Finnish ketch Daphne in Rapallo (1948)
Finnish author and art historian Göran Schildt´s (1917- 2009) ketch Daphne (10.7 x 2.75 m) after arrival in Rapallo (Italy) in 1948. My restoration and colorization of Schildt´s original image in the Svenska Litteratursällskapet archive in Helsinki.
"Göran Schildt participated in the Winter War of 1939–40 and was severely wounded by an explosive bullet that hit him in the stomach. During the long convalescent period, he decided that if he survives, he will sail down to the Mediterranean on a boat of his own. That dream was fulfilled in 1948, when he, on the ketch Daphne and together with his first wife Mona Morales–Schildt, sailed along the French rivers and canals down to the Italian port city of Lavagna in Liguria. His debute book «In the Wake of a Wish» (1949), in which he recounts the story of this trip, was a great success for Göran Schildt." --
" As a writer, Göran Schildt is best known for the books about his sailing adventures on Daphne. However, his writing is diverse and includes scholarly works on cultural history and art history as well as essays, journalism, travel writing, biographies and fiction. His doctoral thesis in art history is a study of the French artist Paul Cézanne. Notably, his book about André Gide apparently contributed to the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to this French author in 1947. Göran Schildt applied for the professorship in art history at the University of Helsinki in 1947, but eventually had second thoughts about this decision and withdrew his application at the last moment. Instead of academia, he chose sailing and the free life of a writer. In 1965 Göran Schildt acquired a second home on the Greek island of Leros. Here he came in direct contact with the Greek culture. And here Daphne got her new home harbour. Today, the restored Daphne is on display at the maritime museum Forum Marinum in Turku (Finland).
www.villakolkis.org/.../goran-schildt-history.html
"Daphne was ordered by doctor Oskar Mustelin and drawn by Jarl Lindblom in 1935. She was originally a gaff-rigged schooner built at Åbo Båtvarf (Turku Shipyard) but rigged into a ketch in the 1940s by her second owner Uno Tennberg from Ekenäs. Christoffer H Ericsson traded his boat with Tennberg and became thus the third owner of the Daphne. After a failed sailing trip Ericsson decided to sell her and Göran Schildt succeeded in buying her in 1947."
Finnish ketch Daphne in Rapallo (1948)
Finnish author and art historian Göran Schildt´s (1917- 2009) ketch Daphne (10.7 x 2.75 m) after arrival in Rapallo (Italy) in 1948. My restoration and colorization of Schildt´s original image in the Svenska Litteratursällskapet archive in Helsinki.
"Göran Schildt participated in the Winter War of 1939–40 and was severely wounded by an explosive bullet that hit him in the stomach. During the long convalescent period, he decided that if he survives, he will sail down to the Mediterranean on a boat of his own. That dream was fulfilled in 1948, when he, on the ketch Daphne and together with his first wife Mona Morales–Schildt, sailed along the French rivers and canals down to the Italian port city of Lavagna in Liguria. His debute book «In the Wake of a Wish» (1949), in which he recounts the story of this trip, was a great success for Göran Schildt." --
" As a writer, Göran Schildt is best known for the books about his sailing adventures on Daphne. However, his writing is diverse and includes scholarly works on cultural history and art history as well as essays, journalism, travel writing, biographies and fiction. His doctoral thesis in art history is a study of the French artist Paul Cézanne. Notably, his book about André Gide apparently contributed to the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to this French author in 1947. Göran Schildt applied for the professorship in art history at the University of Helsinki in 1947, but eventually had second thoughts about this decision and withdrew his application at the last moment. Instead of academia, he chose sailing and the free life of a writer. In 1965 Göran Schildt acquired a second home on the Greek island of Leros. Here he came in direct contact with the Greek culture. And here Daphne got her new home harbour. Today, the restored Daphne is on display at the maritime museum Forum Marinum in Turku (Finland).
www.villakolkis.org/.../goran-schildt-history.html
"Daphne was ordered by doctor Oskar Mustelin and drawn by Jarl Lindblom in 1935. She was originally a gaff-rigged schooner built at Åbo Båtvarf (Turku Shipyard) but rigged into a ketch in the 1940s by her second owner Uno Tennberg from Ekenäs. Christoffer H Ericsson traded his boat with Tennberg and became thus the third owner of the Daphne. After a failed sailing trip Ericsson decided to sell her and Göran Schildt succeeded in buying her in 1947."