Background
Dye was born in Watton, Norfolk, on 23 April 1928 and was educated at Hamond"s Grammar School, Swaffham. After school he joined his father"s Ford car dealership and began sailing in his early thirties.
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In 1958 he bought the first of several Wayfarer dinghies. Foreign their honeymoon they sailed to the Hebridean island of Street Kilda. In 1963, Dye, along with Russell Brockbank, sailed their Wanderer from Kinlochbervie in Scotland to Iceland (landing on the island of Heimaey).
The 650-mile journey took them 11 days.
Aboard they carried only a compass and sextant for navigation. During the journey they encountered force 8 gales, freezing temperatures, seasickness and broken rigging.
In July 1964, Dye, along with crew member, Bill Brockbank (no relation to Russell), sailed the 650 nautical miles between Scotland and the Faroe Islands and across the Norwegian Sea to Norway. During the voyage they ran into a force 9 gale and were capsized four times.
Their mast had been shattered but they managed to jury-rig another.
Frank and Margaret"s, Wanderer, is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall at Falmouth, Cornwall.
