Octavia leading Mariquita in the Solent off Cowes - 19-metre Class, 1911

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Martyn Richardson Mackrill (b.1962)
Octavia leading Mariquita in the Solent off Cowes - 19-metre Class, 1911
signed 'Martyn R Mackrill.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 x 42 in. (71.2 x 106.8 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Octavia was a composite cutter designed by A. Mylne of Glasgow and built by R. McAlister at Dumbarton in 1911. Registered at 98 tons gross (54½ net), she measured 80 feet in length with a 17 foot beam, and carried an international rating of 19-metres. Initially owned by Mr. W.P. Burton of Edgehill, Ipswich, he only kept her until 1913 when she was sold to Count v. Tiele-Winckler. Renamed Wendula, she was thereafter kept at Kiel until passing into Swedish ownership after the Great War.

Mariquita was another 19-metre composite cutter of 1911, designed and built for Mr. A.K. Stothert of Kensington by W. Fife & Son at Fairlie. Registered at 100 tons gross (60 net), she measured 82 feet in length with a 17 foot beam and was more than evenly matched with Octavia when they competed against each other in their maiden season.

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