LOA: 48.06′ / 14.65m – LOD: LWL: 29.52′ / 9,19m – Beam: 8.0′ / 2.44m – Draft: 6.23′ / 1,90m – Displacement: 8,6 tonnes – Ballast: – Sail Area: – Rig: Sloop – Designer: Tore Holm – Hull: Mahogany on Oak Frames – Built by: Gamleby SE – Year Built: 1939 – Boat Location: – Current Name: – Original Owner: Walter Edström – Current Owner:
Historical:
In 1939 consul Walter Edström comissioned Tore Holm to build Svanevit (shipyard in Gamleby, sail No. S 12). Edström, sailed the Svanevit for many years at the south coast of Sweden in the region around Göteborg. During those days the boat was intensively used by the family.
Besides the Svanevit also participated successfully in numerous regattas between 1939 and the early 50’s. Already in the year of it’s finishing the Svanevit participated in a race in Sandhamn against the SIRA of crown prince Olaf of Norway. During the World War all sailing activities came to a rest.
But already at the end of the 40’s Svanevit was an active part of the european sailing community. Until 1952 Svanevit had variable successes in the int´l Kattegat Trophy – the later SIRA Cup. During those years the SIRA of crown prince Olaf was the strongest and most honorable competitor of Svanevit.
Since 2010 Svanevit is talking part again in the European races.
Known Racing History:
Four times winner of the Kattegatt Cup (the later Sira WorldCup)
Known Restoration History:
2014 – New wooden Keel structure. New bulkhead deck bridge 2009 – New prop and rudder structure 2008 – New front bulkhead 2007 – G&B, Kressbronn, Ventis B.V., Enkhuizen and Wegener Yachwerft, Wedel. 1990s – Guntram Stoll at Lukas Hummlers Shipyard
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
LOA: 44’3″ / 13.50m – LOD: 37’9″ / 11.50m – LWL: 24’3″ / 7.40m – Beam: 9’2″ / 2.80m – Draft: 5’3″ / 1.60m -=Displacement: 5.5 tons – Ballast: – Yard Number: – Hull material: Wood (Pine) – Designer: Albert Anderson – Built by: Landskrona – Year Launched: 1904 – Original Name: SVANEHVIT – Original Owner: Lieutenant Carl Silfverling, Oskarshamn – Sail Area: 73 m2 – Homeport: Gryt
Historical:
Svanehvit was built before the Archipelago Cruiser rule but is said to have been measured as SK 75. She was designed by Albert Anderson for Lieutenant Carl Silfverling, Oskarshamn.
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
Guardian/Owner: (1904-1907) – Lieutenant Carl Silfverling, Oskarshamn
Guardian/Owner: (1910) A. R. Bildt- renamed Blanceflor.
Guardian/Owner: 1922-1939 Generaldirektör Per
Guardian/Owner: (1939-1945) – William Blanche
Guardian/Owner: (1949-1951) – G. Liljeblad
Guardian/Owner: (60s) – Vaxholms scoutkår
Guardian/Owner: (80s) – Oswald Ginzel
Guardian/Owner: (1990) – Jan Oseruff
Guardian/Owner: (1993) – Patrik Jansson
Guardian/Owner: (1993) – Kjell Eldered
Guardian/Owner: (1993-2018) – Håkan Visén and Ann Bengtsson
LOA: 78’5″ / 23.90m – LWL: 61’9″ / 18.82m – Beam: 18’4″ / 5.59m – Draft: 10’2” / 3.10m – Design Number: 412 – Designer: John G. Alden – Original Owner: Arthur Crisp, New York, NY. – Original Name: Queen Tyi – Current Owner: USNA – Year Launched: 1929 – Built By: C.A. Morse, & Son (now Lyman-Morse) – Hull Material: Wood – Gross Displacement: 179,200 / 81,284 – Sail Area: 2618
Historical:
The Schooner Summerwind was launched as the 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.
