KEEP UP THE FIGHT
Sep 21, 2022
5 minutes
WORDS BY ALEX STONE
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That was in 1949. In her lifetime – now 73 years – Vega has been at the middle of many high seas and human dramas. She’s been an actor on the world’s political and environmental stages.
But the story of Vega goes back way further than that. In 1890, Colin Archer, the son of Scottish immigrants in Norway, built a 40ft pilot boat named Teddy. She was a gaff-rigged cutter, and forged a reputation for seaworthiness and speed.
was decommissioned in 1928, bought by Norwegian writer Erling Tambs and his wife Julie. They fitted her out as a simple cruising yacht – no engine, no charts. They sailed to France – surviving a North Sea storm – cruised to Portugal, the West Indies, finally reaching New
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