Bill's Log: Vertue Yachts Designed by Laurent Giles
Bill's Log: Vertue Yachts Designed by Laurent Giles
Bill's Log: Vertue Yachts Designed by Laurent Giles
Extraordinary boats: Andrillot, the original ‘Vertue’ design
Laurent Giles Vertue 27ft Classic Yacht For Sale
Vertue V3 Monie, 1938
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Design Genesis. Where better to start a consideration of the genesis of the Vertue class than with this 'Form Draught of the Cutter Yacht Jolie Brise'. This exquisite drawing by Jack Laurent Giles was made after he lifted the lines from the yacht in 1928. Whatever his motive for doing this, they cannot have failed to influence his thoughts ...
Vertue (yacht)
The Vertue Class of yacht is a 25'3" length [1] design by Laurent Giles dating from 1936, when Andrillot was launched. The class was not named Vertue until 1946: it collected the name in the wake of the win by Epeneta - a boat built to the design - of the Little Ship Club's 'Vertue Cup' [2] In 1939 the Epeneta had completed a cruise from The Solent to Belle Île in Southern Brittany and back ...
Extraordinary boats: Andrillot, the original 'Vertue' design
The boat Uli had inadvertently stumbled across was Andrillot, best known as the 'original Vertue', the first of a class which, 85 years after she was launched, is still going strong and now ...
VERTUE
The forerunner of the VERTUE class was the ANDRILLOT, designed in 1936 (specs above). Ten ANDRILLOT sister ships were produced prior to the outbreak of war in 1939. It was the fifth boat, EPENETA, that would ultimately give the class it's name but not until 1945. ... It is thought that approximately 100 have been built to this design.
The Vertues
Most cruising sailors have heard of Vertue yachts. Though small in size—only about 25' LOA—they have an outsized reputation as the most successful design to come from English yacht designer Jack Laurent Giles during his long career. More than 200 of the boats have been built, and many of the exploits that their owners undertook have become legendary among ocean-cruising sailors.
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Boat Search - Enter a boat name in the box below and click the Search button to search the database. ... This is the new version of information about the yachts which form the Vertue Class, designed by the Laurent Giles design partnership. Showing 1-16 of 273 results. V II grp 43 Eden Marindin Read more; V II grp 42 (Unknown Name) ...
Vertue
Vertue is a 25′ 3″ / 7.7 m monohull sailboat designed by Jack Laurent Giles and built by Cheoy Lee Shipyard, Stebbings & Sons, Bossoms Boatyard, and Jouët starting in 1947. ... the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its ...
Bill's Log: Vertue Yachts Designed by Laurent Giles
Continuing the theme of favourite designers and their yachts I come to the very attractive Vertue, from the board of Jack Laurent Giles. (1901-1965) She obviously stirs my heart, because I've done two previous articles featuring Vertues, specifically, 'Maid of Tessa'* and 'Hussar'.**
The Vertue Yachts
The original "Vertue" called Andrillot, was designed as a commission by Jack Laurent Giles in 1936. It was roughly based on the design of the pilot cutters such as Jolie Brise. It also has a striking similarity to the splendid yacht Dyarchy, although at just 25 ft 3" it was, of course, considerably smaller.
25 of the best small sailing boat designs
Laurent Giles is best known for designing wholesome wooden cruising boats such as the Vertue and Wanderer III, yet his most successful design was the 26ft Centaur he designed for Westerly, of which a remarkable 2,444 were built between 1969 and 1980. It might not be the prettiest boat on the water, but it sure packs a lot of accommodation.
Jack Laurent Giles
Among the most influential English yacht designers of the 20th century. Known for both more traditional sailing yachts such as the VERTUE, and WANDER III, as well the revolutionary light displacement 'Myth of Malham', winner of the Fastnet race in 1947. Another successful racing yacht, 'Miranda IV'(1951), featured a very early adoption of the 'spade' rudder. Many later production ...
