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OWNERS’ CLUB

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Bob Giles Owner of 11.11

Yacht: VivieRae Length: 98ft Length: 206ft
Year: 2017Location: FijiYear: 2015
Location: St Lucia

I was 11. I’m 63 now, so I’ve spent more than 40 years How much time did you spend on board How’s Fiji? Wonderful. I love to dive and it’s How’s your 2018 looking? We’re planning
as a car dealer, so I made the decision that I was going in 2017? Not as much as I’d hoped but got a lot of beautiful reefs and at the same to spend the Easter holidays in Miami and
to take as much time as I neededtime there are lots of amazing resorts,
Can you pick a highlight from the trip? I have two. we spent some time in the Balearic which my wife and our guests love. We’ve the Bahamas, especially the Exumas,
The rst was in Indonesia. We were anchored o this Islands and also in the South of France. done several incredible shark dives and before she heads back to the Med for the
Charter itineraries completed last year summer season. We love the Exumas; the
island and some young boys came out in a couple of included the Amal Coast, Aeolian dived some passes coming into a little beaches are some of the best in the world
dugout canoes. It turns out they were coming back Islands, Sardinia, Sicily and the Bahamas island called Gau. Sharks, huge tuna and How’s she chartering? For her rst year
from school. We spent the afternoon with them, What was the best moment? When we bonito stack up right outside the reef in the charter circuit, the boat has been
jumping o the boat, and they invited us to a wedding left Port Adriano and sailed up the westpasses and they’re amazing to divevery successful. Several clients already
in their village, which turned out to be eight or nine when you have an incoming tide
weddings. So there’s this tiny village, with no running coast of Mallorca, which is What’s your diving set-up like? We have awant to rebook and they’ve said the crew
usually a no-go zone due to the is one of the best they have ever had
water. There were about 200 families there and each wild weather conditions. Very compressor and I dive with a rebreather. We also You’ve bought a Wajer chase boat.
wedding party wanted us to join them. They were unusually, the conditions were have a hyperbaric chamber so we carry plenty of How is it? It’s being bespoke designed
cooking pigs and goats and handing out this alcohol eerily perfect and there was even oxygen. We designed a little dive locker for the and should be delivered in time for this
that was like moonshine. The other highlight was in a full moon. We were able to drop transom, which has a storage area for seven setsyear’s summer season
Vanuatu. We anchored in the collapsed crater of an of scuba gear so you can ll your tank right there
ancient volcano, and as we did 15 or 20 canoes came anchor o the coastal restaurant What route are you taking? We started in China and Have you picked up any other cool toys?
out with people from the local village. They brought us Ca’s Patro March and took then went to Hong Kong, through Indonesia and onWe have added some baby Seabobs and
guests ashore via tendernew in atables, including a slide
fruits and vegetables and we found out they hadn’t to Australia. Then we moved east, stopping at New
seen another boat in over a year. We showed the chief Caledonia and Vanuatu, which was amazing. From Fiji,
round the boat and he invited us the next day to comewe’ll go to French Polynesia, and then the Marquesas
Black Seainto the village and see the school. It was incredibleand Dana Point in CaliforniaSea
That’s a lot of time on board! I’m in the automobile How are you toasting these memories on board?NORTH
business, like my dad. I started working for him whenWith Ron Zacapa rum, mixed with Diet Coke and limeNORTH PACIFIC OCEANof Japan

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Fiddi Angermeyer
Yacht: WildAid’s Passion

RSLength: 159ft
NEYear: 1973
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OUWhy? A sailing boat called Blue Gold ran on board Passion? We used to be on
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BRMembers’ years ago and I’m interested to see if it’s less. We like to spend our time on the
FF there’s a chance of rescuing herboat training the crew to o er a better
JEHow did you hear about her? I heard service, as the yacht has a busy charter
MY;about her a while back through a yacht season in the Galápagos. She’s actually
ALALogbookbroker, but I discounted it as I didn’t think now been renamed WildAid’s Passion,
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STlisting and it sparked something in my organization. Part of the charter income
RAheart. I couldn’t nd any information on goes to help protect the marine
RTAher, but eventually came across an article environment. The islands are obviously
OBEfrom the Vanuatu Daily Post. I contacted exceptional wildlife reserves and are still
REvery month, you tell us where the journalist and learned all I could. I’m in fairly pristine condition, remarkably
O &you are on the seven seas, still not entirely sure what state she’s in You’re heading down to the Millennium
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NCwhat you can see from your If you save her, how will you use her?Cup. What are you looking forward to?
RAMy partner, Silvia, and I have been Mainly seeing the beautiful yachts racing.
Y: Fdeck and your top trip tipsdreaming about a vessel to take around I’m a sailing boat person at heart and own
APHthe world to help raise awareness of the the 216ft tall ship Mary Anne, which also
GRoceans crisis. This could be the onecharters in the Galápagos
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