Posted by Mike F. on February 16, 2001 at 01:55:21 from 203.26.98.4:
In Reply to: Re: sv Lapwing posted by Russell Barnes on February 15, 2001 at 20:39:08:
Not a clue, I'm afraid, Russell.
Griffiths says that she was built for a family man, and spent several years cruising from the Orwell until the family began to grow up. Then the owner's boys succeeded in convincing him to sell her for something faster. The last Griffiths heard of her (which I guess was still pre-war by the sound of it) was when the owner told him, "I wish I had never parted with her."
She was pitch-pine on American elm frames, with English oak endposts, knees, deadwood, and floors. Griffiths also said proudly that Lapwing "trimmed to her marks without any inside ballast," carrying it all in her (lead) keel.
She must have been a lovely thing. Wouldn't it been nice if she still existed? But I suspect she's probably long gone back to nature.