2022: Belinda Bamber
2021: Ian Collins
2020: Philip Marsden
2019: Visit Cornwall Falmouth Packet
2018: Esther Freud
2018: Sandy Mallet
2017: Polly Saltonstall
2017: A.L. Kennedy
2016: Classic Sailor Essex Life magazine
2015: Steffan Meyric-Hughes Neil D’Arcy Jones Eastern Daily Press Anthony Roberts Julia Blackburn
2014: Oliver Rowe
2013: Maine Home and Design Ian Collins
2011: Classic Boat Eastern Daily Press
2010: Maine Boats Homes and Harbors
2008: Bill Mayher
2007: Classic Boat Adam Nicolson Ian Collins
2006: Country Living William Packer
2004: Ian Collins
2003: Martin Newell “Shipshape 2”
2001: Frank Whitford Elly Robinson Ronald Blythe Ian Collins
Guardian review Martin Newell “Shipshape” Thomas Puttfarken
1999: Nic Compton Thomas Puttfarken
1998: Elly Robinson
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