LOA: 55′11″ / 17.05m – LOD: 55′11″ / 17.05m – LWL: 41’0″ / 12.49m – Beam: 14′0″ / 4.26m – Draft: 9’0″ / 2.74m – Displacement: 18550 Kg – Ballast: 8647 Kg – Sail Area: 2,357 ft² / 219.00 m2 – Original Owner: Mr. Vender – Current Owner: Mr. A van Engen / A Dijksterhuis – Original name: Patrician III – Current name: Patrician Tiger – Year Launched: 1969 – Designed by: Sparkman & Stephens (No.125) – Built by: Cantieri Sangermani – Hull Material: Mahogany planking on oak frames. – Location: Marine Traffic
Historical:
Built in origin as Patricia III for the Italian owner Mr. Vender (already owner of Patricia, a 22 m Sangermani yawl), she was designed to compete in the regattas of the I Class RORC. Her fair lines, with no stretches, typical of the moment when Olin Stephens split the rudder from the keel, to reduce the water surface of the hull, leaving however an important connection between them and the skeg. This makes the Patrician amazingly easy to handle, while keeping a good stability route when sailing up-wind.
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
Owner: – (1969) Mr. Vender Owner: – (Current) Mr. A van Engen / A Dijksterhuis
LOA: 55’4” / 16.87m – LOD: 55’4” / 16.87m – LWL: 41’0” / 12.50m – Beam: 13’4” / 4.06m – Draft: 6’11” / 2.11m (updated Sparkman & Stephens) – Designer exterior: Henry A. Scheel Jr – Original Owner: – Current Owner: Private – Year Launched: 1988 – Built by: Van Dam Custom Boats – Hull material: Cold-molded – Sail Area: – Displacement: 32,000lbs – Ballast: 11,000 lbs – Engine: 2 W46 Westerbeke Diesel engines (Combined 92.0 hp) – Flag: US
Historical:
Of noble status, and high honorary title of the Byzantine Empire – origin
Van Dam Custom Boats – Patrician was the result of a client’s search for the perfect daysailer. He wanted her to display the traditional lines and beauty of sailing yachts of the past but with the performance of a modern design. He also wanted it to be sailable by one person. To assure the required performance, Henry Scheel developed the lines and used his patented keel on her underbody. Van Dam Custom Boats was asked to build Patrician, giving Steve Van Dam the opportunity to demonstrate all the skill and craftsmanship he had developed in his twenty plus years of boat building.
This cold-molded vessel displays the flawless joinery and finish for which Van Dam is well known. In use year round, she is a testament to the durability of Van Dam’s approach to wooden boat building. To satisfy the requirements of single-handed sailing, Van Dam engineered and constructed a complete electrical and hydraulic system so one person could handle all systems from the helm. Van Dam worked very closely with the owner to ensure that all the details that make a custom yacht special, were exactly the right blend of aesthetics and function.
Construction
Hull is cold-molded with (4) layers of 3/8″ mahogany saturated in West System epoxy and then sheathed with (2) layers of 6 oz fiberglass cloth set with West System epoxy resin. The exterior finish is Awl-grip. Frames and keelson are laminated mahogany. The deck is thick teak laid over mahogany plywood. Coamings and all trim are perfectly executed mahogany joinerwork finished in varnish.
Note the original “Scheel Keel” was replaced by the 2nd Owner in order to improve upwind performance. This current keel is 18″ deeper than the original, and was designed by the Sparkman and Stephens firm and cast by Mars Metal.
Propulsion
The twin W46 Westerbeke Diesel engines are set on soft mounts, and connected to Aqua Drives to reduce vibration. Oversized 1 3/8′ stainless prop shafts go through dripless Lasdrop shaft seals, and turn (2) 20″ three blade feathering Maxprops.
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
Owner/Guardian: Private
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Panope was a successful racing and cruising yacht original built by Camper & Nicholson in Gosport. Lost in the 1970’s, she is a very attractive recreation opportunity and a very useful size. With dimensions that allow her to operate under the MCA SCV charter code rather than LY2, if you want to operate this yacht commercially then you will not find a finer example of original beauty to impress your guests with.
LOA: 49’2″ / 14.99m – LOD: 49’2″ / 14.99m – LWL: 35’0” / 10.67m – Beam: 11’1″ / 3.39m – Draft: 7’6” / 2.29m – Designer: Robert Clark – Original Owner: Colonel C. F. King – Current Owner: Inversail – Year Built: 1937 – Built by: Morgan Giles – Hull material: Burma Teak / Oak Frames – Sail Area: 940 sq ft / 87.30 sq.m – Displacement: 14 tons – Engine: 72hp Sole OM 616 diesel – Flag: Spain – Location: Galicia NW Spain
Historical:
ClassicOrtac.Com – From the golden age of gentleman yachting, the beautiful ORTAC shines as one of its most successful ocean racing boats.
Appearing in 1937, and without tuning up, she went on to win her maiden race, the Heligoland, in spite of competing with such well known ocean racers as the Latifa, the Trenchemer, the Roland von Bremen, and the Hamburg.
After winning the RORC in 1937, the ORTAC went on to win many of her races and to become one of the most successful racers of the period, with a performance that has been outstanding over a period of years, and in the hands of a variety of owners. Even in 1955 she went on to win the Royal Engineers Yacht Club cup, and in 1970 the Cowes Week Championship.
