Take a few minutes to check out a new website just launched last week – featuring Ester, the 1901 champion racing yacht designed by Gunnar Melgren. Ester’s radical lines with her dagger keel gave her an extreme performance and she was a legend in Baltic yachting circles. But she sank offshore in the late 1930s and seemed lost forever…
But the Swedes seem good at bringing vessels out of the deep, as their stunning Vasa museum in Stockholm proves, and so perhaps it was a normal idea for Bo Eriksson and his friend Per Helgren to start dreaming of finding her again… after some research Per had narrowed it down and incredibly Ester was found – intact in 165ft (50m) of water. She was raised and they have been rebuilding her to sail at the Mediterranean regattas… And she will be for charter!
Website for her is: HERE