Seren Wib

Seren Wib is Welsh for Shooting Star.
This Three Quarter Tonner out of the Roller Coaster line was designed for Bill Humphreys, the designer’s older brother.

She was built of epoxy composite by the Webb Brothers’ Racing Yacht Systems in Hamble, and was shipped to MG Yachts in Scotland for completion and to have the moulds of the MG RS34 taken off.

Seren Wib was competitive for a number of years in the Irish Sea, with a first in class in the Dun Laoghaire – Holyhead – Dun Laoghaire race in 1984, second in the IOR division in Celtic Week 1986, and first in the IOR division in Abersoch Keelboat Week.

The MG RS34

About fifteen of these boats were built from the mould of Seren Wib, the most successful being Michael Peacock’s Juno which was campaigned with the sort of dedication more normally reserved for the grand prix arena.

Then as now it is hard with a production boat to get on level terms with a grand prix one-off, but Mike Peacock certainly came close. In Cowes Week in 1984, for example, Juno returned two firsts, one second and one third.

Among other 34s to prosper were the Biggs family’s Checkmate, scoring second in Class 3 in the 1984 Round the Island Race, first in Celtic Week in 1985, first in class and second overall in the RORC Irish Sea Race in 1988, and in the same year first in Division A2 in the Irish Sea Offshore Association season’s points.