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The Noka Under Construction

SELECT TECH DETAILS OF THE FIRST KODIAK CRUISER... SHOWN HERE UNDER CONSTRUCTION SEVERAL DECADES AGO...

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Phil Friedman
Aug 08, 2025
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Thanks to reader Chris Redman for finding and sending this photo of me standing on the deck of the first Kodiak Cruiser in Port Stanley, Ontario…

This stout Kodiak Cruiser ™ had a displacement of 15 long tons on a 33-foot LWL, a turtleback weather deck, with a bow well for sail and anchor handling, and a proper wheelhouse set over a water-tight, self-ba…

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