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An incomplete draft of a log-book of the yacht Ayesha, 4 August 1923-15 August 1927, kept by Joseph Boumphrey (1881-1951) of Liverpool, later of Abersoch, shipping engineer. Found loose inside NLW MS 22633iA.

Log-book of the yacht Ayesha, 4 August 1923-15 August 1927, kept by Joseph Boumphrey (1881-1951) of Liverpool, later of Abersoch, shipping engineer, describing races, regattas and sailings on Merseyside, the North Wales coast, in particular the Llŷn peninsula, Menai Straits and Anglesey, and the Isle of Man (see Beti Isabel Hughes, 'The Log-books of the yacht Ayesha and the S.C.Y.C. at Abersoch', Cymru a'r Môr, 16 (1994), 116-123). A reference to the formation of the South Caernarfonshire Yacht Club is found on f. 5. An incomplete draft of the same, 21 May-3 September 1927, found loose inside the volume, has been filed separately (NLW MS 22633iiA).

A notebook containing an account, 16-22 December 1941, in diary form with interleaved carbon copy, of part of a wartime voyage from Liverpool to the Seychelles via Durban by Joseph Boumphrey (see also NLW MS 22633i-iiA). An unbound typescript account of the same voyage, 16 December 1941-28 December 1942, by his wife has been tipped in between ff. 17 and 29 of the notebook (see Mewn Gwisg Nyrs: Atgofion Annie Boumphrey (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1990)).