The Heritage
"The Legend Rekindled"
The most sought-after power boat of the 1960s was undoubtedly the Fairey Boat. A list of owners sounds like a who's who of one of the most exciting and innovative decades of British design – Sir Max and Lady Violet Aitken, Tommy Sopwith, actress Deborah Kerr, bandleader Billy Cotton and many others all owned at least one. And a number of Fairey boats featured in the James Bond film "From Russia With Love".
Fairey boats combined comfort with spacious accommodation; a renowned seaworthiness with handling qualities second to none; and delivered performance, courtesy of the deep-V planing hull, such that the cruiser classes of numerous Cowes-Torquay and London-Monte Carlo races were successfully campaigned by Fairey boats.
Fairey Marine's designer was Alan Burnard, and today it is one of his designs, the Dagger – proven in military use and as a police boat – that forms the basis of Swordman Marine's boats.