainbow Warrior as the organisation’s flagship, bearing the name Greenpeace. The vessel served with Greenpeace until 2002, taking part in numerous projects and travelling round the world many times, including frequent visits to Antarctica.

SOUTH STAR BCK107 is a canoe stern Scottish trawler now converted to a traditional sailing boat. She is carvel build of larch planking on heavy oak frames. Built in 1947 by G Thomson & Sons of Buckie, she was launched as the ‘North Star’, a dual purpose seine netter. She was the first ship to be launched from the yard after the war years and started the herring boom run of production.She fished under the number BCK107 for 20 years when she was decomissioned and fitted out by Herd & McKenzie as a ketch for the private use of the legendary Captain O M Watts. He renamed her SOUTH STAR and kept her until 1985 where she past through various owners until she was saved from destruction in 2004 by her current owner Lucas Craze. Craze undertook an extensive six year restoration on the river taw in North Devon. During that time she had 50% planking replaced, 50% deck, new stem, frames, interior, above deck structure, masts and spars. Also her keel was replaced.