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Person
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Guzzwell, John
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Description area
Dates of existence
b.1930
History
John Guzzwell is a noted small boat sailor originally from England who immigrated to Canada at the age 25 and built the yacht Trekka in Victoria in the early 1950s. He then sailed her around the world single-handed. When he returned to Victoria in 1959 his was the smallest sailing yacht to have completed a circumnavigation. John Guzzwell then went on to have a successful career as a boatbuilder.