EXTRAORDINARY BOATS

{The Vertue Cup was named after Michael Vertue, librarian at the Little Ship Club in London, and awarded for the best cruise log written by one of its members.}

{Humphrey Barton sailed Vertue XXXV across the Atlantic in a record 47 days in 1950 because he wanted to take part in the Bermuda Race on another boat – and to deliver the new Vertue to its American owner.}

Andrillot is the original ‘Vertue’, the design which launched Laurent Giles’s long and illustrious career in 1935

German boatbuilder Uli Killer was looking for a boat to sail while he was working on a big restoration project when he spotted a 25ft wooden cutter for sale in Dartmouth, UK. The boat had recently undergone a three-year restoration and was said to be in very good condition for her age. The ad claimed the yacht was ‘an important part of our maritime heritage’ and that she and her sisterships had ‘become legends in their own right’.