INSV Mhadei (A76)
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INSV ''Mhadei'' is a sail training boat of the
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."INSV" stands for Indian Navy sailing vessel. On 19 May 2010 as he sailed ''Mhadei'' into Mumbai harbour, Commander
Dilip Donde Captain Dilip Donde (born 26 September 1967) is a retired Indian Naval officer and the first Indian to complete a solo, unassisted circumnavigation of the globe under sail. From April 2006 to May 2010 he planned and executed Project 'Sagar Par ...
became the first Indian national to complete a single-handed circumnavigation under sail, in an Indian-built boat. He sailed from Mumbai on 19 August 2009 and returned to Mumbai after four stops on 19 May 2010. It was later used by Abhilash Tomy for his own single-handed, unassisted, non-stop
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under sail.


Design and description

INSV ''Mhadei'' is a cruising
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built at the Aquarius Shipyard Pvt Ltd shipyard in
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. The vessel was handed over to the Indian Navy in February 2009 and christened INSV ''Mhadei'', after the
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. ''Mhadei'' was built to a stock design by van de Stadt called Tonga 56 measuring 56 feet in length and displacing 23 tons. It was decided to build a wood-core and
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sandwich hull for better performance than steel or aluminium. The boat has two mainsails, two Genoa's, a stay-sail, one try-sail and two gennaker's. She is also fitted with satellite communications, electronic navigation systems and a Monitor windvane equipped for emergency steering.


Service history

From Goa
Dilip Donde Captain Dilip Donde (born 26 September 1967) is a retired Indian Naval officer and the first Indian to complete a solo, unassisted circumnavigation of the globe under sail. From April 2006 to May 2010 he planned and executed Project 'Sagar Par ...
set out on a circumnavigation voyage on 19 August 2009, and returned on 19 May 2010; ''Mhadei'' was the first Tonga 56 to complete a solo circumnavigation. In 2012, ''Mhadei'' was used by
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Abhilash Tomy to complete a single-handed, unassisted, non-stop
circumnavigation Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical object, astronomical body (e.g. a planet or natural satellite, moon). This article focuses on the circumnavigation of Earth. The first recorded circ ...
under sail. He was the first Indian, second Asian, and 79th person to do so. ''Mhadei'' finished the journey at Kochi, after completing a voyage of 23,100 nautical miles (42,781 km). In 2013, the navy's first all female team of sailors began preparation for another circumnavigation of the world, led by
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Shweta Kapur. The crew practised in a race from
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. In May 2016 INSV Mhadei set sail from Goa for a voyage to Port Louis in Mauritius skippered by Lt. Cdr. Vartika Joshi, a Naval Constructor. This was the first open-ocean voyage of the Navy’s all-woman crew of the Mhadei. It was a training voyage to expose the young crew to the weather that they would confront during the circumnavigation of the globe scheduled for 2017. The crew entered Port Louis, Mauritius, on Tuesday, 14 June 2016. The crew members were skipper Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi, a Naval architect, and five others: Lieutenant P. Swathi, Lt. Pratibha Jamwal, Lt. Vijaya Devi, Sub Lt. Payal Gupta and Lt. B. Aishwarya.


INSV ''Tarini''

A second boat in this class, INSV ''Tarini'', was ordered in 2016 and commissioned into active service on 18 February 2017. She was built by Aquarius Shipyard Private Limited.


Specifications

*Displacement: 23 tons *Length (overall): 17.1 m *Beam: 5 m *Height of mast: 21 m above
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See also

*
List of active Indian Navy ships List of active Indian Navy ships is a list of ships in active service with the Indian Navy. In service ships are taken from the official Indian Navy website.


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References

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Ships of the Indian Navy Individual sailing vessels Sloops of India 2009 ships Ships built in India Sailboat type designs by E. G. van de Stadt