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WEATHER BIRD

Sail with the ghosts of history

  was commissioned for Sara and Gerald Murphy, a high-society American couple whose parties lit up the era on the French Riviera are based on the Murphys. was built by Chantier Navals De Normandie in 1931, to a design overseen by Russian aristocrat Victor Orloff and Frenchman Henri Rambaud. She was given a 17-month rebuild that ended in 2021, leaving her in “wonderful” condition. She sleeps eight guests in four cabins, with further accommodation for five crew.

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