Four legends set to square off during Grenada Sailing Week 2016 (January 28 – February 2)
Grenada Yacht Club in St George’s, Secret Harbour Marina inside Mt Hartman Bay and Prickly Bay Marina are the host venues for our 2016 edition, giving participants a taste of Grenada’s beautiful bays and marine services. Race courses are set off the calmer West Coast and the challenging current-filled South Coast, with a variety of conditions to test racing performance.
GALATEA – (LOA: 72′ 0 / 21.94) The oldest boat in the fleet, was designed by Axel Nygren and built in 1899 for Swedish cork merchant; Gustaf Wiklander. Galatea has been owned by several famous individuals such as the violinist, Jascha Heifitz and the actor, Dick Powell who sailed with fellow celebrities, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant. The boat was eventually sold to the famous movie producer and director of many famous movies, Joseph Mankiewicz.
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LILY MAID – (LOA: 79.53′ / 21.50m) Built in 1904 by Luke Bros. in Southampton for Sir Humphrey Fulthourpe Gooch, Baron of Thaatchbury Mount. Designed by A.R. Luke, yachtsman and well known yacht designer at the turn of the century. In the Med their are still a few important masterpieces by him, like Conti Bernardi (ex Gladoris); Veronique, Maid (ex Lily Maid III), to name a few.
Ownership History: Charles Nicholson of Camper and Nicholson ( the yacht was registered under the property of the famous shipyard in Gosport from 1929 to 1935) , and Lord Amory. The actual owner, since more than 20 years is a navigator, sailing around the world with his family, and a renown and experienced shipwright, having worked for Camper & Nicholson.
THE BLUE PETER – (64.46 / 19.65m) was designed by Alfred Mylne and built by W. King & Sons of Burnham-on-Crouch.
Her first owner Desmond Molins decided in 1938 that he wanted a bigger boat, but he loved The Blue Peter so much that he decided to have her lengthened by nearly 10 feet. She remains true to these plans to this day.
She was named The Blue Peter for luck, after the ‘P’ flag, which is used as the preparatory signal before starting a race.
It worked, The Blue Peter won over 50 races in and around the south coast of England over the next 20 years, sailing out of The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club in Burnham-on-Crouch.
The Blue Peter passed into Italian ownership after the war. She had three different Italian owners before her present owner, Mathew Barker, bought her in 1999.
CHANCE – (38’4″ / 11.68) One of the only two original Loki yawls built in the United States, and one of the two remaining in the western hemisphere. Her builder, Albert Lemos, grew up in the Azores and worked in the Herreshoff yard before leading his own team of hard-working Portuguese boat builders using only adzes and hand tools in Riverside, Rhode Island. She was built in 1949 to the highest standards and incredible engineering for her day including bronze diagonal hull strapping, bronze strapping of all bilge turns, and a beautiful stiff hull shape with no hog or flex. The boat, her long history, and her prominent owners are well documented in her restoration log.