In the early nineteen thirties, the Fishers Island Yacht Club was casting about for a class to use for the junior sailors. A. E. Luders, Sr. and Jr. were chosen to design and build this new one-design class. The “Luders Gang” was well known as active racers and innovative designers of racing boats (they even …
So it was that in 1937 a boat was launched into the sea from the Fife boatyard in Fairlie, a 22-metre yacht called Eilean, which in the Scottish means “little island”. The boat, design number 822, was conceived by the then eighty-year-old William Fife III, alongside his nephew Robert Balderton Fife who had only recently …
Woodwind II Specifications: LOA: 74′ Length on deck: 61.5′ Beam: 16′ Draft: 7′ Displacement: 52,000 lbs Designer: John Scarano Construction: West System, with fiberglass exterior, port orford cedar laminated frames, and strip planks, Alaskan cedar beams, and Douglas fir deck and sole. Year Built: 1998 “Woodwind II” was selected to be the sailing yacht of …
Perry “Sliver” Specifications: LOA 61’11”; LWL 55’4”; Beam 9’10”; Displacement 17,718 lbs.; Sail Area 976; SA/D 22.97; D/L 46.72; L/B 6.32; Auxiliary Yanmar 39-hp; Fuel 40 gals.; Water 50 gals. 62 foot double ended daysailor under construction at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, Washington. Known as the “Sliver Project” she is …
Marshall Marine has acquired the molds and building rights to the Sakonnet 23, formerly built by Edey & Duff out of Mattapoisett. This is a classic Joel White designed daysailer, with a shoal draft similar to Marshall’s catboats. Her unique double ended design and graceful shear will surely be the envy of any harbor. She …