Who? where? & when? then!

[Capt Popeye]

Who?
Where?
When?
Taken, I would suggest, when the Essex sailors were probably at the height of their powers and influence.
picture by courtesy of the 'Daily Express'

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[Cantata]

It looks like Cowes.
It looks like the Duke of Edinburgh on the tiller but I don't have a clue what boat it is.

 

[Capt Popeye]

It looks like Cowes.
It looks like the Duke of Edinburgh on the tiller but I don't have a clue what boat it is.

Humm, yep I understand that location is Cowes and that DoE is on the tiller, the catamaran is (was) named 'Endeavour', a Canvey Island Prout build, the Skipper was Ken Pearce and 'Endeavour' held the 'fastest boat under sail' record for a time.

 

[Fantasie 19]

This the one??

http://www.canveyisland.org/images/uploaded/originals/Image22a2.jpg

 

[Capt Popeye]

Humm, no not actually a Prout Shearwater class boat, the 18ft Endeavour was a 'one off' with Ken Pearce heavily involved in the design and specification. I understood that the two hulls were of a Prout canoe origin. Never the less the Prout Shearwaters were born and proved very successful.