We are proud to present you some history of our beautiful catamaran.

This Formula II Ocean Racing Catamaran was build in 1984-1985 by a design of Rod McAlpine-Downie. The boat is 60 feet long and is specially build to stand heavy weather. Named as "British Airways" and owned by the well known master sailor from Great-Britain, Robin Knox-Johnston, she started her racing career and proved to
be a fast ship: 4th in the TwoStar Race, 3rd in the Round Britain Race1st in her class Monaco-New York, 1st in her class World Championship 1986, in 10.5 days crossing the Atlantic Ocean from west to east.

Then she was sold to Dutch sailor Henk de Velde.
He named her "Alisun J&B", after his sponsors. He had bought
her to sail the world. Single handed and non-stop, in a record
breaking 150 days. That was the plan, but after some serious
damage he managed to round the world in 158 days.
During the trip, he wrote a book about it: "Een sfeer van onrust",
unfortunately out of print now. Check out the pictures on
Henk's website.
As homage to her legendary past we decided that her name must have the familiar sound of "ALISUN" and also have a link to our beloved and sunny island Aruba. That is the reason why we rebaptized her "ARUSUN"