I have known the 1935 Ditchburn, 52' Yacht Windswept III since 1993 or so along with her owner Gordon Russell. She participated in the first kids-at-risk and antique boats events I created at that time and she was the logo for Mahogany Harbour when I created that kids boat museum in 1999 with partners Gordon and Bob Bannerman.
Gordon has had her fully restored over those years and he and I have cruised her to Ottawa, Clayton, Niagara-On-The-Lake and many other interesting points along the way. For health reasons Gordon has passed her along to the new Thousand Islands Boat Museum in Gananoque and he asked me to captain her there. So the Last Cruise of the Windswept happened a few weeks ago - apparently on the only two sequential calm days of the year!
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| MB at the helm |
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| never get tired of this view |
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| Beauty shots in the Murray Canal |
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| beautiful lines and details, custom built for Billies Brothers |
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| Pirates off the port beam! |
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| Steve Carter and Ian Russell |
The cruise was amazingly smooth, Grant met us at Murray Canal and Ian took us all to dinner at Drake's. Second day saw us arriving in Gan to a lovely reception!
I am wondering about Windswept. I would like to know her beam at her widest point and her draft. I plan to build a model of this kind of boat. Do you have measured drawings?
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