1940s-50s?: Amokura moored up and at anchor
1939: Sea trials
1939: Family and friends on board after the launch
1946: “We Should Have Had The Poisson” by Ernest Harston
This piece was written by E. S. Harston, Amokura's first owner, and published in The Yachting Year 1946-47
I don't think this story is altogether true, so that if any of the deleterious types who formed part of Amokura's crew happen to read it, they shouldn't be misled. It deals with some of the yacht's wanderings during 1946, and to be logical should no doubt begin with a description of the yacht herself.
She was built in 1939 after a lot of thought. After all if we were going to have Read more [...]