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} |} ''Cythera'' (pronounced ), a steel ketch, designed and built single-handedly by Peter A. Fenton, was the first subject of modern-day piracy, in Australian history, setting legal precedent to laws in effect from 1858.〔1965 "New South Wales Reports: Authentic Law Reports of the Supreme Court of New South Wales" pages 146-160〕 ==Background and design== After being discharged from the Royal Navy and spending one cold winter back in England, Peter Fenton left for warmer climates, joined a group and arrived in Epo, Indonesia to run a tin mine, until the 1945 revolution broke out. Ordered to leave by the Army, Peter arrived in Sydney in 1947. In 1961, aged 37, married with one child, he decided he would build a boat and go sailing. He spent a year teaching himself about yacht design and started night school to learn welding, since he had decided to build his boat of steel, for strength, instead of wood as previously planned. (It would have been a schooner named ''Misty Isles''). The renowned yacht designer, Alan Payne commented that it was a "very hazardous undertaking to build of steel".〔http://www.sailingnetworks.com/organisation/view/9448〕 On 23 January 1961 construction began in a rented lot in Paddington, below Sutherland Road, which threatened to collapse on the almost finished yacht, during torrential flooding in November 1961. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cythera (yacht)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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