3/14/2024 0 Comments Crane lifting plan under 2000 lbs![]() The fleet were used as sail-training boats for various organisations over the next 20 years. Only four boats took the start, and the race folded after just one edition. Ten yachts were originally commissioned for the 1999 Millennium Round the World Race, an event designed to compete with the likes of the Clipper Race and BT Challenge, but on a boat that more closely resembled a Whitbread 60 in performance.īut economics and luck dealt a tough hand to the fledgling event. Falken began life with a promise by Bruce Farr to deliver a design that would be “faster on all points of sail than her peers,” as described in a 1998 Yachting World article. Race horses are living creatures and I like to think of sailboats as much the same. That sailing yachts, particularly race boats, are often referred to as ‘thoroughbreds’ is an apt comparison. Coated in algae and slime, Falken was green-hued, her tattered mainsail cover hanging limply from the boom, jack-lines from her last offshore passage still rigged to rusty shackles on deck, water nearly up to the floorboards down below. “The massive green one that looks a bit abandoned?”Īdam wasn’t referring to the paint job. ![]() “Wait, you bought that boat?!” That was 59º North’s bosun Adam Browne’s reaction when I showed him the Farr ‘Millennium’ 65 on the hard in Lymington, which we’d just closed a deal on. ![]()
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