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from 1963 · Costa Mesa, California

Cal 40

Lapworth, 1963 — the end of the argument

Included in this wooden-boat atlas because it is the boat that ended wooden ocean racing: light, fin-keeled, skeg-ruddered, fibreglass, and faster than anything it displaced.

Designer
C. William Lapworth, 1963; concept credited in part to the ocean racer George Griffith
Builder
Jensen Marine, Costa Mesa
Displacement
15,000 lb

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