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Wooden boats

I wish more rich folks would invest in beautiful wooden boats instead of showy mega yachts. Rockport builds and maintains boats that are works of art that are also very functional sailboats too. I used to own Snow Star, owned now by Tom Kiley, the rigger there. She's an Aage Nielsen double ender built by the Walsted yard in Denmark. Beautiful boat, but also a fantastic sailing boat. A sistership of hers, the Holger Danske, won the Bermuda race back in 1980, which made all the grand prix racers really mad so they changed the rules to prevent cruising boats from winning the big trophy.

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