L F. Herreshoff MISTRAL

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Sail Number: GER 73

Vessel Type: Schooner

LOA: 75′ 0″ / 22.86m – LOD: 63′ 6″ / 19.35m – LWL: 54′ 9″ / 16.68m – Beam: 15′ 0″ / 4.57m – Draft: 6′ 3″ / 1.90m – Displacement: 43 tons – Sail Area: 2,099 ft² / 195 m² – Design Number: 73 – Hull material: Pitch pine on oak – Designer: L.F. Herreshoff – Built by: Britt Brothers, Saugus, MA – Year Built: 1937 – Current Name: Mistral – Engine: NANNI DIESEL T4.155 from 2009 – Original Owner Theodore W. Little – Current Owner: Dieter Krügel (1995)

 

Historical:

During the war MISTRAL was used by the US Coast Guard as a sailing vessel that patrolled in silence for German U-Boats. Years later she even wrote US naval history as the first training ship of the US Navy to sail across the Atlantic under the command of a female captain to participate in the coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II.

Mistral is considered to be a refined updated version of “Joann” with a finer entry and clipper bow. Her easier to handle Marconi mainsail is less traditional and attractive than her counterpoint. A very fast comfortable boat at sea

 

RestorationProvenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):

Owner: (1937) – Theodore W. Little
Owner: (1995) – Dieter Krügel

 

References:

Photo Credit: Kai Kreisler – Website

 

 

John G. Alden MINOT’S LIGHT

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Sail Number: 579

Type: Ketch

LOA: 58’1″ / 17.66m – LWL: 41’3″ / 12.52m – Beam: 14’3″ / 4.33m – Draft: 7’6” / 2.28m – Design Number: 0879 – Designer: John G. Alden – Original Owner: Clarence A. Warden, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania – Current Owner: – Year Launched: 1950 – Built By: Abeking & Rasmussen, Germany – Hull Material: Steel – Gross Displacement: 58,300 / 26,500 – Ballast: 19,000 / 8636 – Location of Plans: MIT – Hart Nautical Collection – Permission required – Spars: Hollow, Sitka Spruce – Sail Area: 1,518 / 141.1


 

Historical:

Arthur Beiser – “The Proper Yacht”

“In looking for a yacht, intangible feelings are as important as tangible facts. I’m a believer in love at first sight as as essential an element in choosing a yacht as in life generally. Five minutes after meeting my wife, I knew our lives would become intertwined; we have now been married for 50 years. Five minutes after seeing Minots Light in 1957, I knew our destinies were to mesh too. ….Minots Light sat there a few boats away, a swan among mere ducks”

 

Trivia:

Minot’s Light is a prominent lighthouse on the coast south of Boston, between Cohassett and Scituate. Its chief characteristic is Gp Fl 1+4+3 and several generations learned to remember it as the ‘I Love You’ light, for its (1 4 and 3 letters).

 

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):

Owner/Guardian: Clarence A. Warden, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

 

N.G. Herreshoff MINK

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Sail Number:

Vessel Type: Buzzard Bay 25

MINK Specifications:

LOA: 32′ 0″ / 9.75m – LWL: 25′ 0″ / 7.62m – Beam: 8′ 9″ / 2.71m – Draft: 3′ 0″ / 0.91m – Hull Number: 733 – Displacement: 7,400 lb / 3,357 kg – Ballast: -Designer: N.G. Herreshoff – Builder: Herreshoff Mfg. Co. – Original Owner: Howard Stockton, Jr. -Original Price: $2,000 – Sail Area: 550 sq ft / 51.09 sq m – Built: 1914 – Location: Mystic, CT


 

Historical:

Joy Hoffacker – My family owned the Mink in the 1950’s when we lived at Sand Hill Cove in Point Judith, RI. Although I was very young, she began my life long love affair with sailing.

Heidi Hoerman – My father owned the Mink from 1967-1980 in Milford, CT. She moved like the wind. At the time, she had the replacement Marconi rigging with a 36’8″ mast that was the tallest in Milford Harbor. Although I don’t sail as an adult, I maintain a great store of knowledge related to stripping, scraping, sanding, painting, and varnishing I learned over the years of taking care of her!

 

Restoration:

MP&G – “MINK was the last remaining unrestored boat of the 733 class. upon her completion all four boats of this class will have been restored by MP&G. MINK is due to be completed in time for the centennial celebration of her class in 2014.”

 

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):

Owner/Guardian: (1914) Howard Stockton, Jr.

 

References:

Photo Credit: Mark Krasnow Photography

 

N.G. Herreshoff New York 70 MINEOLA

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Sail Number: 1

Vessel Type: New York 70

“Mineola” Specifications:

LOA: 106′ 0″ / 32.30m – LWL: 70′ 0″ / 21.33m – Beam 19′ 4″ / 5.89m – Draft 14′ 0″ / 4.26m – Displacement: 84 tons – Ballast: 40 Tons – Sail Area: 6,945 ft² / 645.21 m² – Original Rig: Cutter – Hull Number: 529 – Designer: N.G. Herreshoff – Contracted By: August Belmont – Contracted amount: $32,593 – Launch Date: January 16th 1900 – Status: Destroyed


 

Historical

Four 70-footers were built respectively for August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt, W.K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and Harry Payne Whitney. To this date, the most expensive one-design class ever conceived for some of the most influential owners of this day. Superiority will only be achieved by each owners ability to excel by ones skill in sail handling and tuning by a crew of 15 professionals.

As a one-design class the owners desire to see a fair proportion of the original build price, or return on investment as possible, unlike the all an out racing machines that are outdated the following season for more extreme machines

The 70-footers are the result of the application to a larger class of the ideas and conditions that made racing in the smaller classes so interesting.

The first of this class launched was Mineola, a beautiful vessel, with a sheer the same as the defender of the tenth America’s Cup race Columbia, and hence gives the same impressions to an observer. She was painted white above the water-line and green below, with her name appearing in gold on a stern that is much a reminder as Columbia, as are other features of her hull.

 

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):

Owner/Guardian: (1900) August Belmont