Great American II Fact Sheet

BOAT: GREAT AMERICAN II
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SKIPPER: Rich Wilson
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Designer(s): Nigel Irens
Builders: SeaTec
Launched: 1990
Length (m): 16 meters
Beam (m): 13.5 meters
Displacement (kg): 5,443 kg
Draught (m): 2.74 meters
Mast height (m): 21.3 meters
Mainsail area (m): 100 sq. m.
Solent area (m): 50 sq. m.
Gennaker area (m): 75 sq. m.
Total sail area upwind (m): 150 sq. meters (1500 sq. feet)
Total sail area downwind (m): 250 sq. meters (2500 sq. feet)
Sail number: 38
Home Port: Marblehead Harbor, Marblehead, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Boat’s track record:

2003 – Set world record – Hong Kong to New York by way of Sunda Strait 72d 21h - Skipper Rich Wilson
2001
– Set world record, New York to Melbourne by way of Cape of Good Hope 68d 10h, Skipper Rich Wilson
1993
– Set world record, San Francisco to Boston by way of Cape Horn, 69d 20h - Skipper Rich Wilson

Age: 54
Current Residence: Rockport, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Number of miles logged at sea in last 10 years: 45,000
Married to: Lesley Maxwell

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