PP/23/3/14 - [Letter, Well Coates to Jack Pritchard, 5/11/46]

Reference code

PP/23/3/14

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, Well Coates to Jack Pritchard, 5/11/46]

Date/s

1946

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Creator

Coates, Wells.

Creator

Pritchard, John Craven,

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

A modified design of the Norfolk Broads cruiser is developed to cope with offshore cruising. Coates proposes that [Wingsail Ltd] would prepare a design which Pritchard would put into prototype construction. Fees and royalties would be payable and Pritchard would be given the exclusive rights for sale of `Wingsail' rigs and the `Wingsail Catamaran'. Competitive sailing trials with friends off the South Coast are expected. Coates proposes to approach a yacht yard to construct a vessel which would fly a 42 foot `Wingsail'. An explanation for the weight distribution of a 36 foot `Wingsail' is given. A revised Bermudian rig for the `26' is expected.

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