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The O'PEN Skiff is a single-handed training and racing sailboat.The hull is built of thermoformed, molded polyethylene, with a two-section mast and aluminum boom.It has a catboat rig, with a K.Film polyester, fully-battened mainsail; a raked stem, an open transom; a transom-hung, composite epoxy rudder, controlled by a tiller with an extension and a retractable, composite epoxy daggerboard.
But in early 2007, HTA announced it had been losing $100,000/year on the charters and put the boat up for sale for $600,000. Theo Glorie, a local visionary and co-owner of The Coffee Plantation with his wife Diane, decided to try to try to save the ship and keep it in Key West.
Consequently, every OK develops to suit the owner's style of sailing, while the shape of the hull is defined by a comprehensive set of strict one-design rules ensuring a long competitive life span. Old boats often only need a rig update and minor constructional modifications to make them competitive, provided they meet modern buoyancy requirements.
Santa Cruz boats are made to order so the roughly $600,000 base price of a Santa Cruz 52 can climb to well over $1 million; even ten-year-old Santa Cruz 52's are fetching a half million dollars. The newer Santa Cruz 53 with a base price of about $850,000 is substantially a more luxiourious and heavier adaptation of the 52.
Morgan was born in Chicago November 1929 and raised in Florida. [3] Morgan built the yacht Brisote and completed a St. Petersburg, Florida to Havana, Cuba race with Bruce Bidwell. [ 3 ] Morgan attended the University of Tampa [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and took a job with Johnson Sails, located at the Jean Street Shipyard on the Hillsborough River . [ 3 ]
The boat has a draft of 6.00 ft (1.83 m) with the centerboard down and 2.25 ft (0.69 m) with the centerboard up, while the fixed fin keel version has a draft of 4.50 ft (1.37 m). [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The boat is usually fitted with a small 4 to 15 hp (3 to 11 kW) outboard motor , and less often were various gas and diesel inboard engines available from ...
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