Mariquita's crew trims her huge mainsail by hand, forming a line and tugging in the rope with methodical jerks.

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Twelve crew members line up along the teak deck of the 96-foot yacht Mariquita with a thick, braided rope in their hands.

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Mariquita is the last of four 19-meter yachts built before World War I, while Tuiga was built to the more popular 15-meter standard.

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It takes a dozen strong sailors to haul Mariquita's 500-pound gaff to the top of the mainmast, dragging hundreds of pounds of sailcloth up with it.

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To race aboard Mariquita is to travel back a century, when wealthy yachtsmen such as King George V and Sir Thomas Lipton dueled through the summer on outsize boats that needed 20 sailors just to leave the dock.

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