The Vertue 25 Sailboat
The design was not named Vertue until after the war, when another boat of this design, named EPENETA, won the Little Ship Club's Vertue Cup in 1939 for a passage across the Bay of Biscay. The Vertue Cup is given for the best log of a cruise longer than a week by a member of the club. ... The Vertue II design is slightly larger at 25'8" (7.8m ...
John Laurent Giles
Laurent Giles described as part of his design philosophy that a yacht should have "the utmost docility and sureness of manoeuvring at sea, in good or bad weather" - his boats were designed to maintain a steady course with minimal action by the helmsman but respond instantly to the helm if the need arose. ... Vertue II- a beamier version of the ...
2010 Laurent Giles Vertue Class Sloop
Boat Details. Description. The 25' 4" Vertue Class Sloop designed by Laurent Giles is one of the most capable and well-loved small cruising yachts ever designed, and thus requires no further introduction. However, stepping aboard FLYING FISH will shatter any pre-conceived notion you may have of what such a craft might look or feel like.
About Vertues « Drumler
The GRP Vertue (ie. fibreglass) is licensed by only one builder: Bossoms Boatyard of Binsey Village, Oxford. The first Vertue (though it was not yet called a Vertue - the class was not officially named until 1945) was the yacht Andrillot. Commissioned by Dick Kinnersley of Guernsey in 1936, he asked Jack Laurent Giles to design him a pocket ...
Unusual boats: Andrillot, original design "Vertue"
Andrillot is the original "Vertue", the design of which marked the beginning of Laurent Giles's long and distinguished career in 1935. Reported by Nick Compton. German shipbuilder Uli Killer was looking for a sailing boat while working on a large restoration project when he spotted Andrillot, a 25-foot wooden boat for sale in Dartmouth, UK. The ...
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hoped to design. And yet the Vertue, as the post-war Giles five-tonners became known, secured Giles's reputation. Apocryphally, a sign on Durban's seafront forbids any yacht to put to sea in winds over Force 7, without the harbour master's permission, unless she's a Vertue. It's just one of the myriad legends that have grown up about ...
Bayesian (yacht)
Bayesian was a flybridge sloop designed by Ron Holland and built with a 56 m (184 ft) aluminium hull and a single-masted cutter rig.The 75 m (246 ft) aluminium mast was designed for the yacht and at the time was the world's tallest. The yacht had a lifting keel, allowing its draft to be reduced from 10 m to 4 m. [6] It was the fifth constructed of ten similar vessels from the same designer and ...
Vertue
The original design has been continuously modified and improved over the years whilst the basic hull form has been maintained. ... need to be replaced. I would like to hear from other Vertue owners. Boat- "Kainui" - 196 0 Vertue # 106 OWNER - Steve Garrand & Susan Cooney AREA OF SAILING - Camden, ME E-Mail Steve & Susan: Boat- "Aries II" - 19 ...
Stream of Consciousness: Vertue Class Yacht
The voyages these little yachts have made are the stuff of legend. She was designed by Laurent Giles, one of the great English yacht designers of the 20th century in the 1930s. The yacht in the above photograph is Vertue XXXV. This design was popularised in 1950 when she burst on the yachting scene in a dramatic crossing of the Atlantic Ocean ...
Laurent Giles boats for sale
Some of the most popular Laurent Giles models presently listed include: 16,45, 48. CLASSIC, 65, Vertue Class Sloop and Vertue Gaff Cutter. Various Laurent Giles models are currently offered for sale by specialized yacht brokers, dealers and brokerages on YachtWorld, with listings ranging from 1953 year models up to 2010.
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History
The latter's 'Blue Book', called ' Vertue ', in particular, and the later Lee and Philpotts gem on ' Laurent Giles and His Yacht Designs', are the starting point for hard facts on those boats built up until 1973. Since then a number of articles have appeared in British and American sailing magazines, and there are half a dozen ...
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Boat Search - Enter a boat name in the box below and click the Search button to search the database. Search for: Search. SUMMER NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2024. Posted on 09/08/2024 ... Before coming to this, the latest of the occasional episodes of the Vertue Design Dynasty story, we are also really delighted to be able to put into print the first part ...
