As the Mediterranean season moves into its last month of regattas with Monaco, Cannes and St Tropez still to run there are a few ‘new’ kids on the block!
The Milanese lawyer, who already owns Bona Fide and Cerida, has recently bought the 1929 Herreshoff 12 ½(or H Class) called ‘Juanita’. She is 12 ½’(3.84m) on the waterline and 15’9”(4.84m) overall and rigged as a gaff sloop. The class was designed in 1914 as a ‘boat for yachtsman that wanted a boat for their children that was easy to handle’ and their success is easy to measure by more than 3000 boats that have been built to this design.
After some restoration work in Sanremo by kiwi shipwright Rik Warner, ‘Juanita’ is hoping to make an appearance at Monaco, and maybe in Cannes.
Recently launched from Chantier du Guip in Brest, France, the lovely 2 masted gaff schooner ‘Morwenna’ is due to attend her second Mediterranean regatta of the season.
At the end of August she participated in the Corsica Classics and she is now preparing for Regates Royales in Cannes. She is a 17m Linton Hope design from 1914 with a spoon bow and fine lines. More to follow on her history.
Currently sailing from Bodrum, Turkey, where she has been undergoing a 4 year restoration, Noelani is due on the Côte d’Azur around the 15th September. At 39m (128’) overall she is the largest Alfred Mylne design to be built and she was launched as ‘Panda’ in 1938. She spent many years successfully involved in the charter trade in the Caribbean, has circumnavigated the world only to then sink in Martinique due to a fire on board in 1983.
Now she’s back under her new name ‘Noelani’, meaning ‘extremely attractive outgoing Hawaiian girl’!
