Duran Duran Sails Back to 'Rio'
Exactly 30 years ago, Duran Duran, dressed in fluorescent suits, perched themselves at the bow of a fabulously elegant ketch named Eilean to make the music video for “Rio.” That video remains iconic, but its 70-foot star spent much of the past three decades in a sad state of disrepair — even sinking briefly, and then becoming fodder for termites. It took the chief executive of the fine watch company Panerai to restore the Eilean to its ’80s-pop glory. And late last month, the boat was finally reunited with the Duran Duran members Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor during the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta , a gentlemanly racing event that brings together classic yachts from around the world.
The resurfacing of Eilean is only the latest chapter in the boat’s curious history . It was built in 1936 for the Fulton brothers, Scottish steel merchants, and owned briefly by Hartley Shawcross, the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal.
From September 16-19, Harbour Court, the New York Yacht Club's (NYYC) on-the-water clubhouse in Newport, Rhode Island, will welcome several hundred of
