Kenneth Albert Harwood, Opthalmic Optician and Neauer Messinger, Shopkeeper, both of Guildford, Surrey are listed as joint owners from November 1948 until Brigadier Edward Elwyn Nott-Bower purchased her in 1951. These two owners are also listed in the Lloyds Register of Yachts (1949-51).

During the summer of 1948, the recently retired Brigadier was just completing his first sea voyage on the gaff-rigged cutter ‘Smew’. The voyage is brought vividly to life in his book ‘Ten Ton Travel’, published by John Murray in 1950. According to the Certificate of British Registry and Lloyds Register of Yachts, the Brigadier owned ‘Cachalot’ from 1951 – 1957. He purchased her with funds from the insurance claim after the loss of ‘Smew’ off the west coast of Ireland. From their home in Devon, the Brigadier, his wife Angela and children Colin and Jill sailed ‘Cachalot’ on extended voyages including the Channel Islands, Ireland, west coast of Scotland, Caledonian Canal to Inverness, the Scilly Isles, Coast of Brittany and via the River Gironde and Canal du Midi into the Mediterranean. The Brigadier wrote several articles for ‘Yachting Monthly’ and in May 1956 he describes his last voyage in ‘Cachalot’, leaving her laid up afloat in Andraitx, Majorca, at the end of his summer cruising, 1955.

It would be difficult to imagine a more delectable sail­ing area than the  Balearics in summer, particularly for those who are weary of cold and cloud and rain, fog and tide rips, toil and anxiety, and long for sunshine and warmth, gentle breezes and a clear blue sea. We made a circuit of Majorca and then crossed to Ibiza the most attractive of the islands, and sailed round that our anchorages alternating between gay tourist centres and secluded coves of melting beauy and peace. Finally we returned to Majorca and laid ‘Cachalot’ up afloat at the little port of Andraitx near the south-west point of the island.

EE Nott-Bower, Yachting Monthly, May 1956