SAILING VAQUITA

Our boat is a Najad 331, built in Henån, Sweden in 1998 and was sold to the British Navy as one of a total of nine training vessels. All the boats were delivered to the British Kiel Yacht Club and had names inspired by birds. Ours was christened "Grebe".

One of the marine officers bought the boat and kept it in Sardinia. He sold it on to a Swedish couple who sailed from the Mediterranean back to Sweden through the European inland waters .

The Swedish couple then traded the boat with a Dane for a larger Najad, who renamed the boat "Plaisir". The boat took part in several regattas and even won a short-handed regatta in Skagerrak in the North Sea.

The Danish owner wanted to upgrade to a larger Najad again and sold the boat to a Swedish family at the end of 2018. They renamed the boat Båtis - little boat - and first sailed in Sweden before starting their journey through the inland waters to the Mediterranean.

The last stop on their journey, which lasted several months, was Rosignano Solvay in Italy, where we inspected the boat and bought it in October 2022. Since then, we have sailed our Vaquita in the Tuscan archipelago. Now we are exploring non-European waters with her because Vaquita has not only brought us safely to the African continent but also all the way across the Antlantic.