Thames Festival Classic Rally - Bringing the History of the River Back to Life-Entrants

Working Boats
	Angele Aline Type: Trawler Date:1920's Builder:? Designer:? LOA:70' Cod fishing boat which worked the Grand Banks. She was sunk twice in WWII, once by each side. Took part in operation Dynamo	Katrine Type: Whitstable Smack Date:1910 Builder:Whitstable Shipbuilding Co Designer:? LOA:63' Originally built as a gentleman's yacht she was used as a sail training boat fromthe 30's. Was once dismasted by Cutty Sark
	Good Intent Type: Bawley Date:1860 Builder: Shrubsells, Kent Designer:Shrubsells,Barge builders LOA:57' Worked under sail her whole working life until 1927 catching sprats, shrimp, oysters, trawling for flatfish and long lining for whitefish in winter.	Endeavour Type: Cockle Bawley Date:1926 Builder: Cole & Wiggens Designer:? LOA:36' The last remaining Leigh Cockler. These would sail to the cockle beds, go aground for the crew to rake out the molluscs, load them on board and then return to Leigh for them to be cooked. Also a Dunkirk Little ship
	Sunbeam Type: Colchester Smack Date:1881 Builder: Perkins Whitstable Designer:? LOA:70' Smacks are the quickest and most elegant of the east Coast working boats	Black Rose Type:Royal Navy Revenue Cutter Date: Builder: ? Designer:? LOA:65' Built for Television work and charter
	Greta Type: Thames Barge Date:1892 Builder:Stones Brightlingsea Designer:? LOA:86' The articulated lorries of their time. These gentle giants were sailed by a skipper and a mate and would carry cargoes up to 100 tonnes. In 1928 there were 1100 in the Thames 10 years later 600. Today less than 50 survive	Dinah Type: Thames Barge Date:1887 Builder:Gill & Sons Rochester Designer:? LOA:45' Originally built as a personal yacht for the inventor of metal golf drivers. Last remaining of only three built to this size
	Fanny of Cowes Type:Cowes Smack Date:1872 Builder:John Watts Designer:? LOA:36' Not originally 'from round these parts', she was built for the river Itchen. Her 10' bowsprit gives her plenty of room for canvas and she goes	VIC96 Type: Steam Coasting Lighter Date:1945 Builder:Richard Dunston Ltd. of Thorne Designer:? LOA:85' Based on the Scottish Puffer 98 Victualling Inshore Craft were built. #96 was based at Chatham
	Havengore Type: PLA Survey Vessel Date:1955 Builder:? Designer:? LOA:?' Watched by 350 million people worldwide as she carried Churchill's coffin from Tower Pier to Festival Pier in 1965	The Robert Type: Lifeboat Date:1960 Builder:William Osbourne Designer:? LOA:49' She cost £35,500 in 1960 the money coming from an anonymous benefactor. She was launched by the Duchess of Kent

Pleasure Boats

	Charm Type: Gaff yawl Date:1922 Builder:E L Woods of Cantley, Norfolk Designer:Albert Strange LOA:38' There's nothing strange about this boat. Her name says it all	Croix des Gardes Type: Bermudian Sloop Date:1947 Builder:Bonin, Arcachon Designer: Henri Dervin LOA50' Built from timber hidden from the Germans during the last war.
	Caressa Type: Bermudian Sloop Date:1966 Builder:Priors of Burnham Designer:Alan Buchanan LOA:37' Same size as Vashti but designed five years later with more volume to compete in the Round Britain Race.	Marcita Type: Bermudian Sloop Date:1957 Builder:Harry King, Pin Mill LOA:32' From one of the smallest yards on the East coast, but one of the last still going strong, still working in wood.
	Cirrus Type: Bermudian Sloop Date:1958 Builder: Designer:Alan Buchanan LOA28' One of Buchanans most successful design. Simple clean elegant and functional, hundreds were built in yards up and down the East Coast.	Bola Type: Bermudian Sloop Date:1964 Builder: ? Designer:Tord Sunden LOA25' The volkswagen of the sailing world, helped get the poverty stricken sailors for the fifties and sixties out on the water. Still built today
	Night Wind Type: Bermudian cutter sloop Date:1938 Builder: Uphams Designer: not Harrison Butler LOA28' Built at Uphams before WWII she bears an uncanny likeness to a Z4tonner scaled up and given a trnasom. She was reproduced after the war as the Waterbug	Keepsake Type: Cutter Rigged Sloop Date:1937 Builder:Ponsharden, Falmouth Designer:Dr. Thomas Harrison Butler LOA:29.6' A real one. This is the classic double ended or canoe stern HB design. Will take you anywhere the present owner for 40 years has been as far as St Petersburg

