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In front of a memorial in Lisbon dedicated to ‘Henry the Navigator’ |
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With Stefan Kandler, CEO of the AREVA Challenge along side AREVA Challenger Cup boat |
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In front of Opera House and Art Gallery, the new architecture of Valencia |
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In front of the lighthouse at Cape Leeuwin, the most south westerly point of Australia and one of the three Capes my father had to pass during his circumnavigation in 1966-67. March 2007 |
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Proud parents at our daughter Jessica’s graduation from Durham University |
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With the family at home in Devon |
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Sitting on the memorial bench marking my father’s flight across the Tasman Sea and landing in 1931 which I unveiled and which has been placed at Lord Howe Island |
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Me with Sir Francis Drake’s sword in the wardroom of HMS Drakeat Plymouth |
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Throwing the boat, strokeside going under, 1, 2, 3 Up. |
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Paddling away from the hard at Putney |
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From Putney Bridge – our attempt to recreate a nearly perfect photograph taken from Henley Bridge in 1963 |
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ICCF Climate Change Conference October 2005. Change of image or Tory in disguise? |
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With the Mashford Brothers of Cremyll, South East Cornwall, after unveiling the memorial plaque to my father at West Hoe Pier, Plymouth. Mashfords looked after all four Gipsy Moth yachts.
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Attending Devonport Field Gun Team Rehearsal July 1999 in Plymouth. (Team went on to win last ever competition at the Royal Tournament).
Click here for Website |
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Viewing restoration work on Gipsy Moth IV at Camper and Nicholson, Gosport with Paul Gelder, Editor of Yachting Monthly (middle) and David Green, Director of the UK Sailing Academy (right)
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In Committee, September 2004 |
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40th Anniversary reunion outing of my Westminster School VIII of 1963 at Henley Royal Regatta. Bow: Chris Garnett (who now runs GNER); 2: Roly Machin (who now owns Gipsy Moth III and sails her all over the place in classic boat events); 3: Gerry Botha (who came all the way from Vermont USA); 4: Brent Tanner (who is your man for a nip and tuck of expert cosmetic surgery); cont'd below |
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5: was absent without leave in Italy so my daughter Jessica (who also rowed at Westminster but much more recently) substituted for the wretch; 6: Philip Amundsen (grandson of the great Polar explorer who came over from Norway specially); 7: Dan Topolski (son of artist Feliks and famous in his own right for lightweight rowing and as Coach to Oxford University crews over a long successful period); Stroke: me; Cox: Simon
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The family at home at Devon |
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Cartoon drawn during Conservative Party Conference 2003. Who is this guy? |
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Reunion with former nanny Rene Cudmore (right) and Beryl Carter (left) whose father 'Baggy' looked after our garden in Stitchcombe. |
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Meeting Ellen Macarthur, solo round the world yachtswoman at the Royal Geographical Society
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Peter Roberts putting finishing touches to a plaque and engraved slate to be put up in Shirwell Church North Devon, commemorating Sir Francis Chichester. |
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Promoting the launch of Royal Mail 'Extreme Endeavours' set of stamps at West Hoe Pier, Plymouth by the memorial plinth which marks the place where Sir Francis landed at the end of his solo circum-navigation.
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With Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, unveiling a memorial plaque on the front of the London home of Francis Chichester in 1993.
Copyright The Times |
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Myself with HRH Prince Philip and the then Lord Lieutenant of Devon, Earl of Morley at the unveiling of a memorial plaque and stone to my father, Francis Chichester. West Hoe Pier, Plymouth - July 1997 (the spot where he landed after circum-navigation)
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At the unveiling of the Navigators memorial commemorating the circumnavigations of Drake, Cook and Francis Chichester in Westminster Abbey, 1979, with my wife, Ginnie, and my mother, Sheila
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Unveiling memorial carved in oak in the chapel at Bucklers Hard, Beaulieu, with my mother, Ginnie and a very young George. Alongside Lord Montagu and the Very Rev. William Baddeley, 1984.
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On the foredeck of Gipsy Moth V at Plymouth preparing for the 1981 Two-handed Transatlantic Race to Newport R.I.
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Gipsy Moth V under power in Plymouth Sound prior to 1981 race. She was a most beautiful yacht to look at, and to sail.
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Myself at riding school in Wiltshire as a young boy
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With my parents at Oxford after the
Degree Ceremony in 1972. |
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At the helm of Gipsy MothV entering Plymouth Sound after sailing back from the Azores 1977
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A favourite photo taken of the Chichester family in 1964 having just completed sailing across the Atlantic from USA with my father ...
... Happy Days |
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London Rowing Club - competing in Tideway Head of the River Race, 1971. I'm the one with least hair (already, even then!) at six. |
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Rowing at Bow in final stages of Vogalonga in Venice 1976. 27km course around the lagoons. |
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