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HANUMAN – Dr. Jim Clark’s third commission with the Royal Huisman yard. A modern recreation of T. Sopwith’s beautiful 41.3m/135.5’ “Super-J” class yacht, Endeavour II. Under J-Class Association rules, some design features are restricted historically, but performance can be optimized through a more flexible approach to sail area, ballast ratio, righting moment and build materials.

Near replica yacht of Endeavor II Specification Comparison:

Endevour II – Hull Steel – Ballast Lead – Deck Pine – Boom Wood – Spinnaker Boom Wood – LOA 41m – LWL 36.44 – Draft 4.57 – Beam 6.55 – Boom 20.6m – Displacement 162.6 tonnes – Mast Height 46.51 – Mainsail 446.24m sq

Hanuman – Hull Alustar Aluminum – Ballast Lead – Deck Teak – Boom Carbon – Spinnaker Boom Carbon – LOA 42.1 – LWL 27.68 – Draft 4.72 – Beam 6.6m – Boom 18.8 – Displacement 183 tonnes – Mast height 48.18 – Mainsail Area 2499m

Historical:

The 24.7m cutter Hallowe’en designed by William Fife III for Lt Col JFN Baxendale, was built to the 15m rule and launched in 1926 just in time to compete in the ORC FastNet. William Fife III, designer of a number of classic yachts still racing today was quoted once as saying “Hallowe’en is the perfect gentleman’s yacht. She is a jewel”.

William Fife decided to rig the yacht as a low-aspect ration bermudian cutter, which was uncommon in the days when gaff rigged racers dominated the various regattas. These experiments with her rig continued over the following years as her mast and boom heights changed and eventually she was transformed to a yawl.

After racing in the Mediterranean for a number of years she returned to the Atlantic under new owner Alfred Larsen, a Norwegian industrialist. She became the Royal Norwegian Racing Clubs official yacht and was helmed numerous times by future king to Norway, Prince Olaf.

In 1938 she ventured across the Atlantic and then disappeared off the radar. She was later discovered by Walter Wheeler and renamed Cotton Blosson IV before continuing her history of ocean racing and eventually being donated to the Classic Boat Museum at Newport, Rhode Island where she waited for a much needed refit. After 5 years of work in Newport, funds dried up and Hallowe’en was in need of new ownership and she eventually returned to the Mediterranean when Elizabeth Meyer (owner of J-Class Endeavour) helped find a buyer. She has had a number of refits (and owners) since then, the latest being completed in 2009 at Fairlie Restorations on the Hamble river, UK, and is now available for charter in the Mediterranean where she races competitively in the classic regatta circuit which stretches from France to Corsica, Spain and Italy.

Racing History:

FASTNET RECORD AUG 18th 1926 Racing in the 2nd Fastnet Race, Hallowe’en sailed the fleet home to cross the line some 10 hours before the next competitor. A record which would stand until 1939 when the new course was shortened, going out through the Needles Channel instead of heading around the east coast of the Isle of Wight, as had been the course since 1925.

Chartering:

Take a step back in time to 1926 when chartering the famous Hallowe’en. Complete with her original mahogany interior, Hallowe’en is one of the finest vintage racing yachts on the Mediterranean circuit. Hallowe’en is available for classic regattas (Trophée Panerai, Nice, Antibes , Régates Royales de Cannes, Palma Classic, Mahon Classic, les Voiles de Saint Tropez) and day charter with up to 10 people.

Enquire about chartering Halloween:
http://www.classic-charters.com/classic-yacht/halloween/

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

Owner: (1926) – Lt Col JFN Baxendale

Historical:

Built in Westport, Maine, sailed in that area the summer of 1977, then sailed to Philadelphia outside (around Cape Cod and Long Island). Cadwalader sailed the boat from Worton Creek Marine, MD until selling her to Prichard in late 1996. Prichard restored her, replaced part of two planks and sternpost. Gwylan summers in Riverton, NJ and spends the winter at Cutts and Case Shipyard, Oxford, MD.

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

Owner/Guardian: (1977) John Cadwalader, Philadelphia, PA
Owner/Guardian: Roger Prichard of Riverton, NJ

Comments:

Curtis Betts – May 12, 2019

Pretty boat! We just purchased H-28 Holiday, sailing Narragansett Bay, and hopefully further east…
Curtis

Historical:

1911, biggest yacht designed by Salander, and designed to excel to weather in winds up to eight meters per second. In 1938 Salander designed a new marconi rig with 50 m2, and the forestay was moved back approximately 20 cm.

Further information: www.winware.fi/Gun

Known Racing History:

1911 – Two first and three second prize.
1912 – Most successful SK yacht of the Olympic games,, she won the first six and two second prize and class premier trophy Lidingö trophy.
1913 – Two wins and a second prize a high-wind summer with blown-thin sail set.

Known Restoration History:

1975? – New deck and cabin, self-draining cockpit, and the tiller was moved from the cockpit to the after-deck
2006-2007 – All underwater planking was splined for stiffness and water tightness, and plank continuation ends with a butt block or metal plate on the inside were replaced by faired pieces of solid mahogany. The front of the lead ballast was also remoulded to correct the traces of rock hittings probably during almost a hundred years.

