Memories of Peter Tangvald
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LETTER OF THE MONTH
Delighted and excited as always to read Dick Durham’s column in Yachting Monthly, but saddened to read the December 2022 issue. In December 1957, I was in Antigua, having sailed from the south of France as crew aboard the staysail schooner Valeda, where I met Peter Tangvald. Having had no previous sailing experience, he had sailed solo across the Atlantic in the yawl Windflower, which he bought in England. He was racing against Edward Allcard and having claimed that he won, had earned a dollar, a bottle of Trinidad rum and a kiss from a pretty girl!
In Antigua, I also met the American Eric Linton Lucas, who was sailing a boat called the Cutty Sark. He claimed that his grandfather had been the designer of the original Cutty Sark.
I joined Peter on board and we were to sail in company/race with Lucas to Martinique. I wanted
