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    ME & MY BOAT

    Feb 03, 2022 8 minutes

    Rachael Sprot, former director of Rubicon 3, is a yachtmaster instructor with an impressive number of sea miles logged, from Lofoten to St Lucia and beyond

    Bennie Mallet bought her Victoria 30, Rowan, in 2018 with plans to sail her offshore. The retired GP mainly sails out of Plymouth with her daughter, Fiona, or her dog, Bracken. She plans to explore Biscay and circumnavigate the UK

    VICTORIA 30

    The Victoria 30 is a small boat with big ambitions: a pocket cruiser that’s fun to sail and pretty to boot. Is she Queen Victoria or just a pretender to the throne? Rachael Sprot finds out…

    If you can measure the success of a boat by the strength of its owners’ associations, then Victoria yachts are right up there. Their devoted following spans the Atlantic, and boasts an active Facebook page that Chuck Paine, the designer himself, keeps up to date. On this side of the pond the Victoria 34 is highly regarded. It’s the training boat of choice for the Joint Services training centre which owns 15 of them. However, the Victoria 30s are less well known and there were only 50 or so made. I hadn’t heard of them until I was invited to sail a few months ago by owner Bennie Mallet, but it’s the

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