fantail
Manyboats "The old iron fantail is a beauty".
The vessel is the "Nothwind". She has a very interesting history:
Northwind is a 130-foot steel riveted yacht that was built in 1930 by the Monitowoc Shipping Corp. for Charles Martin Clark Jr., a wealthy American industrialist.
Drawing 8 feet, she is powered by twin 360-horsepower Paxman-Ricardo V-12 diesel engines, cruises at 12 knots and has a range of 3,000 nautical miles.
For 80 years, Northwind has traveled the world and hosted her share of celebrities from the notorious to the rich and famous.
John Profumo, the British diplomat, and Christine Keeler, a British showgirl with whom he became entangled, were guests aboard the yacht, as were Princess (now Queen) Elizabeth, John F. Kennedy and first lady Jackie Kennedy, and Sir Winston Churchill.
In 1960, the Dalai Lama was a guest for seven days, and onboard the yacht is a conch shell that was engraved by Tibetan monks with an inscription that reads, "Presented to the Captain and crew of M.Y Northwind with grateful thanks for the safe passage to Bombay Harbour of His Holiness the Dali Lama 1960."
During World War II, Northwind was owned by the British government and served as a torpedo-net tender and personnel transport.
She also participated in the evacuation of Dunkirk, France, from May 26 to June 4, 1940, when hundreds of boats of all sizes and description ferried more than 338,000 Allied troops from the harbor and beaches of Dunkirk to waiting naval and merchant ships.
For the last few years, Northwind has been moored at the Inner Harbour in Victoria, British Columbia, conducting cruises and tours of the Gulf Islands, the rugged West Coast and whale watching in Johnstone Strait.