Don McIntyres Hull # 1 will be named Trekka. I like this story because of its Canadian roots. Why?
Oh ya, because I am Canadian !
Don McIntyre the Founder of the Class Globe 5.80 will name his Hull number 01 “TREKKA” in recognition of the first small yacht to circumnavigate the Globe. In 1953, John Guzzwell, while working as a maintenance carpenter for the Canadian Pacific Railway Ferry Service in Victoria, decided to build himself a sailing boat. The English naval architect Laurent Giles planned a 20’ 6’ yawl for 50 pounds sterling, which John built, mostly unaided and with hand tools, in a rented shed behind Johnny Bell’s pizza shop on View Street. He launched Trekka in August 1954, and in September 1955, sailed for Hawaii. Over the next four years he completed a circumnavigation in Trekka, then the smallest vessel ever to do so. He returned to Canada in 1959. He wrote a book about his adventures, Trekka Round the World, which he re-published in 1999. You can read more about it here.
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