She was one of the “designed for the job” boats. Beginning in 1930 with the 52 foot yawl Dorade and followed by Stormy Weather, both designed by Olin and Rod Stephens and both winners of the Fastenet Race. The British owners soon followed suit commissioning boats specifically designed for ocean racing and the RORC rule, such as Charles A. Nicholson’s Bloodhound and Foxhound, Laurent Giles’s Maid of Malham for John Illingworth and Robert Clark’s ORTAC.
First yacht in the world to extend her guardrails right forward in the form of a pulpit.
Designed, as we said, by Robert Clark she was commissioned by Colonel C. F. King and built by Morgan Giles of Teignmouth in Burma teak. The Ortac can claim to be the first yacht in the world to extend her guardrails right forward in the form of a pulpit. It is perfectly understandable that a fitting, now taken as universal, raised howls of rage when it first appeared.
When it came to installing the pulpit, the yard was not prepared to commit such an act of desecration, declaring the item to be a “silly bit of tin”. Faced with this «nolle prosequi», Clark and the owner took the otherwise completed boat elsewhere and found another yard prepared to go down in the books as the fabricators of History´s First Pulpit.
After a successful career in England, in 1953 she was acquired by the Hamburgischer Verein Seefarhrt, as their club boat. Under their flag she took part in many races including the Transatlantic Race from Newport to Marstand, Sweden. She even sailed to Iceland and to other distant waters.
In 1990 she appeared in Ibiza, Spain where she was auctioned and bought by her present owner. She now lies in Baiona, in the North West coast of Spain, where since then has been used as a family boat, sailing mainly around the «Galician Rias» and nearby waters. Apart from the delivery trip from Ibiza to Baiona, she made a complete anti-clockwise circumnavigation, from Baiona to Baiona, sailing along the Portuguese coast, along the Gulf of Cadiz to Gibraltar, and from there to the Balearic Islands, and returning via Barcelona and Santander (naturally by road), and finally along the Cantabric North coast of Spain back again to Baiona.
This round trip was nearly always sailed under following winds: The Noroeste in Galicia and Portugal, the Poniente in the Gulf of Cadiz, the Virazón in the Mediterranean, the Nordeste in the Cantabric and again the Noroeste in Galicia.
During the last few years she has been seriously restored. All the hull planks have been refastened with new copper bolts. Thin cedar strips have been epoxied between planks. A new deck has been installed, with new deck stringers, some new beams, waterproof plywood epoxied on top, a layer of Sikaflex and new teak screwed on top. The many steel reinforcements, which over the years had been aded by her previous owners, have been eliminated. The only steel remaining inside the hull are four inox reinforcement angles placed between the hull and the deck and melted iron floor knees. Most of thees knees have been removed, sand blasted, epoxy coated and reinstalled.
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
Owner/Guardian: (1937) Col. C. F. King
Owner/Guardian: (1953) Hamburgischer Verein Seefarhrt
It was in 1910 that SYLVANA, a schooner destined to make history, was launched at Camper & Nicholson’s yard in Gosport. At that time yachting was in its comparative youth, but the class and elegance of this lovely schooner made her stand out. Built for Lt Colonel Courtney Morgan, SYLVANA as she was named was actively cruised in her early years. She was to change hands several times however – and was next acquired in 1913 by Compte Jean de Paulignac a long standing admirer of Charles Nicholson’s designs. In 1921 he sold her to Maurice Bunay Varilla, who renamed her PAYS DE FRANCE and moved her to Marseilles. A year later she was bought by Cecil Slade to be renamed DIANA. Then in 1927 she was bought by Raul C Monsegur, who gave her the name VIRA. It was in 1930 that having been bought by one Miguel de Pinilios, she became ORION. He kept her in Barcelona, where incidentally she lay alongside ALTAIR, the great Fife schooner. In 1935 ORION suffered the effects of an explosion and fire damaging the bridge, wheelhouse and main boom and in due course while ALTAIR’s fortunes waxed, those of ORION gradually declined – for a period at least.
A further significant event for ORION occurred in 1967, when she lost both masts in a storm in the Golfe du Lyons. It was not until the 1980s however that she was found and restored by her new Italian owners. In one key respect they made a significant change and departing from the original gaff sail plan they fitted her with a staysail on the foremast and a small gaff mainsail. It was thus rigged that ORION first made her mark on the Mediterranean classic yacht scene. Nevertheless as time moved on ORION lost her prominence; her reduced rig and power less a match for her up and coming competitors and visibly less grand than her original design had intended her to be. More recently she has been restored to a full gaff rig, which although not identical to that with which she was launched in 1910, has in large part restored her original splendour and power.
After no less than five names and twelve owners, ORION is once again a cult figure for lovers of vintage yachts. In recent years, not only participating in show regattas, ORION has entered far more competitive events, in which she duelled for example with MARIETTE, and crew members having served on both yachts engendering healthy rivalry in the process
In her current ownership ORION was taken to Le Ciotat, the boatyard near Marseilles specially set up to renovate this schooner. He decided to completely rebuild her based on the original plans. In the words of Charles Nicholson’s descendant “This is my boat, the boat my father built, I recognise her as she is now”.
Notwithstanding her tonnage increased with the installation of modern facilities and systems, she is still a very competitive boat. Meanwhile the interiors are spacious and divided up well with private owner and guest cabin with en suite accommodation well separated from the crew’s own spacious accommodation forward.
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
Owner/Guardian: (1910-1913) Lt. Colonel Courtney Morgan (
Owner/Guardian: (1913-1921) Compte Jean de Paulignac
Owner/Guardian: (1921-1922) Maurice Bunay Varilla – renamed PAYS DE FRANCE
