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PHANTOM
Type/Class Sail > Dragon
Designer: Johan Anker
Builder: Morgan Giles Ltd
Year: 1960
Ship statusRegistered
Yard Number739
Original Sail NumberK342
Home PortFalmouth but now ashore for refurbishment
Known History
Built by Morgan Giles in 1960. Classic Dragon number 342.
Successful with the Torbay fleet in the 1960's
PHANTOM had been abandoned by it's owner on a farm near Ippelpen in Devon. Saved by Andrew Freeland she was repainted and put back in the water at St Just in Roseland and raced with the Falmouth fleet. Restored by Jim Benny of Pascoe's Boatyard raced again until 2004.
PHANTOM has now changed hands and has been taken on as a restoration project by Dominic Meech.
ConstructionClose-seamed strip-plank mahogany
LOA29.17ft (8.89 m)
LWL19.00 ft (5.79 m)
Beam6.42 ft (1.96 m)
Draft 3.92 ft (
Displacement3740 lb (1696 kg)
OwnerAndrew Freeland
Previous Ownership
1960 - P.Cullen. Torbay
1975 - C Wordsworth
1995 - Andrew Freeland. Falmouth
2025 - Dominic Meech. SW England