Renamed Sea Gypsy, she was to become a well known schooner yacht, racing and cruising the waters of New England and serving her country during the Second World War as part of the Coastal Picket Patrol with her designation CGR-1989. As the noted historian Samuel Eliot Morison wrote, “( these vessels) had the arduous task of patrolling areas around Nantucket Shoals, west to Shinnecock and down to 40 degrees North…They kept at sea for a week of more and took everything that old man Neptune uncorked.”
Renamed Summerwind after the famous song written by Heinz Meierpart and performed in 1966 by Frank Sinatra, she was instrumental in the development of the classic yachting movement that began in the late 1960’s as older vessels were joined by newly built replicas as evident in a 1967 New York Times article with the by-line “Block Island waters to drip with nostalgia June 28 as schooners compete” about a gathering of schooners as part of the Storm Trysail club’s recently created Block Island Race Week. By the 1980’s she was chartering in the Mediterranean and her classic gaff rig was converted to that of a staysail schooner.
She had several refits during her career as a charter vessel, but her lifespan was nearing its end when she was purchased in Spain in 2006 and transported to Palm Beach Florida where a massive restoration was undertaken. Almost entirely replanked; every structural element was evaluated and either restored or replaced and her engineering systems redesigned. Her sailing rig was again updated, this time to make her a champion racer on the extremely popular classic racing circuit. The efforts of this tremendous two year undertaking were rewarded when she took first place in her class at the 2009 Newport Bucket. Renamed Summer Wind, she is a classic vessel in new condition ready to embark upon a new career.
After being relaunched in 2009, she was donated to the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Her charter to the Academy lasted three years. The craft was used extensively for sail training of midshipmen in various events: racing events, local navigation training, overnight and offshore voyages and indoctrination training of first-year midshipmen.
In most every way Summerwind is a museum piece, the finest example of a classic schooner. However, she is also, in all probability, the “newest” 1929 vessel afloat due not only to her extensive rebuild and modernization of equipment from 2006-2009, but also to continuing meticulous care and upgrades, including replacement of the entire rig (both masts and booms) in carbon fiber by Jim Grundy.
SummerWind was then donated by James Grundy of Oxford, Md., in 2015. At the Academy she will be used by the Varsity Offshore Sailing Team and by the Off Shore Training Squadron during summer training blocks. SummerWind can hold 12 midshipmen along with a skipper and an executive officer vice the Navy 44’s which hold eight midshipmen, a skipper, and an XO.
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
Owner/Guardian: (1929) – Arthur Crisp, New York, NY. Owner/Guardian: (1946) – C.R. Vose, – St. Petersburg Habana Race to Havana, record run 35 hours, 50 minutes, 25 seconds Crew: G.E. Brooks Owner/Guardian: (1969,1976) – John P. Cunningham, Riverdale Yacht Club (third) Commodore, Bronx, N.Y Owner/Guardian: (2006-2009) – J. Don Williamson, Texas oilman. Major 8 – 10 million dollar restoration Moores Marine, WPB, FL Captain: Karl Joyner Owner/Guardian: (2009-2013) – Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, New York – Academy’s flagship and ambassador – US SAILING’s Safety-at-Sea Committee has awarded an Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal to the crew of United States Merchant Marine Academy’s (USMMA) sail training vessel Summerwind for a rescue made off the coast of Maine Summerwind Crew- Jonathan Kabak- Master CDR Chris Gasiorek, USMS KP’95 – Sailing Master Brian Giorgio, KP ’08 – Engineer Michael Dybvik KP ’10 Mate Charles Floyd-Jones KP ’10 – Mate Pat Showell KP ’09 – Mate Tiffany Smythe – Volunteer Coach M/N Misty Harris KP ‘ 12 M/N Karen Gilkey KP ’12 M/N Ben Reavis KP ’12 M/N Chris Leach KP’ 12 M/N James Pilliod KP ’13 M/N Eric Madsen KP ’13 M/N Jared Reeves KP’13 M’N Jeff Musselman KP’12 M/N Tim Higgins KP’ 12 M/N Amos London KP ’12 Owner/Guardian: (2013-2015) – James Grundy – New carbon fiber mast and booms Captain: Karl Joyner Owner/Guardian: (2015-Current) Naval Academy Sailing Foundation, Annapolis, MD (Every boat it receives is actively sailed, raced or both by the U.S. Naval Academy under a no-cost donative Bareboat Charter.)
