Thom Stewart wrote:

Not sure Nutsy,

I would say that monster Cup racer the KIWI used against O'Conner's Cat
should be in the running.

Good call, Thom, I forgot about that one. IIRC KIWI was 120' LOA, the 1903
'Independence' was 131 on deck and 170' LOA. 'Reliance' was bigger yet, at
143' on deck and 203' LOA. It's amazing how much boat N.G. Herreshoff
packed into a limited waterline, what's more amazing is that they managed
to get the thing around the course three times.

Those 90-raters were real brutes, on occasion they killed members of the
crew. BTW they were also surprisingly fast, many of them topping 16 knots
and outrunning the fastest steamers of the day.

FWIW I think KIWI could sail rings around Reliance and Ranger, and was
safer and more manageable too.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King