The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.
“A Completely Free Hand with the Design.”
As Melbourne celebrated the Olympics in late 1956, and Beryl and Miles Smeeton headed off from the Yarra River on their epic journey around Cape Horn, the finished vessel quietly slipped into the water near Great Yarmouth on the Norfolk Broads.
Who is Arthur Robb?
The careful mathematical figures and many pages of design details, displacement ratios and sail area plans give a picture of the meticulous planning that he did before a yacht was allowed to be built.
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