Interesting that Endeavour was commissioned by the infamous Aussie businessman Alan Bond. Like many of hiss projects he left it half done. He also financed and led an Australia team to and Americaske cup victory.
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True. He went bust while it was being built and there was a major scramble to pull in public and private funding to finish it. There was still outstanding debt on it when it went to sea.but it quickly covered that with paying passengers