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Caption: PICTURES OF YESTERYEAR - MANAGED BY PPL - COPYRIGHT RESERVED
Circa 1952: The 50ft 'Fjord III', designed and owned by German Frers Snr. was entered in the 1952 Bermuda Race When this picture was taken, she was being loaded on a ship that would have carried her to New York. However, Evita Peron saw these graceful lines more an an attractive billboard and decreed that the yacht should carry her political slogan to America along the yacht's topsides.
When German Frers Snr refused, the yacht's export licence was revoked and Fyjaord III was uncerimoniously lifted back onto the dockside. She went on to win her class in the 1954 Newport/Bermuda Race.
PHOTO CREDIT: Frers Archive/PPL
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