Thursday, January 8, 2015

You want to have a leg up on the cold?


- Buy "Belle Ile". A 1995 steel, 33' M.B.C.C model. (Modern British Channel Cutter). Presently located in the Canary Islands. She can take you to the Caribbean, where I understand it is warm now! There is still time before the hurricane season. I am waiting for more information, in the meantime I can tell you that the asking price is 63K Euros.

Belle Ile Video.
- I have just received more pictures of the boat.

- I designed Belle-Ile to recreate differently the nostalgic era of the Norwegian Rescue Fleet so well rendered by Colin Archer and so many others. The type of boats that shaped my life at an early age. I was enamored by Jacques-Yves Le Toumelin's  Kurun and the account of his voyage around the world. I must have been 12 years old at the time and in Boarding School. Not fun. When I got the book, I just could not separate myself from reading it again and again. To such an extent that I stole it from the School Library and it is still in my possession.









Comanche 100.

- Comanche, designed by Guillaume Verdier, and winner of the John H. Illingworth Trophy, for being the first across the finish line at Hobar...