Letters

LETTER OF THE MONTH SUPPORTED BY OLD PULTENEY WHISKY

Memories of summer 1946 on Ziska

In the summer of 1946, a great friend invited me to join them for a cruise on their yacht Ziska. Ziska had been laid up in the war and this was to be her first trip since those grim days. I was only 19 and had never sailed in anything except a dinghy, but accepted with alacrity. My friends lived in Yorkshire and the boat was kept at Whitby. The planned trip was to cross the North Sea to Ijmuiden, at the head of the North Sea canal.

As there were still a lot of mines