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Xs and Rs

Fourteen-foot racing boats have also had their time in the limelight over the years, developing in various forms in early 1900s into the X class. Yachting historians Harold Kidd, Robin Elliot and David Pardon record that in the mid-twentieth century, the fourteen-foot one-design class was so dominant, “for

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