Articles About Fiona:
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Yachting Monthly June 1912:
This little cruiser will interest some of our readers. She has just been
built at Poole, and was designed by E. P. Hart to meet the requirements of
her owners....
The Borneo Bulletin, November 5, 1977 -
Spirit of adventure links trio - Bandar Seri BeJawan:
Three men and a boat arrived here last week- all of them remarkable in
their own right. First of all, the yacht Fiona. It is a 42ft wooden ketch
built in England 65 years ago, still going strong. Its distinctive 12ft
bowsprit is the same length as its beams. On board are Mr. Brian McGarry,
who set sail from England five years ago; Mr. Gavin Young, a prize-winning
journalist; and Mr. Wilfred Thesiger, a naturalist and traveller
extraordinary who is here to visit the Gunung Mulu rain forest expedition
in Sarawak...
Santa Barbara New Press:
Harboring Fiona, Couple show off their live-aboard home before embarking
on year-long cruise. It [Fiona] has seen 30-foot seas and withstood winds
as strong as 50 knots, but the battered 88 year-olf Fiona looks good
enough to stop most sailors in their tracks...
Orange County Recorder - Newport Beach:
Don Burns rows across Newport Harbor to his 42-foot cutter Fiona, which
was built in Poole, England in 1912. Two guys in a motorboat pause in the
middle of the harbor to toss a compliment Fiona's way. "She's a beauty,
That's for sure!" one shouts out, raising a beer can in salute.
Yacht: The sailors' modest goal for Fiona is England by 2012 or Bust:
For most of her life, Fiona was based near her home shipyards in England
- Burns, her fifth owner, has all her old logbooks from voyages past, But
the man he bought Fiona from in the late 1980s had traveled the globe with
her for nearly two decades, taking Fiona 2 1/2 times around the world...
The Yacht Fiona, a Fetching Plodder - The Orange County Register:
Sailing - It's slow and steady, with plenty of time to tell a mariner's
tale. The vintage yacht - sailed by burns and his longtime girlfriend,
Stevie Weber - is headed back to Poole on the south coast of England,
where the boat was built in 1912...
Los Angeles - Orange Co. Bureau Chief - Dana Point - October 4, 2001:
Not So Tall, but Storied Ship Fiona Joins Festival. At only 42 feet long
Fiona was the smallest of nine boats participating in the 17th annual
Tosiba Tallships Festival Sept. 8 and 9, but it was one of the event's
most storied boats...
Fiona en Los Canales:
Fiona, viejo velero de sesenta y cuatro anos, navega opr los canales de
la Patagonia y Magallanes. A bordo, tres gringos que comparten el amor al
mar, a la naturaleza y a la aventura...
La Prensa Austral - Punta Arenas - Dec 30, 1975:
Breve recalada del "Fiona" en P. Arenas: Un yate britanico rumbo a los
fiordos natalinos. A las 11 de la maņana de ayer y con sus velas
despiegadas, bizo su entrada al puerto de Punta Arenas el yate britanico
Fiona, que viene procedente del Mar del Plata, Argentina...
Ha superado dos veces Cabo de Homos, en el extremo sur de America:
Este velero de apenas 42 pies (12,8 metros), ha recorrido el Pacifico sur,
Hawai, Alaska, las cercanias del Circulo Artico, todo Centroamerica y el
Mediterraneo. 93 aņos en el agua. El Fiona se construyo en 1912, el mismo
aņo en el que se hundio el majestuoso Titanic, en el puerto de Poole, en
Dorset, al sur de Inglaterra...
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