Classic glass: Twister 28 Mk II surveyed and ready for a new owner

It's been a busy time, completing my editing job on the new Adlard Coles title on the care and maintenance of wooden boats (more on this later), helping with the 20-year anniversary issue of the Journal of the Association of Yachting Historians, and keeping up with the good ship Classic Boat, where I'm still working about two days a week. There was time, however, to squeeze in a pre-purcahse survey of a nice, 1980-built Twister 28, which for those who don't know it, is the glass version of Kim Holman's most popular yacht – the all-timber Twister, designed in 1963, the year of the twist dance craze and the number-one hit Twist and Shout from The Beatles. These glass boats, moulded by Tyler Boat Co in Kent, have a reputation for dryness, and aside from a wet rudder (pretty standard on old GRP boats) Lissanna was no exception. I am happy to re-survey for half the usual price if anyone is interested in owning a small, beautiful, essentially very sound, ocean-going, long-keeled sloop.

It's a privelege to work on such lovely old boats, and the joy continues, with a full-codition survey of a 1968 Nicholson 32 coming up next.

Lisanna is on the hard at Lochin Marine in Newhaven and asking £18,000. See ad here and learn more about the Twister class by visiting the class association here.