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Letter from Uffa Fox to Fred Shepherd, October 1946

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Uffa Fox is a legendary boating character best known as a boat designer and builder. Websites uffafox.com and wikipedia provide good summaries of his life and achievements. An image of this letter is already included on this site. Unfortunately it is not the clearest of copies – so here is an easily-read plain text version, for easier digestion! Uffa Fox Yacht Designers & builders Medina Yard Cowes England Telephone: Cowes 555 Telegrams: “Uffa Fox, Cowes” 12th October, 1946 Fred Shepherd, Esq., M.I.N.A., Carn Brear, King’s Somborne, Hants. My dear Sir It was indeed a great pleasure to meet you again after all these years, and to see you looking so fit and well. I am under way with another book, and wonder what designs you have that you would like me to put in it. Could you turn this over in your mind, and then send them on to me? Prints will do us well, for, as you know, we trace all our plans up, to get a uniform style of plan throughout the book. A chapter I should very much like to write is: The Work of Fred Shepherd, through the past (say) 50 years, and wonder if you have a range of plans and thoughts that would paint this picture. The boat I have in mind to start the story is CORAL, which you designed and built in 1901, and I wonder if you have any of her plans about? It really does not matter if they are a bit tattered and torn, as we can stick them together and retrace them. Then, 40 years after, comes the AMOKURA, a most marvellous ocean racer; and I believe Moody’s are building one to your design this year. So in those three boats you spanned 45 years. Congratulations! I think this would make a marvellous chapter, and do hope and trust you can think this out; and possibly I could get in my car one fine day, drive up to see you, now you are so close, have a yarn, and look over your plans and thoughts, and return. Say Wednesday next, 16th? If I caught the 7.50 boat, I could be with you at 10 a.m., so we could have a couple of hours’ yarn, a bite of food, and I should return with a sheaf of plans immediately after lunch – or later, if you thought best. Hope this will fit with your ideas of things, and looking forward to meeting you again. Best wishes, Yours ever [Signed on behalf of] Uffa Fox P.S. I just have to dash off to London to a Y.R.A. meeting, we hope you will excuse my not signing this letter. A few suggestions:- CORAL 65 tons NEBULA 50 tons THANET 52 tons OTTER 19 tons (or SCOLOPAX 20 tons) AMOKURA and 1946 Moody boat &c., &c.,&c.

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1946: First yacht into Cherbourg after the 1939-45 war

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Recounted by James Harries, grandson of Sir Ernest Harston, who kindly got in touch through the contact page: “There is a story in the family about the first Cherbourg race after the 39-45 war. Sir Ernest claimed that they were first into Cherbourg and that they got a huge welcome as the first of any British yachts to enter the harbour. This was probably ’46 as I seem to recall Cherbourg harbour remained in an awful state until after the war, because of the bombing and fighting.” With thanks to James Harries for providing this information

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1947-69 Photos by ‘Beken of Cowes’

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These photographs were taken by Beken of Cowes, the renowned marine photographers. Click on any image to see a larger version. The first shows Amokura competing in the 1947 Cowes to Cherbourg race. The photograph was taken near Cowes on 23 May 1947. The race, which continues to the current day, is now run in late August or early September jointly by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) in association with the Yacht Club de Cherbourg and the Royal Yacht Squadron. Normally the race starts at 7pm on a Friday, allowing faster crews to aim for breakfast in Cherbourg on the Saturday morning and enjoy a full day there before evening celebrations! The race is normally the last in the RORC UK summer race series. The second and third pictures show Amokura off Cowes on 25 June 1949 and 21 July 1951, in both cases competing in the Morgan Cup which is a similar race to Cowes-Cherbourg. It now takes place annually in June. Every other year, when the challenging Fastnet Race takes place in August, the Morgan Cup is one of the key practice races in the run-up. The same yacht clubs organise the Morgan Cup as the Cowes-Cherbourg race, with the addition of the Royal Thames Yacht Club (RTYC) which – coincidentally – has Amokura included in its collection of wall-mounted half-model yachts. The final picture was taken on 23 June 1969 shortly after Amokura was acquired by Richard Carr. He took an early decision to re-rig her with shorter, aluminium masts replacing her original wooden rig and this photograph is believed to have been taken almost immediately after the rig was completed. The photograph, taken off Cowes, shows Amokura competing in the Cowes to Deauville race which continues to the current day, now organised by the Royal Southern Yacht Club, the Royal London Yacht Club, the Junior Offshore Group (JOG), RORC, Deauville Yacht Club and Yacht Club de France. The 2012 race took place in early June and marked its 50th anniversary. All photographs on this page are copyright Beken of Cowes, reproduced here with permission.

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Sail and rigging plan – hand coloured (1939)

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