“Talking Sailing” From My Archives. Wife ‘Never Had Doubts’

By Richard Crockett

57 years ago today Alec Rose rounded Cape Horn on his singlehanded voyage around the world aboard ‘Lively Lady’.

Mrs. Dorothy Rose (55) opened a bottle of champagne last night to celebrate her yachtsman husband’s feat in rounding Cape Horn and predicted that he would be home by mid-July.

“I never doubted for one moment that he would get round.” she declared ln her home above the tiny greengrocer’s shop she is minding for her husband.

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