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The Classic Yacht Register of Heritage is a database of the worlds Vintage, Classic and Grand Prix (Spirit of Tradition) sailboats. The Registry includes surviving, and destroyed vessels, and inclusion is either by vessel’s historical significance, invitation or request.
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Database
There are currently 21 names in this directory beginning with the letter V.
Vagrant
Vagrant - Sail Number: - Type: Schooner - Vagrant Specifications: - LOA: 109’0″ / 33.22m - LWL: 79’1″ / 24.10m - Beam: 28’8″ / 8.73m - Draft: 14’4” / 4.36m - Hull Number: 719 - Official Number: 211285 - Designer: N.G. Herreshoff - Original Owner: Harold S. Vanderbilt - Current Owner: - Year Launched: May 17, 1913, Bristol, Rhode island, USA - Built By: Herreshoff Manufacturing, Co. - Hull Material: Steel - Displacement: 134.0 short tons / 121.6 metric tons - Sail Area:
Vågspel
Vågspel - was one of the last 8mR boats built in Finland. Designed by Birger Slotte and built by the Wilenius Båtvarv boat yard in Porvoo during the Finnish continuation war against the Soviet Union. - Sail Number: FIN-6 - Vessel Type: 8mR - LOA: 49’2″ / 14.99m - LOD: 49’2″ / 14.99m - LWL: 30’11” / 9.44m - Beam: 8’0″ / 2.44m - Draft: 6’6″ / 2.00m 2 - Displacement: 8.7 tons - Sail Area: 818 sq ft / 75.99m² - Original Name: - Original Owner: Arthur E. Nikander, Commodore of the Helsinki Seal Society 1933-1937 - Year Launched: 1943 - Designed by: Birger Slotte - Built by: Wilenius Båtvarv, Borgå - Hull Material: Honduras mahogany - Port of Registry: HSS Helsinki
Valiant
Valiant - Valiant was commissioned by Robert W. McCullough of the 12 US/24 Syndicate, her first homeport was New York, NY. She was one of the “jumbo twelves” and the heaviest ever built. She was eliminated from the 1970 Defender Trials by Intrepid, but won the Lipton Memorial Trophy (NYYC) that year. - Sail Number: US 24 - Type: 12 Meter (Third Rule AC) - Valiant Specifications: - LOA: 64’5″ / 19.63m - LWL: 47’7″ / 14.53m - Beam: 12’0″ / 3.66m - Draft: 9’0” / 2.76m - Hull Number: 1978 - Designer: Olin J. Stephens - Original Owner: 12 US/24 Syndicate - Current Owner: Paul G. Gregory III, Homeport: Marblehead, MA - Year Launched: May 1970 - Built By: Robert E. Derecktor Yacht Yard, Inc. - Hull Material: Triple-planked mahogany, laminated oak frames - Gross Displacement: 32.35 t. - Sail Area: 1,754.51 sq ft / 163 sq.m.
Valkyrie
Valkyrie - The Udell class was designed in 1953 by Knud Reimers for the Chicago Yacht Club as a one-design 22 square metre class boat, in order to keep costs down. There were 11 Udells built, Patriot was U5, and was constructed at the same time as U4 Solution, at Kungsor Boatyard, Sweden. - Sail Number: U-5 (-333) - Type: Udell Class - LOA: 36.9′ / 11.25m - LWL: 27.39′ / 8.35m - Beam: 6.23′ / 1.9m - Draft: 4.52 / 1.38’m - Ballast: Iron – 2400 lbs. / 1089 kgs - Displacement: 4600 lbs./ 2087 kgs. - Sail Area: 22 sq.mt - Yard Number: U-5 (S-333) - Hull material: Wood construction, closed seams - Designer: Knud Reimers - Built by: Kungsor Boatyard, Sweden - Year Designed/Built: 1953/1961 - Current Name: Valkyrie - Original Owner: Byron Morril, Chicago - Current Owner: EISCA Trust (Eyemouth International Sailing Craft Association Limited)
Valkyrie II
Valkyrie II - Valkyrie II was launched on April 29, 1893, a week after Royal Yacht Britannia, and sailed to the U.S. that October to compete in the eighth America’s Cup. She was twenty-nine days eighteen hours in coming from Cowes, having experienced high winds and rough seas, and had less than two weeks before the first race She lost to the Herreshoff-designed New York Yacht Club defender Vigilant, 0-3. - LOA: 117.6 ft / 35.84m - LOD: - LWL: 85.5 ft / 26.06m - Beam: 22.3 ft / 6.80m - Draft: 16.5 ft / 5.03m - Ballast: 75 tons (Lead ballast) - Displacement: 140 tons - Sail Area: 10,042 square feet - Yard Number: - Hull material: Composite build, steel frame and wood planking - Rig: Keel cutter - Designer: Watson - Built by: D. & W. Henderson & Co - Year Launched: April 29th, 1893 - Original Owner: Wyndham Thomas-Wyndham Quin, Earl of Dunraven and Mountearl, of Dunraven Castle, Brigend, Glamorganshire, Ireland. - Current Owner: - Sail Number:
