by Richard Crockett
We are now at the point where ‘Zeeslang’s’ restoration had been completed and the boat was ready for launching.
It was fortuitous that there was a delay of a few months before this third part of the story was published as, “inevitably a touch of nostalgia creeps in with the historical. Part 1 of this series did deal largely with the history of ‘Zeeslang’ and the people who sailed in her, but memories were jogged by the article and readers have come to light with their own nostalgic anecdotes.”
Much of that “nostalgia” has been incorporated in this feature – and it makes for exceptionally good reading.
READ IT ALL HERE: 2006 02 – SAILING Magazine – OCR