Getting a float

PEGGY BAWN A mini Britannia

e were so impressed by the restoration project back in 2005 that we ran over 20 pages of editorial on the boat, in the form of a full-length feature and a nine-part series on her restoration. She’s an 1894-built, as her restoration team learned after discovering her in a hay barn in 2003. Her restoration for owner Hal Sisk – by boatbuilder Michael Kennedy, project manager Iain McAllister, naval architect Theo Rye and marine engineer Harry Hannon – set a new standard in the restoration of smaller yachts and would undoubtedly have won our ‘Restoration of the Year’ prize, had it existed at the time. In 14 years of sailing in Europe and the USA, she has proved to be “quite simply the best-behaved yacht” any of the crew have had the pleasure to sail. She has been professionally maintained ever since her groundbreaking restoration and the interior remains 90 per cent original. She is offered complete with a custom-built articulated trailer, making it easier to campaign her at the world’s classic yacht races.