Barquentine
Mandalay
A Danish-built yacht of 1923: Columbia University research vessel and Caribbean windjammer.
Technical data
- Rig
- Barquentine
- Built
- 1923
- Shipyard
- Burmeister & Wain, Kopenhagen
- Hull material
- Steel
- Length
- 71.7 m
- Beam
- 10 m
- Sail area
- 1,190 m²
- Sailing area
- Caribbean and the Galápagos
Built as a private yacht to a design by Cox & Stevens and famous for her speed in many races.
In the 1930s the shipping magnate G. Vettlesen bought her and renamed her Vema. In 1941 she passed to the US Maritime Commission, was rebuilt as a training ship and used to train Merchant Marine cadets. After the war she was sold and converted into a charter vessel.
In 1953 Columbia University of New York owned her and used her to explore the oceans, her rigging being removed.
In 1982 her reconstruction as a cruising ship under sail began and she ran luxury voyages in the Caribbean, preferring the Grenadines.
After the financial collapse of the operator Windjammer Barefoot Cruises she was sold at public auction to Angermeyer Cruises, which renovated her and offered sailing trips around the Galápagos Islands.