Eka Grata, designed by Daniel Charles (Tahiti Douche, Epicure) was a cruiser/racer Atlantic proa built by Dr. Niklaus Shiess in 1983. From Daniel Charles:

The owner, my late Swiss friend Dr Niklaus Shiess, went from Britain to the Balearic, then the Azores. It was quite a brilliant piece of work for any amateur multihull sailor in 1983, and much more for a guy whose previous boat was a Dart sport cat!

When coming back singlehanded from the Azores, Niklaus took the wrong side of one of the lighthouse in Mer d’Iroise, in front of Le Conquet, and crossed 1.5mi of rocks. The boat (and the foam volumes I’d build in her) saved his life, Niklaus was the first to admit it. The boat was intact above the WL -and everything under it was rubbed away. It was repairable, but then some punks unscrewed the rig, which fell like an axe on the already weakened lee hull and broke it in two. A complete rebuilt was too costly, so the boat was cut with a chainsaw and burnt. She had been built, like Tahiti Douche, by the British boatyard Starberry.

More Eka Grata.

Helmut Mueller sent me another pic of Eka Grata today. I also learned that “eka grata” means:

It is a Yoga/Sanskrit description and it means: focused or “one pointed” awareness or concentration, the ability to focus the mind on an object without distraction for extended periods of time.

Thanks, Helmut!