Ellen MacArthur wrote:
"Thom Stewart" wrote
| Ah Yes,
| Sir Chichister used it on his boat ( That name slipped my mind also)

Sir Francis Chichester is the spelling I think. Gypsy Moth is the boat name. He had four of them I think.
The last one he had was just wrecked on a reef in the South Pacific. There's a story about it in Cruising World.


There were 5 Gipsy Moths.

The original was an airplane, sometimes setup as a seaplane, that he
used to set various flying records in Australia around 1930. The name
was the model or the plane, built by De Haviland.

Gipsy Moth II was used to single hand race in the '50's.

Gipsy Moth III was built in 1959 and Chichester use it to win the
first Trans-Atlantic race in 1960 after loosing a lung to lung cancer.

He sailed Gipsy Moth IV around the world in 1966-67.

He sailed Gipsy Moth V from Africa to Central America, trying for 4000
miles in 20 days.