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Wild Oats XI vs Comanche – eight years of yacht design

03/12/2014

Sitting side by side at Woolwich Docks in Sydney Australia it is easy to see the changes in yacht design thinking over the past few years. Wild Oats XI the older Super-Maxi will this year fight for line honours against Comanche the latest maxi built.

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