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Perseveren – Gaelic for “If at first you don’t succeed try, try again.”

Has graced Lake Washington and the Pugent sound for many years, and now resides in Venice Italy, since 1985

The Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest, refer their area as the “Evergreen Playground” and appropriately this class was named for this special locale. The Evergreen Class was sponsored by Seattle’s Corinthian Yacht Club, looking for a capable yacht that could hold its own against the 6-metres and the PC’s on Sunday afternoons, yet capable enough to cruise this vast scenic waterway.

Incorporating some of the sailing attributes of the 22 and 30 square metre yachts Bill Agnew initiated discussion with numerous designers. With Herb Day, and Hugh Brady assistance they finally choose Rhodes and were able to produce a yacht that cost under $6,000 and was easy to maintain, with expected yearly maintenance fees of around $200.00

Evergreen was the closest Phil Rhodes came to turning out a sizable pure racing machine since his 12-metre “Weatherly.”

Restoration

After more than a year of restoration, the Perseveren, an American Evergreen model boat designed by P. Rhodes in 1947 was relaunched on September 2017 exactly 70 years after its construction.

Before the restoration, the boat was in a condition of severe deterioration, today she is moored in Venice at the Compagnia della Vela marina on the island of San Giorgio.

Restoration works: Stefano Giannesini
Photographer: Tuia Giannesini

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):

• Owner/Guardian: Stefano Giannesini

Historical:

Le Télégramme – In the spring of 1898, the Irish shipyard Cummins & Bros launched Yum, a 15.10 m long racing cutter for Adolphus Fowler, an Irish yachtman. In his first season, Yum’s record is most encouraging, with four victories in ten races. As always with winning boats, the owner receives attractive offers to purchase. The sailboat was sold in 1899 to Campbell M. Keir, a British regatta. In the absence of results for the next three years, the latter sold it in 1902 to the Frenchman André Hachette, who renamed it Grisélidis … before selling it six months later to Mr. Mac Henry of the Cercle de la Voile de Paris (CVP)

Yum sails in Douarnenez

In 1907, Pierre Taconet, its new owner, brought him back to Le Havre and sold it to Georges Grus who gave him the name of Magda. Three years later, the Fife plan again became Grisélidis with M. Raillard, who sailed in Brest until 1912, when the cutter returned to the CVP with Gaston Cailleux. In 1914, Jacques Richepin acquired it and based it in Douarnenez. Yum is now called Cora V. It is the inhabitants of Nantes Jean and André Lebec who give him the pretty surname of Pen Duick – the chickadee in Breton – in 1935. Three years later, the Scottish cutter is acquired by Guy Tabarly. There son, Eric, then aged seven, made her first steps there. In the early 1950s, Eric became a sought-after team member. But he does not forget the old family cutter who is slowly dying in La Trinité, his father having no finances to restore it. In 1952, on the eve of enlisting in the French Navy, he told his father that, whatever it cost him, he would save Pen Duick. “Well, I give it to you!” Eric Tabarly has just added his name to the long list of Yum owners. Eric will devote all of his spare time and savings to reviving his boat. At Easter 1959, the bet is won. The cutter will sail again, racing or cruising, until 1964. That year, Eric Tabarly won the Transat solo on board the Pen Duick II, a plywood ketch. From then on, the sailor chooses to put his cutter in brackets, to devote his life to ocean racing. Wintered for over twenty years, Pen Duick underwent a new phase of work in the 1980s. Raymond Labbé was responsible for rebuilding the hull, as well as the fittings and the deck plan. Raymond will even have a green underwater paint made for his friend, for the sole purpose of regaining the patina of the original bronze lining! This is how the Fife plan was able to start a second life. Eric Tabarly, evoking with emotion his wet cutter below his farmhouse on the banks of the Odet, once wrote: “Art object, precious, demanding sensual, lively, capricious, such is my Pen Duick, my boat. ”

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):

• Guardian/Owner: (1898-1899) – Adolphus Fowler
• Guardian/Owner: (1899-1902) – Campbell M. Keir
• Guardian/Owner: (1902-1902) – André Hachette -Renamed Grisélidis
• Guardian/Owner: (1902-1907) – Mr. Mac Henry
• Guardian/Owner: (1907) – Pierre Taconet
• Guardian/Owner: Georges Grus – Renamed Magda
• Guardian/Owner: M. Raillard – Renamed Grisélidis
• Guardian/Owner: (1914) – Jacques Richepin – Renamed Cora V, Douarnenez
• Guardian/Owner: Nantes Jean and André Lebec
• Guardian/Owner: Gaston Cailleux Renamed Pen Duick
• Guardian/Owner: Guardian/Owner: (1938-1952) – Guy Tabarly
• Guardian/Owner: (1952) – Eric Tabarly
• Guardian/Owner: Jacqueline and Marie Tabarly

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Motor Boating – February 1938 – A NEW INTERCLUB CLASS

At the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard in Quincy, Mass., work on a new series of Interclub sloops is rapidly going forward. The design for these was prepared by Fred Goeller and they have been named after Charles Francis Adams, former Secretary of the Navy, and yacht racing skipper of long standing. The first boat to be completed will be delivered to the Mayor of Quincy and four others of the initial lot will go to prominent sailors in Massachusetts. Local yachtsman on Massachusetts Bay have gotten behind this new boat will all possible enthusiasm.

