My name is David Tew , a distant American relation of Helen and John's. It seems from your write-up that you've read Percy Mitchell's book. I was sent a copy by a fellow who manages a website for Laurent Giles Vertue class sloops. I enjoyed it very much. He sent along this somewhat catty remembrance with the book: "In 1936 Jack Laurent Giles’s staff included a draughtsman called John Tew (who, it is thought, may have produced the lines for the Vertue on Giles’s behalf) and who designed a gaff cutter, slightly larger than Wanderer II, for himself and his...
26′ Tew Gaff Cutter (1937) – MARY HELEN
My name is David Tew , a distant American relation of Helen and John's. It seems from your write-up that you've read Percy Mitchell's book. I was sent a copy by a fellow who manages a website for Laurent Giles Vertue class sloops. I enjoyed it very much. He sent along this somewhat catty remembrance with the book: "In 1936 Jack Laurent Giles’s staff included a draughtsman called John Tew (who, it is thought, may have produced the lines for the Vertue on Giles’s behalf) and who designed a gaff cutter, slightly larger than Wanderer II, for himself and his...