Condor of Bermuda was a
maxi yacht campaigning under the leadership and funding of London-based international businessman Bob Bell. Originally called
Condor but renamed
Heath's Condor for the
1977-78 Whitbread Round the World Race after Bell's association with Heath's Insurance Co (London). There is no link with former
British Prime Minister Edward Heath of
Morning Cloud yachting fame.
Condor was then later renamed
Condor of Bermuda, as government policy in the UK during the 1970s effectively exiled the financing of such a campaign by making the funding and domiciling of such an endeavour from the home countries a practical impossibility.