Lot 419: Régates Royales, Cannes, 2006: Lulworth racing in light airs against Altair , Mariquita , Cambria , Orion and Moonbeam

Jamie Medlin (b.1970) Régates Royales, Cannes, 2006: Lulworth racing in light airs against Altair , Mariquita , Cambria , Orion and Moonbeam signed 'Jamie Medlin' (lower right) oil on canvas 12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.8 cm.)

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Lulworth was designed and built by White Bros. at Itchen in 1920 for Mr. R.H. Lee of Bovey Tracey, Devon. Originally christened Terpsichore and rigged as a cutter, she was registered at 123 tons gross (111½ net and 186 Thames) and measured 95½ feet in length with a 22 foot beam. Purchased by Sir A. Mortimer Singer - the immensely wealthy naturalised British son of the American inventor of the sewing machine - after Lee's death in 1924, Singer renamed her Lulworth, a name she retained after being purchased by Alexander Paton in 1928. A splendid boat from the start, she nevertheless came into her own under Paton's colours and became a familiar and successful competitor at Cowes during the final years of King George V's long patronage. Ironically, Britannia (the King's yacht) and Lulworth were both laid up after the 1935 Season, the former never to sail again due to the King's death in January 1936, the latter for sale to Mr. Carl Bendix who kept her until the Second World War. Somehow surviving hostilities, she was refitted after the War and is still afloat and sailing competitively despite numerous changes of ownership.