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Wartime designation: (CGR-2529)

Type: Auxiliary Gaff Schooner (After Cockpit)

LOA: – LOD: 57’2” / 17.42m – LWL: 42’5” / 12.93m – Beam: 14’2″ / 4.32m – Draft: 7’8”/ 2.34m – Designer: John G. Alden (No. 267) – Original Owner: Henry Burrall Anderson, New York, NY. – Current Owner: – Year Launched: 1926 – Built by: C.A. Morse & Son, Thomaston, ME. – Hull material: Wood – Working Sail Area: 1,615 square feet – Downwind Sail Area: – Displacement: 53,000 lbs / 24,040 kg – Ballast: – Engine:

Historical:

Auxiliary gaff schooner Trade Wind was designed by John G. Alden for the 1926 Bermuda Race. She was built for Henry B. Anderson of New York, N.Y., by C.A. Morse & Son in Thomaston, Maine in 1926. One sister ship Nicomor (later named Pinta) was built in 1926 as 267-B. The 267’s lines were drawn by long time John G. Alden architect Clifford P. Swaine in July 1925.

WWII Wartime Service (CGR 2529)

Mr. Learoyd enlisted in the United States Coast Guard (possibly Coast Guard Reserve) in the spring of 1942. Due to some prior military service and his sailing experience, he was immediately made a Chief Bosun’s Mate (E7). Mr. Learoyd then skippered the “Trade Wind,” as part of the Coastal Picket Patrol Fleet. Trade Wind was given the wartime designation CGR 2529, and was on U-boat patrol out of Camden Maine in 1942.

Mr. Learoyd would occasionally talk about his WW II experience on Trade Wind. His son recalls that his father and his crew did five days out and two days in, as his mother mentioned he would be home a couple of days a week. Trade Wind sailed out of Belfast, ME, although may have been out of Gloucester, MA at times. His son remembers his father mentioning that they often worked with a blimp or dirigible, either which could carry a couple of depth charges. As far as his son recalls I know they never spotted a U-boat, but did participate in some rescues.

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Notable Guest, and Reunion Information):

• Owner/Guardian: (1926) Henry Burrall Anderson, New York, NY. Principle in New York law firm, Anderson, Howland and Murray. Clients included Harold S. Vanderbilt, railroad executive, champion yachtsman and great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. In addition to advising Cornelius, was counsel for the City of New York.
• Captain: (1926-Bermuda Race) Henry Hill Anderson
• Navigator: (1926-Bermuda Race) Edward O. McConnell
• Owner/Guardian: (August 1975) Schooner, Inc., Homeport New Haven Harbor, a nonprofit organization, In 1975, four men (and the greater New Haven community) began Schooner Inc. It’s first goal – restore a 57-foot ship, Trade Wind, to sail Long Island Sound bringing attention to Long Island Sound and its plight. At a time when the Clean Water Act (1972) was starting to make a difference in the waters across the nation, Schooner was modeled after folk singer, Pete Seeger’s Clearwater. Original Board President, Ralph Halsey, explained to “use the Sound region as its living laboratory. [We] are developing school, civic, and member programs for use onboard Trade Wind to directly involve thousands of people in the sailing and research experience each year from April to November.”
• Captain: (1975) Alan Burnett

Resources

Charlie Learoyd
John G. Alden Database
John G. Alden and His Yacht Designs (Robert W. Carrick, ‎Richard Henderson · 1983)
The Rudder ( Volume 42 – Page 14, Thomas Fleming Day · 1926)
New York Times article “A Schooner,” by Diane Henry (April 24, 1977.)
Daytonian in Manhattan (Tuesday, March 5, 2019)
Sea History 007 – (Spring 1977)
AARP (New Haven CT) Schooner, Inc.

Wartime designation: Juniata IX-77

Sail Number:

Type: Gaff-rigged auxiliary schooner

Ex; Launched as Etak in 1930, Vega in 1938, Juniata (IX-77), 11 August 1942

LOA: 137’0″ / 42.00m – LOD: – LWL: – Beam: 28’2″ / 8.59m – Draft: 17’5″ / 5.31m – Displacement: 242 Tons – Sail Area: – Original Owner: Walter Graeme, his wife, Catherine (“Kate”) – Everit Macy Ladd. – Original Name: Etak – Year Launched: 1930 – Designed by: Cox & Stevens – Built by: Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft Kiel, Germany – Hull Material: – Documentation or State Reg. No.:

Historical:

Te Vega is a two-masted, gaff-rigged auxiliary schooner. Originally launched as the Etak, she was designed by New York naval architects Cox & Stevens in 1929 for American businessman Walter Graeme Ladd and his wife, Catherine (“Kate”) Everit Macy Ladd. Etak (“Kate” spelled backwards) was built at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel, Germany, and launched in 1930.

WWII service

USS Juniata (IX-77), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Juniata River in Pennsylvania, which empties into the Susquehanna River. Her keel was laid down as Vega in 1930 by Krupp, of Kiel, Germany. She was purchased by the Navy from her owner, H. W. Rohl, of Los Angeles, California, in 1942. Delivered 20 July, she was placed in service 11 August 1942.

Juniata was assigned to the Western Sea Frontier and was based at San Francisco, California. She alternated with other ships on patrol on the great circle route to Hawaii, steaming to and from her station some 500 miles west of Eureka, California. Juniata was placed out of service at Treasure Island, San Francisco, California, on 1 January 1945, returned to the Maritime Commission, and sold to a private owner in June 1945.

