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boatporn: And this, wonderful citizens, is why ketches are SO…
Friday, August 23rd, 2013
And this, wonderful citizens, is why ketches are SO FUCKING AWESOME. BECAUSE YOU CAN PUT SPINNAKER ON EVERY DAMN SPAR.
That’s Kialoa III. Growing up ocean racing in the late 1970s, I was a big fan of this boat. Under owner Jim Kilroy, Kialoa III was the class of the world ocean racing circuit for a decade. The elapsed-time record she set in the 1975 Sydney-Hobart Race stood for 21 years.
Eventually the sleds came along and all those displacement-era records were blown away, but no boat ever replaced this one in my imagination.
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