The 512 is Hunt Yachts entry into the field of Spirit of Tradition daysailers. She is a development of the 510, which Ray Hunt designed in 1945 as a large version of his successful 210 class. The sharpie-type hull, originally intended for plywood construction, is well-suited to contemporary cored composite construction, and will be well …
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The first 11 boats of the Buzzards Bay 15 class were delivered to members of the Beverly Yacht Club in Marion, MA for the summer racing season of 1899. Club members wanted a better way to conduct regattas than using a handicapping system and asked Nat Herreshoff to design a boat that could be raced …
The last six meter designed by Clinton Crane, and arguably his best. Lucie was built to the second iteration of the International 6 Metre Rule. She was built in Henry B. Nevin’s yard on City Island in New York in 1931, for the noted sportsman Briggs Cunningham, and named after his first wife, Lynn (Lucie) …
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In 1899, the members of the St. Regis Yacht Club commissioned Clinton Crane, a young naval architect, to design a class of wooden sailing sloops for the purpose of racing the light winds of the northern New York Adirondacks, home waters of the young club. A few members contracted to purchase the first of these …
In 1963 Cornelius Shields, one of the foremost proponents of one-design sailing in the U.S. conceived of a modern follow up to the International One Design (IOD). The new boat would have the balance and beauty of the IOD while incorporating modern trends such as fiberglass construction. Shields commissioned Olin Stephens for the design. Over …