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Notable Guest, and Reunion Information):

Owner: (1930) Walter Graeme, his wife, Catherine (“Kate”) Everit Macy Ladd.
Owner: (1942) H. W. Rohl, of Los Angeles
Owner: (1942-1945) US Navy, Purchased by the US Navy from H. W. Rohl, Los Angeles, CA., 1 July 1942. Placed in service as Juniata (IX-77), 11 August 1942. Assigned to Commander Western Sea Frontier, 12 September 1942. Placed out of service, 1 January 1945 at Naval Station Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA. Struck from the Naval Register, 19 January 1945. Sold by the War Shipping Administration, 4 June 1945

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: (1929) – Arthur Crisp, New York, NY.
Owner: (1946) – C.R. Vose, – St. Petersburg Habana Race to Havana, record run 35 hours, 50 minutes, 25 seconds
Crew: G.E. Brooks
Owner: (1969,1976) – John P. Cunningham, Riverdale Yacht Club (third) Commodore, Bronx, N.Y
Owner: (2006-2009) – J. Don Williamson, Texas oilman. Major 8 – 10 million dollar restoration Moores Marine, WPB, FL
Captain: Karl Joyner
Owner: (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: (2013-2015) – James Grundy – New carbon fiber mast and booms
Captain: Karl Joyner
Owner: (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

Brant

In reply to stephen mitchell.
Do you recall crewing with Rand Becht from Hawaii?

stephen mitchell

In reply to Richard Browne.
I crewed on her in 1972. The owner was Jack Cunningham. Sailing master was Ken Porter.

Richard Browne

I believe I worked on this vessel in the summer of 1966, sailing out of Long Island. Do you

Historical:

The auxiliary schooner Shearwater was designed by Theodore Donald Wells and built by the Rice Brothers Corporation in East Boothbay, Maine in 1929. During World War II, it was requisitioned into the United States Coast Guard to patrol for German U-boats. The Shearwater completed a circumnavigation of the world in the early-1980s and later worked as a research laboratory for the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Environmental Medicine.

Shearwater first traveled through the Panama Canal in July 1946 and in the late 1970s and early 1980s completed a two and a half-year global circumnavigation. In December 1971 she was donated to the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Environmental Medicine. She worked as a yacht-for-charter in 1966 while on the West Coast sailing to California’s Channel Islands and was again used as a charter while owned by the University of Pennsylvania.

The Shearwater was purchased by her current owners in 2000. On the morning of September 11, 2001, she was hit by falling debris from the World Trade Center, but was sailed to New Jersey for safety. The Shearwater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 9, 2009

WWII service

On November 7, 1942, after being requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration, she became a member of The United States Coast Guard’s Coastal Picket Patrol. She was painted gray and bore the numbers CG 67004. Based at Little Creek, Virginia she patrolled the waters east of the Chesapeake Bay entrance and south towards Cape Hatteras. She was designed and built as a gaff rigged schooner but during this period was changed to a Marconi rig.

Henry Donald (Don) Dutton served onboard CG 67004 patrolling the Chesapeake bay during WW2.

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Notable Guest, and Reunion Information):

Owner: (1929) F. L. Crocker

Resources

• NPS Focus”. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
• “About the Shearwater Classic Schooner”. Manhattan by Sail. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
• Critchell, David (September 2008). “Shearwater, schooner”.
• National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
• Lance Dutton, dad Henry Donald (Don) Dutton served onboard CG 67004 during WWII

Wartime designation:

Type: Dutch “pilot boot”

ex; Texel; Robinson Crusoe; Maria Digna

LOA: 92′ 0″ / 28.04m – LOD: 81’0″ / 24.68m – LWL: 84’6″ / 25.75m – Beam: 20′ 10″ / 6.35m – Draft: 10′ 8″ / 3.25m – Displacement: 80 tons – Ballast: – Original Owner: Mr. Norberto Goizueta Díaz – Original Name: TEXEL – Year Launched: 1923 – Designed by: Boele Bolnes – Design No. : – Sail Area: – Built by: Dutch State Dockyard , Helder, in Holland – Hull Material: Wood – Fate: Sank in Valparaíso during the great storm of 1967.

Historical:

Serva La Bari (Originally TEXEL), was designed as a Dutch “pilot boot” in 1923 by Boele Bolnes for Mr. Norberto Goizueta Díaz.

WWII service

Serva La Bari served during the war as United States Coast Guard Picket Patrol vessel as CGR 3091. Victor Romagna, served as the vessels commander, earning a Medal of Bravery for rescue work during the Normandy invasion. After the war he became one of the most famous names in America’s Cup racing.

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Notable Guest, and Reunion Information):

Owner: (1923) – Mr. & Mrs. Norberto Goizueta Díaz
Owner: Mr. Luis Cousiño
Owner: Robinson Crusoe, fishing company
Owner: JB Crockett, Melrose MA
Owner: Jorge di Giorgio. Valparaiso, Chile –
Commander: Captain Gil
Commander: Vic Romagna, coastal picketeer and well-known yachtsman recalls his command of pilot schooner Serva La Bari “the chart room was lined with tiles depicting the entire scene at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella when Columbus presented the Indians and other wonders he had brought back from his expedition to the Caribbean. It was garish and I’m not sure it was art but, under the circumstances it was strangely comforting.”