Classic Boat

A life of love and adventure

If I could just have one more day with Frank aboard Wanderer, I’d be so happy. He was a lovely man and Wanderer was so special – part of us.” Margaret Dye is in the comfortable surroundings of Heathcote care home in Norwich, where she has lived the last six years.

It’s hard to imagine in these prosaic surroundings that this 84-year-old and her husband, Frank, who passed away in 2010, were two of the most daring, courageous and, some might argue, crazy sailors the world has ever seen. Their exploits sailing off shore in their 16ft (4.9m) Wayfarer dinghy are the stuff of legend. Trips from Scotland to Norway, up the

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