From our story in the current issue of Tally Ho – her log from winning the 1927 Fastnet and details of the beginning of her restoration with Leo Goolden:
“Wet manilla halyards and sheets swell and shorten when wet. Everything on Tally Hoʼs deck was wet after days of rain. The heavy canvas mainsail went up as the windlass cranked the anchor chain aboard. With jib and forestaysail up she fell off, reaching out of the Medina with the tide, ebb in the early morning to ood by race time. As the hour of start approached the gale softened, showers lightened. The Southampton shore was lost to sight in fog and rain.
Tally Ho raised her jib topsail while Jolie Brise and the two Alden schooners spread their balloon spinnakers. Tally Ho hit the line rst but was soon overtaken by these longer vessels with their big sails. Broad reach to No Manʼs Land Fort in the lee of the island, sea quiet… but this was soon to change…” Thad Danielsen
More in the issue: HERE