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Build Year: 1930

Designer: William Fife III

Yard: William Fife & Son - Fairlie

Build in: Great Britain

First Name: Oonah

First Owner: H. Carron Scrimgerour - woodbridge

First Country: -

First Sail no.: K 22

Previous names: -

Division: Neptune

Condition: Sailing

Fleet: The Clyde

Yacht Club: Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club

Country: Great Britain

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Main Sail: 0,00

Fore Triangle: 0,00

Draught: 0,00

Weight: 0,00

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Design Year: 0

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In early 2000´s Fulmar was under the same ownership as the ketch, Kentra .

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Fairlie: the Hamble yard that changed classic sailing forever

We look back at the transformative work of Fairlie Yachts, the famous Hamble yard that shut down earlier this year.

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I t was a sad day when Duncan Walker and Paul Spooner finally shut up shop in Hamble and put Fairlie Yachts into liquidation at the end of February 2016. Many readers will know that running any boatbuilding company has been very hard work over the past few years in particular, but it will be no consolation to list the other casualties that Fairlie joined in the sector. Looking back over the quarter of a century of boatbuilding first as Fairlie Restorations and latterly as Fairlie Yachts, the team was responsible for some great projects; but there were always challenges.

The story started almost exactly 30 years ago. In the late 1980s a Swiss businessman called Albert Obrist owned an incomparable collection of Ferraris. What marked his collection out as one of, if not the, finest in the world was the quality of the restoration work that Obrist undertook. In a world already known for accuracy and high standards, Obrist raised it to another level. It was said that if the original leather used for a seat came from a particular breed of cows, Obrist would insist the restorers used the same, preferably from the descendants of the very same herd.

Despite having disposed of most of the collection in the early 1990s, the fact they were ‘Obrist’ Ferraris means the cars are still sought after today. In December 1985 Obrist bought a rather tired schooner, and his crew nursed her from Italy to Southampton. What they did with her has passed into classic yacht legend, and helped start the whole classic yacht revival.

The schooner was of course the 1931 Fife Altair , and her crew was Paul Goss, Duncan Walker, Donn Costanzo, Jeff Law, and Olive Adshead (the latter three the proud if by then rather impoverished owners of the Fife ‘ Sheevra ’ ex Clio , whose restoration had been noted and admired by Obrist). Along with the skills of the workforce at Southampton Yacht Services, a benchmark project was completed, restoring her as closely as possible to her original condition. Under Goss and then Steve ‘The Dog’ Hammond, Altair became the standard bearer for a revival of interest in classic yachts in general and in Fifes in particular.

Obrist was just getting started with Altair though. He had a vision of restoring Fifes just as he had Ferraris; with no compromise, authentic in every detail. He and Duncan Walker established Fairlie Restorations in the back of a large hanger at Hamble Yacht Services in 1990. They recruited two of the key members of the SYS team, shipwrights Nick Bowyer and Kevin Jepp, and formed a small team dedicated purely to restoration of Fife yachts. Obrist employed a young yacht broker at Camper & Nicholsons, William Collier, who had a passion for the classics, to seek out and buy him examples of Fife’s work; and in 1991 Duncan (with the help of a return to the Clyde of Altair ), managed to buy the bulk of the Fife archive of drawings from Archie MacMillan.

The first project was the 15-Metre, Tuiga . Spotted in the small ads for sale in Cyprus, Walker nursed her back to the Hamble and the team of about half a dozen set to work, with Obrist as the patron. Obrist’s attention to detail was extraordinary. At one stage he was said to be investigating buying land in Egypt to grow the correct type of cotton to replicate her original sails; that didn’t happen in the end, but Ratsey & Lapthorn (her original sailmakers in 1909) were persuaded to replicate the stencils of the period rather than use their famous red semi-circle badges on the tacks of her sails; and, most remarkably, to hand-stitch the entire mainsail. Looking back it is easy to forget just what a brave idea it was to rebuild a First Rule 15-M boat, 75ft (22.8m) on deck, tiller steered with no winches and the best part of 4,000 sqft (371m 2 ) of sail to control. Walker and his team reached out to the likes of Harry Spencer and Spencer Rigging, and thankfully found the skills were only dormant and not totally forgotten. Heading out on to the Solent for her first sail trails in the autumn of 1992 most people understood Walker’s decision to fit her with (removable but unoriginal) stanchions and lifelines (Obrist, when he saw them, was said to be less understanding).

Alongside Tuiga there was a growing collection of yachts awaiting restoration including Miquette (12-Metre), The Lady Anne (15-Metre), Fulmar (8-Metre) and Mariquita (19-Metre). Even by Obrist’s standards it was an audacious scheme and as soon as Tuiga was finished in 1993 she was for sale. Eventually she was bought by the Yacht Club de Monaco, where she has been a perfect figurehead for the club ever since.

Friends of Obrist, Ernst & Doris Klaus, then approached Fairlie, keen to have a yacht restored for a round-the-world trip. Duncan was following the stop-start work on Kentra , a 1923 Fife ketch in Scotland, and finally managed to buy her at auction and bring her south. Her complete restoration, to Lloyd’s, like Tuiga , took two years; in the meantime, the Klauses also had Fulmar restored. Kentra was relaunched in 1995 and duly made her circumnavigation.

