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OBITUARY
George H Moff ett Jr
1944-2012 Sailor and teacher George Moffett died of lung melanoma on 25 February at his home in Ledyard, CT, surrounded by his family. George was born in Washington DC and studied art, and later theology in West Germany, where he met his wife Sabine. The two married in 1971 and moved to England, where George became headmaster of a boarding school and Sabine gave birth to their daughter Jessica.
In 1981, George became captain of the schooner Brilliant at the Mystic Seaport museum in Connecticut, a post he would hold for 25 years, taking more than 3,000 teenagers to sea as part of the museum’s programme. In 2000 he raced Brilliant from Halifax to Amsterdam to win the Tall Ships Race. He later skippered the Fife ketch Belle Aventure. Friend Virginia Jones described him as “thoughtful and incredibly intelligent”. Long-time shipmate and friend Tom Cunliffe said that “with George, nothing under the stars went unquestioned”.
He leaves behind his wife Sabine, sister Elizabeth, daughter Jessica and her husband Thomas. See
classicboat.co.uk for our articles on George and Brilliant.
In 2013, the Jubilee Sailing Trust’s Tall Ship Lord Nelson will tie the knot the old-fashioned way: south of the three great capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn. The ten-leg route touches seven continents and takes in the Tall Ships Races being held in Sydney on 13 October 2013. She will leave Southampton in October this year.
CRAFTSMANSHIP
WEST INDIES ‘Sloop’ fi lm seeks funds
A new fi lm, Vanishing Sail, due for release in 2013, will tell the story of the traditional sailing craft of the West Indies. Built on the beach, with skills passed down the generations, the schooners and sloops worked the trade winds, fi shing and carrying cargo and sometimes contraband.
Filming in the Grenadines is 80 per cent complete and features unprecedented interviews with the last captains and boatbuilders of types like the Carriacou sloop. The
AUSTRALIA
Launceston wooden boat rally success
Separated from the Australian mainland by the treacherous waters of Bass Strait, the island of Tasmania is blessed with what many regard as the fi nest boatbuilding timber to be found anywhere on earth, writes John Dean. Traditionally-built Huon pine vessels
spanning two centuries of Tasmania’s maritime past took centre stage at the 2012 Launceston Wooden Boat Rally held at Seaport Marina on the Tamar River on the island’s north coast. Gaff -rigged Couta fi shing boats, elegant
steam launches and sailing dinghies gathered under a cornfl ower-blue sky.
Tasmania’s oldest vessel Admiral, built in 1865 and re-launched after a comprehensive restoration, dipped all eight oars in harmony as she ferried passengers to the local beauty spot of Cataract Gorge. Surrounded by varnished rowboats and canoes winking in the sun, and in the company of shipwrights, old salts, landlubbers and Tasmanian pinot noir, it was impossible to imagine a better day.
Above: Minx, one of the many traditional workboats in Huon pine present at the gathering
aim is to record their way of life before it disappears.
Film-maker Alexis Andrews is a photographer by trade but in 1997, he rescued and rebuilt a sunken Carriacou sloop. His fi lm tracks the resurgence of these craft as yachts for racing at events like the annual Antigua Classics regatta. Alexis is now putting out a funding appeal on
kickstarter.com in the hope of attracting the fi nal $48,000 he needs to complete V
anishing Sail.
CLASSIC BOAT MAY 2012
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