The 19th century Polperro gaffer Moonraker of Fowey off Honolulu, July 1953. She was bought, restored and sailed by Dr Peter Pye and his wife Anne on voyages across the Atlantic and Pacific from the late ’40s until his death in 1966.

Peter Pye wrote five books about these voyages: Red Mains’l (1952), The Sea is for Sailing (1957), A Sail in a Forest (1961), The Sea is King, and Backdoor to Brazil.