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It begins with his father Christopher Lavranos who, along with more than 100,000 of his fellow citizens and the New Zealand Division, escaped Greece following the German invasion of 1941.
Christopher Lavranos spent the remainder of WWII with the Greek Navy as a gunnery officer in a Hunt class destroyer on convoy duties in the Mediterranean. During leave in Alexandria he met and married fellow Greek Fanny (nee Assimacopoulos) in 1942 and Angelo was born three years later.
The Lavranos family returned to Greece in 1945 but the civil war made life dangerous. In fact, more Greeks died in the civil war than during WWII so in 1946 the Lavranos family emigrated to South Africa and settled in Johannesburg.
Angelo Lavranos attended Cape Town University where he did a triple major in philosophy. However by the time he’d earned his degrees, academic life had lost its appeal and he turned to his other interest, yacht design.
“I learned to sail dinghies on the Hartbeespoort Dam and joined Sea Scouts. I’d been collecting
