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In response to Alden Smith’s comment to the previous blog, I’ve been searching for photos of ‘Barbican’. She was a yacht designed by Alan Buchanan for Bernard Hayman, who was the editor of Yachting World magazine. While surfing the Internet I came across two previous requests by Alden for photos, both made in March, 2003.* I only managed to find one. (See above)

During my search I found a number of facts about ‘Barbican’. She was a 32’ 2” LOA sloop with twin headsails, and she was built by Kings of Burnham in 1963. This 7 ton iroko planked, long keel yacht had a waterline length of 26’ 0” and a draught of 6’ 0”. She had a transom hung rudder. With 6’ 7” of headroom, two full-length quarter berths and two saloon wing berths she could comfortably accommodate a crew of four. To make her interior complete, she was equipped with a large chart table to starboard, a galley to port and, as was the custom at the time, a heads up forward. (In my opinion, not a good place, on account of the movement of the hull in anything of a seaway - not to mention the ‘inconvenience’ of getting to it!)

Bernard Hayman was a member of the Royal Burnham Yacht Club. Early in the season of 1971 he set off from his home mooring to sail ‘Barbican’ to Clyde Week for reporting on the racing. In a series of 200 mile ‘hops’ he took her up the east coast of England and Scotland to Inverness, then though the Caledonian and Crinan Canals to Helensburgh and the Royal Northern Yacht Club. After Clyde Week he headed south and called into Holyhead, Milford Haven, Plymouth and Portsmouth, later returning to Burnham.

He also sailed ‘Barbican’ to St Petersburg in the late 1970s when he and his crew became the first British yachtsmen to visit Russia since the close of the Second World War.

Note

If ‘Barbican’ has sister ships, they should not be confused with Barbican 30s designed by John Sharp and built by Barbican Yachts of Plymouth. Barbican Yachts also built the Barbican 33 by the same designer. The Barbican 33 Mk 2 was designed by Maurice Griffiths.  

*Recreational Boat Cruising (25.3.2003) Comment by Alden Smith - The Late Bernard Hayman

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.boats.cruising/8QsXcdmjh00 

*Sport Today (26.3.2003) Comment by Alden Smith - The Late Bernard Hayman

http://sporttoday.org/28_6f4904862002b98d_1.htm

Links

‘Barbican’

http://www.buchananownersassociation.org/Barbican.htm 

PDF Downloads of Articles about Barbican

http://marinedirectory.ybw.com/reprints/results_related.jsp?tem=ybw&id=11182 

By Sail and Steam to Clyde Week

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19710628&id=hOA9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=SEgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2849,5790212&hl=en 

Bernard Hayman - Yachting World Tribute

http://www.yachtingworld.com/news/bernard-hayman-48649 

Alan Buchanan RIP

http://www.classicboat.co.uk/news/alan-buchan-rip/ 

Barbican 30

http://www.yachtsnet.co.uk/archives/barbican-30/barbican-30.htm

Royal Burnham Yacht Club History (A few mentions of Bernard Hayman and ‘Barbican’)

http://www.rbyc.org.uk/history.asp

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Good result for Blink in the Summer/Alan Martin Series - 1st on Line, PHRF, and Club handicaps.

Thats the fabulous Shirley Martin in the middle holding the trophy for the series win on PHRF - the Alan Martin Series is named after her late husband,  a leader in Wellington yachting and RPNYC for many years.  

Other notable figures in this pic: Daryl Wislangs daughter being held by Daryl, Crew Boss Craig Shearer holding his granddaughter and her mother Jordan in the foreground, and new recruit (in camo) Jason Hurdles son being held by Pete Delaney from the Blink Mainsheet Department.  Then theres Kimmy behind Janet (holding the general handicap trophy) and Vesna next to a guy with lots of Husband Points.

Gordie McDougall and Dr George are regular crew that raced with us in this series, theyre missing from this pic because they couldnt sail on the last day.

True to form, Wellington didnt let us down with plenty of wind.  

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