	Nancy Blacket Type: Bermudian cutter sloop Date:1935 Builder:Hillyards Designer: Hillyards LOA29' We are in the presence of a modest celebrity. Star of two of Arthur Ransome's timeless childrens' stories. Many children have sailed on her thanks to the trust that own her but many more have been aboard in their imagination	Caperdonich Type: Bermudian Sloop Date:1963 Builder:Fairey Marine Designer: LOA31' Developed from a design to be dropped by parachute into the sea to rescue ditched aircrew.
	Matariki Type: Bermudian Sloop Date:1950 Builder:Harry King Pin Mill Designer: Arthur Robb LOA35' Until her present owner bought her in 2008 she had been in the same hands for 50 years. She is still largely original and one of a trio of Kings of Pin Mill built boats.	Cantare Type: Bermudian Sloop Date:1962 Builder:Uphams Designer: Kim Holman LOA30' Oringinally built for the current owner's father. After many years out of the family they tracked her down and bought her back
	Ragna R Type: Bermudian Sloop Date:1938 Builder:Gustav Ply Stockholm Designer: Knud Riemers LOA53' Ragna R is the main vessel of the RYA Sea School www.classic-cruising.com	Great Days Type: Bermudian Sloop Date:1956 Builder:Bickford Topsham Designer: Laurent Giles LOA35' Built for the owner of the Seagull outboard motor company a a single handed cruising yacht
	Callidus Type: Bermudian Cutter Date:1953 Builder:Harry King Pin Mill Designer:Norman Dallimore LOA:40' Another Kings of Pin Mill boat still going strong, this one from the London born designer, Dallimore.	St Christopher Type: Bermudian Sloop Date:1968 Builder:Meeusen, Breskens, Holland Designer:Sparkman & Stephens LOA53' A racing yacht of the finest pedigree
	Nissa Type: Troll Bermudian Sloop Date:1961 Builder:Askviks, Norway Designer:? LOA:32' Vikings were probably the first visitors to London by sea so we invited a Troll in recognition of this.	Nokomis Type: Gaff Cutter Date:1914 Builder:Anderson of Penarth Designer:Andrew Anderson LOA:38' From a builder of pilot cutters, her sister ship Emanuel was the first yacht to sail East West across the Atlantic.

	Sheemaun Type: Twin Screw Gentleman's Motor Yacht Date:1935 Builder:J Noble &Co Designer:G L Watson LOA45' She played a suppourt role in operation Dynamo and was a Thames patrol boat during WWII	Broomstick Type: Converted Trawler Date:1925 Builder:East Kent Yacht Co. Designer:? LOA:30' Her early history is lost in the mists of time but was renamed when in the ownership of a White Witch
	Taggs Type: Racing Launch Date:1909 Builder:Megevet Geneva Designer:Charles Picker LOA33' Ton up for an historic Swiss racing launch from the yard which produced several world record holders. She has been on the Thames since the 30's. Now a very stylish river cruiser	La Chemme Type: Motor Cruiser Date:1965 Builder:Bates of Chertey Designer:Leonard Bates LOA45' When she was built she cost three times the price of the average house. Includes a cabin for your driver: very swish
	Crest Type: Ketch rigged motor sailer Date:1925 Builder:Wivenhoe Designer:? LOA27' Her early history is lost in the mists of time but we do know she was used as a tender to the ships during WW2 at Harwich	Nenemoosha Type: Motor Cruiser Date:1963 Builder:Royal Van Lent Designer: C. Van Lent & Zonen LOA38' Built in Holland for a british owner, she has spent all her life on the Thames
	Stellae Maris Type:Admiralty Launch Date:1938 Builder:? Designer:anon LOA:16' When the Navy were in town you would have seen theses buzzing back and forward on the river.	Endeavour Type: Model Yacht Date 1920s Designer:not known? Builder: not known. Carvel planked on steamed frames, external lead long keel.

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