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1993 Whitebread Racing Sailboat

$79,000

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1993 Whitebread Racing Sailboat ‘Yamaha’ was the overall class winning Whitbread 60 in the 1993 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.  She was skippered by Ross Fields and at the end of the race she was taken to California where she became the basis of the America’s Challenge campaign for the 1997 race. After the campaign’s new boat was built; Yamaha was used very little; by 2001 she had all but stopped sailing and went into a long storage period.  Essentially therefore this boat has only sailed a few thousand miles since winning the 1993 race.  9 months ago that storage period ended and Yamaha had $20,000 of work done on her underwater sections to prepare her for a new operational life.  Work was begun on the interior repainting the yellowing Kevlar/epoxy interior into a fresher shade of white, new batteries were bought, the main engine and generator’s 175amp 24v Alternators were rebuilt by Lewco in Long Beach, the engine bay was cleaned and the main engine and generator overhauled, the electrical system was checked through by a professional and the sail inventory unpacked. All this preparation was ahead of the boat being brought round to the Atlantic with another Whitbread 60 to become part of a new race charter organization (www.spartanoceanracing.com) but as it was there was only time to prepare and move one boat in the available timeframe and so Yamaha was left in San Pedro which is a great environment for this kind of boat being very dry, with low humidity. The plan is to return to California next season and bring her South to the Panama Canal and on to the Caribbean as we did with our other Whitbread 60 this summer. We offer here for sale only to create options for ourselves as a new start up company.  An opportunity exists for a new owner to allow us to charter the vessel each year at an agreed price thereby creating  an income for themselves whilst still owning one of the world’s most famous offshore racing boats.  If you want to learn more about this boat contact the agent and they will put you in contact with me Chris Stanmore-Major the current owner of the boat and I can talk you through the details.