{"id":11404,"date":"2010-05-28T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=11404"},"modified":"2010-05-27T04:35:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T09:35:52","slug":"young-larry-bound-for-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/young-larry-bound-for-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Larry – Bound For The Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now here’s a yacht to get y our heart beating a little harder. She is a steel yawl, 45 feet on deck, with a very traditional gaff rig.<\/p>\n

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Moira and Andrew Wilkes are her proud owners. We first this intrepid couple while anchored in Greenland’s Disco Bay.<\/p>\n

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There previous yacht, Arctic Tern<\/em>, was a 68 foot cutter, so the gaff rig is quite a change.<\/p>\n

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They are headed to Ireland in the next few days, and then on to Greenland, normally an upwind passage. If things go well they will visit us in Arizona this winter after leaving the boat in Alaska. We’ll leave the route they are planning to your imagination.<\/p>\n

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Young Larry<\/em> looks like the designed was influenced by John Alden. Certainly the bow and stern have the traditional Alden shape.<\/p>\n

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We’ll leave you with a few photos of this handsome craft.<\/p>\n

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