Windhover

Windhover is a Westerley Seahawk she has come to the Southwold yard for a small refit before the sailing season, …

Sirius

This was Sirius being carefully manoeuvred into her temporary home while the works are carried out. Sirius is coming in for a new deck and painting.

Mamora

The new radar arch has been fitted and we are working on connecting everything up.

Truff Truff is a lovely example of a Rapsody 29 she has come up from the Thames for a winter makeover including some varnishing work. She arrived by road transport and was loaded into her temporary home for the next few months.

Dragonfly

This is Dragonfly she has been in the Ipswich yard for a cut back and polish of the hull and some electrical works, despite the grey day she was looking much shinier after her polish.

Carina

Carina is a 59ft Lawley motor yacht, she was built in 1918 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA. She has spent most of her life cruising the waters of North America between New York and Boston. She was recently shipped to the UK where she was bought by her current owner. He has brought her to HMS for some modifications which were picked up by the survey. The team have removed all the beautiful interior for safe keeping ready for the works to begin.

Taioma

Taioma is a Vancouver 34

She has come to Southwold for a mini refit, as is often the way the customers have added to the job list while she is in the boat shed. Works include a new engine and all associated parts, new windows, hull polish and anti foul and thorough clean and smarten up.

Longhope

The hull is being prepared for painting, the customer has chosen white so there is some way to go.

Azura

This is the Princess 38 Azura, she has come into the yard for a new galley.

Cinderella

Cinderella is a Sun Odyssey 54DS she was built in 2008, she has come into the Ipswich yard for a major refit.

Fiddlers Dram

Has been in for a repaint and revarnish and a general revamp and is looking much smarter.

Liseta

Liseta is a 1957 twin screw motor yacht designed by the sailing dinghy designer Guthrie Penman and first registered by Wing Commander Geoffrey ‘Buster’ Briggs. She is made of pitch pine on oak with teak decks and a teak superstructure.

Mero

Mero is a wonderful example of a John Bains Silverette she is a regular visitor to HMS for maintenance works and her wonderful owners do an awful lot of the hard work.

Wide Beam Barge

Being based on the coast we don’t very often work on canal boats however this wide beam barge is the latest arrival for an internal refit at Ipswich. It is certainly a blank canvas and the owners have some fabulous interior design ideas.

J120

J120 has recently arrived at our Southwold Boatyard for repairs and a repaint of the hull and some rigging works before the racing season starts.

Josephine

A familiar face at HMS over the years Josephine has returned to our Ipswich yard for some winter maintenance works, including a gentle refurb of her teak decks and all the brightwork being revarnished using Allwood.

Charis

Charis Charis November update: It was a fabulous sailing day the other Saturday for sea trials of Charis, the new sails from @OneSails_east performed brilliantly