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Atalanti II

Atalanti II

 

Type of Sail: Spinnaker

Age: 20 years old

Material: Spinnaker Nylon

Lived in: Athens, mostly

Distance Travelled: More than 2000 nm

Places most visited: Up and down the Argo-Saronic Gulfs for the half-ton worlds in 1982 and northern Spain for the resurrected world championships in 1993

Sail Number: GRE 49018

Built in 1982 by Chris Oniall, on a design by Joubert and Nivelt, at Olympic in Lavrio she was the second Atalanti team half-toner. She is the only yacht to win a World Championship eleven years apart, in 1982 and 1993.

These were the first sailors from Greece to race offshore boats at an international level. By the time most of them retired to local coastal racing they had brought back more medals in 15 years than anyone in the previous 60. This is one of the sails every other competing boat would hate. Whenever it was hoisted you would sigh knowing that this boat would just zoom past shortly.