From the outside this is an elegant full-length trad-style boat, but step inside and you find an interior full of ideas and innovations, with at its heart the most traditional of Kelvin diesels

Main Picture - looking aft through the saloon

"Here's my engine - now build me a boat to put it in".

Now that's a challenge that no self-respecting company is going to refuse, and Fernwood Craft took it on with alacrity. This young company has been in business for just four years, and during that time their output has been boats with more or less standard interiors. But with Samuel Charles Esq they were given a blank sheet of paper, with no pre-conceived ideas as to how it would evolve. The result is a vessel that looks conventional on the outside, but whose interior rewrites the design manual.