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WINDSPRAY (ex-MOONSPRAY)
Type/Class Sail > West Channel Class (2.5t & 5t+)
Designer: F. C. Morgan Giles
Builder: Morgan Giles Ltd
Year: 1952
Ship statusRegistered
Yard NumberUnknown at present
Home PortWeymouth
Known History
10/03/56 - Name change from MOONSPRAY to WINDSPRAY, believed owner swept overboard, hence change of name.
Since 2005, WINDSPRAY out of water for restoration works.
Superb original condition, interior as per 1952!
ConstructionMahogany on Oak
LOA9.6m (31ft 5ins)
LWL7.9m (25ft 9ins)
Beam2.4m (8ft)
Draft 1.5m (5ft)
DisplacementDetails coming soon
Thames Tonnage8 tons
OwnerDetails coming soon
Previous Ownership
19/11/1952 - Royal Bath Hotel - Bournemouth
02/1956 - George V---, Wothing
10/1959 - W.Lynch / Sam L, Kent
03/1963 - Wallace Clayton, Bishopsteignton,
03/1964 - Morgan Charles Morgan-Giles of Alresford, Hants
04/1964 - Frederick, Brian Cooper of Fivehead, Taunton and Neville Walford of Long-Sutton, Somerset
04/1972 - Neville Walford & Timothy Walford (joint)
08/1979 - Angus Kennedy of Andover
04/1985 - Willian Douglas Allen of Gower St, London.
09/1988 - Peter S Patterson of Calstock, Cornwall
1990? Peter Martin-Kaye (Paignton) & Gordon W Heath of Plymouth, Devon.
08/2004 - Jeremy Churchill, Oxford
11/2004 - Rupert Elliott of South Petherton, Somerset
