I suspect that dear little Felicity Ann didn't even look as good as that on the day she was launched! Before the days of the Internet when fact checking was so much easier (as long as you use Google and Wikipedia, rather than Facebook and YouTube), it seemed that I was constantly telling people that no, Clare Francis was not the first woman to sail single-handed across the Atlantic. Another woman had done it two decades earlier! And of course Kiki and Thies are some of the best small-boat sailors on the planet, although poor Thies still has to put up with people asking "is that Eric Hiscock's old boat?".
Reading Around the World in Wanderer III tends to bring me close to tears: it was all so different then. Even (again!) two decades later, when I first crossed an ocean, things had changed, but all the places we visited were definitely 'foreign' and exotic, most boats were wooden, many were small, few had reliable engines and everyone knew how to navigate with a sextant, even if it was a case of just taking a noon sight, hoping the log was accurate and keeping a damn good look out towards the end of the passage. All so different now and, to my mind, so much has been lost along the way.
Old women are allowed to be nostalgic, so I make no apologies.