Boat Register

Additional Build Notes

Current Owner
Current owner not known

Known Owners

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Initial RYA measurement – 22 July
Hull number – 3131
Hull weight – 160lb
Constructed mould 4

1st owner – Greshams School, Holt, Norfolk, Barton Broad SC
See F764

1st Prize at the Public Schools Championships, won by Mike Brown (NFA Life Member, F123 and F3456) & Jonny Clarke representing Greshams School,
The event hosted by Itchenor SC, September 1966. Firefly donated by Sir Richard Fairey and built as all varnished, Mark II layout.

The brass Fairey Marine builder’s plate notes the names of the helm and crew of the Gresham’s entry to win this Firefly

c2001 – Tim Thornton – Hamble River SC   Tim writes: “Sadly, no record of ownership between disposal by Greshams School, c1980 and acquisition by present owner. I bought the boat off someone else about 10 or 12 years ago – I think they sailed from Spinnaker.
It is said that Gresham’s named the Firefly after the nickname of the winning crew . . . .”

c2015 – Jonathan Howe, West Oxfordshire SC

July 2023 – advertised for sale, Farnham, renovated and rebuilt to Mark IV layout

History

NFA update July 2023

c2001 – Tim Thornton reports “I sailed from Hamble River SC for a couple of years, but then the boat began to need attention,
and over the last eight years I have been slowly doing a rebuild and Mark IV conversion.”