ALL’S WELL with SPEEDWELL

Speedwell is owned by Bob and Kerry Glen and she’s been something of a labour of love over the past few years. Rather than ordering a production boat from overseas and waiting for it to arrive, ready to go, Bob spent many hours at Hutcheson Boatbuilders in Tauranga, alongside Elliott, working on finishing his own boat.

It’s not the first time: Bob built his first boat, a Pied Piper, in his 20s. After owning a Young 88 (which he also helped build) and the first Young 99 in the 1980s, he’s been without a boat for a couple of decades. Now, though he is “not retired – just too busy to go to work”, he decided the time was right to get exactly the boat he wanted.

Bob originally planned to buy