The Arabella Saga.
- Arabella has been sold, and let me tell you a story. But first, let me backtrack a bit.
- Centurion is her original name, a 90 two-masthead schooner designed by Frank McLear of McLear and Harris. She was of massive proportions for the time, and massively built in aluminum by Palmer-Johnson. The problem was the lack of stability inherently built within her, from top to bottom, with heavy scantlings far beyond the norms. She sailed a few years before a remedy had to be found in the way of an elongated wing keel. The modification was designed in England; I have no report if the change made any difference in stiffness. Except for the rest of the story.
