Kismet (DH)

Kismet was designed by the famous Captain John Illingworth and Harald Penrose. The yacht’s distinctive reverse sheer reflects her 1950s English design heritage. She appeared in a 1953 issue of Seacraft, where the concept of adopting her design as an Olympic offshore one-design class for the 1956 Melbourne Games was proposed.

Built in 1955 by Athol Walter on the Huon River in Tasmania, Kismet raced in the 1957 Sydney Hobart as the only Tasmanian entrant that year and placed sixth overall in a fleet of 20 yachts. Then a long-time owner, Andrew Inwood, sailed Kismet extensively out of the Sydney Amateur Sailing Club before gifting her to Langman in 2023. This will be Langman’s first double-handed Rolex Sydney Hobart. The yacht, with its strong racing history and timeless design, she remains a treasured example of mid-20th-century yacht craftsmanship.

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