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Lone Fox Wins St. Martin Classic

With a reefed main and mizzen, Lone Fox displays her winning form between St. Martin and Anguilla.

St. Martin Classic Regatta
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Lone Fox, the classic Robert Clark 65-ft ketch built for Colonel Whitbread nearly a half century ago, but now owned by Ira Epstein of Bolinas, won overall honors in last weekend’s St. Martin Classic Regatta in the Netherland Antilles. While the event isn’t as highly regarded as the Antigua Classic Regatta that’s held in early April, and where Lone Fox took second in class last year, you still can’t do any better than first.

An ebullient Randy West, left, shares the joy of victory with a pleased Ira Epstein, right.

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Ira, who is based out of St. Barth and is one of nicest guys you’d ever want to meet in the Caribbean, purchased the boat a little over a year ago, and has been doing day and term charters, plus classic regattas, ever since. After decades of commuting from Bolinas to the Financial District in San Francisco in time for stock exchange hours in New York, Epstein is now "living my dream."

A later chapter in that dream is entering Lone Fox in the classic yacht regattas in the Med, something he can’t quite spring for entirely on his own. As such, if you’d be interested in chartering the boat for one of the classic regattas in France or Italy, you know who to call.

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