A good friend is sailing his yacht home to
Germany from
Fiji via Cape Horn.
As I post this he is 4,400 miles south west of
Fiji (nearly at latitude 50 degrees south, oh that's a cold and windy and lonely part of the ocean) with 2,200 miles to gain Cape Horn.
The
boat is a
classic wooden yawl built in 1920, designed by German
designer Max Oertz. Built as a pleasure
boat, with style and sport, qualities which remain today. She is designed for comfortable sailing on big oceans, turns heads when you enter
anchorages or
marinas and overall wonderful to sail.
The name Pantagruel is from the series of novels “Gargantua and Pantagruel” by François Rabelais whose philosophy is one of
living life to the fullest!
Panta (to her friends) was sunk during Cyclone Yasa in a
remote anchorage in Fiji December 2020. And after
salvage was rebuilt and restored by her owner Michael (aka Misha) at the Vuda Marina near Lautoka.
The vessel has quite a
history and you might be interested to review a web site
SV Pantagruel Obviously there'll be no updates to her web site until owner and yacht are safely anchored up in
Europe in I guess another couple of months.
In the mean time you might be interested to track their voyage on Predict
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