Take a look at the 100ft carbon sloop Comanche built for Jim and Kristy Clark. From the first layers of carbon being layed into the hull at Hodgdon’s yard in Maine to her first offshore passage from Newport to Charleston, SC. Ken Read tells the Comanche story just days before the boat takes on the Sydney to Hobart race!
And here she is in action at the 2014 Sydney Hobart Race. Wow!
(the start is at 3:30 of the video)
mike kitchen says:
Aircraft carrier is right. This yacht is HUGE!! What show!
ROBERT ANDERSON says:
Even though I am a Sydneysider, I was hoping Comanche could pull off a win for her first big outing. New design, fantastic crew and a brilliant start, but the race was mostly to windward and Wild Oats is very hard to beat. On the other hand, it is always extra special to beat the Americans, they always come well prepared, well funded and are good sports.
Andy Reynolds says:
Its the world’s biggest surfboard.
Charles Barclay says:
My son and I followed the Sydney Hobart and had a little bet on the outcome. (I lost, being the smart kid he is… he bet on the seven time winner taking an eight).
Commanche has a great career ahead of her.
Thanks for the post, he’ll be glad to see the video when he gets home from school.
David Tew says:
Comanche ‘ambushes’ the fleet of maxis at the start of the Sydney-Hobart Race. The start is at about 3:30 in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEZRGNvKf3c
David Tew says:
Oops. I didn’t see that you’d already included that video of the start.