Last year, I think it was, I was invited to make a video aboard a yacht called Overlord. Overlord is an important classic that can be seen sailing the south coast of England and further afield under the burgee of the Offshore Cruising Club (sailoverlord.org). I have some history with this fine 58ft (17.7m) sloop that was built for the Luftwaffe in 1935 by Abeking and Rasmussen to the German 100 Square Metre rule. How she ended up in England is an unlikely yarn that starts when she was found in Kiel with a number of her sisters by the occupying British forces in 1945. Being owned by the German state, she was fair game as what might be called a ‘prize of war’. Back then, she and her sisters were simply known as ‘windfall yachts’.
None of, a fine 50 Square based on the Solent, and , the last 100 Square sailing in the UK.
