Howard started Yealmbridge Yachts in 1995 and after spending the previous 25 years in the Boat building and related indudtries. he decided to build Tasma VI a Pocket cruiser based on the small “tabloid yachts” from the 1920’s and 1930’s.
She was an amalgam of the Hillyard's, and Harrison Butlers and a host of other small yachts which were so abundant in the pre second world war years, the only difference being the method of construction.

With critical success showing at at Greenwich Wooden boat show and Southampton Boat show, Tasma was sold and went to France.
After a spell working for a well known Plymouth based Boat builder, Howard went on to instructing modern and traditional boat building skills at a internationally renowned boat building school in Dorset.
Then after a short sabbatical as Yard supervisor in a Boatyard in Bermuda Howard returned to restart Yealmbridge Yachts with the design and construction of “The Laughing Cavalier”, (working title)
for a private client.