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Hunter Boats Limited is a British boat builder presently based in Southampton. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of glassfibre sailboats. [1] [2] The company was founded by in 1969 by Michael Polard, as the Essex Boat Company. In 2009 it became a brand of Lauren Marine of Southampton under the name British Hunter. [1] [2]
In Europe, the Roman legions popularized short hair for free citizens, especially the close-cropped Caesar cut associated to this day with statues of Tiberius Julius Caesar. The 9th-century Islamic trend-setter Ziryab is said to have popularized a shorter male hairstyle in Cordoba , with bangs down to the eyebrows and straight across the ...
The Phantom is a recreational sailboat, with the hull built predominantly of a fibreglass foam sandwich laminate. The hull has hard chines and a deep V-shaped bow to promote planing . It has a stayed mast, typically made from carbon fibre along with the boom .
The Valiant 40 was one of the first Sailboats designed by naval architect Robert Perry, it was introduced in 1973. [1] The boat is configured as a rear cockpit double-ender, cutter rigged monohull. The boat's design was considered revolutionary at that time by bringing aspects of racing design into open ocean cruising yachts which up to then ...
The Morgan 41 designed by Morgan, his most popular design, became a standard in the sailing charter industry for its strength, simplicity, and space belowdecks. In response to customer feedback while operating Morgan Yacht, Morgan designed the shallow draft Morgan Out Island 41, "the most popular boat over 40 feet overall ever built."
The Columbia 40 is an American sailboat that was designed by Charles Morgan as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1964. [1] [2] [3]The design was based upon Morgan's Sabre, a one-off racing boat that was successful in competition, winning Class C 1964 Southern Ocean Racing Circuit (SORC) and second place overall.
Yacht Eos moored in Dartmouth, UK, February 2008 Eos at the Lürssen shipyard. Eos is a three-masted Bermuda-rigged schooner.The ship is one of the largest private sailing yachts in the world, and as of 2009 was owned by movie and media billionaire Barry Diller, [3] husband of fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg.
Bristol-built boats had high bulwarks of between 1 foot 6 inches (0.46 m) and 2 feet (0.61 m), with a removable section through which a white-painted clinker-built rowing punt of 13 feet (4.0 m) could easily be put over the side. Punts were painted white to allow them to be seen at night, and traditionally stored on the cutter's port-side.