Sea Mist

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Boat Name: Sea Mist
Designer: Hugh Angelman
Builder: Jensen Denmark
Year Launched: 1957
Rig: Gaff ketch
LOA: 49 feet
LWL: 32 feet
Beam: 13′3″
Draft: 6 feet
Owner: Mark Robertson

History: Sea Mist is a 36 LOD Sea Witch gaff rigged ketch. She was designed by Hugh Angelman of Wilmington boat works in California USA. She was built by Jensen boat yard in Denmark for her first owner Dr Arthur Petersen, and shipped to California. The hull is 1.5 inch African mahogany planks, with teak decks, and rails, etc. Sea Mist is the only Sea Witch with a figure head, complimenting her clipper bow. The original Sea Witch won the Transpac race from Los Angeles to Hawaii in 1941 on corrected time. She held that record for 18 years. Sea Mist is a very comfortable vessel which sleeps six, or eight at a pinch.