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Pete Goss’s Spirit of Mystery in sea trials

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Pete Goss\'s new lugger Spirit of Mystery

Pete Goss’s new boat, Spirit of Mystery – click on the photos for a much
larger image. All photos by Mark Lloyd of Lloyd Images

Pete Goss has been putting his new lugger Spirit of Mystery through sea trials, and It seems he’s positively ecstatic about her. ‘She is a thing of beauty; an organic living object that is everything I dreamed of and more,’ he says. ‘She sails well and is safe, fun, simple and kind. I couldn’t be happier.’

I’d say that he could have been describing many traditional style craft, but it’s great news that he’s so pleased with the new Mystery.

The crew including Pete, younger brother Andy; 14-year old son Eliot, and brother-in-law Mark Maidment is to undertake a two-week sea passage to prepare for their epic journey to Australia in October.

See this earlier post on the Spirit of Mystery including more of Mark Lloyd’s great photos.

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Paul Gartside’s 29ft pilot cutter built in Turkey

Paul Gartside\'s 29ft pilot cutter being built in Turkey

Paul Gartside\'s 29ft pilot cutter being built in Turkey

Paul Gartside\'s 29ft pilot cutter being built in Turkey

Pilot cutter being built by Cem Gür in Turkey

Cem Gür and colleagues at Classic Boat Turkiye continue to be busy – now they’re concentrating their efforts on this 29ft pilot cutter designed by Paul Gartside.

Cem has also promised us some sailing photos of the Thomas Gillmer-designed Blue Moons we have posted about recently – so look out all you Blue Moon fans!

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Tom Naismith’s Sandpiper wins the Water Craft Boatbuilding Awards 2008

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Laurent Giles-designed Sandpiper wins the Watercraft Boat Building Awards

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.

Sandpiper is the big sister to the smaller Sanderling – 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.