A new informational video filmed during the Annapolis Boat Show by our media partner SailFlix, was just added to Summerwinds profile in our Registry:

Classic Yacht Registry of Heritage SUMMERWIND: https://classicsailboats.org/portfolio-view/john-g-alden-summerwind/

The Schooner Summerwind was launched as Queen Tyi in 1929 from the yard of C.A. Morse (now Lyman-Morse) of Thomaston, Maine. Designed by the John G. Alden Company of Boston, Massachusetts (design no. 412), considered by many to be one of the top design firms of this type of craft, she was built for Arthur Crisp, a Wall Street banker who lost the vessel in the Market Crash of 1929.

John G. Alden (1884-1962)

A native of Rhode Island, John Alden worked as a draftsman for the noted Boston designer Bowdoin B. Crowninshield before establishing his own design firm in 1909. An early trip on a fishing schooner convinced him of their seaworthy qualities, and his Malabar series of oceangoing schooner yachts, 1921-30, reflected the best characteristics of these vessels. A skilled sailor as well as a designer, Alden won Bermuda Races with his Malabar IV, VII, and X. Until young Olin Stephens introduced a new shape for offshore yachts in the 1930s, Alden schooners represented the standards of safety for the CCA. Morris Rosenfeld photographed John Alden at the wheel of his Malabar VII in 1926.