Condor of Bermuda, in Brisbane, Australia, under cruising colours in 2004.
Other names
Heath's Condor Condor of Bermuda
Nation
United Kingdom Bermuda
Class
Maxi
Sail no
K–707, KB–87
Designer(s)
John Sharp Bruce Farr (re-fit)
Builder
Bowman Construction Ship Yard Emsworth, UK
Owner(s)
Bob Bell
Racing career
Skippers
Sir Peter Blake Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
Notable victories
1981 Sydney–Hobart (l.h.) 1979 Fastnet (l.h.)
Condor of Bermuda is a maxi yacht campaigning under the leadership and funding of London-based international businessman Bob Bell. Originally called Condor but renamed Heath's Condor for the 1977–78 Whitbread Round the World Race after Bell's association with Heath's Insurance Co (London). There is no link with former British prime minister Edward Heath of Morning Cloud yachting fame. Condor was then later renamed Condor of Bermuda, as government policy in the UK during the 1970s effectively exiled the financing of such a campaign by making the funding and domiciling of such an endeavour from the home countries a practical impossibility.
Condor of Bermuda is a polished mahogany race boat; and is often confused with its successor, Condor (sometimes referred to as Condor II , which was of Kevlar and composite construction, and slightly larger, due to IOR rule changes. The two boats were colloquially known as The Grand Piano and Plastic Condor or the Brown Bus by those who had sailed on both.
Condor of Bermuda campaigned from 1977 to approximately 1983.
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albatrosses. The remains of a colony of short-tailed albatrosses have been uncovered on the island ofBermuda, and the majority of fossil albatrosses from...
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