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One of the Biggest Sailboat Sales Ever

By Richard | October 5, 2007 | Richmond |

The folks at KKMI in Richmond are understandably proud to announce they have have sold Adele, the spectacular 180-ft Hoek ketch, to Northern California owners. The new owners wish to remain anonymous, but we do know they started out with an Express 37 and then moved up to the Swan 112 Song of The Sea.

Adele
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Ken Keefe, who is a partner at KKMI with Paul Kaplan, is the one who sold the boat, and who will be managing the boat. For those not familiar with megayachts, you just don’t buy one and take off. It’s much more like running a fairly large and very complicated business. For example, there are only four places in the world that can haul the boat without having to take her masts out.

If we’re not mistaken, this would be the third largest Northern California-owned yacht, topped only by Tom Perkins’ Maltese Falcon and Jim Clark’s Athena, both of which are nearly 300 feet.

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