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GIPSY Moth IV GIPSY MOTH IV Around Again GIPSY MOTH IV GIPSY MOTH IV Around again Gipsy Moth IV, Sir Francis Chichester’s world-girdling ketch and symbol of 1960s exploration, was taken out of her ignominious berth at Greenwich and restored. As she sets off around the world again, Steffan Meyric Hughes reports on the rebirth of a legend Publisher, daredevil nside Westminster Abbey’s south aviator and OSTAR winner cloister, the little-known Navigators’ Francis Chichester – his I Memorial Plaque records the names, aim was “to get sport vessels and routes of “the three great out of trying” English circumnavigators”: Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cooke, and Sir Francis Chichester. It’s as clear an indication as any of the way Chichester PPL captured the nation’s imagination when 14 CLASSIC BOAT NOVEMBER 2005 GIPSY MOTH IV T: PPL T: NSE OOK, I OOK, SN M M A H gra HOTO: HOTO: P AIN M The famous shot of Gipsy Moth IV running down her easting in heavy seas as she navigated Cape Horn in 1967. “Wild horses could not drag me there in a small boat again,” said Chichester. he sailed single-handed around the world the BBC and in the Sunday Times and The legend of the late 60s, a symbol of an in 1966/7. He stopped only once, in Guardian newspapers, the voyage sculpted extraordinary time of exploration: a decade Sydney, following the route of the clipper solo circumnavigation into the shape we that started with the first voyage to the ships; the infamous ‘eastabout’ way through recognise today, and prompted the Golden bottom of the sea and ended with the the Southern Ocean and rounding the Globe race the following year. moon landing. His return to Plymouth in three great capes. It’s easy to forget now, in the sobriety 1967 was attended by as many as half Chichester was 65 when he finished. of Westminster Abbey, with the sound of a million cheering fans. Gipsy Moth had With its record-breaking speed of pass- tourists stifling coughs in the background, circled the world in the sailing time of age, heavy sponsorship and coverage on but Chichester – and his voyage – was a 226 days, narrowly missing her target of CLASSIC BOAT NOVEMBER 2005 15 GIPSY MOTH IV Specification LOA: 53ft 1in (16.2m) LWL: 38ft 6in (11.7m) Beam: 10ft 6in (3.2m) Draught: 7ft 9in (2.4m) Sail area: 854sqft (79.3m2) PPL ER T OOK SN M M silves A H LIN O C gra The design Chichester never liked Chichester never liked Gipsy Moth IV. Their relationship was one he did this remarkably well. She had to be light enough to keep of mutual antagonism, from the glassy foredeck that sent moving in light airs, and strong enough to cope with the Chichester flying, injuring his leg during trials in the Solent, to his Southern Ocean.” She had to be light so she could be driven by various complaints about the “cantankerous ketch”, which fill the a sail area manageable for one man. She had to be big to carry second chapter of Gipsy Moth Circles the World. the waterline length necessary to generate a good hull speed. It was a duel that began before Gipsy Moth was launched, as Two of Chichester’s main complaints were that Gipsy Moth the boat was much bigger than Chichester had originally wanted was initially very tender while heeling, and that she required – a result of compromises between him and the constant sail-changing. Colin Silvester explains that designers to design a yacht with a difficult brief: to “she was designed to keep the wetted surface down take a crew of one – an old one at that – around the and pick up form stability when she heeled. She was world as quickly as possible. The first time he saw her meant to sail on her ear. By and large she did it.” In on the water, he remarked to his wife Sheila, “My God this respect, Gipsy Moth was similar to Pen Duick II, she’s a rocker.” Their relationship never improved. the first boat designed for the rigours of the OSTAR, Despite Chichester’s complaints though, Gipsy Moth and Chichester’s nemesis when he was beaten in that accomplished what she was designed to do: the race by Tabarly in 1964, having won the first in 1960. longest distance sailed without landfall was nearly Nigel Irens – designer of the Gipsy Moth of today, doubled from Vito Dumas’ record of 7,400 miles – and Ellen MacArthur’s B&Q – is cautious, stating that “the a sailing time of 226 days to cover 28,500 miles didn’t PPL real acid test will be her second circumnavigation”. just break records, it set the new yardstick. Whether someone will dare to be as honest as Chichester is Colin Silvester was one of the designers who worked on unlikely though, as Gipsy Moth is now a revered celebrity Gipsy Moth IV, and now acts as custodian of the Illingworth and dressed in the sling-and-arrow-proof armour of a noble cause. Primrose design records. He feels it’s time to give the designers I don’t blame Chichester one iota [for his complaints],” some credit for Chichester’s achievement. “Angus [Primrose] had justifies David Green, boss at the UKSA. “The boat was too late, to give him the biggest, lightest, fastest boat he could and I think too big, his leg was injured and the bottle didn’t break!” 