Sailing Magazine
by Richard Crockett
Apologies for the break last week, but I was felled by the lurgy.
The ‘old salts’ amongst our followers will undoubtedly remember ‘Sandefjord’.
She was found in an unseaworthy state in Durban in the 1960s and fully restored by the Cullen brothers – Patrick and Barry. She was then 53 years old, and the brothers, with some crew, circumnavigated the globe, and made a film of the voyage which later became a huge hit.
She also competed in the very first Cape to Rio Race in 1971.
In 2013 Barry Cullen attended the Risør Wooden Boat Festival in Norway where, he says, “our dearly loved Sandefjord, ship-shape and beautifully preserved, was centre stage (more or less) for her 100-year birthday!”
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