Description
Specification
- Laurent Giles design No: 78
- Builder: E.F.Elkins, Christchurch, Dorset, England.
- Launch Date: 1948
- Hull Material: Mahogany on oak
- Deck: Grp over ply on original pine t & g.
- Engine: Yanmar 10 hp
- Ballast keel material: ?
- Doghouse: Short
- Cockpit: Short
- Berths: Two plus focsle
- Rig: Masthead bermudan sloop.
- Mast: Alloy
- Heads'ls: Genoa & stays'ls.
- Backstay arrangement: Twin to transom. No runners.
- Home Port: San Diego, California, USA.
- Current Owner: Larry Beiley
- Contact details:
- Email address: plumberatlarge@sbcglobal.net
- Other comments: Salmo is most well-known for being the boat Peter Hamilton wrote about in his wonderful book The Restless Wind. This describes his single-handed passage from Scotland to Canada, and from there to San Diego via the Panama Canal and Tahiti, with his new wife Jill, in the early 1960's.