Super Shrimp - Shrimpy the first smallest round the world boat

Anyone at Falmouth Classics this weekend who would like to know more, or own a original copy of the first book. It is in Bookmark book shop just up from the haven marina. 😍👍

Here we are 😁

Shrimpy will be at the Falmouth Classics 2023 Thurs, Fri, Sat. Keep an eye on the harbour to see her if you are around.

Shane Acton was born and raised in Coleridge, Cambridge, England. Without any sailing experience, he departed in a used 18' 4" bilge-keel sailing boat for which he paid the modest sum of £400. The boat was a Caprice, a Robert Tucker design originally named Super Shrimp but referred to by Shane simply as Shrimpy. Departing in 1972 (we feel that makes our replica a classic, just) the voyage took 8 years to complete.

Shane was accompanied for much of the voyage by his girlfriend, Iris Derungs, a photographer from Switzerland. He sailed westabout through the Panama Canal, circling the globe and returning to England as a local celebrity.

The voyage is chronicled in his book Shrimpy: A Record Round-the-World Voyage in an Eighteen Foot Yacht.

Available at all good second hand book shops and free online PDF format by searching via Google.

Could literally be the 1970s and the original super shrimp 😍

https://www.bluemoment.com/pdf/shrimpy.pdf

If you have seen Shrimpy around at the Falmouth Classics yesterday, the link above is to the first of Shane Acton's books following his record setting first smallest boat to go around the world trip.

Mast up 😁

Last bits of husbandary before the Falmouth Classics

Mast up Thursday, can't wait

Getting there, will hopefully be ready for the Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival and Falmouth Classics at the weekend

It's alot of orange paint, but it's coming along nicely

We have arrived