Design 1862 - Iroquois - Sold

The 8-meter racing yacht Iroquois, design #1862, has been sold. Here's a great image of her at the time of her launch at the Minneford Yacht Yard of City Island in 1967.

More About Palawan - Design 991

We did not have any vintage images of Palawan, design #991, the first of the series of Palawans, until yesterday when I came across this great sailing shot that had been placed in the wrong folder.

Design 111 - 50' W.L. Motorsailer

This proposed motorsailer design was never built. We dug it out of our microfiche files simply to have a look. The preliminary design was generated in our Boston office in 1935.

Here is the general arrangement plan.


The client was either William Bross Lloyd who would have been 60 at the time this design was prepared, or William Bross Lloyd, Jr. who would have been 27 at the time. I'm voting on the former. If so here's a little background on him:

William Bross Lloyd, the son of Henry Demarest Lloyd, was born in 1875. His father published a series of articles (Chicago Tribune) exposing corruption in business and politics. These articles caused Lloyd to be described as America's first investigative journalist.

As a young man his parents introduced him to a lot of political figures including Jane Addams, John Peter Altgeld, Clarence Darrow, William Dean Howells and John Dewey. Lloyd also developed radical views and he joined the Socialist Party of America.

After the death of his mother, he inherited a considerable fortune. This did not change his political opinions and ran for senator on the Socialist ticket in Illinois in 1918. He was also a supporter of the Russian Revolution and in November 1918 joined the Communist Propaganda League and later the Socialist Party of America.

William Bross Lloyd died in 1946.

William Bross Lloyd

Design 2116 - Columbine

This One-tonner was designed and built to compete in the One Ton Cup of 1972. The boat was constructed of fiberglass with a cored hull and deck by Camper & Nicholson Ltd. of England. She was launched in late 1971.

Here are the plans.


And here's her dapper crew.

United States Sailing Team 1972 - World One Ton Cup

Cruising Yacht Club, Sydney, Australia
Crew listed from left to right:
Jim Dahl, Jeff Foster, David Kellett, (helmsman)
Henry Pickersgill, Al Delasandro, (Owner) Bruce Eissner

Principal Dimensions
LOA 35'-4"
LWL 29'-0"
Beam 12'-3"
Draft 6'-5"
Sail Area 632 sq ft

More About Odyssey - Design 155

Exactly a year ago, we posted an article about Odyssey, design #155. If you recall she was built by Nevins and launched in 1938. Here are a couple of additional images of her on launch day. She's a beautiful boat.


Here's shot with her full complement of sails.

Design 1397 - Flair

It's always a disappointment when we don't possess a photograph of one of our designs. That is the case with Flair. Nonetheless she is an interesting motorsailer design. Flair was constructed of steel with a wood deckhouse by the boatyard of Peter Mayer of Racine, Wisconsin. She was launched in 1960.

Here is the general arrangement plan.


And a typical construction section.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 49'-1"
LWL 38'-6"
Beam 14'-4"
Draft 4'-7" (board up) 8'-3" (board down)
Displacement 46,848 lbs
Sail Area 1,028 sq ft

Design 1463 - Cairu III

I am not exactly sure why this design was assigned a new job number. She is an exact copy of Figaro, design #1107 in terms of shape. It does look like her construction plan was modified slightly. The boat was built for a repeat client who previously owned a Brasil Class, design #509, named Cairu II.

The boat was built by Yachting Brasiliero of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The year was 1960, five years after Figaro's launch.

More about Figaro here.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 47'-6"
LWL 32'-6"
Beam 12'-2"
Draft 4'-5"(board up)
Displacement 25,870 lbs
Ballast 7,550 lbs
Sail Area 1,092 sq ft

Job Opening - Captain & Program Supervisor Schooner Brilliant

The Mystic Seaport Museum has asked us to mention that they are currently advertising for the position of Captain and Program Supervisor for the schooner Brilliant, design #12. Brilliant is an extraordinary vessel and her program is wonderful. There are numerous postings about her on this blog site. Simply do a "search" in the search field at top.

Click here for details as found on the Mystic Seaport website.

Design 1358-C3 - China Clipper

Here's design #1358, Anitra going down the ways at the Bengt Plym shipyard of Sweden. It's just such a great photograph that I had to include it here. You only get to take a photo like this once in a boat's life, when she touches the water for the first time.

A sail maker asked us for a sail plan for one of her sisters, China Clipper which was the third boat to be built to this design and that got me thinking about her. Incredibly we don't have a single image of her. I suppose that's not too uncommon for our boats that were built in the Far East. China Clipper was built by the Wing on Shing Shipyard of Hong Kong, and fitted out by the Woodnut Yard of England (Isle of Wight). She was launched in ~1963.

Although a bit tattered, here's her sail plan. In comparing her to Anitra please note she is a sloop.


Here's a brief article about the boat. Please double click for zoom.


In studying the design I see her lines were modified slightly above the waterline which was probably done for rating purposes (RORC Rule).

Although we don't have any images there is a nice brief video clip of her at sea posted on YouTube. Click here to access.

I count a total of seven boats to built to this design. Here's a link to a couple of images of the very beautiful Stiren, the sixth in the line.

Admiral's Cuppers

Yesterday I mentioned I would try to tie together a string of Admiral's Cup designs from the early '70s. We will need to start with Saudade, design #2140. The year was 1973 and she was designed and built for the German Team. Here we need to step back for a moment and discuss Rubin, design #2102, built in 1971. She is a boat we have not yet blogged about. Rubin was part of the 1973 German Admiral's Cup team. That's a display of Admiral's Cup models that include the full team shown above with Carina, a Dick Carter design next to Saudade on center and Rubin on the right, both S&S designs. Suadade was the overall high scorer that year.

Here's a peak at Rubin's sail plan. More about her in a future blog posting.


We can then move on to design #2149, Prospect of Whitby IV. She is a direct descendant of the designs before her. If you recall her hull and deck were built by Royal Huisman Shipyard and finished by Berthon Boat in the UK. This includes the development of her sisters: Struntje V and Battlecry. I just had to include this interesting image of Prospect of Whitby IV being shipped from Holland. I suppose we know what she weighs at this point.


Here's Prospect of Whitby IV on the day of her launch.


The string of boats continues then with Mandrake, design #2182, launched in 1974 and her sister, Palynodie. Here's a poor quality image of Mandrake.


In any event, we could probably go much, much further in the rapid development of these boats but I thought I would provide you with at least few links to tie these blog postings together.

Oh and yes, I should not fail to mention design #2202, Patrice III and her sisters. That's what started this whole string.

More About Swan 41 - Design 2150

A blog reader sent us this material regarding design #2150, the Swan 41, so we are posting it here. The photographs were taken in 1974, just after the boat's introduction. Thanks very much for sending the material.


He also included the following Swan advertisement about the boat also from 1974. Please double click for zoom.

Design 1729 - Olin Mathieson Barge

This was the first of three large barges designed and built for transporting phosphate rock for the Chemicals Division of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation. Each barge was capable of carrying 9,500 net tons of dry cargo from Tampa, Florida to the company's fertilizer plant at Pasadena, Texas. At the time the latter was the world's largest facility for the production of synthetic pelletized fertilizer.

The barges were built by the American Bridge Division of U.S. Steel of Ambridge, Pennsylvania at a cost of approximately $2,000,000 each. The year was 1963.

Here's a nice set of launch sequence images. She's being launched into the Ohio River.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 324'-6"
Beam 61'-0"
Draft 26'-0"