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The UK IOD fleet began on England's east coast just before the Second World War at the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, Burnham-on-Crouch, and when the RCYC opened a "southern" clubhouse at Cowes in 1948 the class regrouped and flourished there through the 1950s and 60s.

MITZI was one of the last boats commissioned from Bjarne Aas for the by then c.20-strong Cowes fleet in 1958 by Air Vice Marshall John Grandy, and owned by him until 1961, probably during a period when he was more UK based than in the 1950s, and would be through the 1960s en-route to becoming Marshall of the Royal Air Force, Sir John Grandy, one or the leaders in the management of the Cold War. In 1961 her ownership at Cowes passed to UK-based Dane, Hans Heyman.

Under the ownership of Harry Holmes, in 1969 MITZI became the second boat to move north to the Royal Forth Yacht Club at Granton near Edinburgh where the UK fleet became established through the 1970s and into the early 1980s, afterwards splitting between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde and eventually strongest on the Clyde, culminating in the World Championships at Royal Northern & Clyde YC in 1990 and 1998. MITZI participated in all six Scottish-based IOD Worlds between 1975 and 1998. She was a west coast boat from 1987, still owned by Harry Holmes with Charles Connor and K. Maclintosh, followed by Campbell McAuley from 1994.

The Clyde fleet declined after the 1990 Worlds with many of the remaining active IODs gradually returning south, to St. Mawes in Cornwall where a small fleet of these gorgeous yachts has been active through the early years of the 21st Century.

- Scottish Fleet Champion 1997 and 1999
- Participated in the Worlds at Royal Forth YC: 1975, 1979, 1984
- Participated in the Worlds at Royal Northern & Clyde YC: 1990 & 1998

In present ownership, MITZI has placed in the top 3 in the Classics Class at all events attended with several line honours and first places on corrected time.

©2024 Iain McAllister/ Sandeman Yacht Company Ltd.

Condition

Restoration & Refit Overview

- Professionally maintained since 2003
- More recently at Fox's Boatyard, Suffolk
- Earlier by Silvers Marine, Mylor Yacht Harbour, and Falmouth Boat Construction
- Stored inside or under cover out of season
- Regular annual scheduled maintenance programme
- Regularly surveyed under previous ownership by surveyor David Cox
- All refit work done (2020 inclusive) in accordance with his advice and recommendations
- In current ownership inspected annually by a very experienced local shipwright
- Maintenance programme has followed his advice

2021- 2024 FALMOUTH BOAT CONSTRUCTION & FOX’S MARINA, IPSWICH
- Inside of the cockpit repainted and revarnished (2023)
- All varnish stripped back and redone above the hull in Awlwood (2023)
- Cabin roof/ sliding hatch and sides & all other external wood stripped and revarnished
- 2 Separate new bilge pumps, hoses and battery (2023)
- Area aft of the mast re-varnished and painted (2023)
- New teak grating inside (2023)
- New Andersen 28ST self-tailing stainless steel winch main and jib halyards (2022)
- Complete paint job by Fox’s incl. complete removal of all antifoul and re-finish (2022)
- Varnish, topside painting and antifouling (Spring 2021)
- Standing rigging replaced, incl. Ronstan calibrated bottlescrews (2021)
- Running rigging replaced with dyneema cordage and dyneema backstay (2021)
- New sails - details below (2022)
- New covers - details below (2022)
- New road trailer - details below (2022)

2016-2020 FALMOUTH BOAT CONSTRUCTION, CORNWALL
- Varnish, topsides paint and anti-fouling done spring 2020
- All external varnish wooded and re-finished with Awlwood system
- Featured in Classic Boat magazine – 'Around The Yards' (2016)
- Shown at Jersey Boat Show (2017)

2008 MYLOR YACHT HARBOUR, CORNWALL
Restoration and refit including:
- Replaced timbers in laminated
- Replaced floors where necessary
- Refastened frames to floors
- Replaced the stern post
- New deadwood bolts
- Replaced aft knee
- Replaced lower planking to a line meeting top of the stern post
- Ballast keel removed and skimmed and new keel bolts fitted
- New internal angle polished stainless chain plates and stays to spread loads

2003 SILVERS MARINE, ROSNEATH, SCOTLAND
Restoration and refit including:
- Replaced timbers with new steamed timbers
- Replaced frames with new laminated frames
- Replaced short mast step with new longer mast step to distribute compression
- New main bulkhead
- New deck beams
- New composite deck: 9mm plywood subdeck; laid teak overlay
- New full depth covering boards and king planks
- Re-fitted floors with new fastenings
- Renewed plank fastenings

Other Information

International One Design (IOD) Class

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Description

By any standard the International One Design class - conceived in 1935 by Cornelius “Corny” Shields and brought to life by Norwegian yacht designer and master boat builder Bjarne Aas - has been a huge and international success. By the class’s 75th anniversary in 2012, at least 235 of these beautiful thoroughbreds had been built for fleets in Norway, Sweden, UK, Bermuda, USA and Canada. The British fleet has circulated mostly anticlockwise since 1939: at Burnham-on Crouch, then Cowes, then on the Forth and on the Clyde in Scotland, and more recently in Cornwall where MITZI was based 2005-2021. In current ownership MITZI completed the circumnavigation and is now based in Suffolk. Since 2003 she has arguably received the best professional care of any UK IOD in recent years, including major structural work in 2008, and now may be unique in having her own road-legal trailer. MITZI is ready to go: in fleet; as an incredibly economic, well-proven handicap racer; or as a delightful weekender easily sailed by two people – always with the IOD’s renowned speed, seaworthiness, and of course beauty.

 

Website

https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/734/bjarne-aas-international-one-design-gbr-17-19582008

Specifications
  • Year
    1958
  • Designer
    Bjarne Aas
  • Builder
    Bjarne Aas, Fredrikstad, Norway
  • Type of Rig
    Sloop
  • Sail Type
    Bermudan
  • Keel Type
    Traditional Long keel
Measurement
  • Overall Length
    10.16 metres
  • Length on Waterline
    6.33 metres
  • Beam
    2.06 metres
  • Draft
    1.63 metres
Construction

- Carvel Douglas fir on oak frames and timbers
- Raw teak laid deck on marine ply sub deck
- Mahogany covering boards, king planks and cockpit coaming
- Mahogany and ply/ laid teak coachroof

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