'Summer Cloud' at Antigua Classics 2003

Summer Cloud (built 1995) is another working style boat rigged and used for racing and live aboard cruising. Her owner is racing her single handed at the beginning of the 2001 Antigua Classics. Very stretching seamanship too, the thirty nine foot boat (13m) normally sails with a crew of five or more. She is racing against dedicated yachts of about the same size also racing single handed. Although very fast for a working style boat she did not win that day, but went on to score highly in her class in the rest of the fully crewed Antigua Classics.

The boat comes from the leeward island of Carriacou about two hundred miles south of the windward Island Antigua. The sloop was built by Zepharine Mclaren, who derives from a Scottish ancestry and now has a Caribbean name to conjour with. The boat is mainly built from Carriacou cedar and Honduras pine. They were originally built for long line fishing from Carriacou. Now they are prized as inexpensive bespoke yachts.

By the way the second person visible onboard is a passenger, required by the rules of the single handed race. The passenger cannot assist at all.

'Summer Cloud' is available in three sizes. Do buy one to remind you of Antigua.