Classic Boat magazine has announced the Spirit 50CR (cruiser racer) has won the Spirit of Tradition over 40ft category in the magazine’s annual awards. Voted for by Classic Boat readers and the wider public, the awards celebrate the best new builds, restorations and people in the industry.

Everywhere you look in Spirit Yachts’ multi-faceted, waterside yard in Ipswich there is a project underway.

In late November, as the rest of us started thinking about Christmas, Spirit DH63 Gwenhyfar and her crew of five Guernsey-men (Peter, Simon, Jan, David and Tim) were preparing to race in the 2019 Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC).

The Spirit 50CR has been shortlisted by a panel of judges in the Spirit of Tradition over 40ft category in this year’s Classic Boat magazine awards.

Follow Spirit DH63 Gwenhyfar on her longest voyage to date from her home in the Channel Islands to the Caribbean

The 34m Spirit 111 is one of the largest, single-masted wooden yachts ever built in the UK