Registration number 2326
Status Registered
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Iwunda - before restoration
IWUNDA port side view
Iwunda - underway, port view
Iwunda - underway

Details

Function Leisure Craft
Subfunction Yacht
Location North Bedfordshire
Current use Ongoing conservation
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Meade, W S, Southend-on-sea
Built in 1929
Hull material Wood
Rig Gaff Cutter
Number of decks 1
Number of masts 1
Propulsion Sail
Primary engine type None
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
10.60 feet (3.23m)
Depth
2.00 feet (0.61m)
Length: Overall
34.00 feet (10.37m)

History

IWUNDA is a yacht of carvel construction, pine on oak and was built in 1929 as a one off vessel by W S Meade, a cabinet maker of Southend on Sea and her first owner was F H Garon who was Commodore of the Nore Yacht Club. Later, in the 1950s, she was owned by Jack Coote who sailed her widely on the River Thames and the East Coast estuaries and it was at Maldon that he met the editor of Yachting Monthly and was commissioned to write a series of articles and sketch charts on East Coast rivers; these formed the basis of the cloth bound book East Coast Rivers which was published by Yachting Monthly in 1956. The research for this book was undertaken in IWUNDA and the book was still in print 50 years later. IWUNDA is at present undergoing restoration by her owner.

Grants

  • April - January 2011

    A Sustainability Grant of £1000 towards the cost of caulking was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships

Sources

Coote, Jack, East Coast Rivers Yachting Monthly, 1956

Own this vessel?

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