Rodney W. Paul & H.G. May 32 ft Berthon 8 Ton Gauntlet 1937/2011 1937 MITTEN

32 ft Berthon 8 Ton Gauntlet 1937/2011

Typically of all the characterful, thoroughly English in style, canoe-sterned Gauntlet Class yachts built by Berthon of Lymington from the mid-1930s, MITTEN has had many suitors; it’s hard not to fall in love with their undoubted aesthetic and practical charms - and abilities. MITTEN’s early list of owners reads like a who’s who of British industry; then, over the past half century and more blessed with custodians prepared to invest in her future without compromising authenticity; doing the right thing by her structure and, equally importantly, using her. For much of her life in present ownership, after a major refit by her original builder, MITTEN was wafted and seasoned by the salty Western Mediterranean air: cruising the Tyrrhenian Sea and appearing at the occasional classic regatta - like an English country cottage time machine teleported to Tuscany. Recently she returned to the old home waters of the English Channel that she of course knows by heart.