By Merijn de Waard

T.J. Esperanza leaving Antibes after the yacht show

The 50m Amels build T.J. Esperanza leaving Antibes in bad weather a day after the 2008 Antibes Yacht Show had closed. Launched in 1999 as Louise she was soon after renamed Thunder Gulch and entered the charter market. In 2007 Camper & Nicholsons International sold the yacht to her current owner and the Disdale designed yacht is now for sale again by Jean-Marie Récamier of CNI, asking $29,500,000.