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This is Scheherezade, which presumably was launched last Saturday, Sept. 27. (Though the progress photos on the Hodgdon website don't show it as yet)

Check out the person sweeping the floor for scale.

She was indeed launched. There were a couple of pics in the Sunday paper. Very foggy day for launching, and as typical with the Portland Papers, the article was awful. Cool pics, but the photographer didn't really get himself in a position to show the scale of the boat. It kind of looked like she was a 60 footer in the pics...

She's launched alright. foggy day.



This whole thing of HUGE sailboats is kinda lost on me. I've never been on a boat over 50' under sail, but even at 50', the sensation of sailing is very different. The boat just doesn't respond to wind and wave in the same way as a smaller boat, and I can't imagine that there's much "feel" in the helm. The connection between sailor and sailboat is gone. Might as well be a powerboat at that point.

The boat in the foreground in the first pic above.... "Liberty". 80' Bruce King commuter yacht. Breathtaking.

but Here's to People With Money!

Not as big, moored in Tiverton RI harbor but gone now

anyone recognize what this is ?

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