The team at Stride Engineering in the UK port of Brixham have produced what the customer wanted; an innovative deck layout on a Eurocutter that makes it possible to go from scalloping to beaming in a one-day turnaround.
Graham Perkes recently replaced the third Sacha Emiel (built in 1991), now sold to Newlyn as the Karen N, bringing in a newer boat, built at Visser in 1999, for skipper Gary Smith and crew Patrick Birley, Harry Lowe, Jay Holden and Connor McLachlan to alternate scalloping and beaming.
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