To tighten the luff, the yard had to be hauled up as far as it would go and the downhaul tightened up hard, which left to foot of mainsail about four inches or 10 cm clear of the gunnel. Peggy’s name is partly hidden by the rolled up jib of the yacht, the Port of Tyne number is 479 and the owners are shown as myself and my son, T Dawson, known to all who had anything to the repair of boats in the care of NEMT as Mick and Tim Dawson.
The mast and yard were made by Fred Crowell. He used to run boat yard on the slipway next to the North East Maritime Trust until he retired and it was handed over to NEMT by to South Tyneside Council in 2008.
Tim, helping to lift Peggy’s mast out of storage so it could be put in her prior to the launch in 2007.