{"id":4907,"date":"2021-03-11T07:04:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T07:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/1148-echion-sails-on-or-remembering-that-blue-pink-and-white-downwind-sail\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:25:58","slug":"1148-echion-sails-on-or-remembering-that-blue-pink-and-white-downwind-sail","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/saltystories\/1148-echion-sails-on-or-remembering-that-blue-pink-and-white-downwind-sail\/","title":{"rendered":"1148"},"content":{"rendered":"

1148<\/h2>\n

Echion Sails on or remembering that Blue Pink and White downwind sail<\/h5>\n

Type of Sail: Spinnaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

Years in use: 90’s to early aughts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Material: Ripstop nylon sailcloth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Port: Nautical Club of Palaio Faliro (N.O.P.F)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Distance Travelled: Quite a few hundred miles have been put into this sail<\/strong><\/p>\n

Places most visited: Aegean<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sail Number: N\/A<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was a downwind sail from Echion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Echion was an IMX-38. <\/p>\n

IMX-38’s are a 38 ft cruiser-racer designed by X-yachts of Denmark that took the Hellenic Yacht Racing scene by storm during the late nineties. <\/p>\n

They may look like buckets with a mast today but back then they were as cool as Kurt Kobain’s style was. <\/p>\n

This sail raced and won tens of regattas of a decade and a half. The boat was named Echion after an old tradition in Greece that holds that you name racing yachts after characters of Greek mythology.<\/p>\n

So it was with Echion.<\/p>\n

Once more into the wine-dark sea…<\/p>\n


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