Andrillot: how original is she?
It has been wonderful to see Andrillot back on the water after her recent refit, making the swift passages for which she was designed (CB390). As the first of the legendary Vertues she is a pretty special boat: there can only, ever, be one first.
However, the boat we see today is quite different from that which slid down the slipway at Moody’s boatyard in Bursledon on a spring day in 1936. That boat was a 25ft (7.6m), gaff-rigged cutter,
