Classic Boat — February 2018

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CRAFTSMANSHIP

Anthony Wheaton, who featured in Tell Tales last month for his role in founding

a new traditional maritime centre in the county of Durham, recently unearthed

the International 14 Grebe of Hampton (K4). Built in 1921, the boat came to light

under a fallen tree in Richmond, on the limit of the tidal Thames in the leafy

west London suburbs. He has taken the boat to the London Corinthian Sailing

Club in Hammersmith nearby, where she will remain until Anthony starts a

restoration to bring her back to her mid-century guise, when she was given a

gunter rig and foredeck to cruise the Thames and canals, something she did for

many years. Anthony is also the owner of the 1904 gaff er Aeolus.

RICHMOND, SURREY

International 14 found under a fallen tree

C/O THE OWNER

ISLE OF WIGHT

1922 Seaview Mermaid

found in an orchard

Top to bottom: at Cowes Classics; cruising days; in the

workshop; ready to travel to Coombes for fi nishing

C/O THE OWNER

C/O THE OWNER

RICK TOMLINSON