East Coast adventure

Lord Stanley purchased the Laurent Giles-designed 9-ton Argo for the 1936 sailing season. Initially he was uncertain about her yawl rig but this was solved early in his exploration of the East Coast when he was swept into a railway bridge when trying to enter the Broads and the mizzen ‘let go with a rending crash’. Stanley added new starboard main shrouds and ‘at a fraction of the cost’ Argo was converted to a cutter.

I planned this year to sail round England, by taking the east coast up the North Sea, thence through the Forth and Clyde Canal, and so back down the Irish Sea. This cruise should, I felt,