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

Owner/Guardian: (1911-1913) – Gustaf Härdelin, Stockholm
Owner/Guardian: (1913-1915) – Erhard Carlsson, Stockholm
Owner/Guardian: (1915-)
Owner/Guardian: (1918-1921) – Ivar Stendahl, Stockholm
Owner/Guardian: (1922-1924) – Josef Gendt, Stockholm
Owner/Guardian: (1924-1926) – ca Jan Lilja’s grandfather! (See KSSS yearbook 1924)
Owner/Guardian: (1926-)
Owner/Guardian: (1937-1941) – 1st librarian Torsten Kolmodin, Stocksund
Owner/Guardian: (1942-)
Owner/Guardian: (1952-1953) – Gustaf Edgren, Bromma
Owner/Guardian: (1954-1962) – Gerhard Suneson, Stockholm
Owner/Guardian: (1963-1970) – Pär Lundqvist, Nacka
Owner/Guardian: (1970-1971) – Teselius ???, (Renamed Gerofia)
Owner/Guardian: (1971-1983) – Pär Lundqvist, Nacka
Owner/Guardian: (1983-1984) – Håkan Grudd et al, Stockholm
Owner/Guardian: (1984-1999) – Gunnar Lande, Jan Isberg, Anders Flood, Roland Stenberg, Stockholm
Owner/Guardian: (1999-2004) – Gunnar Lande, Jan Isberg, Lennart Jansson, Jerker Montelius, Stockholm
Owner/Guardian: (2004-) – Hannu Pohjanpalo, HSS

Historical:

North American 6 Metre Association comments http://www.6mrnorthamerica.com/

Designed and built for Dr. George Nichols. Goose was profiled in the S&S biography, “Best of the Best – The Yacht Designs of Sparkman & Stephens.” She is arguably the single most famous and victorious 6 meter in the world. 4 time winner of the Scandinavian Gold Cup; 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948. Winner of the Seawanhaka Cup in 1957 and many other international races. In her first international regatta, the 1938 British-American Team Race, Goose led the Americans to victory.

Goose in her glory years, was considered ‘unbeatable’ by many. Goose was the first design extensively tank tested by S&S, and represented a breakthrough in meter boats whose immediate influence can be seen in the 12 meter Vim, the 8 meter Iskareen, and in future winning Sparkman & Stephens 6, 8 and 12 meters such as Llanoria, Iroquois, Columbia, and Constellation. Goose did have her embarrassments, however. In 1938 at the King Edward VII “Bermuda Gold Cup” she lost badly to an older design, K3 Achilles, then later the same year she inexplicably lost the Seawanhaka Cup to K55 Circe, a boat Goose trounced in the earlier British-American Team Races.

After many years of hard campaigning in the US and Europe, Goose was rebuilt in the Luders yard in 1957 with 4 layers of mahogany strips to replace the original planking. It is said S&S would not give Luders the lines for the boat, because he was a competing designer, so before proceeding, yard workers lifted the lines from her tired hull and rebuilt from there. After the rebuild, Sparkman & Stephens acquiesced, the rebuilt Goose was compared to the original line drawings and found to be within a 1/16″ in every dimension. She competed many times on Lake Ontario in the 50’s and 60’s, often sparring with boats from Toronto, like KC 25 Buzzy III and KC 9 Bibis. She eventually made her way from Jerry Castle in Rochester, New York to Steve Chadwick in Seattle, the new 6 meter hotbed in the 60s. In 1969, in the Summer of Love, after winning the qualifying regatta in Seattle, Goose represented the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco for the inaugural Australian-American Challenge against John Taylor’s new S&S design, Toogooloowoo IV.

The above photo below shows Goose being loaded on the trailer headed for San Francisco. One of the anecdotes of this race series concerns a dockside conversation between a young, gimlet-eyed Scott Rohrer (sailing on Goose, with a 3 to 1 lead in the series) and Olin Stephens, who flew out from New York to witness the series. Shaking Mr Stephens’ hand, Scott said, “You can’t feel too bad about this. Either way, an S&S boat wins the Cup.” Mr Stephens was said to have replied, obviously chagrined, “Yes, but one would like to see more progress than that in 30 years of yacht design”. In an intensely fought series, the old Goose finally prevailed in the 7th race. In the first International 6 Meter World Championships, held in Seattle in the summer of 1973, Goose placed 4th of 20 entries.

Goose was modified in the early 70’s to drawings made by S&S to take advantage of certain breakthroughs made within the 12 meter class. Her stern counter was shortened and a ‘kicker’ added above and behind her reshaped rudder in structural foam. Whether or not the changes resulted in better performance may be up for debate, but they are no longer on the boat. In much of the 80’s Goose resided in Canada, sailing in the Victoria, B. C. area and making occasional forays to meet up with the Seattle Fleet. Harry Hofmann made arrangements to purchase the boat in 1988, but passed away before he could collect the boat, which was a task performed by his wife, Ruth, and son, Peter. From 2004 to 2009 Peter Hofmann removed all of the modifications in time for the 2009 World Championships in Newport, Rhode Island, where she placed 5th of 24. In more recent years Goose has competed at Port Madison, Vancouver, and in San Francisco with Eric Jespersen on the helm, winning the Classics at the 2015 6m Invitational and taking 2nd at the 2016 Sir Thomas Lipton Cup. Goose will be ready to vie for honors at the 2017 World Championships in Vancouver.

Known Racing History:

1999 – King Olav Cup Winner – Lake Union Gold Cup Winner
1969 – Australian-American Challenge Winner
1957 – Seawanhaka Cup Winner
1948 – Scandinavian Gold Cup Winner
1947 – Scandinavian Gold Cup Winner
1939 – Scandinavian Gold Cup Winner
1938 – Scandinavian Gold Cup Winner – British-American Team Race Winner

Restoration:

1957 – Luders Yard Stamford, Connecticut – Complete Restoration – 4 layers of mahogany strips to replace the original planking