Daedalus Daedalus, and he to Hephaestus, son of Zeus." This suggests that Daedalus was related to Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths, and therefore to Zeus himself. Daedalus is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne. He also created the Labyrinth on Crete, in which the Minotaur (part man, part bull) was kept. In the story of the labyrinth as told by the Hellenes, the Athenian hero Theseus is challenged to kill the Minotaur, finding his way with the help of Ariadne's thread. Daedalus' appearance in Homer is in an extended metaphor, "plainly not Homer's invention",
Daedalus (yacht) yacht "Spirit of Antigua". The catamaran was entirely renovated in 2000 for The Race. It received new stems, making the hulls 4.6 metres longer. Another renovation in 2017 converted the boat to a hydrogen-powered vessel, the Energy Observer. Daedalus (yacht) Daedalus is a maxi-catamaran, that participated in numerous open-ocean races under various owners and names. Originally named "Formule Tag", this maxi-catamaran was built by Canadair in Québec, Canada in 1983, under the supervision of Canadian skipper Mike Birch and British designer Nigel Irens. The yacht was built to compete in the inaugural Transat Québec-Saint-Malo—a trans-North Atlantic sailing race celebrating Jacques