Surprise: a boat that went from myth to tragedy
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This is a boat that has marked the history of modern yachting. Aboard this sloop Ambrogio Fogar completed the east-west circumnavigation of the globe: Fogar was the first Italian to succeed, against the prevailing winds. But in 1978 all hell broke loose…
WHAT A FEAT WITH SURPRISE (1973)
The first who proved that even an ordinary man without much sailing experience can accomplish a feat. A former insurer in Milan, Fogar, with an endless passion for adventure, had left the port of Castiglione della Pescaia on the morning of November 1, 1973, aboard his “Surprise,” a 1968 wooden 11-meter (designed by John Holden Illingworth, built in Castiglione della Pescaia by Niccolò Puccinelli) that later became as famous as he.
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