Velsheda The J Class Americas Cup Yatch
A Memory of Bursledon.
The boat at the left of this view is the Velsheda at that time a houseboat. What a come down from racing in the Americas Cup before the war! I remember my uncle taking my father and I out in his 18ft boat for a cruise up the Hamble and pointing her out to us in the early 1960's. Thank goodness she was rescued and after millions spent now sails once again in all her glory.
I think it was on this trip that one of Cunards Queens [RMS Queen Mary or Elizabeth] sailed out I could not get over the sheer size looking up from a small boat.
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