Comments
Richard Browne – December 26, 2018
I believe I worked on this vessel in the summer of 1966, sailing out of Long Island. Do you have the name of the owner at that time ? He was in advertising. Thank you,Richard Browne
July 31, 2022
I crewed on her in 1972. The owner was Jack Cunningham. Sailing master was Ken Porter.
Brant – November 1, 2022
Do you recall crewing with Rand Becht from Hawaii?
LOA: 40’0″ / 12.19m – LWL: 27’6″ / 8.38m – Beam: 9’6″ / 2.89m – Draft: 6’0” / 1.82m – Design Number: – Designer: Alfred E. “Bill” Luders, Jr – Original Owner: – Current Owner: Scott Bridge – Yacht Club: Portsmouth Yacht Club – Year Launched: 1955 – Built By: Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, CT – Hull Material: Wood – Displacement: 18,000 lbs./ 8,165 kgs – Ballast: 7,000 lbs. / 3,175 kgs. – Sail Area: 800 ft2 / 74.32 m2 – Engine:
Historical:
Luders Marine Construction was founded by Alfred E. Luders in 1908, in Byram CT, but moved in 1912 to Harbor Drive, in Stamford Harbor. After his father’s death, Mr. Luders continued to run the shipyard, building the America’s Cup boat Weatherly in 1958 to the design of Philip Rhodes. Weatherly was not a successful campaigner in that series, but after a redesign by Mr. Luders, she successfully defended the cup in 1964 with Bus Mossbacker at the helm. The yard is now operated by Brewer Yacht Haven Marina.
A pioneer in molded hulls, the L-27 was one of the prime attractions at the NY Boat Show. Originally Luders made their own mandrels and hulls then had Allied Aviation Corporation, of Cockeysville, Maryland build them, with Luders completing them in jigs.
The L-27 at the time, was the largest molded plywood boat built in the U.S. The vessels were devoid of joints, requiring no caulking, with smooth frameless interiors.
The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest:
Owner/Guardian: Donald Cohan Owner/Guardian: Scott Bridge
LOA: 44’0″ / 13.41m – LOD: 32’0″ / 9.80m – LWL: 28’0″ / 8.53m – Beam: 11’1″ / 3.37m – Draft: 5’6″ / 1.67m – Displacement: 21,772 lbs / 9,876 kg Ballast: – Sail Area: 665 sq ft / 61.8 m2 – Current Owner: Robin Knox-Johnston – Original Owner: Robin Knox-Johnston – Year Launched: 1965 (keel was laid in 1963, finished in 1965) – Designed by: William Atkin – Built by: Bombay, India – Design Number: – Hull Material: Wood
Historical:
Suhaili was built in Bombay with the help of Royal Bombay Yacht Club, India in 1963. She follows plans designed by William Atkins for “Eric” in 1923. Her design is based on the Norwegian sailing lifeboat designs of Colin Archer.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston first made history in 1969 when he won the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race on board his 32-foot LOD Bermudian ketch Suhaili, setting the record as the first man to sail solo, non-stop around the world, thus kicking off an incredible career during which further racing records, multiple yachtsman of the year accolades, a knighthood, patronages of sailing organisations all around the world, and twenty years of inspiring amateur sailors to follow his experience, have followed.
The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest:
Owner/Guardian: (1963 – Present) Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
