I have been working on a project for a few years, not everyday but always keeping my ears open and when ever I find new info I like to add it to the file. My goal is to find as much info about the great J Class yacht Whirlwind built by Landon Thorne my great grandfather. I recently went to a J Class lecture hosted by Sail Newport, I was hoping the lecture would be about the history of the class and the boats built in the USA. But it was about current J Class boats and what it was like to sail them. I had the pleasure of talking to David Pittman and was supprised to find that the official J Class had all the drawings and good info about all the boats except Whirlwind.
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Hi Yarrow,
ReplyDeleteDo you have the original drawings of Whirlwind that were used by your great grandfather?
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ReplyDeleteGlad you have found this - I too have just been on the J-Class website and having read a description of her, I instantly wanted to see a photograph of Whirlwind - thank you!
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