Bringing to life an R Boat, the classic, 1926-built Ruweida V

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8:24 AM Fri 20 May 2011 GMT

'R Boats sailing in the late 1920&rsquo;s' .

'It's amazing how much more finished a boat looks once you put a deck on it.' It has been a long journey in Newport Rhode Island since it was decided to bring to life one of the International Yacht Restoration School's most treasured yachts, an R boat called Ruweida V, but this understatement by one of the students working on her says it all. So what is an R boat and why such a strange name and why are they so special? Ruweida V is a Burgess, Swasey & Paine (BS&P) designed ...

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