Alex Pulver

1980s? Monfalcone, Italy

1980s? Monfalcone, Italy

This photograph is believed to have been taken at Monfalcone in Northern Italy.  Amokura has a white hull which marks a change from the black she is believed to have had during the ownership of Ernest Harston and George Millar, and the dark blue...

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1988: Cruising in the Caribbean

In July 2013, Markus Simmeth was walking along the dockside in Palma to meet a friend who had sailed in from the Caribbean, and was struck by a sight that took him back 25 years: Amokura. Back in February 1988, after crossing the Atlantic as...

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1980: Refit pictures

These pictures show Amokura stripped back to her bare frame during a refit by the Pulver brothers who bought her in 1979 from Susan Carr, Richard's widow (he died in 1978).  Amokura was 40 years old at this point and her planking and frames needed...

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