![]() There were only four boats like her in the world. She had cost close to $250,000 when built eight years ago. Designed by a legendary naval architect named German Frers, she was built of welded aluminum and bore the flush-deck profile and beefy hull of an ocean racer. ![]() November is not the best time to leave.ĭonnybrook, however, was no fair-weather craft. Each autumn boats and crews are lost to storms of awesome power whirling north from the equatorial regions. They were making "the passage south," and in the surly violence of the fall Atlantic, they knew, it could be brutal. Aboard was a pick-up crew of virtual strangers delivering a vessel largely unknown to them to a place most had never been. She was bound for Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands, some 1,400 miles south - a seasonal migrant from the bay's autumn-chilled waters to the tropical promise of a Caribbean winter. SHORTLY BEFORE NOON ON A CRISP black-hulled 46-foot sloop named Donnybrook nosed out of the sun- washed waters of the Chesapeake Bay into the Atlantic.
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