Charlotte Drew on growing up with one of the first Clipper skippers, Mervyn Wheatley

Full Moon was ‘not the sleekest but she got us there’. Photo: Charlotte Drew/Wheatley Charlotte Drew (née Wheatley) recounts early family adventures with a father who was one of the first Clipper…

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