{{short description, Maxi yacht campaign ''Kialoa'' was a maxi yacht campaign founded and led by

Jim Kilroy John B. "Jim" Kilroy (May 1, 1922 – September 29, 2016) owned and raced the record-breaking ''Kialoa'' sailboats from the 1950s to the 1980s, helping pioneer the era of maxi yacht racing. In 1962 he and his KIALOA I crew won the San Diego-Acapulc ...

spanning from 1956 to 1989. ''Kialoa I'' was a 50ft yacht remodeled by Kilroy, which won numerous races in California, Mexico and Hawaii. ''Kialoa II'' is a 73ft aluminum sloop designed by Sparkman and Stephens and built in California in 1964. She won races on the Eastern and Western seaboard, the

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to Hawaii in 1965, the Transatlantic race to Ireland, the Sydney-Hobart in 1971 and many other races. She was converted to a yawl with a removable mizzen mast in 1968. ''Kialoa III'' was designed by David Pedrick at Sparkman and Stephens as a 79ft ketch and built by

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in 1974, before being converted to a sloop in 1976. She held the

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record for 21 years and had many victories worldwide. ''Kialoa IV'' was designed by Ron Holland and was a contemporary of '' Condor of Bermuda'' and a participant in the tragic

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''Kialoa V'' was a Germán Frers designed maxi; and fierce competitor to '' Condor'', ''Nirvana'', and ''Sovereign''. ''Kialoa IV'' and ''Kialoa V'' were World Maxi Yacht champions 5 of the 8 years they raced from 1981-1989. Race wins include: Onion Patch, Transpacific, Queen's Cup, Tasman Sea, Hawaii, Block Island, Sardinia Cup, S.O.R.C. (Southern Ocean Racing Circuit), Kenwood Cup, San Francisco Big Boat Series and the Maxi World Championship. In his memoires about racing, life and business, Kilroy describes in detail the evolution of each ''Kialoa'', as well as how he came up with the name after hearing that the Hawaiian word, roughly translated, means "long, white canoe".

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" by Jim Kilroy Individual sailing vessels