Forty-five years ago, “Kli-Kli” started her journey around the globe. What has changed since?
Almost – Nothing!
Probably nothing at all…
History’s repeating… “Kli-Kli” is Fenix!
In September 1976, “Kli-Kli” has begun its glorious adventure. Three years prior, an empty shell number two, made from a workshop blueprint “Sigma 40” from Michael Joubert was commissioned and built in the province of Normandy, a small commune of Manche – Torigni-sur-Vire by Michael Lebrun – “Mild steel boilermaker specializing in stainless steel and refractory works“.
The contract was signed on 12 March 1973. Article two reads – Price: 29.000,00 FRS TTC. Twenty-nine thousand French franks, all taxes included, paid on the job done.
Twenty-nine thousand FRS in today’s currency is roughly 20.000€ or 23.000 US$ or as Jelena described us: “We could buy a brand new comfort apartment in “Blocks” of New Belgrade – Serbia, but we don’t want to!”
Instead, they have lived completely differently:
We have decided to replace the city bustle and fast, “robotic” life,
Srboljub Kojadinović – Interview for Daily newspaper “Blic”
with a different, active, and adventurous one.
And it was. Kojadinović’s family spent weekends of the next three years of work on their twelve meters ketch. The smell of freshly cut first-class teak planks and mahogany plywood were mixed with the paints; the sounds of grinders, circular saws… all were behind them. Two days of work on the boat for “the dreams”, five days’ work in bureau “for the life”. Everything is behind them. Below keel is murky water of the Seine river. September 1976 was the starting point of the great thirty-one-year adventure of the Kojadinović Family and their servile “Kli-Kli”.
Fast forward to 2019.
The fate of “Kli-Kli” from 2012 to 2019 was to wait for the second opportunity. She laid forgotten at the Navar shipyard in Tivat, Montenegro.
We bought the “Kli-Kli” and