One of the most interesting personalities Jernej and Japec Jakopin ever met in their career was Ivor Tiefenbrun, founder of Linn Products, a hugely influential hi-fi system company based in Glasgow, Scotland.

Ivor’s design brief was short and clear: he needed a boat that could sail in any weather or sea, could run at fifty knots in twenty inches of water, and could enable one to hit a beach, steal a (somebody’s) beauty and beat it... 

The boat was built in the hi-tech Waveform yard in Cowes, an English seaport on the Isle of Dwight,  to virtually military standards under the supervision of Bill Mackay, the famous Scottish sailing legend. Weighing just over four tons with plenty of Kevlar and two 300 HP Cummins diesels driving water-jet propulsion systems, the Linn 40 did all she was expected to do.

Bill raced the Linn 40 from Isle of Wight to Glasgow in twenty-five hours in his Jaguar Le Mans 1959 style—and without one broken bone. Reports on stolen Helen got blurred in history…