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BRINGING HER HOME

Aluminium-hulled Kialoa II, originally a sloop, was designed in 1963 for Californian Jim Kilroy by Sparkman and Stephens. She won the 1965 Transpac, was converted to a yawl in 1968 and won the Sydney-Hobart in 1971.

Around 1973 Kialoa II was donated by Kilroy

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