Mylne gaff cutter

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KELPIE is a race and regatta winner crafted by Alfred Mylne, and one of the most beautiful and fastest classic yachts of her dimensions. At the end of the intense 2018 Mediterranean classic regatta season she notched up 1st overall in the Vintage Gaff Class at both Régates Royales - Trophée Panerai, Cannes and Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, while still looking in start of season quality. Only typical of the way this superb Golden Age of Yachting survivor has been cared for and campaigned under present proprietorship, including undergoing three major winter refit/ restorations ***.***.*** at Fairlie Restorations - probably the last yacht worked on by the illustrious crew involved in landmark rebuilds of yachts like TUIGA, THE LADY ANNE, KENTRA, MARIQUITA and HISPANIA rebuilt - and more recently a major rig makeover ***.***.***; all whilst continuing to sail by summer. KELPIE is ready to continue sailing, racing and thrilling. Her recent success has been achieved crewed mainly by family and friends - are you ready?!

Regattas 2009 - 2018

Under present proprietorship, KELPIE has competed at classic regattas ranging from Oslo Fjord via the Clyde and Cowes to Saint-Tropez. Through 2017 and 2018 - working closely with German classic rig designer and naval architect Juliane Hempel, carpenters and spar builders Manos del Mar, Palma de Mallorca and Ventis of The Netherlands, and Guido Cavalazzi of North Sails Italy - KELPIE has been highly successfully yet sympathetically optimised, and sailed to perfection by her crew of mostly friends and family. Her 2018 results speak for themselves, and her crew consider her “the fastest gaffer on the water!”
2009 The Mylne Regatta, Clyde; BCYC Regatta, Cowes
2010 Mediterranean regattas
2011 Mediterranean regattas
2012 Mediterranean regattas
2013 Mediterranean regattas
2014 Europe Week, Oslo Fjord; Danish Classic, Svendborg; German Classic, Laboe
2015 RYS 200th Regatta, Cowes; Falmouth Classics; Classic Channel Regatta
2016 Mediterranean regattas
2017 Mediterranean regattas – increasingly better performances
2018 Mediterranean – 3rd in class at Imperia; Class winner at Cannes and Saint-Tropez

Refits 2009 - 2012

At Fairlie Restorations 2009 - 2012
- New stem, wood keel and sternpost; some of table timber
- Various frames had to be removed and replaced to do this
- Some went stern as original; some laminated
- Engine and navigate line altered from C/L to offset
- Aperture filled
- Rudder post (iroko) and rudder (mahogany) replaced at same time
- Very few fresh planks were needed, except aft for safety
- New deck beams and ply aft of deck structures, therefore fresh teak decking aft
- All fresh deck structures stern to original shape and dimensions
- All fresh inside stern to near original
- Various fresh deck fittings in bronze
- Electrical unit mostly fresh

History

Born to race, KELPIE’s roots offer sure proof that her still relatively young designer’s beam was shining very brightly far from home waters five years after his breakaway as understudy to mentor, GL Watson. So much so that a group of south coast of England yachtsmen would commission a Scotsman not called Fife to design an imseaportant, large-dimensioned one design class for Solent waters – the South Coast One Design.
The Alfred Mylne story is also intertwined with that of KELPIE’s commissioning proprietor, George Coats, one of Scotland’s serial yacht owning “Paisley thread Barons”, with addresses in Ayrshire, Aberdeenshire, Park Lane and Mayfair. Coats’s nephew (later Sir) Thomas “Tid” Glen Coats worked with Mylne and crafted yachts in his own name, and his uncle’s social whirl revolved as much around the south of England as it did the west and north east of Scotland; a daughter would marry the 5th Duke of Wellington. Perhaps it was inevitable that one of the fresh class woul