Yacht April Fool • Feadship • 2006 • Photos & Video
Tom set the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic record in 1993 in his 5ft 4.5 inch boat, Vera Hugh.It was broken by Hugo Vihlen. Andrew, who has run a boat repair business, has modified Big C himself. The boat is built out of GRP with a foam core. He has modified McNally's plans, making the boat smaller and essentially custom building the vessel for his height.
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The motor yacht superstructure is fabricated mostly with aluminium. With a width of 10.9 metres or 35.9 feet APRIL FOOL has fairly large interior. A fairly deep draught of 3.3m (10.8ft) affects the amount of overall marinas she can enter into, depending on their minimum depth at low tide. She had refit improvement and alteration work undertaken.
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April Fools' Day, sometimes called All Fools' Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery, although one theory dates its origins to the.
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April 2, 2013 A brief history of some of the best sailing April Fool's jokes - and their consequences According to a long and much-loved tradition, websites and magazines run spoof stories.
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On April 1, often referred to as April Fool's Day, it seems fitting to recount the voyage of Hugo Vihlen in his micro-yacht April Fool. In 1966, Hugo Vihlen sailed from Casablanca to Florida, aboard his 5'11" sailboat. In 84 days he sailed 4,100 miles and got within 6 miles of Miami, Florida before being stopped by contrary winds and current.
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Buon April Fool! Hugo Vihlen sailed across the Atlantic in two tiny boats. His first was called April Fool. It was 5 feet 11 inches (1.8m) long. He set sail on March 29, 1968 from Casablanca, Morocco. Over the course of 84 days he sailed some 4,100 miles (6,600 km) before his progress was thwarted by winds and currents.
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W ith it's great dimensions (60.96 meters), the acclaimed April Fool meets all the expectations of all who board her. Aboard this wonderful boat, we find a world of exclusive comfort and ship amenities; therefore, she not only satisfies for her size and space, but also for her luxury and quality.
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"April Fool", 1966 Designed by Ed Mairs Built by Phil Van Deventer, Coconut Grove, Florida 5 feet 11 inches long, 5 feet wide, 1,222 pounds Gift of Mr. Hugo S. Vihlen Would You Cross the Atlantic Ocean in this Boat? That's exactly what Hugo Vihlen did when he sailed from Casablanca to Florida in 1968, aboard this 6-foot sailboat.
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A Korean War fighter pilot and former Delta Airlines Captain, Vihlen previously made an 85 day crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1968 in what was then the smallest boat to have made the journey, the 5ft 11 inch sailing boat April Fool.
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While Vihlen made his first journey in his famously-named April Fool, he returned to the ocean for another transatlantic trip in 1993, aboard his even smaller sailboat, Father's Day, which he sailed all the way to England.
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By 1968 Hugo Vilhen had made the smallest ocean crossing yet, sailing his 6ft April Fool from Casablanca to Miami. Vilhen went on to cross the Atlantic in his 5ft 4in Father's Day, while in.
The April Fool Hugo Vihlen set a new record for smallest b… Flickr
The Florida native first broke a world record for crossing the Atlantic in his 5-foot, 11-inch boat, April Fool, in 1968. Months after his title was taken in 1993 by Englishman Tom McNally, Vihlen, a former military pilot, made a fifth and final attempt to cross the Atlantic, entitling him record holder again.
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Vihlen and Father's Day This wasn't the first time Vihlen made the trek, either. Back in 1968, he made the same trip in a slightly larger boat the April Fool, which measured five feet and.
April fool boat which crossed the Atlantic ocean in 1968 Stock Photo Alamy
It was on April 1, 1968, that Hugo Vihlen set out on one of the most unusual voyages ever made by modern man - a solo crossing of the Atlantic in a sailboat measuring a mere 5 feet, 11 7/8 inches in overall length. Imagine your bathtub with a mast and a three horsepower outboard motor on it and you've got the picture.
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"Mayday, Mayday, Mayday - April Fool, April Fool, April Fool" other fun names for this: Happy Days Crash & Burn Amateur Hour Clueless Going Deep Time & Again Taking Chances Last Call. Serge Testa, who circumnavigated in a 12-foot boat. His book, "500 Days, Around the World in a 12 foot Yacht" is available at Abebooks.com. I met him - great.
