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Monday, May 3. 2010

Largest

Took this photo last week of what I am told is the largest sloop in the world:


Posted by Gwynnie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 05:05 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yep - that's the 248' Mega Yacht Mirabella V. The most interesting feature of Mirabella is the mast - 290 feet long and made of carbon fiber. Three of the main sail battens are 25 meters (82 feet) long. It also has a swing keel with a weighted bulb on the end - very high tech also carbon fiber.

I was aboard her two years ago at the Norwalk In-water boat show - she was there in the Mega-yacht pier. Had to take your shoes off before they let you on board. It also helped that I knew her skipper at the time. :>)

And you can rent it for a mere $420,000.00/wk with your own crew, $485,000/wk with Mirabella's crew. Just the thing for that get-away vacation. :>)
#1 Tom Francis on 2010-05-03 06:28 (Reply)
That hull is almost 250 feet long? Must be the angle of the shot because it looks much shorter, ony about half the length of the mast.
I sailed with my uncle for several years on weekends, on a yacht we had helped him assemble. The whole yacht was only 33 feet long -- shorter than one of Mirabella's battens.
#1.1 Geoff Brown on 2010-05-03 11:45 (Reply)
The perspective my friend. The boat is close to you than the house is in the background - and that is not a small house.

Look big enough now? :>)
#1.1.1 Tom Francis on 2010-05-03 14:47 (Reply)
Tom ... Can you imagine what would happen if this boat pitch-poled? Or broached? My husband, who used to race sailboats when we were younger and more agile, marveled at this.

Marianne
#2 Marianne Matthews on 2010-05-03 16:42 (Reply)
It would be spectacular I'll bet. I did see the 120 foot Orange II break her mast once off Newport and she almost went ass-over-teakettle because it happened in 12 foot swells about two miles off the entrance to East Passage into Newport Harbor.
#2.1 Tom Francis on 2010-05-03 18:50 (Reply)

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