Boat Register

Additional Build Notes
Built year (approx), GRP Hull, Composite, Probably Craft Mouldings Limited, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucester, Fitted out by Vic Lewis Boats, Birmingham, Staffordshire

Current Owner
Present owner not known

Known Owners

1st owner – WH Walsh, Chase SC and Midland SC, named “Pollyanne”

1982 – Mike and Penny Collyer, Upper Thames, named “Phoebe”

January 2013 – George Rogers, Tollesbury SC.

George Rogers reports “Hull moulded 1980, decks probably completed by original owner W.H.Walsh (Chase SC and Midland SC). Name ‘Pollyanne’. Purchased by Mr Mike and Mrs Penny Collyer of Bourne End in 1982 and sailed at Upper Thames SC. Renamed ‘Phoebe’ she was sailed and raced successfully by their son Jeremy Collyer who sold me the boat in January 2013. ‘Phoebe’ had been dry stored for 20 years but is now regularly sailing again in the Blackwater estuary, Essex. (See F2302 and F1809) As an experiment, I installed built in plywood side tanks in the style of a Mark I wooden hull, grp tank moulded in hull under foredeck, conventional buoyancy bags either side at stern ”

c2014 – subsequently sold to Cheshire, River Dee owner.

July 2024 – advertised for sale, Chichester

History

nfa July 2024

She will have been raced through the 1980s by the Collyer family at Upper Thames SC and on the class open meeting circuit.