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    Apr 14, 2022 2 minutes

    Greatest racing yacht? Britannia, surely…

    I picked up a copy of CB last weekend and am rising to your editorial challenge about the greatest racing yacht. Surely this has to be the King’s Britannia?

    She was designed by GL Watson and built on the Clyde in 1893 by

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