Name Halloween

HALLOWEEN W as she was named, was launched in 1925, the 11th of her class to be built by the Berthon Boat Company. The "W" after her name was probably to differentiate her from the equally elegant but much larger Fife yacht of the same name! It is believed that her home port was Brixham from the start, one of a fleet of West Solents that sailed and raced in Torbay.

 In 1939 she was in Cornwall (Polruan) and changed hands, to be sailed home to Torquay. This was learned from an article in "Yachting Monthly" November 1941 entitled "Home with Halloween ". The new owner describes her as an "ex racer" and from the photo in the article it appears that her rig has been somewhat cut down but no evidence yet of the coach roof and engine that came to blight her later. The article charmingly describes the voyage made in April 1939. It ends with the words "We did not know then what fate had in store for us - or how soon we would be looking back to that day as if from another world." We expect she spent the war years tucked away in some creek or mud berth... She did not relinquish her keel as many did. HALLOWEEN found her way to the East Coast in the seventies it is believed. 

The coach roof almost certainly was a fifties addition. A 4 HP Stuart Turner and a Baby Blake crept in too. In the late 1980s she was found at Pin Mill in Suffolk to say the least, in a sorry state. She was completely restored by Fabian Bush and Jamie Clay for A Mulville and raced for many years before being sold to the South coast in 2018. She was bought by her current owners in 2024, moved to Faversham where they are restoring her.