Eternal Wave

Hughes, J.S.: 1951 Temple Press London, hardcover with dustjacket 142 pages, illustrated. First Edition Tom Norman Dinwddy (1865-1945) was a boating architect who retired to Stoke Gabriel on the River Dart at the age of 49 in 1914, served in the first World War, built and sailed in the ketch Blue Jay in the 1920s. He took to motor boating in 1930 on board his Eternal Wave a converted RNLI pulling and sailing lifeboat. He cruised extensively in the North Sea, Scandanavia and the Baltic. He made his last cruise from Sweden to Dover in 1939. Illustrated by David Cobb. In very good condition