Taylor 49 Polaris

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Comment by Carien du Plooy on November 26, 2008 at 12:20pm

Agreed! This is a stunning pic!

Comment by LOLA on October 31, 2008 at 11:50am

This is a great shot

Comment by PCarrico on October 28, 2008 at 12:59am

Polaris is a fantastic boat. Jim Taylor, native of Marblehead Mass, got a lot of things right when designing this boat. Very light, and designed to race in the IMS handicap. One of the masts we have for this boat is hinged at the deck, so when you go down wind, you can ease the runners to allow the center of effort move forward, thus (in theory) the boat will track better downwind. We only used the conventional mast. We sold the boat recently. The boat was donated to the Naval Academy Sailing Foundation by Dan Meyer who names all his boats "NUMBERS".