Everybody loves a lady - and what a lady is Atlantic

9:15 PM Thu 12 Aug 2010 GMT

'Atlantic at the beginning of the Transatlantic Race in 1905 - painting by Anthony Blake' .

I heard my father say 'What a lady!', and rushed to his magazine to look, but it was a sailing magazine, and he was staring at a classic boat. I'm not so miffed these days, specially when someone reincarnates such a lady as Atlantic, and has her sailing again, as elegant as the original. Dutchman Ed Kastelein, who had already created or restored such famous yachts as Thendara, Aile Blanche, Borkumriff, Zaca a te Moana and most recently the Herreshoff racing schooner Eleonora, has had this legendary schooner built faithfully to the original. The idea had ...

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by Lee Mylchreest