Sail Number: 225/1
Type: Lawley 225
LOA: 35’6″ / 10.85m – LOD: 35’6″ / 10.85m – LWL: 26′ 0″ – Beam: 5’11 / 1.55m – Draft: 5′ 00 / 1.52m – Ballast: 1,000 lbs – Displacement: – Original Sail Area: 225 – Yard Number: Prototype – Hull material: – Weldwood Construction – Rig: Sloop – Designer: C. Raymond Hunt – Built by: George Lawley & Son, Neponset, Massachusetts – Year First Built: 1936 – Contract Cost: $1,000
Historical:
In 1936 Raymond Hunt along with engineers Bror Tamm and Gordon Munro decided to build a 36’0″ prototype at the Lawley Yard in Neponset, Masachusetts. Although there were doubts about her potential sailing abilities, she quickly proved doubters wrong. But, at the time, no one seemed to like the prototype, she was too peculiar, and slab-sided for her size.
In 1939 The Corinthian Yacht Club members, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, were looking for a spirited one-design club boat for Massachusetts Bay, having searched for a low cost, low maintenance solution they decided on and sponsored the Lawley 225. Further evolved and improved by C. Raymond Hunt and Frank C. Paine, “Egeria” was the first of the 225 class boats, known as 225/1. “Egeria” proved to be very fast, beating most of the class boats in Marblehead except the 30-Square-Metres.