PEGGY BAWN is a rare thing indeed. The number of surviving vessels from pioneering Clydeside yacht designer George Lennox Watson’s lifetime (1851-1904) can be counted on a careless carpenter’s fingers. Long gone are his huge America’s Cup challengers and “Big Class” racing yachts, and only two of the fleet of palatial steam yachts – the superyachts of their day – from his Glasgow drawing boards are known to survive, in fabulous condition although barely recognisable from their original appearance. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/302/PEGGY%20BAWN It is left to PEGGY BAWN to carry the flame for Watson’s groundbreaking mid-1890s work in setting the standard for moderation in sailing yacht design, work that has never been challenged – only endorsed by those who followed his lead through the 20th century, especially Olin J. Stephens, who was a self-confessed Watson fan. PEGGY BAWN’s gilded “fiddle” bow was anachronistic even at her launching in 1894, partly a past fad, partly practical, undoubtedly beautiful – an interim stage in the development of extending immersed waterlines for faster sailing when heeled with a more buoyant hull – but it conceals the fact that when her award-winning restoration team began assessing what they’d found in a County Waterford hay barn in 2003, they quickly realised that the “numbers” – yacht designer speak for the various ratios that define a hull – were simply a scaled-down version of those for Watson’s famous royal racing cutter Britannia of 1893. Her name gave rise to the so called “Britannia Ideal”, as she was and is considered the epitome of sea kindliness. PEGGY BAWN's present owner can vouch for that from fourteen seasons of racing and cruising aboard her in northern and Mediterranean Europe, and east coast USA. PEGGY BAWN is quite simply the best behaved yacht any of them had had the pleasure to sail. And her rebuild and restoration set new standards for documentation and authenticity. She's special. #classicboat #sailboat #shortsfeed #sailing

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Giorno 27 - MARSALA Oggi parliamo di arancine e di saluti. Le prime sono da citare perché sono un dono del cielo regalato alla Sicilia affinché potesse diffondere quel sapore e quell’aroma in tutta Italia. I saluti purtroppo ci lasciano un sapore più amaro in bocca. Se poi ti chiami Andrea inizierai a provare quel senso di malinconia e di separazione con largo anticipo. Ogni momento verrà toccato dalla mano blu di Tristezza di “Inside Out” e si colorerà di toni freddi e desaturati. Queste parentesi con amici e parenti che vengono a trovarci iniziano ad assumere un aspetto che sa di caldo e di famiglia. Un po’ come se tutti ci spostassimo insieme. O come se non si stesse creando una distanza che non farà altro che aumentare. Allora una breve parentesi in cui si condivide del tempo insieme diventa improvvisamente molto preziosa. Questo è ciò che vogliamo portarci a casa e conservare con amore. Quando siamo da soli essere orientati alla meta, al lavoro, a noi stessi e al viaggio. Quando siamo in compagnia semplicemente coltivare momenti di valore insieme. Fino al prossimo incontro. A presto! C.

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Getting a celestial sight on a cloudy day while underway , practice makes perfect after all @SailingGlacierGem

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