This steel-built Marconi cutter was commissioned from Olin Stephens by a Mr John B. Goulandris in 1970, who wanted a fast yacht to compete in the American East Coast regattas in general and the Bermuda Race in particular. From 1970 to 1977, Amazon took part in various events in America before completing several cruises between there and Europe. In 1992, her German owner Klaus Lower sent her to Holland for a major restoration, during which all of her interiors were dismantled to allow her hull to be sanded. In 2009, Amazon AYC changed hands again and underwent another refit at La Rochelle in France. In 2010, the Marconi yawl participated in the British Classic Regatta, the Brest Classic Week, the Judith Trophy (Douarnenez-Southampton) and took overall victory in the Atlantic Trophy (Douarnenez-Horta-Douarnenez).

Comet’s design was inspired by Stormy Weather and Skylark both of which also emerged from the Sparkman & Stephens studio in New York. Her first owner was a Chicago-based lawyer called John P. Wilson who sailed her on the Great Lakes. In the 1970s, however, the yawl completed a four-year round the world voyage. In 2002, Comet’s new owner Peter Wood had her shipped from the US to Britain. There, she was restored at the Gweek Boatyard in Cornwall in line with her original plans and renamed Cometa. Transferred to the Mediterranean, she won the Porquerolles Classic in 2007, before being sold to a Swiss owner in 2012 who returned her to her original name of Comet.

Shipped from USA to Gweek Quay Boatyard in Cornwall for restoration in 2004.   She had new masts fitted and was renamed ‘Cometa‘. ‘Classic Boat’ magazine showed her refit in November 2004 with Olin Stephens having come aboard himself for the launch! 2007 – New ownership 2012 – New ownership and reverted back to the original name ‘Comet’ Based in Barcelona at the Real Club Nautico and will be participating in the classic regattas in the Med in the coming years .(Nov, 2012)

Participated in the 2013 Yawlba event on Elba island with 4 other S & S yawls.

The 24.7m cutter Hallowe’en designed by William Fife III for Lt Col JFN Baxendale, was launched in 1926 just in time to compete in the ORC FastNet. William Fife III, designer of a number of classic yachts still racing today was quoted once as saying “Hallowe’en is the perfect gentleman’s yacht. She is a jewel”.

Racing in the 2nd Fastnet Race, Hallowe’en sailed the fleet home to cross the line some 10 hours before the next competitor. A record which would stand until 1939 when the new course was shortened.

Hallowe’en is a Marconi cutter inspired by the lines of the International 15-metre Classes. She not only won the Fastnet but also set an as yet unbroken record for the race in the year she was launched. Hallowe’en later spent time in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and, under the name Magda XII, in Norway.

There Prince Olaf, the future King of Norway, was often a guest aboard. Between the 1940s and 50s, she sailed in America as Cotton Blossom IV, winning numerous regattas. During the 1980s, she was restored by the Classic Boat Museum in Newport, to which she’d been donated.

In the course of her long career Hallowe’en has been converted from a Marconi cutter to a gaff cutter and then a yawl. In 1993, she was converted back to a Marconi cutter during a restoration job at Barcelona. In 1999 she was sold to a Dutch owner. She has been owned by an Irishman since 2007. Fife himself described Hallowe’en as “perfect, a gem”.

William Fife decided to rig the yacht as a low-aspect ration Bermudan cutter, which was uncommon in the days when gaff rigged racers dominated the various regattas. These experiments with her rig continued over the following years as her mast and boom heights changed and eventually she was transformed to a yawl. As a yawl– rigged COTTON BLOSSOM IV she dominated ocean racing for many years, and has held important records. After racing in the Mediterranean for a number of years she returned to the Atlantic under new owner Alfred Larsen, a Norwegian industrialist. She became the Royal Norwegian Racing Clubs official yacht and was helmed numerous times by future king to Norway, Prince Olaf.

In 1938 she ventured across the Atlantic and then disappeared off the radar. She was later discovered by Walter Wheeler and renamed Cotton Blosson IV before continuing her history of ocean racing and eventually being donated to the Classic Boat Museum at New Port, Rhode Island where she waited for a much needed refit. After 5 years of work in New Port, funds dried up and Hallowe’en was in need of new ownership and she eventually returned to the Mediterranean when Elizabeth Meyer (owner of J-Class Endeavour) helped find a buyer.

Under her new syndicate of Irish custodians, Hallowe'en has continued to improve the racing standards set in her early years by winning numerous Mediterranean regattas, as well as winning overall  the Panerai Classic Yacht Challenge in 2017.

Regatas

• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2014 (Tercer Clasificado clase BIG BOAT)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2015 (2º Clasificado clase BIG BOAT)
• X REGATA PUIG VELA CLÀSSICA 2017 (8º Clasificado clase ÉPOCA MARCONI)
• ILLES BALEARS CLASSIC 2017 (Cuarto Clasificado clase Época)

Regatas

• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2016 (Tercer Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)

Chinook (sail number NY-48), ex Pauline, is a NY 40, one of the so-called ‘Fighting Forties’. A total of 14 examples of this class were commissioned between 1916 and 1926 by members of the New York Yacht Club. Just four are still afloat, including Rowdy (1916) and Marilee (1926). The latter and Chinook are the only gaff cutter-rigged versions. Chinook was built simultaneous to 11 other identical NY40s in just six months between 1915 and 1916.

Purchased in March 2010 in Newport by Irish skipper Jonathan Greenwood and Sandra Ugolini, Chinook was cargo- shipped to Genoa and then Bizerta in Tunisia. Her next owner, Graham Walker, who had already won the Trofeo Panerai on several occasions with Rowdy, sold her on to London-based Paolo Zannoni, who sailed her to victory in the Vintage category of the 2014 Trofeo Panerai. 

Regatas

• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2013 (Primer Clasificado clase EPOCA CANGREJA)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2014 (Primer Clasificado clase EPOCA CANGREJA)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2015 (Tercer Clasificado clase EPOCA CANGREJA)

El Calima cuenta con dos cumpleaños. El primero, su botadura en 1970 tras ser construido en los Astilleros Carabela con un diseño de Sparkman & Stephens. El segundo, en 1999 tras ser adquirido por Javier Pujol Usandizaga. Gracias a las mejoras conseguidas y a la pericia de sus marineros, el Calima cuenta con el honor de haber conquistado en 2001 la Fasnet Race en su clase.

Regatas

• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2003 (Primer Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2004 (Primer Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2006 (Primer Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2007 (Primer Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2008 (Primer Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2010 (Primer Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2011 (Primer Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2012 (Segundo Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2013 (Segundo Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2014 (Primer Clasificado clase ESPIRITU TRADICIÓN)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2015 (Primer Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)
• VELA CLASICA MENORCA 2016 (Primer Clasificado clase ESPÍRITU TRADICIÓN)

VIOLA was designed and built in 1908 by William FIFE III, who described her as “fast and bonnie”.  VIOLA crossed 113 years through the caring hands of 14 “keepers” who beautifully restored her to date while carefully preserving her authenticity. 

In recent years VIOLA and her crew of friends “the VIOLA lovers” were honored to receive the “MONACO CLASSIC WEEK Trophy” and fortunate to win Les Voiles de Saint Tropez (Fife Jubilee and Rolex Trophy) as well as Les Voiles d’Antibes, Argentario Sailing Week and Les Régates Royales de Cannes.

VIOLA and her crew are delighted to sail in the Copa del Rey for the first time.