Looking for a custodian rather than just a buyer, this lovely launch has great provenance. Built in the mid 1950s, GRP was 'new technology' and this boat was a prototype for the replacement clinker launches built by Keith Nelson & Company at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.
This particular boat was used as a pilot boat for the 1957 Admirals Cup, ferrying crews to and from Cowes.
She has been in the same ownership for 45 years, bought by a gentleman working at Nelson's boatyard, rescuing he...
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