Design Genesis. Where better to start a consideration of the genesis of the Vertue class than with this 'Form Draught of the Cutter Yacht Jolie Brise'. This exquisite drawing by Jack Laurent Giles was made after he lifted the lines from the yacht in 1928. Whatever his motive for doing this, they cannot have failed to influence his thoughts ...
The Vertue Class of yacht is a 25'3" length [1] design by Laurent Giles dating from 1936, when Andrillot was launched. The class was not named Vertue until 1946: it collected the name in the wake of the win by Epeneta - a boat built to the design - of the Little Ship Club's 'Vertue Cup' [2] In 1939 the Epeneta had completed a cruise from The Solent to Belle Île in Southern Brittany and back ...
The boat Uli had inadvertently stumbled across was Andrillot, best known as the 'original Vertue', the first of a class which, 85 years after she was launched, is still going strong and now ...
The forerunner of the VERTUE class was the ANDRILLOT, designed in 1936 (specs above). Ten ANDRILLOT sister ships were produced prior to the outbreak of war in 1939. It was the fifth boat, EPENETA, that would ultimately give the class it's name but not until 1945. ... It is thought that approximately 100 have been built to this design.
Most cruising sailors have heard of Vertue yachts. Though small in size—only about 25' LOA—they have an outsized reputation as the most successful design to come from English yacht designer Jack Laurent Giles during his long career. More than 200 of the boats have been built, and many of the exploits that their owners undertook have become legendary among ocean-cruising sailors.
Boat Search - Enter a boat name in the box below and click the Search button to search the database. ... This is the new version of information about the yachts which form the Vertue Class, designed by the Laurent Giles design partnership. Showing 1-16 of 273 results. V II grp 43 Eden Marindin Read more; V II grp 42 (Unknown Name) ...
Vertue is a 25′ 3″ / 7.7 m monohull sailboat designed by Jack Laurent Giles and built by Cheoy Lee Shipyard, Stebbings & Sons, Bossoms Boatyard, and Jouët starting in 1947. ... the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its ...
Continuing the theme of favourite designers and their yachts I come to the very attractive Vertue, from the board of Jack Laurent Giles. (1901-1965) She obviously stirs my heart, because I've done two previous articles featuring Vertues, specifically, 'Maid of Tessa'* and 'Hussar'.**
The original "Vertue" called Andrillot, was designed as a commission by Jack Laurent Giles in 1936. It was roughly based on the design of the pilot cutters such as Jolie Brise. It also has a striking similarity to the splendid yacht Dyarchy, although at just 25 ft 3" it was, of course, considerably smaller.
Laurent Giles is best known for designing wholesome wooden cruising boats such as the Vertue and Wanderer III, yet his most successful design was the 26ft Centaur he designed for Westerly, of which a remarkable 2,444 were built between 1969 and 1980. It might not be the prettiest boat on the water, but it sure packs a lot of accommodation.
Among the most influential English yacht designers of the 20th century. Known for both more traditional sailing yachts such as the VERTUE, and WANDER III, as well the revolutionary light displacement 'Myth of Malham', winner of the Fastnet race in 1947. Another successful racing yacht, 'Miranda IV'(1951), featured a very early adoption of the 'spade' rudder. Many later production ...
The design was not named Vertue until after the war, when another boat of this design, named EPENETA, won the Little Ship Club's Vertue Cup in 1939 for a passage across the Bay of Biscay. The Vertue Cup is given for the best log of a cruise longer than a week by a member of the club. ... The Vertue II design is slightly larger at 25'8" (7.8m ...
Laurent Giles described as part of his design philosophy that a yacht should have "the utmost docility and sureness of manoeuvring at sea, in good or bad weather" - his boats were designed to maintain a steady course with minimal action by the helmsman but respond instantly to the helm if the need arose. ... Vertue II- a beamier version of the ...
