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Year Built: 1993
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Owner: The Center for Wooden Boats
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Designer: L. E. “Ted” Geary
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Design: R-Class Sloop
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Type: Sloop
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When Pirate won the R-Class National Championship at Larchmont, NY, she was the first West Coast designed, & built, racer to compete on the Eastern Seaboard and, representing California Y.C. & skippered by the great Matthew Walsh, beat designs from N. G. Herreshoff, L. F. Herreshoff, John Alden and Starling Burgess. She is also a two-time winner of the Sand Diego Lipton Cup (Sparkle won it once).
