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Quite the Ketch | MadMariner.com

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Saturday, July 04, 2009 5:23:22 PM GMT Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:47:15 PM GMT

Leave it to the former head of Sun Microsystems to commission a yacht where the lighting and other systems are operated through touchpad screens much like that of the iPhone. This is Ethereal, the 190-foot ketch commissioned by Bill and Shannon Joy from Royal Huisman, which recently completed her maiden voyage from Holland to the Canary Islands and back. While touchpad controls are nothing new, some of the other technologies employed onboard certainly make her, in Bill's words, "a floating lab." The J...

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