ENGLISH HARBOUR 27/29
IN BUILD 2014-2018 PRICE RANGE £110,000 - £180,000
You need to be prepared to spend plenty of time on the pontoons explaining what it is and accepting admiring comments from people who think it is the prettiest boat in the marina,” says Roger Webb, who kept an English Harbour 29 Offshore at Mylor Yacht Harbour for two years.
It’s easy to see why, it’s a very attractive boat. The brainchild of Adam Greenwood, it, and its 27ft sibling, were the second models to come from the yard of English Harbour Yachts (the first was a cute little 16ft open dayboat).
English Harbour Yachts was formed by Greenwood in 2012, but this was by no means his first foray in the industry. Before striking out alone, he was the design director of Fairline Yachts – quite some pedigree for a fledgling boat builder!
The English Harbour 16 launched in 2013, and with production running smoothly from a former Fairline factory in Oundle (the first one was also bought by ex-Fairline MD Derek Carter), the 27 followed a year later marking the company’s first move into cabin boats.
Launched at the Southampton Boat Show in 2014, it is a brilliant meld of design purity and genuine
