Jul10
Tom Naismith’s Sandpiper wins the Water Craft Boatbuilding Awards 2008
Tom Naismith’s Laurent Giles-designed Sandppiper Surprise
won the Water Craft Awards at the Beale Park Thames Boat
Show this year. As usual, click on the photo for a
much larger image
Finally, we have the boat that won the Water Craft Boatbuilding Awards for this year - Tom Naismith’s striking Laurent Giles-designed Sandpiper, which he has named Surprise.
Although only 20ft on deck, she’s clearly a big boat for her length, and Tom reports that she took seven years and £20,000 to build.
Sanderling is the big sister to the smaller Sandpiper - and the even smaller but much better known Jolly Boat. I think Tom deserves a prize just for completing her, but I hope she now gets some serious use, as I’m sure she makes a comfortable little ship.
By the way, I notice that there’s an 18ft version for sale at Boats & Outboards, and there’s also a picture of one of these boats on the Classic Marine site.
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