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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.
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Mervyn Wheatley looks ahead to his sixth OSTAR, now re-scheduled to take place in 2021, and ponders the changes in sailing through his decades-long career
Mervyn Wheatley had sailed 18 Atlantic crossing ahead of the 2017 OSTAR. Credit: Paul Gibbins
For Mervyn Wheatley, the 2020 Original Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR) was to be his swan song, his final race.
But as with much sport during the pandemic, the OSTAR, due to set off from Plymouth in May, has been postponed until 2021.
In a remarkable offshore sailing career that has made him a hero among Corinthian ocean sailors, Mervyn Wheatley has competed both singlehanded and with crews, as well as cruising extensively across oceans and in coastal waters.