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Dick Durham discovers the restored Lively Lady is still wowing the crowds 50 years after Sir Alec Rose completed his groundbreaking global circumnavigation
Lively Lady was built in Calcutta after the Second World War. She has sailed around the world twice. Credit: Paul Wyeth
Lively Lady: Sir Alec Rose’s yacht lives again
It is 70 years since an amateur boat builder, Sydney Cambridge, secured teak sleepers from the stock of the Bengal and Assam Railway to help build a 36ft gaff-cutter in Calcutta.
Cambridge adapted the plans of designer Frederick Shepherd, levelling off her keel, heightening her topsides and using thicker teak planking.