INTRODUCTION
Ena was built between 1936 and 1938 by Gordon Beattie’s Boatyard in Balmain Sydney. ENA originally a ketch was designed by then up and coming marine architect and “Brilliant Young Methodist” Cecil Edwin Boden who had obtained a Degree in Marine Architecture at Glasgow University Scotland the home of the worlds most distinguished yacht designers including William Fife and George Watson. This influence is evident in both ARCHINA and ENA.
Cecil Edwin Boden was the driving force behind the first Sydney Aquatic Show held in 1932 where his designs were on display! Later in 1933, Cecil Boden had designed ARCHINA, built by James Hayes and Sons for Jim Howie. ARCHINA competed in the first Sydney to Hobart yacht race and has since been restored to sail again in the Sydney to Hobart races, her most recent one in 2022 I have an article from the Rudder Magazine which discusses the Gloucester Sloop Ena has many of their charactoristics.
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Above the waterline she has the character of the Alden Malabar 13; however below the waterline she has a long deadwood keel reminiscent of the pearling lugger. I have a photograph of her careened in the creek at Percy Island alongside the pearling lugger Ruby Charlotte, the under water profiles are very similar. Lloyds Register of Yachts 1953 lists her designer as C Boton, a misprint, as Design 12 by Cecil Boden(Archina II) is very similar.
 Archina II
 Archina II
Ena II is of carvel construction built from 1 1/2" spotted gum below the waterline and brown gum topsides. She has traditional oakum caulking. She carries a lead keel and a considerable amount of lead ballast under the floors. I understand now this is a common feature to the Gloscester fishing sloops. When we bought her she still had a wooden shaft to the rudder hanging in a trunk packed with tallow and pitch. Many a Ship Wright has commented upon her sturdy form and enduring condition.
Originally she was a gaff rigged by Harry West as a ketch which I believe was altered after the 2nd World War to a gaff rigged schooner. This must have been changed again in the 60s as the current mast composite construction and resinol glues used suggest current masts constructed in the 1960’s.
I have photos from Warwick Logan showing the yacht sailing in Jervis Bay rigged as a Bermudan Ketch. Her previous owner re stepped the main mast aft and sold the mizzen. She is now rigged as a Jib Headed Cutter with Staysail, Yankee and Genoa hanked from the mast head. We since met the person who bought the mizzen and proudly proclaimed it still stands in his yacht. The yacht visited Rosslyn bay in 2007
The 1954 register of Yachts shows her powered by a Clae engine. She now has a Perkins 4107 with a mechanical Clae gearbox and 2:1 reduction.
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Archina II
Archina II