YAMMA

Updated 19/8/2010

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In June 2006 "Yamma" left Gosport on the first leg of a 3 year passage to the Caribbean and beyond.

She returned to Gosport in August 2009 and is now lying at Hardway .

 

First leg:
From Gosport to Lagos 2006
Second leg:

Lagos to Las Palmas
Third leg:
The ARC 2007
Fourth leg:
The Caribbean
Fifth leg:
Dominican Republic to Baltimore 2007
Sixth leg:
Baltimore to Key West 2008
Seventh leg:

Key West to Miami via Cuba
Eighth Leg:
Miami to Portsmouth VA, Azores, Coruna and home to Portsmouth UK 2009

Yam is the name of the Ugaritic god of Rivers and Sea.
In Hebrew the word "Yam" means "sea",
and in ancient Hebrew, "Ma" means "to the".
Because the sea in Israel is only in the west, YAMMA could be interpeted as meaning "Westwards Ho!" which is exactly what YAMMA did in 2006

 

Route to St Lucia
Route through the Carribean
Route through the USA

 

YAMMA is now Home

 

"Big ships, small adventures; small ships, big adventures"

Contraband 1940 Dir: Michael Powell

Pictures of our new Bowspritas used by Dufour and costsa quarter of the HR version