HOW I SAILED AROUND THE WORLD IN MY 32 FT YACHT
She was one of the saddest boats I’d ever seen, but her lines were beautiful.
Olleanna, an Olle Enderlein-designed OE 32 with a dark blue hull, caught my eye in a way that few boats ever have; it was love at first sight as I stared down at her from the dock at the Royal Cape Yacht Club in Cape Town.
In South Africa, we don’t see a lot of foreign designs other than the run-of-the-mill French production boats from Beneteau, Dufour and Jeanneau, so Olleanna stood out.
I started asking around and found she’d been entered in the 2018 Golden Globe Race by her Norwegian owner and skipper, Are Wiig.
Are was in fourth position in the race when he suffered a knockdown and capsized around 400 miles south-west of Cape Town.
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