Photos

The Clipper Challenge in 1982, when two boats the barque Marques and the brig Cuidad de Inca (later renamed the Maria Assumpta), raced around Britian. I was lucky enough to take a group of schoolchildren on the Inca. We had the leg from Edinburgh to London. At the time it was the oldest wooden sailing boat still sailing.

We called in at various ports on the trip and while there showed folk round the boats and did repairs (if you look carefully you can see a couple of folk on the yardarm).

Excuse the quality of the photo, it's scanned in from a slide, now 26 years old, though I've tried to clean it up a bit and bring the colour back out.

Unfortunately both ships are now gone, the Marques sunk in the Atlantic and the Inca foundered off the south coast of England.

You can see another photo here