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I hope someone might be able to help me with some research. In 1938 my grandfather sailed with some friends from Poole in Devon (UK), reaching Port-of-Spain in Trinidad as the war clouds gathered in Europe. He left his friends there with the yacht to return to the UK.
He wrote of his experience after the war in a book called 'Reaching for the Sun' (I'm also looking for any copies of the book.)
The yacht was called 'Windward'. She was ketch-rigged, some 48' and 14' in the beam. She was bought by Micheal Johnson for £1500 having been found laid up in Dartmouth. Built of pitch pine on an oak frame she had a Thorneycroft diesel and had 6 berths. She was about 16 years old when she was bought and had been used mainly in the Irish Sea and the Baltic.
If anyone can shed any light on her history or what may have happened to her since I would be very grateful.
He wrote of his experience after the war in a book called 'Reaching for the Sun' (I'm also looking for any copies of the book.)
The yacht was called 'Windward'. She was ketch-rigged, some 48' and 14' in the beam. She was bought by Micheal Johnson for £1500 having been found laid up in Dartmouth. Built of pitch pine on an oak frame she had a Thorneycroft diesel and had 6 berths. She was about 16 years old when she was bought and had been used mainly in the Irish Sea and the Baltic.
If anyone can shed any light on her history or what may have happened to her since I would be very grateful.
