Uffa Fox's Hearts Desire

Hello Everybody, I'm trying to locate the plans/discussion of Uffa Fox's Heart's Desire. I have all of his prewar books except the last, The Crest of the Wave. If anyone has a copy of The Crest of the Wave or the recent collection, The Best of Uffa, and can tell me if Heart's Desire appears in either of them, I should really appreciate it.

Cheers, John P

 

I suggest you try getting in touch with these people; Uffa Fox On Line Home Page http://www.uffafox.com/ .They are morel likely to have the information than anybody else.

 

Hello, Thank you for that information. I didn't know about the organization.

Cheers,
John

 

Hello John,

I have a copy of the book 'Best of Uffa' - I have just had a look in the contents, but there is no mention of Heart's Desire.

There is a mention of her in this thread on the Wooden Boat Forum, where they note that she is mentioned in Roger Taylor's book 'Still More Good Boats'.
Bob and Nancy Griffiths Awanee http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?198838-Bob-and-Nancy-Griffiths-Awanee&s=bfdb29a273d298d7a6a102ea69c83255

 

She also features in the epilogue of "Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction" by Uffa Fox

There's a lines plan, description and some more drawings viewable from page 262 here:

Sailing, Seamanship, and Yacht Construction | PDF | Wound | Sea https://www.scribd.com/document/545091112/Sailing-Seamanship-And-Yacht-Construction

 

The Internet Archive has a digital copy of "The Crest of the Wave" you can download it in PDF and a lot of other formats. Using the online search function with "Hearts Desire" yielded no results.


https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.523335

 

Thank you all. You've been most helpful. I thought I had all of the pre war books except for Crest of the Wave. Turns out I was wrong. I've ordered a cheap and battered copy of Seamanship, etc, and viewed the appropriate pages on the archive.

Best, John

 

Thank you Tad. That's just what I was looking for.

Cheers,
John