Nigel Tetly

[Wansworth]

Anybody recall when he died?

 

[pvb]

1972

 

[Wansworth]

I must have a false memory as I thought it was 1970!

 

[BrianH]

Nigel Tetley kept his trimaran in Whitby for a while and I remember how I watched with admiration as he departed the harbour in a rising gale to attend a meeting in Holland for his post-naval work for an oil company.

I also remember the shock and sadness when I learned of his death and the nature of it, hanging from a tree in woods near Dover.

 

[Wansworth]

Was that the new one built by Kelsal?

 

[Mark-1]

I also remember the shock and sadness when I learned of his death and the nature of it

I had to google:

at the coroner's inquest, it was revealed that the body had been discovered clothed in lingerie and the hands were bound behind the back. The opinion offered by a pathologist suggested masochistic sexual activity. The coroner, noting there was no evidence that Tetley had deliberately taken his life, recorded an open verdict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Tetley

 

[Richard10002]

Anybody recall when he died?

Why did you want to know?

 

[Wansworth]

Worked briefly at Kelsalls in 1970 and thought I recalled seeing Tetly in his yellow Morgan and then there was the news of his death which I was sure happened whilst I was at the yard in the summer of 1970

 

[BrianH]

Was that the new one built by Kelsal?

No, it was the Piver-designed Victress before her ill-fated RTW race.

Nigel lived aboard her for a short while in the upper harbour and was a well-respected WYC member during the time that I was on the committee through the mid to late 1960s.