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Mr Kite
Mr Kite, the smallest boat with a canting keel to compete in one of the CYCA’s long ocean races, was launched at last year’s Hamilton Island Race Week by owners Andrew Buckland and Andrew Hunn. After a disappointing offshore debut in the Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race when their canting keel component broke, Buckland, a highly experienced ocean racer and 18 foot skiff sailor, and Hunn’s radical carbon fibre “mini Volvo 70” is hoping for conditions of less than 10 and above 16 knots.
| Name | | Mr Kite |
| Race name | | Mr Kite |
| Launch year | | 2005 |
| Sail number | | 6522 |
| Owner | | Andrew Buckland |
| Skipper | | Buckland & Hunn |
| Sailing master | | Andrew Buckland |
| Crew | | Lawson Abbot, Craig Nicholls, Alex Cooke, Rob Warren, Scott Nicholls, Cameron Ward |
| Club | | CYCA |
| State | | NSW |
| Type | | Mr Kite 40 |
| Designer | | Cape |
| Builder | | Boatspeed |
| Construction | | Composite |
| IRC TCC | | 1.264 |
| LOA | | 12.19 |
| Beam | | 3.09 |
| Draft | | 2.92 |
| Rig | | Fractional |
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