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A Summary of Sailing Yacht ANTONISA

Originating from the Hodgdon Yachts shipyard in the United States the ANTONISA is 38 m 124 (ft) in length. Ready for launch in the year of 1999 the modern interior decoration reflects the scope emanating from the boards of Cecilia Castoldi. Superyacht ANTONISA is able to accommodate up to 8 people with 6 qualified crew. She will attain a top speed of 11 knots.

The Construction & Designing for Luxury Yacht ANTONISA

Bruce King was the naval architect involved in the formal superyacht plans for ANTONISA. Also the company Bruce King successfully worked on this venture. Interior designer Cecilia Castoldi was selected for the creative interior ambience. Created at Hodgdon Yachts the vessel was constructed in the yacht producing country of the United States. She was officially launched in East Boothbay Me in 1999 before being handed over to the owner. Her hull was built out of wooden/epoxy (west). The sailing yacht main superstructure is made extensively with teak. With a beam of 7.77 metres or 25.5 feet ANTONISA has reasonable size. A reasonably 8.05 (26.4 ft) draught of 8.05m (26.4ft) limits the list of ports she can visit, depending on their specific depth at low tide.

Engineering & Speeds For S/Y ANTONISA:

The L6140HE engine powering the yacht is produced by LUGGER. Her propulsion units are a single screw propeller. The main engine of the yacht generates 530 horse power (or 390 kilowatts). She is fitted with 1 engines. The total power for the boat is accordingly 530 HP or 390 KW.

On Superyacht ANTONISA There is The Following Guest Accommodation For Guest:

Having room for a maximum of 8 yacht guests overnighting, the ANTONISA accommodates everyone in luxury. The boat carries approx 6 expert crew to maintain and sail.

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This sailing yacht has a teak deck.

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Cruising sailing super-yacht ANTONISA classic with open transom sloop

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37.8 m (124'00" )

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Antonisa is a custom sailing yacht launched in 1999 by Hodgdon Yachts.

Antonisa measures 37.80 metres in length, with a max draft of 8.08 metres and a beam of 7.77 metres.

Antonisa has a wood hull with a wood superstructure.

Her exterior design, naval architecture and interior design is by Bruce King Yacht Design.

Performance and Capabilities

Antonisa has a top speed of 11 knots. She is powered by a single screw propulsion system.

Antonisa has a fuel capacity of 7,700 litres, and a water capacity of 3,700 litres.

Accommodation

Antonisa accommodates up to 8 guests . She also houses room for up to 5 crew members.

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Bruce King and his team have designed some of the world’s most remarkable yachts. His principles are simple: he and his team believe that to be successful, a yacht must be beautiful. He was a prolific designer for Ericson with his fiberglass racers and cruisers, but it was his pioneering use of West System epoxy to construct large super yachts in wood that allowed him to stay true to a classic design. This design typically includes a long overhang and a low freeboard to accentuate the classic sheer and has come to be a signature of many of his classically beautiful yachts.

Notable awards:

• 1990 International Super Yacht Design Award – Signe
• 1993 International Super Yacht Design Award – Hetairos
• 1994 Show Boats, Best large sailing yacht interior – Alejandra
• 2000 Show Boats, Best sailing yacht 38 meters and under – Antonisa
• 2008 Maine Maritime museum Mariner’s Award

From 1964 to 2004, Bruce King produced boat designs of varied types, reaching an incredible number of more than 7,000 existing boats. These include the early production boats, built mostly by Ericson Yachts with some by Islander, and the large custom sailing yachts. He also designed some of the radical yachts of the early seventies, and more recently the Hinckley water jet boats and the Bruce King Superyachts.

According to King, “We have always believed, where yachts are concerned, that technology and utility are only part of the story. To fulfill both the utility and technology requirements, and to do so in a manner encompassing as much visual satisfaction as possible, must be the goal of a skilled designer. Technology is fleeting; it is constantly changing. Aesthetic beauty is timeless, and it alone provides the motivation for preservation. It is hoped that as present technology gives way to the new, we will continue to be able to impart to our designs an appeal, both tangible and intangible, that will allow them to endure.”

