Name Iwunda

IWUNDA is a yacht of carvel construction, pine on oak and was built in 1929 as a one off vessel by W S Meade, a cabinet maker of Southend on Sea and her first owner was F H Garon who was Commodore of the Nore Yacht Club. Later, in the 1950s, she was owned by Jack Coote who sailed her widely on the River Thames and the East Coast estuaries and it was at Maldon that he met the editor of Yachting Monthly and was commissioned to write a series of articles and sketch charts on East Coast rivers; these formed the basis of the cloth bound book East Coast Rivers which was published by Yachting Monthly in 1956. The research for this book was undertaken in IWUNDA and the book was still in print 50 years later. IWUNDA is at present undergoing restoration by her owner.