Huff of Arklow - Uffa Fox-designed yacht featuring a fin and skeg, stepped sheerline

HUFF OF ARKLOW's fin and skeg underwater profile configuration was received as a sensational yacht design in the early 1950s, especially upon her initial launch in the quaint and agricultural Irish town of Arklow, 70km south of Dublin, Ireland. The other major feature that makes her a perplexing sight is the stepped shear. This exceeds a foot’s difference between her deck and the lower, aft deck and cockpit. In post-war Ireland in the early 1950s, the boat builders at Jack Tyrrell’s yard in Arklow must have thought they were part of an experiment building such a boat. In 2014 she was awarded Heritage Lottery Funding in order for Cremyll Keelboats to restore her at Mashford’s boat yard, Torpoint – Cornwall. Before this came to completion, in August 2014, Classic Yacht TV caught some of the stages of her restoration on camera and in a separate visit, went sailing on board. This is film first published on Classic Yacht TV in 2014. Please excuse the quality – it is an old piece of work created to support Dominic and Barbara Bridgman restore and charter HUFF OF ARKLOW. http://www.classicyacht.tv/