Cooya | National Historic Ships

Registration number 2613

Status Registered

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Details

Function Leisure Craft

Subfunction Yacht

Location Rhu

Vessel type Yawl

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Web address http://www.cooya.org.uk/

Construction

Builder Aldous Ltd, Brightlingsea

Built in 1914

Rig Bermudan Yawl

Number of decks 1

Number of masts 2

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Length: Overall

40.30 feet (12.28m)

Breadth: Beam

11.50 feet (3.51m)

Depth

7.15 feet (2.18m)

Air Draft

55.00 feet (16.76m)

Tonnage: Gross

16.00

History

COOYA was built in 1914 as a topsail auxilliary gaff yawl by Aldous Ltd of Brightlingsea to a design by Linton Hope. She is constructed of Burma Teak on English Oak. Her current engine is a Perkins diesel model 704-30 installed in 2004.

In her long life COOYA has had seventeen owners, the first being Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish shipowner. During the 1930s she gained some reputation as a racing boat. During much of the Second World War she was laid up in a mud berth in the Hamble River and was cared for by Camper & Nicholsons. Post war she resumed her racing and cruising life.

With regular upgrading and maintenance the vessel remains in commission as an ocean going yacht and has sailed approximately 30,000 miles, visiting 30 countries on 5 continents in the last 10 years.

Key dates

1919
Sold to Alfred Henry John Hamilton RN of Dibden Manor, Hampshire
1914
Built as gaff yawl with Grays paraffin auxiliary motor by Aldous Ltd, Brightlingsea
1921
Sold to Captain Mellonie of Ipswich, Suffolk
1926
Sold to Mr David Christian Wardlaw of Leadenhall St, London
1927
Sold to Tom Hamilton Cockburn-Mercer of Folkstone, Kent
1933
Sold to Edmund Gore-Lloyd of Shepperton, Middlesex when she gained some reputation as a racing boat
1937
Sold to Guy de Courcy Glover of London
1938
Sold to George Beaumont Butler of Brentury, Bristol
1939
Sold to Camper & NicholsonsLtd of Gosport Hants
1942
Sold to George Edward Browne of Bourne End Bucks
1946
Sold to Edward Tyler of Chislehurst, Kent, where she again raced successfully winning the Janes Cup race from Medway Yacht Club to the Sandetti Lighthouse in 1952
1950s
Converted to Bermudian yawl with wheel steering and new teak coachroof forming deck saloon
1952
Her decks were fully fibreglassed, the first ever use of fibreglass on a yacht Edward Tyler founded the Tyler Boat Co, building the first ever fibreglass yacht, “Glass Slipper
1960
Sold to Percy and Barbara Foley of Salcombe, Devon
1965
Sold to William and Jane Carr of Downpatrick, N Ireland and moved to Strangford Loch
1970s
1950s coachroof strengthened and reduced in height and self draining cockpit fitted. Various other modifications for ocean sailing
1973
Sold to Colin Palmer and her present owner, Mike Yendell who took full ownership in 1976
2004
Major refit including new Perkins engine
2004
She carried out a 3,000 mile cruise from Scotland, around the Baltic before returning via the Kiel Canal
2005
Vessel sailed south to the Eastern Mediterranean, wintering in Antalya
2006
She cruised the Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Sea coasts of Turkey to Poti then to Yalta and Sevastopol to winter in Koilada, Greece