Boat Details. Description. The 25' 4" Vertue Class Sloop designed by Laurent Giles is one of the most capable and well-loved small cruising yachts ever designed, and thus requires no further introduction. However, stepping aboard FLYING FISH will shatter any pre-conceived notion you may have of what such a craft might look or feel like.
The GRP Vertue (ie. fibreglass) is licensed by only one builder: Bossoms Boatyard of Binsey Village, Oxford. The first Vertue (though it was not yet called a Vertue - the class was not officially named until 1945) was the yacht Andrillot. Commissioned by Dick Kinnersley of Guernsey in 1936, he asked Jack Laurent Giles to design him a pocket ...
Andrillot is the original "Vertue", the design of which marked the beginning of Laurent Giles's long and distinguished career in 1935. Reported by Nick Compton. German shipbuilder Uli Killer was looking for a sailing boat while working on a large restoration project when he spotted Andrillot, a 25-foot wooden boat for sale in Dartmouth, UK. The ...
hoped to design. And yet the Vertue, as the post-war Giles five-tonners became known, secured Giles's reputation. Apocryphally, a sign on Durban's seafront forbids any yacht to put to sea in winds over Force 7, without the harbour master's permission, unless she's a Vertue. It's just one of the myriad legends that have grown up about ...
Bayesian was a flybridge sloop designed by Ron Holland and built with a 56 m (184 ft) aluminium hull and a single-masted cutter rig.The 75 m (246 ft) aluminium mast was designed for the yacht and at the time was the world's tallest. The yacht had a lifting keel, allowing its draft to be reduced from 10 m to 4 m. [6] It was the fifth constructed of ten similar vessels from the same designer and ...
The original design has been continuously modified and improved over the years whilst the basic hull form has been maintained. ... need to be replaced. I would like to hear from other Vertue owners. Boat- "Kainui" - 196 0 Vertue # 106 OWNER - Steve Garrand & Susan Cooney AREA OF SAILING - Camden, ME E-Mail Steve & Susan: Boat- "Aries II" - 19 ...
The voyages these little yachts have made are the stuff of legend. She was designed by Laurent Giles, one of the great English yacht designers of the 20th century in the 1930s. The yacht in the above photograph is Vertue XXXV. This design was popularised in 1950 when she burst on the yachting scene in a dramatic crossing of the Atlantic Ocean ...
Some of the most popular Laurent Giles models presently listed include: 16,45, 48. CLASSIC, 65, Vertue Class Sloop and Vertue Gaff Cutter. Various Laurent Giles models are currently offered for sale by specialized yacht brokers, dealers and brokerages on YachtWorld, with listings ranging from 1953 year models up to 2010.
The boat was lit "like a Christmas tree," local residents said, standing out against the full moon. But about 4 a.m., calamity unfolded. A violent and fast storm hit the area with some of the ...
BAYESIAN is a 56.0 m Sail Yacht, built in Italy by Perini Navi and delivered in 2008. She is one of 10 56M models. ... The naval architecture was developed by Ron Holland Design, who has architected 59 other superyachts in the BOAT Pro database, and the interior of the yacht was designed by Rémi Tessier, ...
The latter's 'Blue Book', called ' Vertue ', in particular, and the later Lee and Philpotts gem on ' Laurent Giles and His Yacht Designs', are the starting point for hard facts on those boats built up until 1973. Since then a number of articles have appeared in British and American sailing magazines, and there are half a dozen ...
The Bayesian, tech tycoon Mike Lynch's superyacht, was found with its keel "partially retracted" -- something sailboat design experts told The Post could have led directly to the modern craft sinking.
Did a Waterspout Sink the Superyacht? 3 Unusual Design Features Also May Have Played a Role. By . G. Bruce Knecht. Updated Aug 22, 2024, 6:18 am EDT / Original Aug 22, 2024, 12:30 am EDT.
Building owners have become increasingly aware that biophilic design can support their resident's health and wellbeing by leveraging their innate love for nature.
British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's body was identified as one of five pulled from the wreckage of his luxury yacht, which sank off the coast of Sicily. Photo: Louiza Vradi/Reuters By Costas ...