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Stormvogel's Captain Ian Hulleman
Stormvogel in Peak's Yard, Trinidad
Storm Vogel-2008 Rolex Middle Sea Race
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Two people: Fred & Judy , drawn to each other and yet somehow drawn also to the sea, and both intrigued by the idea of living aboard. I saw her, blond and asymmetrical, beautiful, boarding another’s boat and I followed her and wooed her, or she wooed me. That was 1985 and we fell in love and we thought that to buy a boat and make a life together on the water was only natural. So we did. Fate. The boat was WINGS. For the next ten years we lived on Wings in Seattle, had jobs in the city, sailed every chance we got, and 40-50 times a year, went racing. It was great. Then we left Seattle and began our cruising life. We voyaged across the world, across the seven seas, to faraway places, and made them our own. Wings was our home, and is still, and we lived wherever the sea met the land and people welcomed us, as they did everywhere. For thirty years we’ve lived this life, and more to come, we hope. Join us now, and sail the seas. Fred Roswold & Judy Jensen, SV Wings, Caribbean
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Stormvogel
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2012 Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta
2008 Rolex Middle Sea Race
5 Comments:
Hello, Fred,
thank you for those excellent photos. The original oil painting of this remarkable yacht has been hanging on our wall in the Bruynzeel House in Stellenbosch for the last 32 years:) We also have the wonderful wood carving, Bruynzeel won on the Trans pacific race 1967.
http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/pPages/1.html
Best wishes
Rosie Breuer
We have sold the house (with a bleeding heart) and will move back to Germany - alas, nothing lasts...
Beautiful photos of an extraordinary yacht. Never seen her "live" but since my parents where on board for the bigger part of the late sixties I am brought up with stories of Stormvogel.
Believe my father, Peter Lindeberg, were skippering her on TransPac 1967.
Hi, I was mate aboard Stormvogel in the early '70s in the Caribbean. We sailed between Grenada and Antigua on the charter route. It was a really great experience. On board once, was a well know National Geographic photographer (name now forgotten) and he took many photographs for a brochure that was printed up (with me pouring wine in the main salon...). I wish I could recover those images - he was a renown photographer. We sailed back from Antigua to Gibraltar in some really fast time - a true racing crossing.
Of course Stormvogel was featured in the movie "Dead Calm", and when I saw the movie - well worth watching on it's own merits, I almost fell out of my chair when I recognized the boat.
Thanks to all who designed and built such a great vessel!
Chris Smith
I'm in Stockhom right now and was just thinking of those days. I knew your father and mother and the crew of the boat as I was sailing at that time. Grand days those were.
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