Designed as a "home on the wave"

In 1946 Sir Phillip Weyland Bowyer-Smyth, 14th Baronet of Hill Hall a distinguished Royal Navy officer and aide-de-camp to King George VI approached a then retired Frederick “Fred” Shepherd to design and supervise the build of a short-handed auxiliary sailing vessel for three people to live aboard.

 

This was to be Fred Shepherds last design.

 

Sir Phillip presumably named her Glaramara after the land of his ancestors.

 

 Fred Shepherd, accepted the commission and presided over her construction at A.H Moody and Son at Bursledon

 

According to oral history a few years after her build (around 1952) Sir Phillip was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. His doctor forbade him from spending time at sea. She was then sold to Professor Stratis Andreadis who used it as his cruising and racing yacht throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s. 

 

In 1983 he secretly sold her to the builder of his son’s world championship winning yacht, Atalanti II, the Australian Chris O’Nial. 

 

His son George Andreadis bought it back in the early 90’s. 

 

She was then extensively refitted. 

 

Since 2011 she has returned to her home port of Mounichia in the Piraeus and races annually in the Spetses Classic Yacht Regatta. 

 

In 2024 she passed into the hands of George’s son, Stratis Andreadis. 

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