• Gunboat 66 Catamaran: “SugarDaddy” Saves The Day At Fanning Island

    Tweet Many visitors will remember Gunboat Catamaran’s famous 66′ build, “Sugar Daddy,” a past winner of the Heineken Regatta in the Caribbean. Owners Bruce and Nora Slayden took their prized possession on an ocean “wanderlust” with a bunch of their family to the North pacific — the first GunBoat to venture into this sprawling ocean. For a while the family maintained an entertaining blog and then went off the ‘web’ radar around March 25, 2009 with their final post “The REESSTTT of the story”. A recent blog entry by Kym & Stu, a monohull couple sailing back from the United States to Australia, briefly mention an encounter with Bruce and…