Auxiliary cutter DOLLY VARDON under sail, 1933

photographic postcard

Photographic postcard; port bow view of auxiliary cutter yacht DOLLY VARDON, wing and wing, black sails, 2 yachts wing and wing in distance. Handwritten in white ink lower left " "DOLLY VARDEN" 1933", and lower right "BEKEN/ COWES". Handwritten in pencil on back "Thomas Ratsey, owner,/ Cowes,/ England,/ These holes frees the spinnaker/ - from back winding but it/ seems better to free it by easing it/ well forward and . .. the holes/ CHWF" [C.H.W. Foster]. (28-8 x 9-6 x 5-2, designed by Wm. Atkin, built by Wm. E. Bunce, Huntington, Long Island, 1928.)