16 CLASSIC BOAT NOVEMBER 2005 GIPSY MOTH IV PPL RDF: the satnav of its day. Chichester listening for Morse code on a radio direction finder matching the time of the great clippers like Cutty Sark; but it didn’t matter. Every record in the book had been smashed – You say you want a revolution including the longest solo passage of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston tells CB a little about the difference between 14,100 miles to his stopover in Sydney– circumnavigation 60s style and the world of the modern circumnavigator: and a new era in circumnavigation had “In straight sailing terms, it’s easier now because they know it can be done – we begun. The Queen knighted Chichester with didn’t. Communications are reliable and weather information is available. Things like the same sword used to honour Francis food and clothing have moved on, as well as sail-making and building materials. And, Drake, and he became a national hero. as voyages are so much faster, there is also less weight aboard, and less wear and tear But Chichester hated Gipsy Moth IV on boats and skippers. Finally, you only have to look at the from the moment he saw her launched, boats in use then to appreciate that no one knew what the ideal and, until late last year, the purpose-built boat for a circumnavigation was; we took what we thought Illingworth & Primrose-designed 54ft were the right boats and hoped they were.” (17m) ketch lay semi-buried in a pit next For its time, Chichester’s was a modern circumnavigation, to Cutty Sark at Greenwich – “lying there characterised by sponsorship, a boat built for the purpose and in silent pain,” as a Dire Straits song about regular, if sparse, communication with the media. One look at the boat and her skipper later put it. the drop-down panel (see p18) on Gipsy Moth’s nav station Fast forward to 2002. Yachting Monthly’s that describes so neatly the “then and now of technology” tells editor Paul Gelder, looking for a way to the story though. From the long months of solitude punctuated celebrate the magazine’s centenary in by occasional radio dispatches of the 1960s voyages to the 2006, struck upon the idea of sending push-button connectivity and team back-up of the record-breaking voyages of the Gipsy Moth around again crewed by MacArthurs of the world today, it’s clear that long-distance solo voyaging has come a underprivileged youngsters: “We had long way from its misanthropic, Corinthian beginnings to a big-money, technological been visiting Gipsy Moth for a while,” says challenge, where every hour gained in speed is a small victory. The two worlds may Gelder. “The omens seemed right; our collide though... Dame Ellen has been murmuring about taking Gipsy Moth across the centenary would coincide with 40 years Atlantic when the venerable old girl returns home for the second time in 2008. since Chichester’s voyage. Thinking of it CLASSIC BOAT NOVEMBER 2005 17 GIPSY MOTH IV wasn’t the issue. It was a tailor-made opportunity.” The real issue was finding – read ‘funding’ if you like – a way to save Gipsy Moth. When the UK Sailing Academy (UKSA) stepped in, in October 2004, with £40,000 of the necessary cash and the same again in enthusiasm, things started moving very fast, starting with the purchase of Gipsy Moth from the Maritime Trust for the token £1 and a gin and tonic. Chichester’s own spirit left him when the gin did, so the drink would symbolise hope and high spirits. The portent was borne out on 17 November last year when she was lifted from her trench and taken back to the yard where she was built: Camper & Nicholsons in Gosport. Twelve-thousand man-hours were squeezed into 150 days by a huge team that included shipwrights from Gipsy OOK SN Moth’s original build, staff of the UKSA, M A H and the tireless efforts of Campers, who ra G did the work at cost price. Above: Original Her launch on 20 June – “five weeks instruments fold up ahead of schedule,” according to Camper’s to show the modern project manager Martyn Langford – was a navigation system big occasion attended by a crowd of hundreds, and ringed by television news vans.
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