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Uploaded by Chris Love | June 9, 2009

At Boston's Community Boating racers sail 420's just like most area sailing centers, but they also have an enormous fleet of Cape Cod Mercuries, a wide and slow boat "like a bathtub with a sail." Making this thing go fast around a racecourse can be quite a challenge.

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MeruRADICAL 3 years ago

I'm impressed you can get a whole fleet of those bathtubs around a racecourse at all in that breeze, let alone with style. Well done Kara and Billy.