Antigua and Barbuda: Goleta Gringo and Swan 65, Saida are all set to take part within the 2024 Antigua Basic Regatta, which can happen from April 17 to 22, 2024. The latter was just lately showcased within the racing marketing campaign of the ARC in December 2023.
Antigua Tourism Authority expressed pleasure with the arrival of the yacht and mentioned that the vacationers will see it in Nelson’s Dockyard in April. The Goleta Gringo is Fernando Zuccaro’s Brazil-based, 120-foot schooner for the 2024 Antigua Basic Regatta.
Constructed by the Roncallo shipyard in Genoa, Italy, in 1886, she was initially named the Luigi Palma and carried cargo within the Mediterranean and between Europe and South America for a lot of a long time. In 1933, she relocated her base to Argentina, was renamed Pegli and commenced a life as a cargo hauler on the South American coast.
Her first engine was put in in 1950 however by the 1970’s her use as a cargo hauler was over and he or she was deserted within the Lujan River in Argentina in 1974. Fernando found her buried within the mud in 1990 and commenced a 20-year restoration utilizing conventional supplies.
Doing the work utterly on his personal, she nonetheless has her authentic rig configuration, however the inside was utterly re-imagined. Regarded as the oldest vessel nonetheless crusing within the ocean, vacationers can’t wait to see her in Nelson’s Dockyard.
Coming to Swan 65, Saida, the twin-island vacation spot will supply a hearty welcome to the 2024 Antigua Basic Regatta to Juerg Schneider’s Basel, Switzerland based mostly, ketch rigged Swan 65, Saida.
She was designed by Sparkman and Stevens and constructed by Oy Nautor AB in 1973. She’s had a really spectacular racing marketing campaign within the Med for the previous few years and crossed the Atlantic within the ARC, arriving in Saint Lucia in December of 2023.
Moreover this, the 2024 Antigua Basic Regatta welcomes again Aidan Mccauley’s 40-foot Carriacou Sloop, Navasana. She was constructed by the legendary Alwyn Enoe utilizing conventional strategies and supplies on Windward Seaside in Carriacou in 2008 and graced the Antigua Basic Regatta many occasions below her earlier identify “Ocean Nomad”.
She had fallen into disrepair when Aidan bought her and he turned to Andrew Robinson and Woodstock Boatbuilders for a significant refit in 2023 that took this forgotten magnificence and reimagined her as Navasana.
Woodstock’s restoration stayed true to traditions and he or she was adorned with a sculpted transom board and mermaids on the bow by well-known BVI artist Aragorn making her a real murals. Together with her new identify and exquisite restoration full she debuted her new take a look at the 2023 Antigua Basic Regatta profitable the Woodstock Trophy for finest restoration of a traditional boat.
