History
 

From a biography of Sir Reginald Bennett:  "Bennett's great love was yachting. At Oxford, he won a Blue for sailing each year from 1931 until 1934, a year when he raced for Britain against Germany in dinghies at the Kiel Regatta and won the City of Hamburg Cup. He was then helmsman on Sir Richard Fairey's J-Class yacht Shamrock V in the races against America in 1934-35, and was reserve for the 1936 Olympic yachting crew; he would have gone to the 1940 Olympics but for the war. From 1936 to 1938 he raced in the 12-metre yacht Evaine, and was later a member of the British-American Cup team in 1949 and 1953 and the winner of many other races, including the Public Schools' Trophy in 1967. Through sailing he became a friend of Prince Philip's. Both were members of the Thursday Club, the unrepentantly masculine lunch club that met above Wheelers Restaurant, Soho, in the 1950s. Bennett later invited the Prince to join the Imperial Poona Yacht Club, a convivial and select institution founded by Bennett as an undergraduate in the 1930s. Each year the club challenges current Oxford undergraduates to a backwards-sailing race down the Thames. The club's motto is Chhota hazri, or "Good health" in Hindustani. The epicure Bennett translated it as: There is nothing worse than a continental breakfast."

   Specifications

    Construction: Camper & Nicholson
    Design: Charles Nicholson
    Year: 1936
    Material: Wood
    Sail number: 12 K 2
    Length overall: 21.40 m
    Length in the water line: 13.92 m
    Beam max: 3.60 m
    Draft max 2.72 m
    Sail area: 186 sqm
 

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