Courtesy of the Herbert Foundation.
In 1975, as part of an art performance titled In Search of the Miraculous, Bas Jan Ader attempted a single-handed West-East crossing of the Atlantic in a 13 ft boat, a modified Guppy 13 named ‘Ocean Wave’. Radio contact broke off three weeks into the voyage, and Ader was presumed lost at sea. The boat was found after 10 months, floating partially submerged 150 miles West-Southwest of the coast of Ireland. His body was never found. The boat, after being recovered by the Spanish fishing vessel that found it, was taken to Coruña. The boat was later stolen.
