Spirit in smaller measures
Ipswich based Spirit Yachts has been around for almost three decades now, with the unwavering ethos of building fast, elegant spirit-of-tradition yachts in modern epoxy-saturation timber construction – ‘dry boats’ as they are sometimes known in the industry. That consistency of purpose means that today, everyone knows what a Spirit is, and the Spirit name has achieved the almost unheard-of in boatbuilding; it has become a brand. Endorsement in two Bond films has helped with that, in Daniel Craig’s first appearance as 007 (Casino Royale, 2006, in which he sailed a Spirit 54 in Venice) and more recently in No Time to Die, in which Daniel Craig, in his last outing as Bond, sails a Spirit 46 in the Caribbean.
The yard has been building bigger and bigger yachts over the years, including the recent,
