Best looking GRP boats ever

[Shuggy]

Following on from this thread - and this boat:

What ticks your box for the best looking GRP (no wood - save that for the now re-located Classic Forum) yacht ever?

Photos please!

 

[Lakesailor]

Spirit Yachts have to be up there.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

+1

 

[Shuggy]

Spirit Yachts have to be up there.

Ah - but they get disqualified from this thread as they're wooden.

 

[Pleiades]

Best looking GRP boat ever

Apologies, could not resist temptation.....


Robin
Pleiades of Birdham
MXWQ5

 

[Shuggy]

Apologies, could not resist temptation.....
Robin
Pleiades of Birdham
MXWQ5

Bowman 36?

Oops - profile says Tradewind 35! - nice.

 

[Lakesailor]

Ah - but they get disqualified from this thread as they're wooden.

"Wood/epoxy composite construction" Borderline.

 

[oldsaltoz]

http://www.schionningdesigns.com.au/www/welcome.cfm

 

[Flapjack]

I like my Bruce Roberts

 

[TQA]

Having had a seriously ugly boat [ Ryton 38 ] before, this time I wanted something that would not cause visual pollution on the high seas and I very very nearly bought one of these.

Starrat/Jenks Morgan Classic 45' Not all Charlie Morgans boats were lookers but this one fills my eye.

 

[grumpy_o_g]

Nicholson 43 gets my vote, not exactly shabby to sail either but that genoa could be a handful. For such a beautiful boat there don't seem to be many decent pictures of it around. I take it a fibreglass Dragon, Flying Dutchman or Osprey would be cheating as they were originally wood designs.

 

[grumpy_o_g]

Ah - but they get disqualified from this thread as they're wooden.

In fairness there's hardly any wood visible in that pic at all. Ironically for such a classic design everything you can see is either carbon-fibre, aramids or epoxy under awlgrip/antifoul. There's a strip of Mahohany round the gunwhale and the shrouds might by steel but that's it.

I will accept that there is a bit of wood involved though..

 

[webcraft]

I like my Bruce Roberts

It's all in the eye of the beholder

- W

 

[BobPrell]

I nominate the S&S 34.

I like my Bruce Roberts

I do too. I bought plans for one, but never built it.

Anything that follows the Sparkman and Stephens 34 philosophy must be pretty good.
S&S 34s are still being built occasionally in Western Australia.

If Sir Francis Chichester had waited a year or so and bought one off the shelf he could have saved himself most of the trouble he had with the bespoke Gypsy Moth.
He took 226 days of sailing to circumnavigate in 1967, with one stop (in Sydney, Australia), to part rebuild it.

Jessica Watson took 210 days to circumnavigate non-stop, over a slightly shorter distance, and was not physically strained by the trip.

A number of solo arduous circumnavigators have used it, and no doubt many cruisers.

Arguably the best yacht for the job as well as good-looking.

 

[Icarus39]

IMHO, my GRP beauty .. Dawn Class 39 launched in 2009

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[Twister_Ken]

Any Tofinou, by Latitude

And they sail like witches, as well.

Quite like Alerions, as well

 

[E39mad]

IMHO, my GRP beauty .. Dawn Class 39 launched in 2009

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Is that the old Contessa 38?

The blue ones (raced very poorly) in Dartmouth Regatta each year are pretty boats.

Nic 43 is lovely looking yacht - once sold one (ex-broker) from Gosport called Magdelene

Hinckley 42 Day sailor is one of many current GRP classics I like:

http://www.hinckleyyachts.com/Sailboats/ds42/ds42_gallery.aspx

 

[Shuggy]

@grumpy_o_g
Go on... Post some pics even if they were originally designed in wood!

 

[Ru88ell]

On the basis that I get told at least twice per day when I'm out in her that she's 'beautiful' or 'pretty' I propose the Cape Cutter 19.

 

[jhr]

Mark 1 Swan 46?