Following is an excerpt from an article on the site boattest.com that was written about Whitehawk, a radical Bruce King-designed yacht built in 1978. The article does a nice job of explaining many of the features that set his boats apart from others, especially at that time.

Whitehawk was built in 1978 to a Bruce King design. King was a hot yacht designer in that era and was most famous for the line of Ericson fiberglass cruiser/racer sailboats which he had designed. Whitehawk was built in Rockland, Maine, at Lees Boat-shop by O’Lie Neilson, and at the time was the largest vessel ever built with the West System product using the cold molding process. West System was in its infancy. In fact, Whitehawk was one of the largest boats built in America in that decade of any material and preceded the era of megayachts by a few years.

Origins of her Fame

Because she was so large, and because she was built all of wood in an age of fiberglass, she caught the eye and imagination of the boating press, and a number of articles were written about her. Month after month, the yachting magazines chronicled her build progress until her launch in 1978. As a result, generations of yachtsmen have followed her ever since, and she is one of the most famous sailing yachts in America.

Genuine Tree Wood

She was designed like a classic wooden yacht with all of the brightwork and luxury details that would have pleased the Astors, Morgans, or Vanderbilts. On deck and below she looked and was built very much like yachts or yore. But her hull was different. It was built with a new process of cold molding that lightened the boat somewhat and made her more seaworthy at the same time. This process was popularized by the Gougeon Brothers and their development of the West System of epoxy/wood construction in Whitehawk was the proof of concept.

Rather than being built in the conventional manner of planks — that had to be caulked and nailed to heavy frames every few feet or so — cold molding involves strips of epoxy saturated wood laid over a jig that formed the hull’s shape. The epoxy not only glued the wood together, but it also created an impenetrable barrier to water. It was a radical idea at the time, but it turned out to be a good one and the West System continues to be a popular method of wood construction.

Topside Finish

Multilayer-planked cold molding with epoxy eliminated the need for many frames, which lightened the boat and also made her hull more puncture-resistant. With the elimination of most frames, more livable room was created inside of her 20’6” (6.25 m) beam. Her exterior surface was faired and then painted. In one of her recent refits, her hull was covered in Alexseal, a premium polyurethane topcoat technology that employs UV absorbers. The result is a glass-like finish with high gloss. We had the opportunity to inspect her hull from the waterline to her rail both from the ship’s tender and when swimming around her and can report that her topside finish is flawless.

Her Keel and Centerboard

Whitehawk draws 7’6” (2.28 m) which allows her to sail into many places where a sailboat of this size might not be able to enter, thanks to her stainless-steel centerboard. It increases her draft to 15’ (4.57 m) and improves her performance to windward. The hydraulic centerboard has holes in the bottom, so it fills with water when deployed. The combination of her cold molded hull and her centerboard make her relatively fast off the wind, and while she is by no means a down-wind sled like a Bruce Farr design, she is nevertheless competitive on the classic yacht regattas that she enters most years at venues from Antigua to Nantucket.

Built for Offshore Cruising

She displaces something on the order of 82 tons, which makes her a substantial yacht, and means that it takes a bit of wind to move her briskly. This makes her ideal for offshore work and, indeed, on her delivery last winter from Newport, Rhode Island, to Antigua, she saw winds up to 35 knots in the north Atlantic and a speedy passage south. During our own sail south of Antigua, she handled winds from 15 to 25 knots (30 knots in squalls) on a close reach with ease, and we recorded speeds up to 11.3 knots. Between the islands, seas often grew from four to six feet and Whitehawk rode over them in comfort – something that can only be enjoyed in a large, heavy sailboat with a 20’6” (6.25 m) beam.

A Partial list of Notable Bruce King Yachts:

• Aggressive II
• Maria Cattiva
• Scheherazade

Production Boats designed by Bruce King

• CAPE BAY 31 (1977)
• ERICSON 23-1 (1969)
• ERICSON 23-2 (1975)
• ERICSON 25 (1973)
• ERICSON 25+ (1978)
• ERICSON 26-2 (1972)
• ERICSON 27 (1971)
• ERICSON 28-2 (1986)
• ERICSON 28+ (1980)
• ERICSON 29 (1970)
• ERICSON 30-1 (1967)
• ERICSON 30-2 (1977)
• ERICSON 30+ (1979)
• ERICSON 31C
• INDEPENDENCE (1977)
• ERICSON 31 INDEPENDENCE (CUTTER) (1977)
• ERICSON 32-2 (1969)
• ERICSON 32-200 (1988)
• ERICSON 32-3 (1985)
• ERICSON 34 (1978)
• ERICSON 34-2 (1988)
• ERICSON 34T (1978)
• ERICSON 35-2 (1969)
• ERICSON 35-3 (1982)
• ERICSON 36C (1975)
• ERICSON 37 (1973)
• ERICSON 38 (1979)
• ERICSON 38-200 (1986)
• ERICSON 381 (1983)
• ERICSON 39 (1970)
• ERICSON 39 B (1975)
• ERICSON 41 (1968)
• ERICSON 46 (1971)
• ISLANDER 37 (1966)
• ISLANDER 37 MS (1974)
• ISLANDER 55 (1968)
• TRADEWINDS 55 (1980)
• YACHTCRAFT 37 (1966)
• ZAP 26   (1977)
• ZAP 29   (1978)

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ANTONISA yacht NOT for charter*

37.8m  /  124' | hodgdon yachts | 1999.

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The 37.8m/124' sail yacht 'Antonisa' was built by Hodgdon Yachts in the United States at their East Boothbay, Maine shipyard. Her interior is styled by design house Bruce King Yacht Design and she was completed in 1999. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Bruce King Yacht Design.

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She is also capable of carrying up to 5 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

Range & Performance

Antonisa is built with a wood hull and wood superstructure, with teak decks. Antonisa comfortably cruises at 10 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 11 knots. Her water tanks store around 3,700 Litres of fresh water.

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Tim Hodgdon reaches into the top drawer of his desk at Hodgdon Yachts, his boat building company in East Boothbay, Maine, a village where lobster traps line dooryards, family dogs nap untethered on porches, and two grade-school-aged sisters tend the general store, which is housed in a yellow Victorian. From the drawer, Hodgdon produces a curled shaving of lead as thick and as tall as a teacup, which peeled off the keel of the 124-foot sailboat Antonisa during her launch six years ago. For Hodgdon, a fifth-generation boat builder with roots in Maine that run as deep as those of the spruce trees surrounding the village, the scrap serves as a reminder, a validation of his belief that, as he says, “Those saying ‘It can’t be done’ shouldn’t interrupt the ones doing it.”

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One nay sayer arrived early on the day of Antonisa’s launch, before nearly 4,000 people gathered at the edge of Linekin Bay to witness the event late in the summer of 1999. While the glistening blue hull was perched on a custom-built hydraulic trailer atop the launch ramp, this particularly salty local, while snaking his 14-foot skiff around her and down the asphalt ramp, noted the shallow water—just 12 feet deep at high tide—and muttered to a companion, “There’s no way they’re going to be able to launch that thing.”

Launch it they did, however—some bottom-scraping notwithstanding—after a ceremony that included speeches rife with accolades and warm wishes for Antonisa’s journey home to the Mediterranean. “Maine has a great tradition of shipbuilding,” Hodgdon, one of the speakers, declared, “and it’s one of the things that makes Maine, Maine.” Angus King, then governor of the state, said, “No matter where she sails, a piece of Maine will be there.” King added that he had asked her owner, Pasquale Natuzzi of Santeramo, Italy, why he came to Maine to have his yacht built, to which Natuzzi replied, “Because this is the best place in the world to have a boat built.”

Of course, Natuzzi would not receive any arguments from the folks at Hodgdon Yachts, which specializes in building boats that have been termed “modern classics,” vessels such as Antonisa that display traditional wood styling but employ the latest in yacht-building technology in their construction, rigging, and operating systems. Hulls are built of cored carbon or cold-molded wood laminates, and the rigging, mechanical, and navigation systems operate with computers and hydraulics. The boats therefore require smaller crews than many others do, allowing for more room belowdecks for amenities such as Antonisa’s varnished wooden bathtub and pipe organ.

Antonisa’s initial admirers were not limited to her owner, her builder, and the governor. ShowBoats International , now a sister publication of Robb Report , selected her as that year’s best sailing yacht in her class (38 meters and under). Tim Hodgdon traveled from Maine with Antonisa’s designer, Bruce King (no relation to the governor), to Monte Carlo to receive the award and banner, which now hangs over the production bay at Hodgdon Yachts like a world championship flag in a sports arena.

In that same vein, the company perhaps should hang another banner honoring King, who recently retired—from designing the big boats, at least. He built a total of five yachts with Hodgdon, including the 155-foot Scheherazade , which in 2003 was the largest sailboat built in the Western Hemisphere. “They have exceptional workmanship,” King says of Hodgdon Yachts, “and they know how to build my boats. They know my ways.” In addition to his affiliation with Hodgdon, King has close ties to the Hinckley Co., another prominent Maine boat builder, for whom King continues to produce designs, including its new DS42 day sailer.

Originally from Southern California, King began a relationship with Ericson Yachts—a California company that was purchased by Pacific Seacraft in 1990—in 1964 that lasted 25 years, during which more than 7,000 boats were built from his designs. In the early 1970s, he introduced what has become his trademark modern-classic design on his own 40-footer, Unicorn . Wooden yachts built in the late 19th century and early 20th century appealed to King, but he was wary of the high maintenance and low durability associated with wood construction. Therefore, instead of a traditional wooden hull built plank by plank and affixed by metal fastenings, he employed a construction technique that involved multiple thin layers of wood adhered with epoxy. Known as the WEST (wood epoxy saturation technique) system, it increased the hull’s strength and reduced its weight. It also enabled Unicorn to retain the beauty that is characteristic of the finest wooden boats. While building Unicorn , King drew the attention of fellow Californian Phil Long, who was in the market for a larger version of Ticonderoga , a speedy, world-record-holding 72-foot ketch designed by L. Francis Herreshoff. King designed for Long the 105-foot Whitehawk , which was built by the Lie-Nielsen boatyard in Rockland, Maine, using the new WEST system. When launched in 1975, Whitehawk was one of the largest boats built with this construction technology. Long later commissioned King to design the 90-foot Whitefin and then formed his own business, Renaissance Yachts, to build her. Renaissance, which launched Whitefin in 1984, was based in a shed that Long had constructed on the tennis courts in the backyard of his new home in Camden, Maine.

Recognizing that custom wooden boat building was thriving in Maine, King, one of the few designers incorporating this cold-molded wood epoxy technology into the building plans for large yachts, relocated there in 1981. Before long, he was designing sailboats for the Hinckley Co. of Southwest Harbor, Maine, and that relationship continues today.

While most of King’s work involved sailboats, Hinckley co-owner Shep McKenney made a special request of King in 1993: that he design a powerboat emphasizing performance and aesthetics rather than accommodations. “His intent was that this would never be a big seller, but instead a niche product,” King remembers. “But then everybody wanted a piece of that niche. Its success surprised everyone.” Hinckley introduced the first of what it calls its picnic boats in 1994; last year it delivered its 300th.

Meanwhile, King continued to work on larger projects. Long eventually sold Whitefin to a Spaniard who in time decided that, although he liked King’s design, he wanted a larger boat, so he sold Whitefin to Pasquale Natuzzi and commissioned King to design Alejandra , a 135-foot ketch. Natuzzi eventually sold Whitefin and commissioned King to design Antonisa . Knowing Whitefin had been built in Maine and wanting the same quality of construction for Antonisa , Natuzzi hired Hodgdon for the job. (Renaissance Yachts had by then gone out of business, and some of its boat builders were now working at Hodgdon Yachts.) While Antonisa was under construction, an American yachtsman commissioned King to design and Hodgdon to build Scheherazade . 

Having designed a dozen large sailing yachts—including Signe , Sophie , Hetairos , and Maria Cattiva , as well as the 80-foot, Hodgdon Yachts–built commuter Liberty —King has begun to retire. He now occupies himself by designing production boats for Hinckley when not working on his own sloop. His wood epoxy 20-footer, Frog Princess , is nearly complete in the workshop beneath his home office on the Maine coast not far from Hodgdon Yachts. Some of the interior carvings were done by one of the craftsmen who worked on Scheherazade , but the rest of the boat, including the hull, has been a slow labor of love for King.

A passion similar to King’s for wooden boats remains strong throughout Maine’s boat building industry, which preserved the craft when, in the 1960s and ’70s, builders nationwide turned to aluminum and fiberglass construction, believing that the wooden boat business soon would meet its demise.

The Hinckley Co. pioneered the use of fiberglass hulls for sailboats with its popular Bermuda 40 , but it also included a teak and mahogany interior, a feature absent from many other fiberglass boats. Over the years, Hinckley has earned acclaim for using high-tech hull construction techniques while still producing fine woodwork details. Other Maine builders eschewed fiberglass completely. At the Brooklin Boat Yard, in Brooklin, Maine, founder Joel White, son of writer E.B. White, gathered his crew together one day in the early 1970s and asked them what course they should take with respect to fiberglass versus wood. “He told them, ‘I can design a fiberglass boat and we can build a mold,’ ” recalls his son, Steve White, who now owns the yard. “They said, ‘No.’ They made a conscious decision to stick to wooden boat building.”

 White says his father worried that his company would not receive enough business to remain solvent, but over the next few years, Brooklin, like other yards along the Maine coast, cobbled together a workload that included finishing the interiors of fiberglass-hulled boats, repairing and restoring wooden classics, and occasionally building new wooden boats. All the while, the craftsmen were honing or preserving their ability to complete detailed joinery work, which would be needed to build boats using the epoxy technology that would be touted by King and the younger generation of builders—Tim Hodgdon at his father’s yard and Steve White at his father’s yard.

At the turn of the last century, when the demand for recreational boats and yachts matched and eventually surpassed the demand for commercial boats, Maine builders adjusted their businesses accordingly. “Maine saw the opportunity to move from commercial boat building to yacht building,” says White, “which was big in Rhode Island and New York. But they lost it for awhile and are only now starting to bring it back. Maine has never lost it.”

Inside the shed at White’s Brooklin Boat Yard, workers are preparing three projects—one new construction and two restorations—for launch this summer. Each showcases the yard’s expertise at blending modern construction with traditional joinery.

The new boat is for the owner of another Brooklin-built boat who is upgrading to a larger vessel. The 76-foot, $2 million sailboat has a cold-molded hull and an interior crafted of sycamore and cherry. Next to her is the 74-foot commuter Aphrodite , a boat built in 1937 that is undergoing a complete restoration in which builders are replacing nearly every piece of wood, adding new engines, and restoring or replicating her brass hardware. When commissioning the Hodgdon-built commuter yacht Liberty , the owner asked Bruce King to design his boat to look just like Aphrodite . In a side shed, other Brooklin craftsmen are restoring Seminole, a 47-foot gaff-rigged yawl that her current owner purchased for $1 at an auction in San Diego.

White was preceded as a boat builder by his father, Joel, whose last large design before his death in 1997 was the 76-foot Wild Horses , the first of five W-Class boats commissioned by a Boston real estate developer and built by Rockport Marine, which is owned by White’s brother-in-law, Taylor Allen. The signature feature on each boat is a 6-foot-diameter teak steering wheel with spokes shaped like flower petals. Because of the elaborate woodwork, it takes craftsmen a month to construct one of these wheels.