Those projects eased Fairlie into a more commercial way of working, but it was still practically unique in being dedicated to restoration. Work on Belle Aventure, Madrigal , the 8-Metres Osborne, Carron II and the Morgan Giles Siris , and the complete restoration of The Lady Anne followed in the 1990s. A strip-plank new build of the gaff cutter Nomad designed by Ed Burnett and Nigel Irens was in some respects anomalous, but pointed to the future. There were some difficult periods but its work was widely recognised for its high quality and it retained a reputation for authenticity and attention to detail. Agnelli, the head of Fiat at the time, had seen Tuiga ’s deck and admired it; when he came to build his Frers carbon race boat Stealth at Green Marine in 1996, he requested that Fairlie lay the deck, which it duly did, along with building and fitting what was then a radically light carbon/nomex interior. Based as it was on the core of time-served craftsmen who had done their time as apprentices at Camper & Nicholsons in the 1970s, the working environment at Fairlie was often gritty, not to say old-fashioned; and over the years a few failed to make the grade. The many who did had an excellent grounding in traditional boatbuilding skills, and most if not all find themselves in command of very marketable skills. That in itself is a notable legacy.

The 15-Metre Hispania was also rescued at the 11th hour by Collier and a search for a new owner for her was started. That eventually culminated in Fairlie rebuilding the hull before her fit-out in Palma and re-joining the nascent 15-Metre fleet again in 2011.

In 2001, the restoration of what many think of as Fairlie’s flagship, Mariquita , was started. The last known survivor of the class, she was the largest project the yard undertook. With the active involvement of Obrist and Klaus, it was little wonder than she was restored with precious little in the way of concessions. Relaunched in 2004 and new from keel to truck, her skipper Jim Thom (ex skipper of Kentra ) embraced the purist philosophy and was a tireless advocate of sailing her in the traditional manner. She has made her mark in regattas across Europe, one of the most photographed and recognisable classics.

Other refits followed including work on Moonbeam III, Hallowe’en and Altair ; and the complete restorations of the First Rule 8-Metre Lucky Girl , the 1897 Cork Harbour One-Design Jap , and the GL Watson-designed dayboat St Patrick . Work for large classic motor yacht restorations such as Nahlin, Bluebird and Shemara also showcased the skills of the team. In addition, Paul Spooner’s own designs for new yachts made regular appearances. The first was a long-keeled design called Niebla in 2003. The next in 2011 was the Fairlie 55, a fin-and-bulb-keel design that was soon on the Med circuit in the Spirit of Tradition class. The last example was a 53ft (16.2m) design intended for single-handed offshore cruising called La Dama , which proved a challenging project over the best part of three years. Despite ongoing work on a new-build houseboat, also to Spooner’s design, a lack of future orders and an increasingly difficult financial situation finally prompted the closure. It was presaged when Fairlie Restorations when into receivership in 2012; re-established as Fairlie Yachts on the same site and with most of the same workforce, the new company faced many of the same difficulties as before and despite a long fight, eventually it proved unsustainable.

Following Obrist’s vision, Fairlie was instrumental in establishing validity of the idea of purist restoration, especially in a commercial setting; it regularly set new standards for the quality of its work, and has left a fine legacy in terms of yachts, skills and people.

FOR THE RECORD: BOATS BUILT OR RESTORED BY FAIRLIE OVER THE YEARS

Tuiga   1993

Fulmar (IRC 8-M) 1994

Kentra 1995

Nomad (Ed Burnett) 1998

Madrigal 1998

Osbourne (IRC 8M) 1998

Carron II (IRC 8M) 1998

The Lady Anne 1999

Siris (IRC 8M) 2000

Mariquita 2004

Niebla (new build) 2005

Bluebird (deck structures) 2005

Altair 2005

Hispania (hull and deck) 2006

Moonbeam of fife   2007

Lucky Girl (IRC 8-M) 2008

Hallowe’en 2009

Nahlin (deck structures) 2008-2010

Kelpie 2009, 2010, 2011

Fairlie 55 2011

St Patrick 2011

Falcon (IRC 8M) 2012

Fairlie 53 2015

Shemara (exterior deck structures) 2012-2014

Helen (IRC 8M) 2014 & 2016

Houseboat 2016

Kentra (re-coppering) 2015 Antaren 2016

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Presentation of the largest kraftliner production site in Russia took place at the 27th International Exhibition of the Packaging Industry RosUpack

The presentation of the Big Ust-Ilimsk Project, involving the construction of Russia’s one-of-a-kind pulp and board (KLB) mill in the Irkutsk Oblast, was one of the key events at RosUpack 2023. When speaking at the plenary session on corrugated board packaging market development, Alexey Chenyaev, Ilim’s Senior Vice President, Sales, Supply Chain Management and Packaging, focused on the advanced manufacturing and environmental solutions implemented at the new KLB Mill and prospects for sales market expansion it will secure.

After KLB Mill ramp-up (600,000 tons of kraftliner per year), the total annual output of Ilim Group will amount to 4.3 million tons. The Company will be one of the world’s largest producers of unbleached packaging materials and will strengthen its leadership in the Chinese market of wood-free corrugated materials with a share of approximately 50 to 60%.

The Big Ust-Ilimsk project was met by exhibitors with great interest. This year the event was attended by more than 740 companies from 19 countries. Ilim’s booth with an area of 140 m2 was one of the largest one at the site and was operated by about 50 experts from Sales and Corrugated Box Business Management Departments. The booth was attended by over 60 key accounts and more than 120 representatives of various companies, including such major ones as Heinz, MARS and KDV-Group.

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