#Latest news with #SASVeteranTimes17-05-2025GeneralTimes‘I spent £100,000 building my whale boat — but no one wants it'Nine months ago an 82-year-old former soldier put his novelty boat on the market. Nobody is biting. Tom McClean built his 60-tonne steel whale with the dream of sailing across the Atlantic. Now all he wants to do is sell it. 'It is up for sale and we are assessing options. I want to keep some involvement as it has been a huge part of my life,' he said. 'I think it could be a symbol as iconic as the Angel of the North — a sort of Whale of the West.' • A salty swansong for the SAS veteran and Moby, his iron whale McClean joined the army at 17 and first sailed the Atlantic in 1969, aged 26. He made four subsequent solo
Times17-05-2025GeneralTimes‘I spent £100,000 building my whale boat — but no one wants it'Nine months ago an 82-year-old former soldier put his novelty boat on the market. Nobody is biting. Tom McClean built his 60-tonne steel whale with the dream of sailing across the Atlantic. Now all he wants to do is sell it. 'It is up for sale and we are assessing options. I want to keep some involvement as it has been a huge part of my life,' he said. 'I think it could be a symbol as iconic as the Angel of the North — a sort of Whale of the West.' • A salty swansong for the SAS veteran and Moby, his iron whale McClean joined the army at 17 and first sailed the Atlantic in 1969, aged 26. He made four subsequent solo
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