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June 02, 2005
About Time....
"Wednesday morning, in thick English Channel fog, Robert Miller's (Hong Kong/New York, N.Y.) 140-foot (43m) Mari-Cha IV passed through the four-mile-long gate off the Lizard on the Rolex Transatlantic Race to break the 100-year-old record set by Charlie Barr on board Wilson Marshall's 185-foot (56.4m) Atlantic. Miller's giant state-of-the-art racing schooner completed the 2,925-nautical mile passage, east across the North Atlantic between New York and the Lizard, in a time of 9 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds-a full 2 days, 12 hours, 6 minutes and 56 seconds faster than Atlantic's record-breaking voyage 100 years ago." Cermudgeon 1851
Last year I had the pleasure of checking out Mari-Cha IV while she was being prepped for the West Marine Pacific Cup at KKMI, where I know work.
This is an amazing yacht. The engineering of this boat is unbelievable. She has both a canting keel and water ballast which explains the huge overhang of the hull. I consider myself very fortunate to be able to hang out in a place that has such beautiful examples of design and workmanship. It has taken 100 years for someone to build a boat and challenge the atlantic record; I do not think it will take that long for it to fall again.
Posted by Jonathan at June 2, 2005 10:10 PM
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You might want to consider investigating categories - especially since you have a Category link on the right side of your blog. :-)
Posted by: thedude at June 3, 2005 08:09 PM