The life of N18 Phoenix. Design: Barnt Green One Design, designed by: Peter Brett
Database updated with boat details following post of 19 May 2008
with further update following posts of 23, 24 & 28 August 2012
Information from Ken Goddard
The NTOA first became aware of N.18 when her owner, Sam Llewellyn contacted Janet Bloor in November 2005 and the letter was passed to me (as then Vintage Wing Rep.) for information. By chance, at the same time, there was an article in the Daily Telegraph Travel Supplement from a Sam Llewellyn, about boating on Lake Titicaca in South America. The owners name is not too common so I played a hunch and asked Sam Llewellyn if he was the same person - and he was!
It turns out that N.18 is in the roof of a barn on Mr. Llewellyn's farm in Herefordshire and needs a little attention. The boat was apparently owned for a long time by a housemaster at Eton, and it is to the Uffa King design.
Members will note that the boat is not named in the NTOA Handbook. I suggested to Mr Llewellyn that as a number of early birds are named after birds, that he might like to give N.18 the name of some South American bird, watched on his travels. He said no, but instead came back with the name of a different sort of bird - "Phoenix". I suggest that this is recorded in the class records.
Ken Goddard, N.2300, May 2008
Here are some photographs taken by Sam Llewellyn of N18 stored in the rafters of his barn. The first two pictures I have inverted so one gets the impression of N18 "right-side-up"..
N18 carved into the inside of the transom. (note Xmas lights!)
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Talking to Brian Herring who has studied the photos he is of the opinion that the hull shape (note transom shape in first picture) and number of planks (12) would likely make N18 a Barnt Green OD and not an Uffa King.
I agree with Brian Herring. N.18 is not an Uffa King, but probably a Barnt Green One Design. The relatively blunt bow also confirms this opinion.
Ken Goddard