Picotee
II is a 28ft Maurice Griffiths designed cutter, built by Seacraft, Leigh on Sea in 1949. Surveyed in 1985 as a Lone Gull Bermudian Centreboard Sloop – she has carvel Honduras mahogany planks on sawn oak frames, a 1 ton external keel and 0.5 ton of nternal ballast. She spent her early years in Essex before moving to Inverness in ’87, Dumbarton in ’94, Dawlish in ’97 and Ramsgate in 2008. She was then converted to a gaff cutter in 2011, with sitka spruce mast, Douglas fir boom, with Douglas fir gaff and bowsprit. Her final move to Cornwall was in ’21. Owned by Tim Price and based on the Helford.