Herreshoff Design 1903 – LOD 29′ – WL 18′ – 4,430lbs – Sail Area 472ft2 Artisan Boatworks recent launching of the recreated Buzzards Bay 18. Alex Brainerd talks about the Herreshoff design from an except of his blog. “The Buzzards Bay 18 is yet another design, of which no original example survives. Herreshoff designed the …
Type: P Class The Hodgdon yard of East Boothbay, Maine launched the 55-foot “P-class” gaff-rigged sloop in 1916. BERNICE was designed by George Owen, a contemporary of Nathaniel Herreshoff. L. Francis Herreshoff once said “George Owen’s yachts could even be said to be beautiful, and this adjective could only be truthfully applied to a few …
This is one of the most popular small cruising boat designs, and with good reason. She features a relatively light and very sleek hull form compared to English canoe yawls, and her hull lines are regarded by many as some of the most beautiful ever drawn, in any genre. At 3’9” her draft is more …
New York 50 “Spartan” Specifications: LOA: 72′ 0″ LWL: 50′ 0″ Beam 14′ 7″ Draft 9′ 9″ Hull Number: 712 Designer: N.G. Herreshoff Original Owner: Edmund Randolph Built: 1912 The fleet of NY50s was commissioned by the New York Yacht Club and built in the winter of 1912-1913 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol …