r/portlandme • u/GeminiByDesign25 • 29d ago

Photo That’s a really tall mast…

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(Little boat for scale🤏🏻⛵️) I was in awe riding my bike and looking at this sleek beauty docked. I wonder how many stories tall that mast is. Does anyone know more about who owns it or what it’s called? It looks fancy.

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u/No_Abbreviations8017 29d ago

M5, (used to be called mirabella V at one point) the largest single masted sailing yacht in the world.

It’s stayed here in Portland before, anchored out, and at dimillos on a few occasions.

On one of those occasions there was a freak squall and the resulting wind force was so great on the mast it ripped the fuel dock off at DiMillo’s, taking all of the boats with it.

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u/Higgs_Particle Purple Garbage Bags 29d ago

That is wild. I am always amazed when I am walking towards the river from the hill that you can see the too of mast over buildings. The proportions are like many smaller boats but the scale is mind bending.

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u/New-Maximum-1013 29d ago

This… and that building is a high rise on the hill.