Talk:Gipsy Moth IV

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Gipsy Moth IV is a 54ft ketch. . . Gipsy Moth is not a Ketch bat a Yawl.

. . . A yawl is a two-masted sailing craft similar to a sloop or cutter but with an additional mizzen mast well aft of the main mast, often right on the transom. A small mizzen sail is hoisted on the mizzen mast. . . (Wikipedia)


 * The difference between a ketch and a yawl is whether the mizzen is forward or aft of the rudder post. Gypsy Moth's mizzen is stepped in the cockpit; it seems unlikely that the rudder post is forward of this. Therefore she is a ketch. 81.187.153.189 ([[User

talk:81.187.153.189|talk]]) 00:29, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Gypsy Moth IV is a yawl. Though a 54 ft yacht is normally wheel steered - Chichester wanted her tiller steered to make the self steering system simpler to operate. The top of her rudder post is in the middle of the cockpit and the mizzen mast is just aft of it. You can see it in this YouTube footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mww1tBATmDI

The entry refers to the Royal Air Force overflying the GM IV off Cape Horn. This MIGHT be true. However much more famous footage that was shown on TV at the time was shot - if memory serves me correctly by a Sunday Express photographer from a chartered Piper aircraft - flying out of Chile. The footage is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRnC1jtjXmg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.175.223.241 (talk) 19:21, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Is this the boat named in the Dire Straits song Single Handed Sailor? --Dandelions (talk) 18:21, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

160 miles
" 160 miles (260 km) a day" is what the source says but it seems much more likely that it was 160 nautical miles a day, which is only 6.7 knots, but that is more like 290 km. Billlion (talk) 08:12, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

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29 September 2017 update
Gipsy Moth IV spotted in Beaulieu River. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws-dmFqKZThcFFmNW9sZEMyNUk/view?usp=sharing 78.144.18.166 (talk) 23:00, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Naming
It would be of encyclopaedic value to explain why the vessel shares a name with the gypsy moth, a destructive pest in the US. – Fayenatic  L ondon 08:01, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * The reason for the yacht's name is in the lead paragraph. Davidships (talk) 16:23, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I don't know how I missed that! – Fayenatic  L ondon 12:55, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
 * A nice leisurely conversation, Fayenatic. Cheers.  Davidships (talk) 23:20, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * The yacht Gypsy Moth IV running before a heavy quartering sea RMG BHC2485.tiff

British Passports
…no longer have a picture of said yacht inside the back cover. Mine – issued in April 2022 – has an outline map of the UK. It’s not blue either, but that’s a subject for a different article. Mr Larrington (talk) 09:09, 12 June 2022 (UTC)