Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
I do enjoy it when I stumble across gems while searching my archives. Today I can share another of those gems, and sadly have to admit that I have just one photo of ‘Elegance’ in my archives. But that may change as I slowly add new material virtually every day.
The author of this interesting feature posed this question and then answered it himself: “How does a boat get to be 80 years old? The main requirement is that she be sailed and loved her whole life; that she is maintained in a way that keeps her, if not pristine, then seaworthy and limber, and that she never be neglected to such an extent that she becomes a liability.
“‘Elegance has a history full of such owners who loved and cared for her, and becoming the last in a long line of owners I decided to research the history of ‘Elegance’ and her ownership, to preserve the story of this rare piece of our South African yachting heritage and the people who have looked after her.” he said.
I believe that today she is moored in Knysna? Can anyone confirm this?
READ ALL ABOUT ELEGANCE HERE: Pages from 2016 01 – SAILING Magazine – OCR
