What Happened To Errol Flynn’S Yacht Sirocco?

Errol Flynn, an Irish motion picture actor, is facing the loss of his 25,000 yacht Sirocco due to exceeding tonnage and length limitations imposed by the Federal government on alien-owned craft. The yacht was restored by Bill Coffman and renamed to her former 1929 name Karenita. Sirocco was an emblematic sailing boat off the Gulf of Saint-Tropez and frequently took part in Errol Flynns’ fishing trips. Flynn had the boat put in the name Heinze when the government said he couldn’t own it until he got his license.

In his book Beam Ends, Flynn wrote that he found himself the owner of a yacht, the Sirocco, after a party in Sydney. In 1952, Hollywood actor Erroll Flynn took a group of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on an expedition south of California and through the Panama canal to the Caribbean, collecting samples for Saterlee. Journalists flocked to the room during the 21-day trial, and Flynns fans hung on every word of testimony.

Flynn owned two Siroccos, the later Sirocco being the Karenita who is alive and well and the Zaca. Errol bought the yacht in 1938 and renamed it Sirocco, after the first Sirocco. He should have named her Sirocco II, but he did not.

The Sirocco was Flynn’s second boat by that name, considered unlucky. In Los Angeles, an allegation was made that Australian-born film star Errol Flynn attacked her twice aboard his yacht in 1941, when she was 15 years old. The Sirocco will now know a different atmosphere from the one she has been accustomed to since its inception.