Anderson 22

The brochure produced by the manufacturer of the Anderson 22 began thus..

"The Anderson 22 is a design from the board of Oliver Lee of Burnham, who has established a fine reputation as a leading designer of high performance cruisers. She is not designed to win the Quarter Ton Cup - we were not after a stripped out racing machine, but she is very fast, probably faster than anything else of comparable size and ideal for J.0.G. or Club events, or family cruising. There is also a thriving Class Association. She has already proved herself a winner in club and major racing events and we are very proud that two Anderson 22s entered and finished the 1977 B-Star Transatlantic race..."

The Anderson 22 of which some 200 were built were produced in Whitstable, Kent, England by Anderson Rigden & Perkins. The company started in about 1907 building Thames barges and working sail boats. In the 1970's they were involved in the fibreglass boom, their main business being the production of high specification motor launches for the royal navy. Naval Architect Oliver Lee had done good work with the English company Hunter Boats including the well thought of (although criticized for its interior) Hunter 70, so Anderson's, who wanted to be involved in the seventies small boat boom, asked for a similar boat but instructed "we will do the interior thank you!" This was in 1973. When the company lost the contract to build M.O.D. launches around 1983 despite the '22 still selling steadily the company folded.