Sail Number: 579
Type: Ketch
LOA: 58’1″ / 17.66m – LWL: 41’3″ / 12.52m – Beam: 14’3″ / 4.33m – Draft: 7’6” / 2.28m – Design Number: 0879 – Designer: John G. Alden – Original Owner: Clarence A. Warden, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania – Current Owner: – Year Launched: 1950 – Built By: Abeking & Rasmussen, Germany – Hull Material: Steel – Gross Displacement: 58,300 / 26,500 – Ballast: 19,000 / 8636 – Location of Plans: MIT – Hart Nautical Collection – Permission required – Spars: Hollow, Sitka Spruce – Sail Area: 1,518 / 141.1
Historical:
Arthur Beiser – “The Proper Yacht”
“In looking for a yacht, intangible feelings are as important as tangible facts. I’m a believer in love at first sight as as essential an element in choosing a yacht as in life generally. Five minutes after meeting my wife, I knew our lives would become intertwined; we have now been married for 50 years. Five minutes after seeing Minots Light in 1957, I knew our destinies were to mesh too. ….Minots Light sat there a few boats away, a swan among mere ducks”
Trivia:
Minot’s Light is a prominent lighthouse on the coast south of Boston, between Cohassett and Scituate. Its chief characteristic is Gp Fl 1+4+3 and several generations learned to remember it as the ‘I Love You’ light, for its (1 4 and 3 letters).
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
Owner/Guardian: Clarence A. Warden, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
I crewed on this boat with Arthur, wife, 2 children and two other crew. It was 1958 and for me between graduation from Choate and entering Dartmouth. We sailed from Long Island sound to Bar Harbor and stayed for the summer. We always came in dead last racing. Ondine’s Curse owned by Huey Long (as I recall) was there. Sailing was more in my blood afterwards.