We traveled to the Galapagos with Quasar Expeditions and spent eight days and seven nights aboard the M/Y Grace, and we could not have been more pleased with our choice. They truly do provide memories for a lifetime!
Below is a bit of history on the Grace from Quasar Expeditions website.
"Born in 1928, Camper and Nicholsons, the oldest leisure marine company in the world, producing and managing yachts for the world's richest people, constructed the M/Y Grace in Southampton, England.
She weighed 298 tons, was 147 feet long, with a 23-foot beam and a draft of 12 feet.M/Y Grace bore many names since Santiago Soulas, an Argentinean, commissioned her just before The Crash silenced the Roaring Twenties. Soulas named her after his daughter Monica, and kept her four years before selling her to Zarch Couyoumbian, a Greek gentleman who named her Rion. In 1938, Sir George Tilley, chairman of the Prudential Insurance Co., acquired and enjoyed her until 1939, when the British conscripted her for the war effort."
For the rest of her history please got to the Quasar Expeditions website.
The M/Y Grace has been well maintained and is the pride and joy of the Captain and the crew that operates her in the Galapagos.
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