The end of the (sailing) affair
oatbuilder Alex Laird in La Ciotat, France, recently unearthed this letter to his mother, who apparently had offered to teach the novelist Graham Greene to sail his 32ft, 8-Tonne Gauntlet yacht , built in 1939. We featured the yacht after an exemplary rebuild, back in 2014. Alex explains: “Below is the letter to my mother – Joan Beale then
