We are very pleased to announce that Xavier and Amanda Z., the owners of the 44 foot
Lagoon catamaran Rebelle, decided to "sail with a greater purpose" and have joined Sea Mercy as a Dedicated Floating
Health Care Clinic (FHCC) for
Tonga and the island nations in the
South Pacific.
Rebelle will be relocating to
Tonga from
Tahiti in June and will begin operating as a FHCC starting in August of 2013. She will carry
health care volunteers (doctors, nurses, dentists, etc.), local
health ministry staff, and
medical supplies to the
remote islands that do not have the same
health care available to the primary, more populated, islands on Tonga. Working on a 2 week rotation of volunteers between resupply stops, she is a valuable asset to the Tonga people and to Sea Mercy.
Rebelle, is Lagoons first Hybrid vessel (luxury Prius with sails) and economy and comfort will be a huge help in keeping operational costs low. She will be joining
Dragonfly (a 65 foot
catamaran scheduled to arrive in Tonga in June of 2014) and Sea Mercy's growing fleet of FHCC's for the
South Pacific. For more information on
Rebelle and her owners, visit this
Sea Mercy website link. She will remain in Tonga until June 2014, then they plan to sail her to
Fiji to begin FHCC operations for Sea Mercy there. Sea Mercy is in discussions with several other owners looking to participate in future FHCC programs.
Thanks again for all the
advice and support here at Cruisersforum!
Richard Hackett
Sea Mercy
www.seamercy.org