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Racundra, built in 1921-22 in Riga, Latvia, was one of Arthur Ransome's first cruising yachts, and replaced Kittiwake.
Racundra's cruise from Riga, across the Baltic, to Helsingfors and back with Ransome, the Cook, and the "Ancient Mariner", Carl Sehmel, is detailed in Racundra's First Cruise, considered a classic of sailing literature.
Her name
The name Racundra is thought to beref req a play on the crew's names, (Arthur) Ransome, Carl (Sehmel), und (German for "and"), (Evgenia) Ransome. (It is not too hard to pick holes in this suggestion, since the Ransomes were not yet married, although they were intending to, and Evgenia travelled under her fiance's name at times.)
later
Arthur Ransome sold Racundra in 1925 to Adlard Coles, who called her Annette II.