This is the Second Edition of a book which set out to tell the story of the famous Pipers – a One Design Class which originated in the 1960s on the Clyde, and its impressive designer David Boyd. The new edition opens up the story some with more of Boyd’s significent designs, though without losing the information and stories of the original edition. The Piper was Boyd’s only OD – though he had a 60 year career of designing yachts.
The Pipers were and are beautiful yachts to sail and own and the book is a social record as well with well-told anecdotes from their sailors – especially in the era of yachting’s democratisation when it became a more normal aspiration, to own a boat.
The Piper is a day boat and after three fleets were established in Scotland Cornish Crabbers took a mould and produced a few in the early 2000s before the moulds were bought by Rustler yachts which produce a competitive version known as the Rustler 24. DH
Pub 2016, 513 pp, £14.99 on Amazon.co.uk – HERE