VAGABUNDO II


VAGABUNDO II DESIGNED


German Frers, 1945 BUILT


Domingo Catani, San Isidro, Argentina


LENGTH OVERALL 42ft 4in (12.9m)


LENGTH WATERLINE 31ft 2in (9.5m)


BEAM 10ft 6in (3.2m)


DRAUGHT PLATE UP 5ft 7in (1.7m)


DRAUGHT PLATE DOWN 8ft (2.5m)


were displayed on every wall. Philippe’s two sons had come in with warps coiled up in their hands. It had taken me an hour to work out that Vagabundo II was right outside – in their ‘backyard’, through the blinds, in the water! She lay near Philippe’s other yacht Freya, a 47ft (14.3m) Bill Dixon sloop.


Above: Vagabundo’s lines were adopted for the Boreal class


Considering Philippe has a collection of yachts, I wondered why the Fabres had acquired Vagabundo II. As we went to a café in his son Robbie’s Boston Whaler, Philippe insisted that buying Vagabundo had been a mistake – he’d thought she was his father’s friend’s yacht Escorpion. He had come across the boat via telephone and email, through a friend who had found her in Port Cogolin, Saint-Tropez. This friend described her as being “the perfect boat for Robbie”, and Philippe instinctively acquired her on the basis of seeing some photographs on his iPad computer.


BENEFICIAL MISTAKE


Philippe had been looking for a boat for his son Robbie’s 21st birthday in 2010. His gift of a yacht was to develop Robbie’s marine career, for him to experience the responsibility of owning and skippering a racing yacht as an extension of his future professional career in the design and build of sailing vessels. Robbie is currently enrolled at the International Boatbuilding Training


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