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Galway Blazer II, an unconventional junk-rigged schooner designed by English naval architect Angus Primrose and built at Souter’s, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, in 1967, for a much-decorated wartime submarine commander, Bill King, who intended to sail her alone around the world.

The whale-like enclosed hull and schooner-configured junk rig of Galway Blazer, helmed and trimmed from a pair of circular hatches aft of the main mast.
A cutaway drawing of Galway Blazer's spartan but highly functual interior,  beneath a long, concave deck, and its two, unstayed, deck-stepped masts.
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Devine Lu Linvega

@ccohanlon gorgeous design, I had never seen this one <3

wrack

@neauoire It lacked adequate ballast and thus critical stability but she was a beautiful concept. She also enclosed some of James Wharram's ideas about flexible, multi-purpose interior spaces transposed to a monohull. When I was aboard, the forward half of the boat was decorated in a distinctly North African style, lots of large cushions for seating/lounging, an oriental carpet (or two), and swinging bronze lanterns. The only conventional berth was a pilot cot aft.

Devine Lu Linvega

@ccohanlon spartan as hell, the design remind me a bit of Tara Tari

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