IN March, 1949, two former members of the life-boat's crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley Smith, aged thirty, and Colin Smith, aged twenty-nine, sons of Coxswain S. T. Smith, went to Canada. There, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, they built a yacht, choosing the timber, building her and fitting her out entirely with their own hands. She was 20 feet long and had a beam of 6 feet 6 inches. They named her Nova E.tpero.

So sure were they of their crafts- manship and skill that they decided to sail her home across the Atlantic.

With their stores on board she had barely fourteen inches free-board.

They set out from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on the 6th of July, and made their first port of call, Dartmouth, Devon, forty-three days later! There they were given a great reception.

They set out again a few days later and on the 30th of August, a beautiful summer day, they sailed their little yacht, under mainsail and jib, into Yarmouth harbour..