Vanessa Park also spoke of sailing with her father. She sailed with him on both Coniston and Windermere as she recalled. Jeremy and Rachel had gone with them. It was a sailing boat on Coniston, but she did not know whether it was her father's or owned by somebody else. It was a sailing boat bigger than the dingy she said. They used to drive to it. She said she might have been to Windermere as well, and she remembered her father building the boat in the garage and did not recall any boat being kept there before that. She said she remembered going to a boat moored on the lake. She remembered a green boat is what she said. There had only been one boat before that one that was built in the garage, and she remembered the one that was the home built boat as being the Big O. She was asked whether they had ever driven to a boat called a lugger on Windermere, and she said she could not disagree about that, but she repeated that she had sailed with her father on both of the lakes.
Well, Mr. Park gave detailed evidence about his sailing hobby, which you will also bear in mind, and about the boats that he had and either owned or had available to him over the years. His evidence when questioned initially by Mr. Edis was that he had no boat at Bluestones after May or June of 1976. The boat he had immediately up to that time was the 505. It was a fast sailing dingy. He took it up to Windermere for his course so that he could take the children out on the lake. He said this was a racing craft, it was not suitable for children, and he was proposing to take groups of children out on the lake. That boat said Mr. Park needed two to sail it. Mr. Webster put it to him that the boat was quite capable of being sailed by one person with just the jib sail up, and Mr. Park agreed with that, but said it would be a difficult job. Anyway, Mr. Park told you that he accepted an offer to purchase it from a man by the name of Grant, who was as he said in interview an instructor on the course. It is not, there is no evidence to suggest that for example Mr. Grant himself saw the sailing log book, but he was an instructor on the course it seems. The price that was paid was about £200, said Mr. Park. No documentation was needed to effect the transaction. We did see Mr. Park's sailing log book, as you remember, filled in by him in his own hand, which indicated that he had in fact sold the boat in July of 1976, and you have seen the entry many times. It is in our folders.