Eye of the Wind is a brigantine converted in the 1970s from the topsail schooner Friedrich built in 1911 at the C. H. Lühring shipyard in Brake, Germany.

In 1923 she was registered in Sweden, under the name Merry, and was used for transport in the Baltic and North seas and for fishing herring off the coast of Iceland during summer.

In 1969, then stripped of her masts and sailing as a motor vessel, she was severely damaged in a fire that almost destroyed her.

In 1973 a group of sailing enthusiasts, including Anthony "Tiger" Timbs, who later became her Master, began rebuilding her at Faversham, England.

After the restoration was completed she was given the name Eye of the Wind, inspired by Sir Peter Scott's 1961 book.