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We all know that restoration can be as emotionally tiring as it can be financially draining and that taking on an old boat to restore is going to be a difficult thing to achieve. Much better, many say, to build a replica alongside, don’t fret about what to keep or throw away, and grave in a few token pieces from the original to make sure you don’t have to pay VAT. But sometimes alas, that process too can be fraught with difficulty, especially if it ends like the replication of Britannia. Regular readers will remember our occasional and probably wide-eyed reports on how she was built in Archangel, northern Russia, from 1993 to a launch and tow around the North Cape to Son in Norway in 2009. There her champion Sigurd Coates ran out of steam (fiscally) and let it be known he would sell her or take a partner, for around £1m. I must confess that when I met the new owner in 2011, I had a double-take. I was invited to meet Scott Ward at the Sube bar at St Tropez which is a good place to have a friendly meeting but when he walked in I thought I’d happened upon the film set of a Robert Palmer video. Behind him traipsed in a bevy of young beauties toting their ipads for all the world looking like slightly dressed-down extras from that song Addicted to Love. While they draped themselves across the leather sofas and tapped their screen he YACHTS told us of this charity’s plan to finish the Britannia CHELSEA bevy of beauties project... bringing her to Cowes. INE M A R “A Was it too good to be true? If I’m honest it kind of draped across the felt that way, even then. But the boat was towed from leather sofas” Norway, placed in full view at Venture Quays and then unceremoniously stripped by the team behind the multi million restoration of Lulworth. Then suddenly the tent was in tatters and rumours started to abound the YACHTS project was stalling. Last year she was taken off to Hythe and now we hear the project CHELSEA MARINE wants to build in aluminium, but not with the experts at Claasen or Holland Jachtbouw; in Miami, Fla... where they can get a good price. Sigurd Coates has seen his life-dream dashed, the 65-ton lead keel he put in was sold to pay expenses some time ago and the Walsted craftsmen’s mahogany hatches he paid £85,000 for were removed with chainsaws because they should have been teak. “I’m very disappointed,” he told CB. “I sold her for far less than I was asking on the promise I could sail her two weeks in the season. At the time our budget for getting her sailing was close to £1m, for a mast and systems. I still hope they succeed but I think they were too ambitious.” While we also remain hopeful it’s hard to disagree. YACHTING
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