The Adams Interclub class promises to be one of the liveliest in those parts during the upcoming season. These new boats are being built to an overall length of 24 1/2 feet. The waterline length is 17 feet, and they have an overall beam of 6 feet and carry 4 feet draft. They carry 1,000 pounds of lead in their keel and have a displacement of about 27,000 pounds. Rigged as sloops, they carry a total of 253 square feet of sail, of which 165 feet is in the mainsail and 88 feet in the jib. The sail plan further indicates a spinnaker of liberal size for the boats.

In appearance the boats are attractive and have a little cabin which will serve as shelter at times, or also as a place to stow sails or other gear when not needed. The hull more construction is simple and sturdy. Plans are underway at Quincy Adams Yacht Yard to standardize this boat. Should this come about many more would undoubtedly be sold, resulting in a much larger class of boats to engage in racing and similar class activities. It’s believe that 15 or 16 boats were built and only hull #1 and hull #2 are still in existence.

Restoration

04/25/05 – Full restoration replacing all 72 frames, 19 floors, cabin, transom and all planking except 18 planks.

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):

Owner: (1938) – Hosea D. White of the Savin Hill Yacht Club, Dorchester Boston MA.
Owner: (1980) – Donald Salisbury, Mast Head Marina, East Greenwich Rhode Island.

Comments

Kenneth D Rolt – August 18, 2021

The sail number for Peanut II, and therefore Adamant, is IAC-2, not 36.
IAC means Adams InterClub, and IAC is the way the class & builder is affiliated by the rhombus logo. I am the grandson of the 1938 skipper of Peanut II. The owner was Hosea D. White, the skipper was George Rolt and the crew was Al “Suitcase” Woodman. The same trio raced in White’s Mass Bay 18-footer Oriental from 1935 to 1938. I provided most of the photos and details here, and I was the one that connected Adamant to its original name. – Ken Rolt

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PAX is the only 45 sq metre Spidsgatter sailing in North America.

Pax (Latin for Peace) is a spidsgatter (Danish for “double ender”) built in Kalundborg, Denmark in 1936. The spidsgatter was a racing class begun in the mid-1920s as sail clubs across Denmark sought to expand opportunities for families to sail together. The boats were fast (very high rig), ocean-worthy (modeled after North Sea fish boat designs), had lots of volume below (beamy) and were relatively inexpensive to build.

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):

Owner/Guardian: (1936) Petry Bertelsen
Owner/Guardian: Kaci Cronkhite

References:

Spidsgatter PAX Captain/Owner: Kaci Cronkhite
Spidsgatter PAX: Facebook

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The second of the New York Y.C. forty-foot class yachts launched at Herreshoff’s, known as the “Fighting Forties.”

Sandeman comments: Sandeman Yacht Company.

Launched as PAULINE in 1916 for Oliver G Jennings, she was the 8th vessel in a series of 12 one designs ordered by the New York Yacht Club; the New York 40s. They were the last sizeable one design class to be designed and built by Nathaniel G. Herreshoff under the universal rule. Yachting reporters of the day considered they so closely resembled the form of the cup defender RESOLUTE, that Herreshoff had probably used RESOLUTE for his hull model. The NY 40s were designed to be cruisers with good accommodation with racing as a secondary consideration. In the event they turned out to be the hottest racing class of their time – to be nicknamed “The Fighting Forties”.

Changing ownership soon after launching she was renamed BANSHEE. Then in 1931 she was bought by Howard F Whitney Jr who then named her CHINOOK. In 1926 two new sisters were launched, RUGOSA and MARILEE, both of which survive today – along with four of the original class; WIZARD OF BRISTOL, ROWDY, VIXEN 2 and of course CHINOOK.

Most recently a group of five passionate sailors found CHINOOK largely intact with many of her original fittings and parts in the USA; albeit in a sorry state. They decided collectively to save her, buying her in March 2010 and shipping her to Europe soon thereafter, she was taken to Bizerte in Tunisia where a full and sympathetic rebuild to her original designs is envisaged. Her sister ship ROWDY winning a host of regattas outright and arguably the most successful classic yacht ever on the Mediterranean Classic Circuit, is the inspiration.

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):

Owner/Guardian: (1925) Oliver G. Jennings