{"id":8234,"date":"2017-09-28T18:21:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T22:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2017-09-28T18:27:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T22:27:33","slug":"rick-wrights-sailboat-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2017\/09\/rick-wrights-sailboat-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Wright&#8217;s sailboat for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A boat lies waiting for you &#8230; if you&#8217;ve got \u00a3450 to spend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Evrika<\/em>, the Nautor Swan 65 yacht that once belonged to Pink Floyd&#8217;s <strong>Rick Wright<\/strong>, is for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1982, Wright bought the vessel in &#8217;84 and owned it until his death in 2008. He lived on board the boat while he sailed the Greek islands during his hiatus from the Floyd following &#8220;The Wall&#8221; and before regrouping with <strong>David Gilmour<\/strong> and <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong> for &#8220;A Momentary Lapse of Reason&#8221; in &#8217;87. It&#8217;s only had three owners in its lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Evrika<\/em> has been refurbished, it still retains many of its original features. The interior, at least, is entirely original.<\/p>\n<p>Sale of the vessel is being handled by <strong>Berthon International Yacht Brokerage<\/strong> of Lymington, U.K. Contact <strong>Sue Grant<\/strong> at <a href=\"mailto:sue.grant@berthon.co.uk\">sue.grant@berthon.co.uk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berthon.co.uk\/yachts-for-sale\/evrika-cruising-sailboat-nautor-swan-65-241386\/\">see more details on the Berthon website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wright&#8217;s passion for sailing is referenced in &#8220;A Boat Lies Waiting,&#8221; a song on Gilmour&#8217;s album &#8220;Rattle That Lock.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boat lies waiting for you &#8230; if you&#8217;ve got \u00a3450 to spend. Evrika, the Nautor Swan 65 yacht that once belonged to Pink Floyd&#8217;s Rick Wright, is for sale. Built in 1982, Wright bought the vessel in &#8217;84 and owned it until his death in 2008. He lived on board the boat while he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-other","category-personnel","category-rick-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8240,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions\/8240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}