Emily of Cowes

Emily is a twin ruddered 45 foot Rob Humphreys design launched in 2008.

She was ahead of her time.
Under the IRC handicap system she gets the age allowance of a 20 year old boat, but flies like the latest designs.

She runs down the trades effortlessly under twin running headsails.

And sometimes we catch fish

In light conditions deep downwind we turbocharge her with a poled out kite. Richard pimped Emily for oceans with a 6m carbon pole from a Class 40.

Racing inshore we project the spinnakers forward using a carbon bowsprit. Our upwind sails are the best 3di from North.

Emily of Cowes has an IRC rating of 1039.
This is why Eddie Jordan bought her sistership 😉

She races with up to 13 crew

A tardis like 45 footer. 10 berths. New covers for 2027

Satellite communications. Solar powered 🌞

Two fridges, two sinks and two heads
And we make fresh water from sea water

Why Emily?

This piece by Hallberg Rassy explains well why you might want to choose Emily of Cowes over a standard single ruddered cruiser racer:

In 2007, whilst doing research for a Volvo 70 project at the Wolfson Institute, Rob Humphreys came up with the design for a very special Elan which was years ahead of its time. Thanks to the financial crisis, it took other manufacturers a decade to catch on which eventually happened with the 2016 HR 44, 2019 Swan 48 and the 2022 First 44. Richard skippered a twin ruddered 3600 in the 2017 Fastnet and had a similar epiphany realising that two rudders was the only way forward for offshore cruisers racers. 😉