`` The world 's greatest yachting cartoonist , '' Mike Peyton , began career in German POW camp . In the early 1950s he was recruited by a British intelligence officer to work for MI6 as an agent of influence and propaganda against the Soviet Union. But it was n't until Peyton bought a boat in his late 20s , setting up a business offering charter cruises , that he began to turn his illustrations to sailing . Forced to give up drawing after gradually going blind . New retrospective book , `` The world of Peyton , '' will be last .
`` The world 's greatest yachting cartoonist , '' Mike Peyton , began career in German POW camp . In the early 1950s he was recruited by a British intelligence officer to work for MI6 as an agent of influence and propaganda against the Soviet Union. Forced to give up drawing after gradually going blind . New retrospective book , `` The world of Peyton , '' will be last .