Classic Yachts at Les Régates Royales — Canvas Print, Framed
Model details
- Collection
- Amazing Ship Paintings
- Item no.
- AF09S
Mariquita, Moonbeam and Cambria racing at Cannes — three restored classics of the great years of yacht design, on one canvas.
Specification
- Printed on canvas
- Stretched and mounted on a wooden frame
- Consistent reproduction
- Arrives ready to hang
The yachts
Mariquita is a 19-metre gaff cutter built by Fife in 1911, one of only four ever made to that rule and the only survivor. She was found derelict in a mud berth in Cornwall in the 1990s and rebuilt over five years.
Moonbeam and Cambria are also Fife boats — William Fife III designed yachts on the Clyde that are still regarded as the most beautiful ever drawn, and his boats are recognisable by the gilded dragon carved at the bow.
The regatta
Les Régates Royales has been held at Cannes since 1929. It is now one of the principal events of the classic yacht calendar, and the sight of these hulls racing together is the reason people restore them at all — a Fife cutter under sail is not a museum piece, it is the boat doing what it was built to do.