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Norwich journalist and Spirit of Cardiff crew member Clive Tully looks back to May 2001 when the boat set a world record for crossing the Atlantic ....
Yachting Monthly 0shares 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. ....