THE Winners

Classic Boat 2022 Awards

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

AWARDS SPONSORS

RESTORED SAILING VESSEL OVER 40FT

VIVEKA

Restored by Rutherford’s Boatshop, Designed by Frank C Paine, Built by Fred Lawley, 1930, LOD 72ft 9in (22.2m), Rig bermudan schooner Everything about Viveka is distinctive, from her first owner, JP Morgan, to her double-carvel hull construction, but most of all in her rig. Viveka is the only schooner-rigged yacht built to the International 12-M rule that we have ever come across. Her restoration, which was completed at the very tail end of 2020 for an English owner, was pretty much the complete works, and a very significant project even for someone of the standing of California boatbuilder Jeff Rutherford, the conservator who, over the years, has been behind the restorations of the Universal P-Class yacht Joyant, the 126ft (38m) steam yacht Cangarda and the ongoing job on the mind-blowing schooner Coronet.

RESTORED SAILING VESEEL UNDER 40FT

BARBARA

Restored Marcus Lewis, Des/built Archie Watty, 1947, LOD 18ft (5.5m), Rig bermudan sloop On 20 January 1947, Olive Bate of Polruan, Cornwall, gave birth to a baby girl, Barbara. This was also the day that she and husband Arthur were set to put down their deposit on a house. Her reaction at discovering, the same (the boat) was in pieces in the Hebrides, but class sailor Richard Kitson and boatbuilder Marcus Lewis brought her back home to Cornwall and performed a rebuild that makes her today, effectively, a brand-new boat, albeit on her original ballast keel.