Lawley Motor Yacht 1918

Fred Lawley’s role as designer and specifier was no sinecure but based on a formal education and sound apprenticeship also as a builder. His yachts are noted for combining his thorough understanding of modern practice with careful attention to the detail of materials and sound methods of construction. Although few of his yachts achieved racing success, they were much admired for their beauty of line, excellence of finish, sea going qualities and comfort.

CARINA, formerly OLD GLORY, is one such lovely wooden motor yacht with beautiful lines culminating in a canoe transom with a graceful sweep. The interior is simple, largely original with elegant touches and fixtures. It is evident that CARINA has had significant upgrading in recent years, raising the bar, both structurally and cosmetically to her original glory.

Designed by Fred Lawley This yacht was built – without the present wheelhouse in 1918 by the famous family boat yard business founded by his grandfather George - by then in Dorchester, Massachussetts, for one LH Spaulding.
 
In 1923 she was sold to G.B Kimball, under whose ownership Nevins designed and built the current wheelhouse. She was sold on to Allan Hirsch 1925, Henry W Lloyd in 1926, and Robert N Bavier in 1930.
 
More happily after that flurry of ownerships, she was bought in 1939 by George P Bonell, one of the founders of the Cruising Club of America. Under his ownership for 40 plus years she ventured to Nova Scotia, twice to Greenland and south to Bermuda then to the Windward and Leeward Islands. When not on away trips, she apparently spent most of her time between New York, Nantucket and Boston.
 
In 1980 she was sold to Edgar B Caffrey and was Chesapeake Bay based, then sold on to William R Skinner in 1991, who raised a family aboard in the Newport to Boston area.

From the 1920s she was reportedly called OLD GLORY. Her present owner changed it to CARINA on buying her in 2006.
 
Some 75 % of  her structure and planking is original and her interior has been substantially retained save for making both heads bigger with some nice cabinetry / bulkhead rework very sympathetically and without detriment to her character The main mast is now deck stepped and shorter than original, all deck hatches and the windlass / hardware accord with the 1918 drawings.

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