Leo Goolden
TALLY HO, the 1927 Fastnet Race winner, was relaunched in April 2024 in Port Townsend, Washington. Top right—Leo Goolden’s first YouTube video, from which this still photo was taken, documented his first encounter with the yacht in 2017.
Thad Danielson, a Massachusetts boatbuilder, knows exactly how close to oblivion the 1910 British yacht TALLY HO was in 2017, just before the English boatbuilder and sailor Leo Goolden bought her for $1.
A shadow of her former self, the yacht had lived through numerous changes, including an ignoble conversion to a commercial fish boat operating out of Brookings, Oregon, far from any yachting center. By the early 2010s, she had been all but abandoned after a man who bought her, and formed a nonprofit organization for her restoration, died before his dream could even get started.