YACHT BUILT IN BEDROOM

Evening Star, Issue 22577, 19 February 1937, Page 16

YACHT BUILT IN BEDROOM

A PROFESSOR'S ENTERPRISE AS A BOY To the delight of an audience of 150 boys, Professor G. I. Tajdor, Yarrow Research Professor of the Royal Society, described in a lecture at the Royal Institution, Albemarle street, how, when a schoolboy 7, he built a yacht in his own bedroom. The bedroom was 13ft 9in long, and the yacht 13ft 6in long, and when the boat was finished it had to be taken out of the house by pushing it through a window and lowering it to the garden with a pulley 7. “ I sailed in that little boat to Sheerness, Southend, and all about that district,” he said. , Professor Taylor also demonstrated the faults of the various types of anchors in nso to-day. lie showed ono of his own invention, shaped like a plough, which, ho said, was fool-proof. It was at present used only /or yachts, hut it could be drawn up to fit flush with the side of the boat. “ This,” he added, “ should euahle it to bo particularly suitable for big ships like the Queen Mary, and I see no reason why this t.vpe of anchor should not be used by large ships.”