EDWARD ALLCARD was born in 1914, learned to sail when six years old, and had a lifelong passion for boats and the sea. Following apprenticeship with Clydeside shipbuilders he qualified as a naval architect before World War II. At the time of the ­'Temptress' voyages he was in his early thirties. In later years he conducted a leisurely circumnavigation, and made a year-long cruise around Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn, all in 'Sea Wanderer', a boat he restored from a derelict hull acquired in New York for $250. In 1967 Allcard met his future wife Clare, 31 years his junior, and the following year they drove from the UK to Singapore in a Land Rover. In the early 1970s the Allcards, now with young daughter Kate, acquired the 69ft ex-Baltic Trader 'Johanne Regina', built in 1929. Over some thirty years they restored her while sailing between the Caribbean, Europe, the Seychelles and the Far East. In 2006, aged 91, Edward ­Allcard finally forsook the sea and moved with Clare to a house in the mountains of Andorra, where he died in 2017, aged 102.

EDWARD ALLCARD was born in 1914, learned to sail when six years old, and had a lifelong passion for boats and the sea. Following apprenticeship with Clydeside shipbuilders he qualified as a naval architect before World War II. At the time of the ­'Temptress' voyages he was in his early thirties. In later years he conducted a leisurely circumnavigation, and made a year-long cruise around Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn, all in 'Sea Wanderer', a boat he restored from a derelict hull acquired in New York for $250. In 1967 Allcard met his future wife Clare, 31 years his junior, and the following year they drove from the UK to Singapore in a Land Rover. In the early 1970s the Allcards, now with young daughter Kate, acquired the 69ft ex-Baltic Trader 'Johanne Regina', built in 1929. Over some thirty years they restored her while sailing between the Caribbean, Europe, the Seychelles and the Far East. In 2006, aged 91, Edward ­Allcard finally forsook the sea and moved with Clare to a house in the mountains of Andorra, where he died in 2017, aged 102.