Allen, White, and Hodgdon belong to the recently formed Maine Built Boats Organization, an alliance whose goal is to promote the state’s 450 builders worldwide. “We are a collaborative of boat builders who agree we are stronger working collectively,” says Allen. “Each of us is a little bit different, but we all have a commitment to giving a good value to the customer. We’re really trying to market ourselves to a much wider [group] of clients. Our fear is that new boat buyers tend to look overseas. Our hope is that clients will seriously consider one of us.” Hodgdon sees no reason why buyers should overlook Maine. “Typically the marine industry in Maine breeds inventive individuals, and this covers an unbelievably broad spectrum. At Hodgdon Yachts alone, we’re involved in projects ranging from the highest-end mega yachts to the military [Navy SEALs boat]. This represents the blend of state-of-the-art construction with the just-as-complex joinery, and it isn’t one or the other, but rather an elegant combination. That diversity is indicative of the boat building industry along the coast.”

Currently under construction at Hodgdon is a 98-foot ketch-rigged sailing yacht. Except for the intermittent roars produced by a sander or an electric saw, the production bay is quiet as craftsmen in Tyvek suits and dusty T-shirts work slowly and deliberately, pausing to converse and consult with one another under the banner that they earned for their work on Antonisa .

“There are a tremendous number of very sophisticated things going on with regard to fiberglass and other advanced composites,” Hodgdon says. “Hodgdon Yachts, and Maine in general, has adapted and made use of that technology but also does have that link to traditional detailing in joinery and other boat building areas. It is important to realize that building modern classics isn’t just an outdated, low-tech pipe dream.”

Indeed, no one can say, “It can’t be done,” because Hodgdon and the other Maine boat builders are doing it.

Brooklin Boat Yard , 207.359.2236, www.brooklinboatyard.com

Bruce King , 207.563.1186, www.bkyd.com

Hinckley Co. , 207.244.5531, www.hinckleyyachts.com

Hodgdon Yachts , 207.633.4194, www.hodgdonyachts.com

Rockport Marine , 207. 236.9651, www.rockportmarine.com

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Antonisa, 124′ sloop. Designed by Bruce King, built by Hodgdon Yachts, 1999.

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Launching ANTONISA

By Mary Maynard Drake

The 124′ sailing yacht ANTONISA slipped into the waters of Linekin Bay on August 28, 1999, amid accolades to her builder, Hodgdon Yachts. The Italian owners and some 4,000 well wishers, including Maine governor Angus King, crowded into the small village of East Boothbay, Maine, for the launching. Continue reading →

Antonisa Construction Details

By mike barker.

Tom Pawlak and I had the opportunity to visit I Hodgdon Yachts Inc. in East Boothbay, Maine to view the progress on the 124′ Bruce King designed yacht, ANTONISA while she was under construction in 1998. Continue reading →

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My first experience with hardware bonding occurred shortly after starting work at Gougeon Brothers in 1980. Having just been hired into the wind turbine blade plant, I was excited to be part of this interesting company. Continue reading →

Hodgdon Building 124′ Cold Molded Yacht

Cover Photo: Even at this stage of construction, the 124′ Bruce King-designed sloop is impressive.

A Bruce King-designed 124′ sloop is taking shape* at Hodgdon Yachts, Inc. in East Boothbay, Maine. It is the largest boat ever built at Hodgdon and one of the largest wood/epoxy yachts ever built. Continue reading →

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ClassicSailboats.Org (CSO) is a not-for-profit maritime publication and the world’s largest alliance of guardians, and preservationist. We are dedicated to preserving the spirit and historical record of vintage & classic sailing vessels. While remaining committed to protecting historical maritime properties, our precious oceans, waterways & wildlife.

As educators it is important to extend our reach to the communities, organizations and schools that would otherwise be unable to access our message because of geographical, and sociological limitations. The application of STEM through our initiatives 10 Class, Bluestar, Greenstar, and Sailing for Water is our educational mission. Whether following the progress of expeditions to the Pacific to study plastic pollution, or to the Arctic to study the effects of the loss of salinity from our oceans. It is our pledge “To empower people of all ages to make smart decisions today that will affect the quality of life for future generations to come.”

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