Yachting World

Yacht that lost its keel is brought back from the deep

One of the most remarkable restorations of recent years is a yacht salvaged from the seabed and completely rebuilt as a luxury charter vessel.

arrived in St Lucia in December on the ARC rally, showing her new owner’s confidence in, which lost her keel off the coast of Spain in July 2015. She sank in minutes after the matrix to which the keel stub attached catastrophically failed. The crew were rescued from their liferaft.

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