Name Winnie

WINNIE was built by David Hillyard on a commission from Stanley Orton. Pre- World War 2, the yacht was based in Chichester and cruised the Channel. In post war years, she became a training vessel for the pupils of Mill Hill School, London.

In post war years she passed onto Howards’ son Stanley Farrow. In due course Stanley gifted the Yacht to the ‘Old Millhillians’ Yacht Club (Mill Hill School London) as a club boat in the mid-sixties.  After several seasons in her old home waters of Chichester, it was decided to buy a more practical and easier to maintain boat for the OMYC and in 1970 Winnie was sold to a syndicate of OMYC members including S Farrow, K Coombe and C Lamplugh, who then after ‘Cascover sheathing’ her below the water line, decided to take her to the Mediterranean via Biscay. She spent some years chartering in south of France, Italy and Corsica/Sardinia before heading to Corfu under the skippership of M Johnson (an OMYC Syndicate member) who cruised the Greek Islands until ending up in 1986 for a winter in Bodrum Turkey, at this time T Farrow (Howards grandson) bought out the OMYC Syndicate and formed a partnership with S Orton and C Baverstock (Skipper 1988-1993). Over the 1989-90 winter she had a substantial modernisation/refit in Bodrum to bring her more into line for modern charterwork. She remained chartering in Turkey and the Dodecanese until in 1996 when the Winnie syndicate sold her to a private owner, thus ending some seventy years of Farrow family ownership and association.

When sold in 1996 she left Turkey for Greek waters again and in 2010 she was reportedly still chartering and based in Corfu, Greece.