With only a vestigial keel, she relies on a retractable centerboard to keep her steady in the water.
Navigating with just the kind of seamanlike skill his grey-hulled, centerboard yawl Finisterre deserved, Skipper Carleton Mitchell logged a corrected time of 28 hr.
Observers were impressed with the seamanship, even though such homestretch finesse was no longer necessarythe broad-beamed little centerboard yawl had won the Newport-to-Bermuda .
Veneri: Marion Bermuda is Friday Thirty-five years ago, the first Marion Bermuda Race began from Centerboard Shoals headed for St. David's Light off Bermuda, 645 miles away.
June 9, 2013 - The Standard-Times