On 4 September 1843, while Hugo was travelling with his mistress, his newly married daughter Léopoldine and her husband Charles took to the river at Villequier in a small sailing boat. BNC
Diana Campbell, herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years, dreamt up the idea of a specially adapted dinghy sailing boat in the early seventies, and persuaded Roderick Macalpine-Downie to design it. BNC
With a friend he ran away and after some short voyages was bound apprentice to a Mr. Sanderson, the owner of a sailing ship, the Elizabeth Ann. BNC