Rum Bucket

Rum Bucket, a cruiser, was built in Croatia and with her New Zealand crew, was sailed through the Mediterranean and down to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. From there, the More 55 entered her first race across the Atlantic west bound to Saint Lucia in the Caribbean.

In 2020, she sailed to the Panama Canal and was stranded with the global COVID lockdown, and then she was trapped on a boat carrier where drugs had been found, before finally arriving in New Zealand in August 2021. Rum Bucket is the first of her design in the Southern Hemisphere. Since 2021 she has been racing on the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, including competing in the Three Kings Race and the pic Coastal Classic.

Her crew are looking forward to competing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart, a bucket list race.

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