The record
This is not a shopfront. It is the documented history of the boats Igor Mironenko has built and sailed, from a hull laid down in Kiev in 1981 to a Whitbread maxi built in nine months — and, forty years on, an expedition ketch working the Falklands, South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula.
The books were written in Russian. Both are here to read, each with a draft English translation beside it.
Vessels
Present day · Mon Coeur · 25 plates
South
Ushuaia to the Antarctic Peninsula by way of Stanley, Grytviken and the king penguin coast. Twenty-five photographs.
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1988–1990 · Poti, Georgia · Whitbread
Fazisi
The first Soviet entry in the Whitbread Round the World Race, built from nothing in nine months. Eleventh of the world's best, and a 386-mile day.
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1978–2009 · Kiev, Ukraine
Gonta
Three years and three months to build — hull, deck, ballast keel, rudder, mast, blocks and winches, all made by the crew. Still racing on the Dnieper.
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1982–2010 · Kherson · Circumnavigation
Kupava
The second boat, built by the same crew in a fraction of the time. Twenty-seven years later, four of them set out to sail her around the world.
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2007–2010 · Fremantle, WA
Walk On The Wild Side
The Western Australian chapter. A 58-foot sloop, a Geraldton race finished ten minutes outside the record, and a new carbon rig.
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2011– · USA · Vlad Murnikov
SpeedDream
Fazisi's designer went on to chase the fastest monohull on the planet. The thread that runs out of this archive and into the present.
Read → 3 volumes · 598 pages · RussianThe books
Two by Igor Mironenko on Fazisi and Gonta, one by Eugene Platon on the Whitbread campaign. Russian, with English translations in hand.
Read →Why this is here
The same person who reverse-engineered a Merlin propeller hub from a shaft end and a tape measure once built an ocean racing yacht's winches by hand because there were none to buy — and now takes a boat to places where that is the only way anything gets fixed. It is one skill, across fifty years.
It sits inside the section about Igor, in its own visual register, because a laboratory manager pricing a splitter and a historian looking for the Poti build are not the same reader and should not be made to scroll past each other.