The Minotaur in House of Leaves The Minotaur in House of Leaves The Minotaur or Minotauros was the son born of lust to Queen Pasiphae of Crete and a bull. He had the body of a man and the head of a bull and was more beast than human. The creature was banished by King Minos to reside in the centre of a labyrinth in Knossos built by the ingenious architect Daedalus and his son Icarus. The Minotaur was nursed by Queen Pasiphae as a child but grew to devour humans, so he was safely put away in the maze contrived so carefully and trickily that
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