ABOUT "TRAVELS WITH EOS" - by Bill Henderson    
(Eos - The Greek Goddess of dawn, mother of the stars and the winds)

While many of us now think of the Shark as an essentially Canadian, Great Lakes boat, no fewer than 100 of the first 500 Sharks, built by George Hinterhoeller at Niagara-on-the-Lake, were sold to sailors and dealers in the United States.  Of these, 8 went to Michigan and 1, hull #480, was registered to Burr Sales, on Woodward Avenue in Detroit.  This Shark, named Eos by her 'Brit' owner, Randal Peart, became a 'legend' in the annals of the fleet, sailing from the Great Lakes, to Florida, across to the Bahamas, and Bermuda, to Falmouth on the south coat of England and subsequently, through the canals of France, and back again to the Bahamas.  This 'epic voyage' is the subject of our feature article "TRAVELS WITH EOS", written for us by Randal Peart himself.

We would like to record a very special vote of thanks to Randal's wife Pat, without whose, helpful persistence we might not have been able to '...give substance to the legend...' and fill in yet another chapter in the history of the Shark.

Who is Randal Peart?  Well, Randal explains something of who he was in the article itself and it would seem superfluous to add more here.  If we are, as I believe, the 'sum of our past', he probably still is, as he was described to me, "...an eccentric, if not mad, Englishman..."  Given his exploits, this seems an appropriate description... so CLICK ON HIS PICTURE and read on!  

Randal Peart at about 39 years, at Coral Gables, Florida