Classic Boat Awards 2022 prize-giving
Nearly 200 guests came from around the British Isles, Europe and the US to collect their trophies or just to soak up the atmosphere at the Classic Boat Awards, held at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in London on 12 April. The audience of boatbuilders, owners, sailors, designers, historians and more was rewarded by a brilliant overview of classic sailing from John Lammerts van Bueren, reproduced overleaf. Congratulations to all!
1 Anticipation for the unveiling of the winners is always high 2 The Royal Thames YC kept the drinks flowing 3 Classic Yacht’s editor Rob Peake presented the ceremony 4 The trophies were handmade by Classic Marine in conjunction with Suolk Yacht Harbour 5 Steve Morris of Kilrush Boatyard (right) and fellow boatbuilder Fabian Bush 6 Paul Horton of Harbour Marine Services (centre) whose restoration of Dunkirk Little Ship Lazy Days was Highly Commended 7 Winners (l-r) Fionan de Barra; Stephen Morris; Marcus Lewis (behind)
whose restoration of Barbara was a category winner; Hal Sisk (kneeling); Je Rutherford (with trophy); Katie McCabe; Penny Leander; Jamie Clay (with Centenarian’s bowl); Matt Lis (kneeling); John McShea; Carter Richardson (with trophy); Karen Underwood; Spirit 30 owner Robert Gillespie 8 Classic Boater of the Year was Hal Sisk 9 Spirit Yachts MD Karen Underwood accepts the Highly Commended prize for the Spirit 30 10 Matt Lis of Woodbridge Boatyard 11 Penny Leander, who raced the restored Fairey Huntsman Flower Power, a category winner, in Cowes-Torquay races in the 1960s 12 Young Classic Boater of the Year Katie McCabe, who sailed around Britain solo aged 14 in a Morgan Giles design 13 Lincoln Redding, navigator on Highly Commended Stormvogel in last year’s Rolex Fastnet Race, with David Cheesman, owner of Tenacity, Highly Commended in the New Powered Vessels 14 Carter Richardson of East Passage Boatwrights, whose EP24 won the New Powered Vessel category 15 Owner of the 100-year-old Albert Strange Firefly, Jamie Clay, with William Riordan of the Gstaad Yacht Club; Firefly won the Gstaad YC Centenarian of the Year trophy 16 For the Dublin Bay 21s, Fionan de Barra, Hal Sisk and Steve Morris 17 Je Rutherford, over from California with his wife Gladys Fleitas, accepted the trophy for Viveka, Restored Sailing Vessel of the Year 18 Jonathan Dyke of the event’s title sponsor Su olk Yacht Harbour (centre) with The Hon Lady Judy McAlpine (left) and Classic Boat’s Martin Nott