White Cloud - a 1912 Teignmouth Yawl

Les aboard White Cloud at Bradwell Marina on the River Blackwater in Essex, later to become her 'home port'

Anchored off the Buxey Sands, Essex.

This has nothing to do with Barbara's site, merely a way of getting my White Cloud information accessible on the web - however, you're very welcome to have a look at her stunning work by clicking on the headings to the left.

White Cloud is a 25' gaff rigged yawl originally built in Teignmouth, Devon, in 1912 and was bought, in rather a sorry state, by me, Les Weeks, in 2007 as a restoration project for my pending (2010) retirement from 40 years of teaching teaching Craft, Design & Technology.

Before actually retiring, I took advantage of my school workshops, and the space that they offered, to undertake some of the larger, off boat, tasks. Between 2007 and 2013 I worked up to three days a week to restore the boat at Downs Road Boatyard in Maldon, Essex.

Sadly, with our emigration to Western Australia, White Cloud had to be sold and she now has a wonderful new custodian to take her on the next part of her long voyage.