The Fai Tira Story

After deciding to make an offer on Fai Tira we were searching the web to find out its history. We found some photos of her in Antigua taking part in the 1995 Blue Water Rally. Well, this was great, we knew we were after a yacht that had the pedigree to cross oceans.
Go to http://www.yachtrallies.co.uk/4reports/WRNArchive17.htm for details.

Fate or Fait Ira
We were sitting in the local Royal Castle Hotel one evening and got talking to one of our neighbours and good friends, Frank and Kay Morgan. They asked how our project was progressing. I told them the news that we had made an offer on a Bruce Roberts yacht. Frank retorted that his brother Bill had built a similar boat and was now living on a boat called Fai Tira 2. Well, we were all shocked when we realised that Fai Tira was the very boat Bill had built in 1996 with the help of Frank. This was Fate. But the icing on the cake was when Frank reminded me that I had sat on the same yacht in 2003 drinking Portuguese beer in Dartmouth with Bill and Frank whilst Bill was in the process of selling her to David and Jean Lennon, whom we have subsequently bought her from. Go to http://www.gannetsway.com/archive/cruise2002/02.htm The next day I rang Bill in France when he was sitting on Fai Tira 2 and he told me all about Fai Tira and that the name meant, ‘Just Go For It’ in Breton slang.

Even more Fate
Looking back to that day sitting on Fai Tira in Dartmouth I now remember having a tour of the boat with Bill and saying to him, “this is the boat I want to sail around the world in”, I also remember thinking that this just going to be a pipe dream and it would never happen. Well, it looks like it might as John and I sent the deposit to BWR office to officially book onto the Rally.