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Alan Buchanan had an uncanny knack of getting his cruiser-racer designs ‘just right’. He first hit the headlines when he won the 1955 EAORA (East Anglian Offshore Racing Association) Championship in a yacht he designed for himself – a pretty 7-tonner called Taeping.

and Buchanan repeated this success in 1957 and – from 1958 to 1960 – Maurice Laing’s beautiful Buchanan-designed pulled off the same feat three years running. Then a smaller Buchanan design – the 31ft – took the same championship in 1963. Rarely had one British designer achieved such EAORA dominance for so long.