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Original Mermaid

aking part in Cowes Classics Week was the 1907 , a is one of only two 1907 designs at Seaview Yacht Club on the Isle of Wight. It is believed that there were eight yachts built between 1907 and 1910 at the Woodnutts yard. has a distinguished racing record, so much so that she was banned from racing against the east coast gaff-rigged fleet in the 1970s. Forced to race against the bermudan-rigged classics, she trounced them too.

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