Classic Boat
Tom is a regular contributor to Classic Boat Magazine,
with eight recent front Covers. A host of other issues include his photography.
 
 


The photographs presented on this page are a mixture of previously unpublished photography and published photographs illustrating Classic Boat articles.
They are personal favourites, and also represent articles of interest to other
international magazines.

'Devonshire Cream'.
Published in Classic Boat No.102 December 1996. Cover: A tale of three yawls.

In the temperate airs and clear waters of Kingsbridge Estuary, one racing class reigns supreme. Patrick McKenna takes his hat off to a pretty West Country lass - the Salcombe Yawl - and meets a man who has long courted her.

Photography available:
Lots of action pictures, mellow downwind cruising, photographs with Yawl in the foreground and classic Salcombe architecture in the background.



'Partridge: Back among friends'.
Published in Classic Boat No.125 November 1998.Page 24.

  
Ten years ago Classic Boat published an article about a Camper & Nicholson Victorian cutter part-way through a remarkable restoration. Last summer the boat set sail again for the first time in eighty years. Owner Alex Liard explains what happened in between. Additional archive, restoration, model photography and words available from Alex, contact Tom Benn.

Additional photography available; detailed close up deck fittings and woodwork, interiors, preparing to set sail, lots of sailing photos, bow sprit and mast mount photography (see Sailing cover page).


'Schooled in the old way'
Published in Classic Boat No.107 May 1997. Page 56.

Traditional teaching methods, traditional boats, a beautiful West Country setting. Call her old-fashioned if you will, but Joan Bennett was delighted to find the nautical three Rs alive and well in Newton Ferrers.

Individual medium format and 35mm transparencies of all the schools traditional boats. Also photographs of the boats under sail in beautiful English scenery.



'Leader Homeward Bound'.
Published in Classic Boat No.119 May 1998.Page 20.

For ten years Brixham trawler Lorne Leader plied her trade in cold northern waters. Current owner Struan Cooper tells how he took her back to where her life began on the River Dart 100 years ago. Additional archive, restoration photography and words available from Struan, contact Tom Benn.

Other transparencies available: interiors, mast mount looking down on the deck, crew hoisting sails and more under sail.

email your request to: tom@bennphotos.co.uk
Call: Tom Benn on 00 44 (0)7970 974 102

 

'Drawn by her own fair hand'.
Published in Classic Boat. No 138. December 1999. Page 22.

Jo Moran's just finished building a 20-foot epoxy ply pocket cruiser to her own design. Unusual? Derek Toyne went to Falmouth to find out for himself.

Colour transparencies available include: boat to sailing photography - including lots of portrait pictures see animation, an on-board portrait of Jo, in build photography from Jo contact Tom Benn.

 

    

 

'Chasing Sunbeams'.
Published in Classic Boat. No 139. January 2000. Page 46.

When a family escapes the rat race to chase a rainbow, there's usually something good at the end of it. For the Graffys it was a Cornish boatyard and building a Sunbeam. Derek Toyne basks in reflected glory.

Colour transparencies available include: boat to boat sailing photography with close up action of the crew and the boat crashing through a choppy sea. A new Sunbeam is now under construction - in build shots would be available or get a new perspective using Tom's radio controlled camera for mast mounted camera action.

 

Classic Boat and Tall Ships Events
in the West of England this Year.

The photographs below have been taken at the events listed below over the last five years. This year's dates have been included should you want to visit these events or commission my services to photograph any of these fixtures for your publication or requirement.

Brixham Heritage Festival

27th April - 6th May 2000.

Our Boys features on the October 1997 cover of Classic Boat.

Photos from the 1997 event from left to right include White Heather, Leader, CS110 'Freda'.

  

Photographs available from Brixham include traditional working boats under blue skies in a steady breeze.


 

Falmouth and Plymouth Classics.

Falmouth Classics concludes a week of West Country Regattas that include:

Plymouth Classic Boat Rally
29th July - 1st August 2000

Fowey Classics
1st 3rd August 2000

Falmouth Classics
4th - 6th August 2000

Photos from Falmouth 1998 below include from left to right:- 'Laura', three small classics compete for line honours, Falmouth working boat in light airs and above right Greg Powsland's beautifully restored 'Collinette' at Plymouth Classics 1998.

 

Photographs available from Plymouth:- individual boats sailing in light airs, calm seas and sunny spells.
From Falmouth Classics:- a large fleet assembled and sailed under a perfect blue sky, light airs prevailed all day.
Photographs of individual boats and classes available.

 

Looe Luggers

Photos from the 1995 event, Dolly Pentreath graces the cover of the Boatman, right, and below from left to right, moments later Dolly Pentreath sailing into the distance. A dandy rigged Britannia built in 1906 and rebuilt recently in Porthleven. Right, a Cornish yawl.

 

  
Photographs available:- action photographs of most of the competitors sailing in blustery bright conditions. Some scenic images of the boats tied up alongside in Looe, Cornwall.

Tall Ships

Photos from Tall Ships, Weymouth 1994.
Aerials of the start of the 1994 race over the Eddystone Lighthouse.

Photographs available - aerials of the fleet under sail.

email your request to: tom@bennphotos.co.uk
Call: Tom Benn on 00 44 (0)7970 974 102


All pictures © Tom Benn 2000