Super Shrimp - Shrimpy the first smallest round the world boat

Super Shrimp - Shrimpy the first smallest round the world boat A project to create a replica of the Super Shrimp, a 18ft Caprice that was the first smallest boat t

Sorry for the radio silence folks, we have been moving house and not really on this page. Shrimpy has never the less bee...
16/08/2026

Sorry for the radio silence folks, we have been moving house and not really on this page. Shrimpy has never the less been well used in the last two years. Multiple trips around the river Fal, a few over to Helford and St Mawes. We even got dad on to the boat for a sail a few Christmases ago 😁⚓⛵

Shrimpy is rudderless at the moment, being fixed up on the garage bench, back to it ready for those still winter days drifting around again soon 👍

Anyone at Falmouth Classics this weekend who would like to know more, or own a original copy of the first book. It is in...
16/06/2023

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 😁
15/06/2023

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.S...
14/06/2023

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 😍
16/07/2022

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

https://www.bluemoment.com/pdf/shrimpy.pdfIf you have seen Shrimpy around at the Falmouth Classics yesterday, the link a...
17/06/2022

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 😁
16/06/2022

Mast up 😁

Last bits of husbandary before the Falmouth Classics
15/06/2022

Last bits of husbandary before the Falmouth Classics

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