"I wonder if you can help me." "Maybe I could, or maybe I
couldn't," was the very Welsh reply. "What is it you are wanting?"
"Would you happen to know of any boats for sale?" It was a question
the young man had asked many times before, and always with the same
result. Nothing suited. There was no shortage of boats, but every
time there was a problem, either they were too big or too small or
as one honest broker - and yes there is such a thing - remarked,
"Don't buy her. She will kill you." It had been a long depressing
catalogue of scrabbling about fusty old tore-outs (rotten timber
gleaming with suspiciously fresh paint), ugly ducklings, and
unspeakable lifeboat conversions. So there was no reason to suppose
that this time would be any different. "What kind of boat is it you
are looking for?" with barely concealed cupidity; for an outsider
with money to burn in the wilds of the Isle of Anglesey was akin to
manna from Heaven. "Something like that," said the innocent,
pointing out a dainty white cutter on her mooring in Holyhead
harbour. "Well," said he "I believe she may just be for sale." He
may well have added - but this might just be imagining - "You had
better be quick, she is not on the market yet." An Irish horse
dealer could not have done it better. * * * * * So began, in 1973,
Martin O'Scannall's love affair with 'Sauntress', voted in 2013 one
of Classic Boat magazine's Top 250 Boats. Here, in a series of
delightful, engaging episodes ranging from Anglesey to Galicia by
way of the West Country, the East Coast, the Netherlands, Norway
and south-west Ireland, is what it is like to restore and sail -
and be possessed by - a modest yet glorious 28ft gaffer dating from
the golden age of Edwardian yachting. 'For the Love of Sauntress'
is illustrated with a gallery of outrageously beautiful photographs
by Oscar Companioni, printed in monochrome and colour; these depict
Sauntress in all her present-day glory, and were taken on a single,
perfect August evening off the Galician coast during her annual
match race with her local rival 'Abur'.
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