WINNER BARBARA
Restored Marcus Lewis, Des/built Archie Watty, 1947, LOD 18ft (5.5m), Rig
bermudan sloop. On 20 January 1947, Olive Bate of Polruan, Cornwall, gave birth to a baby girl, Barbara. This was also the day that she and husband Arthur were set to put down their deposit on a house. Her reaction at discovering, the same day, that Arthur had instead spent the money on a Fowey One-Design, can only be imagined, even with the boat named after the girl. By the 1990s, Barbara (the boat) was in pieces in the Hebrides, but class sailor Richard Kitson and boatbuilder Marcus Lewis brought her back home to Cornwall and performed a rebuild that makes her today, eectively, a brand-new boat, albeit on her original ballast keel.