The Bristol Classic Boat Company

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The Bristol Classic Boat Company is a boat building and restoration company based at the Redcliffe Wharf in Bristol, England.

The company has it origins in Storms'l Services a group of shipwrights who formed in about 1986 to undertake the complete rebuild of Aello Beta, a 100ft gaff schooner designed and built by Max Oertz in 1920[1]. Storms'l Services completed major restorations on a number of ships including the yawls Voluta and Samphire and the Clyde cutter Tigris. Most famously the company built the 50 tonne replica of John Cabot's The Matthew with Colin Mudie in 1996 at Redcliffe Wharf.

The Bristol Classic Boat Company was foundered in around 1999 by company director Mark Rolt and restores and builds traditional wooden sailing and motor vessels[2]. The company has recently rebuilt two Fairey marine Huntsmen motor cruisers and various yachts, in addition to carrying out refit of small craft and canal boats. Currently building (2007) is the Pegasus, a traditional Bristol Pilot Cutter designed by Burnett Yacht Design[3], for the Island Trust.

[edit] Vessels built by the Bristol Classic Boat Company

Recent vessels built by the company:

  • Pegasus (2008). 56ft Wooden Cutter (currently in build)- LAUNCHES 22-05-2008 12.30pm

More information about this vessel can be found at www.islandcutter.co.uk and The Island Trust, for whom she was built at www.theislandtrust.org.uk


More information and a webcam can be found at www.bristolclassicboat.co.uk

[edit] References

  1. ^ Consultancy. Chris Temple Naval Architect & Surveyor. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
  2. ^ About Us. Bristol Classic Boat. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
  3. ^ Cutter Appeal. The Island Trust. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.