What is the largest open sailing boat??? No cabin or cuddy.

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Capt RB

Viking ships.

RB


"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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What is the largest open sailing boat??? No cabin or cuddy.

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Capt RB

Bobsprit wrote:

What is the largest open sailing boat??? No cabin or cuddy.

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Why do you want to know, are you thinking of going sailing?

DSK

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Why do you want to know, are you thinking of going sailing?

Of course not!
Do you have an answer?

RB

Not sure Nutsy,

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

OT

Bobsprit wrote:

Do you have an answer?

That sort of depends. Is an IACC boat ( ~ 78' LOA) an 'open
sailor?' If not then an A-scow (37') definitely is. The largest
open sailboat ever built that I know of, with no cabin
accomodation whatever, was the America's Cup defense contender
'Independence.' She was not as large as 'Reliance' but IIRC
Herreshoff's 'Reliance' (203' LOA) had a bit of a cabin.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

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