History
A special visitor
Early in 2021 we received an email via the ‘Cachalot’ website from Tom Corbett, owner of ‘Cachalot’ between 1970 – 1975.
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Sailing
‘Lockdown’ in the River Deben
As a national ‘lockdown’ looked increasingly likely, Steve drove to Suffolk on 14 March, 2020 to check on ‘Cachalot’, just in case we’d have to leave her for another few months.
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Recent owners
Gone are the handwritten entries with signature and official stamp on broadsheet-sized manilla folded into the cloth-bound ‘blue book’. Since the 1990s the Certificate of British Registry is simply a laminated piece of A4 card, printed in plain type and renewable every five years.
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Sailing
Woodbridge Maritime Festival, 2018
Now we’re afloat, we were invited to join in with Maritime Woodbridge, 2018 in the Town Dock.
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‘Cachalette’: the first ten years
Started in 2008 and launched in 2010, we sailed ‘Cachalette’ on Carsington Water and took her to Suffolk for the summer, towed behind the Bongo.
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Commemorated on stamps: 2015
In 2015 a set of stamps commemorating the Dunkirk Little Ships evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 was released by the Republic of Palau, comprising about 100 islands and islets at the western end of the Caroline Islands chain in the western Pacific Ocean.
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‘Cachalette’ launch, 2010
There was quite a lot of research to do before launching ‘Cachalette’ in order to decide where we were going to keep her.
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Iain Oughtred ‘Guillemot’
As Steve was restoring ‘Cachalot’, he was already thinking about a tender, so why not build one with similarly elegant lines?
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ADLS Rally: Ipswich
‘Cachalot’ has taken part in events run by the ADLS, including the 1990 ‘Return to Dunkirk’.
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Sailing
Summer sailing, 2006
Starting to sail with ‘Cachalot’ involved getting a Day Skipper ‘ticket’ to satisfy the requirements of the insurers.
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‘Cachalot’ sails to the Deben, 2005
After purchasing ‘Cachalot’, it’s time to decide where to keep her . . .
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Return to Dunkirk, 1990
‘Cachalot’ is a member of the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships (ADLS) and listed amongst the vessels requisitioned to assist in the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940, known as ‘Operation Dynamo’.
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Restoration and research, 1977
A new owner sought information about ‘Cachalot’ from OGA members via the quarterly newsletter in 1977.
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Spotted by the OGA: 1977
Apart from entries in the Certificate of British Registry and Lloyds Register of Yachts, we know virtually nothing about ‘Cachalot’ from when she was left in the Mediterranean by the Brigadier in 1956 and 1976 when she came into the hands of Ian and Jenny Kiloh.
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Cruising with the Brigadier: 1951 – 1955
Kenneth Albert Harwood, Opthalmic Optician and Neauer Messinger, Shopkeeper, both of Guildford, Surrey are listed as joint owners from November 1948 until Brigadier Edward Elwyn Nott-Bower purchased her in 1951. These two owners are also listed in the Lloyds Register of Yachts (1949-51).
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1940 – 1951: owners & ADLS
In 1940, ‘Cachalot’ took part in Operation Dynamo when she was part-owned by Herbert Charles Norton. By 1951 she had changed hands several more times.
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An auxiliary engine & more owners: 1934 – 1939
The first entry in the Certificate of British Registry lists Jesse Frank Collier, Master Builder from Worthing, Sussex as the owner in March, 1936. The Certificate also refers to an auxiliary petrol internal combustion engine, 1934, Stuart Turner, 2 cylinder, 6hp. We assume this to be her first auxiliary engine.
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First owners: 1900 – 1934
From 1900 until 1905, Lloyds Register of Yachts lists two owners for ‘Cachalot’: RC Boothby of Sydenham, London and WA Fraser, also of London. ‘Cachalot’ did not have an engine at this time and was registered at Shoreham, London. From 1934 she was registered in Ipswich.
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