The Giant Killing “Little Blue Maxi” is tearing up the town!

Following her giant killing performance in the Fremantle to Geraldton Yacht Race and more recently IRC dominance in the Coventry Reef race, the Bakewell-White designed 11m Alfresco has set the bar talk alight in Western Australia where the hot little twilight racer has been dubbed the “Little Blue Maxi”.

 
Lahana takes line honours in the Bird Island Race

Peter Millard and John Honan’s 98ft maxi Lahana has won line honours in the 85 nautical mile Bird Island race early on Saturday morning in a race time of 9 hours, 38 mins and 37 secs, outside of race record time.  Peter Millard and John Honan’s 98ft maxi Lahana has won line honours in the 85 nautical mile Bird Island race early on Saturday morning in a race time of 9 hours, 38 mins and 37 secs, outside of race record time. 

 
Supermaxi Returns to the Race Circuit

The Bakewell-White designed 30m supermaxi Zana has been purchased by an Australian family and she recently has made her debut return to the race circuit as “LAHANA” . The name is a combination of daughters names and roughly translates from Hawaiian as “A day at the office”.

 
Construction Continues on New Cruising Yacht

A major milestone was reached this week with the turning over of our new 48ft pilothouse cruising yacht “FUSE”. Being built in Raglan, south of Auckland this is an exciting boat that utilizes modern keel technology of both a lifting and canting ballast keel. This gives the boat the advantage of shallow draft for accessing safe harbor and limited draft areas whilst still maintaining Grand Prix performance with the massive power of the canting ballast keel.

 
Tornado Receives Superstructure

Bakewell-White Yacht Design have been working on the refit of a Teknicraft catamaran to transform her from her former life as a high speed tourist boat into a high speed gulf fishing boat for the boys.

 
Latest Mini 650 Takes Shape

Our latest mini 650 design is taking shape in Brisbane, Australia. Designed for Australian Scott Cavanough’s “Skippy Challenge” the boat is a full carbon infused boat and utilizes our latest thinking in terms of hull chines, spray strakes and water ballasting combined with canting keel. The boat is a development of our previously successful ‘Pirate’ design for Chris Sayer and Liz Wardley.

 
Lahana takes line honours in the Bird Island Race

Peter Millard and John Honan’s 98ft maxi Lahana has won line honours in the 85 nautical mile Bird Island race early on Saturday morning in a race time of 9 hours, 38 mins and 37 secs, outside of race record time.  Peter Millard and John Honan’s 98ft maxi Lahana has won line honours in the 85 nautical mile Bird Island race early on Saturday morning in a race time of 9 hours, 38 mins and 37 secs, outside of race record time.