MEA V89 to Race Around Britain! Later Spring Newsletter 2022
The last time a Vertue crossed the starting line of a race in Plymouth Sound was when Cardinal Vertue did so at the start of the Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race in 1960. Cardinal Vertue in 1960 Her skipper, David Lewis, embarked on many further extraordinary seafaring adventures all over the world. Cardinal Vertue later completed an astonishing single-handed circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean, south of the three great Capes, under Bill Nance's energetic command. Ten years earlier Vertue xxxv had been driven hard across the North Atlantic, against the prevailing westerlys, by Humphry…Read more