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V15 - "Ecstasy" ex "Ivy"(1925) ]
Built in 1925 as a Solent Sunbeam V.23 Ivy, she appears to have retained her name but changed number, to V.15, in 1927, when the Falmouth numbers were reassigned to Solent Sunbeams.
1947 Lloyds Register # 3092: IVY (1926) (sic) Solent S.O.D., Ratsey sails 1935, Home port Southampton
Owner: Miss Gwendolen Dorrien-Smith, Fishbourne House, Ryde, I.O.W. Member -Isl.
[one of Major A. A. Dorrien-Smith's daughters? (Tresco Abbey)]
V23 Ivy (1925-27)
V15 Ivy (1927-65)
1961 Lloyds Register # 3536 [pp.259 & 1095] IVY (1926) Solent Sunbean O. D. Home Port Christchurch.Owner. R. Whittingham, The Glade, Spa Road, Melksham, Wilts. Member Christchurch. -Law, -RYC.
V15 Ecstacy (1965-)
V15 Mayfly (19--?
1968: V15 Ecstacy Registered Owner, R.P.S. Montagu-Scott. [Lloyds Sail Numbers of Racing Yachts, 1968]
1972, V.15 Ecstacy is listed as a Solent Sunbeam owned by Messrs. D.G. Ryland, of Summerdale, Chichester, and B. J. Taylor, of Bognor Regis, Sussex.
1999: V15 Mayfly (Ray Steadman & Alan Stannah, Itchenor S.C.) entered The Falmouth Sunbeams 75th Anniversary Championships held 22-27 August. Her hull colour was then Light Blue.