Captain's Log

… she has accommodation for six guests, and two crew. Designed by Olin Stephens when he was only twenty-five, Stormy Weather was launched from the Henry Nevins yard in New York in 1934. The following year she won both the Newport-Bergen Transatlantic race and the Fastnet race. This was the beginning of an illustrious racing career.

A former owner of Stormy Weather, Paul Adamthwaite, has written extensively about her history, and much of what he has written can be found at www.stormy.ca.

Below is an extract, describing her first racing victories in 1935 in the Transatlantic Race and Fastnet.