BRITAIN'S BIGGEST ENTRY IN SINGLE-HANDED TRANSATLANTIC RACE.
Geoffrey William's Sir Thomas Lipton, the largest of Britain's prospective 1968 transatlantic single handed race entries, is to be launched at Sandwich, Kent, a week on Saturday. Williams, 25, a schoolteacher, built his 57ft ketch from a glass-fibre and from sandwich laminate with the aid of Derek Kelsall, whose Round-Britain Race winner Teria pioneered the technique. Of all the prospective transatlantic race starters, Williams is one of the youngest and least experienced, but certainly one of the most determined. The Sir Thomas Lipton is the result of years of planning and work made fruitful by the help and encouragement of Robert Clark, the naval architect, to whose design the yacht was built. An offer of commercial sponsorship, the result of 3,000 letters requesting aid, enabled Williams to push Sir Thomas Lipton's length from 42ft, to 57ft, making her the biggest entry apart from the 65ft trimaran new being built in France for the 1964 race winner, Eric Tabarly.
Photo Shows: Geoffrey 'Williams's bat Sir Thomas Lipton nears completion in a Sandwich beatyard.
Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.
Photo is dated 3-6-1968.
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