SALLY OF KAMES, CHARM OF RHU, ALBERTA AND ZEST TO ENTER COWES CLASSICS

3 yachts with fascinating histories – Sally of Kames, Charm of Rhu, Alberta, and Zest – will all be entering the Cowes Classics Week beginning on 25th June.

Cowes Classics attracts a wide variety of yachts, ranging from fleets of one-design dayboats to unique classics from a bygone era.

2 of the veteran classic yachts are Sally of Kames, owned by Alan and Jackie Stannah, and Charm of Rhu, owned by RLYC Commodore Martin Thomas. Ninian Sanderson, a racing driver from the 1950s, who won Le Mans in 1956 in a Jaguar D-Type, was a previous owner of both yachts.

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Other entries this year include Alberta and Zest. Alberta is an Essex oyster smack, built in 1885, worked hard for many years and restored to her former glory earlier this century. Zest, the first of several Tumlare yachts brought to the UK in the 1930s, was once described by Uffa Fox as “the most advanced type of cruiser in the world”.

Anyone wishing to enter Cowes Classics Week, should go to www.cowesclassicsweek.org/enter-online or contact the organisers, the Royal London Yacht Club at [email protected].