by webmstr | Apr 6, 2013 | David Japp, John Leather
Dear David Yacht AMOKURA Many thanks for your letter and renewed invitation to see the AMOKURA again when she arrives at Lowestoft. I look forward to this after so many years and expect to bring with me an old friend you may know; Bernard Hayman, late editor for many...
by webmstr | Apr 6, 2013 | Fred Shepherd
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by webmstr | Apr 4, 2013 | Fred Shepherd
Beeleigh, a Fred Shepherd-designed gaffer, was built in 1913 for a Bernard Durkin who apparently kept the boat for many years. She then passed through many hands before she was acquired by a Geoffrey Pannell of Huddersfield, Yorkshire sometime in the 1980s or 90s in a...
by webmstr | Apr 1, 2013 | Horace Morgan
Horace Morgan owned Amokura from 1960-69. He had a distinguished career as a civil engineer, and was profiled in New Scientist in 1959. This was shortly after he had become senior partner at Sir William Halcrow & Partners, a leading firm of consulting engineers...
by webmstr | Mar 31, 2013 | David Japp, George Millar
Dear Mr Japp It certainly was a good day's work when you bought Amokura. She was, almost certainly is, a great boat, a joy to handle, a truly wonderful seaboat. Isabel never forgave me for selling her. She wanted me to enter her in the first single-handed...