Varuna
Varuna - W. Starling Burgess created a masterpiece in the Yankee One Design class, and he gave everyday sailors a racing boat with the light touch and responsiveness of an America’s Cup yacht. - Sail Number: - Type: Rhodes 33 - LOA: 30’6″ / 9.29m - LWL: 24’0″ / 7.31m - Beam: 6’6″ / 1.95m - Draft: 4’6” / 1.37m - One Design Number: Y2- Designer: W. Starling Burgess - Original Owner: - Current Owner: Private - Year Launched: 1939 - Built By: George Andrews, Christchurch New Zealand - Hull Material: Single Philippine and Honduras mahogany, finished 3/4″ thick. Oak Frames 1″ x 1″ spaced on 8″ centers. - Displacement: 4,775 lbs. - Sail Area: 312 sq ft - Engine: Kubota 17hp diesel
Varuna (William Gardner)
Varuna (William Gardner) - In 1917 William Gardner designed VARUNA, the Larchmont Yacht Club’s flagship, She was built for, the Commodore of the club, James B. Ford of Rye, New York. VARUNA was the first American designed yacht fitted out with the innovative and controversial Marconi rig. VARUNA was skippered by Butler Whiting and she proved conclusively, for the first time, that the Marconi rig was the fastest. The Marconi rigs came out in force at the close of World War I, and owe their success and use to ISTRIA and Larchmont O VARUNA. - Sail Number: OL/2 - Vessel Type: Larchmont O Class - LOA: 58’0″ / 17.67m - LOD: 58’0″ / 17.67m - LWL: 38’6″ / 11.76m - Beam 12’0″ / 3.65m - Draft 7’6” / 2.28m - Hull Number: 215427 - Designer: William Gardner - Original Owner: James B. Ford of Rye, NY (Former Commodore of Larchmont Y C) - Built: 1917 - Built By: Wood & McClure of City Island New York - Contract Cost: $10,000 - Hull Material: Oak Frames Mahogany Planking - Displacement: 35,500 lbs - Rig: Gaff (adapted to Marconi by Gardner in 1926) - Sail Area: 1,670 sq ft
Velsheda
Velsheda - W.L. Stephenson, owner of Woolworths, named Velsheda after his three daughters, Velma, Sheila and Daphne. She was not designed to compete for the America’s Cup but she often raced against “Endeavour”, “Shamrock” and “Britannia”, between 1933 – 1936. - LOA: 127 ′ 6″ * LOD: 127′ 6″ * LWL: 83′ 0″ * Beam: 21′ 6″ * Draft: 15′ 1″ * Ballast: * Displacement: 143 tons * Sail Area: * Yard Number: * Hull Material: Steel * Rig: Bermudan Cutter * Class: J-Class Rule * Designer: Charles E. Nicholson * Built by: Camper & Nicholson, Gosport, United Kingdom * Year Built: 1933 * Restored By: Dijkstra and Mumford * Current Name: Velsheda * Original Owner: W.L. Stephenson * Current Owner: * Sail Number: J/K7
Venus
Venus - was designed by John G. Alden and built alongside her often confused sistership Heart’s Desire by T.H. Soule of South Freeport Maine. Venus was first commissioned in 1925 as Picaroon. - Sail Number: 1 - Type: Schooner - LOA: 56’0″ / 17.06m - LOD: 43’0″ / 13.10m - LWL: 32’8″ / 9.90m - Beam: 11’8″ / 3.55m - Draft: 6’8” / 2.03m - Hull Number: 1380731 - Designer: John G. Alden - Design Number: 253 B - Original Name: Picaroon - Current Owner: John Williams - Year Launched: 1925 - Built By: T.H. Soule, South Freeport Maine - Hull Material: Wood - Displacement: 33661 - Ballast: 8806 outside iron/700 inside iron - Sail Area: 1034 ft² / 96.06 m²
Veronica
Veronica - Sail Number: K 10 - Type: 12 metre (Second Rule) - Mylne “VERONICA” Specifications - LOA: 69′6″ / 21.18m - LOD: 69′6″ / 21.18m - LWL: 44′0″ / 13.41m - Beam: 11′6″ / 3.50m - Draft: 8′11″ / 2.71m - Net Tons: - Sail Area: ,- Identity No.: - Yard Number: - Hull material: Wood - Designer: Alfred Mylne - Built by: Bute Slip Dock Co, Ltd. - Year Built: July, 1931 - Original Owner: Sir William P. Burton
Victory
Victory - Victory was commissioned exactly 100 years after Horatio Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar. She was built and launched at Logan Bros’ yard in 1906 for Mr. Jagger who leased her for fishing in the Hauraki Gulf. - Sail Number: A8 - Type: Original Gaff Cutter - LOA: 46’0″ / 14.02m - LOD: 38’0″ / 11.58m - LWL: 27’0″ / 8.22m - Beam: 8’6″ / 2.59m - Draft: 5’8″ / 1.72m - Displacement: 7 tonne - Sail Area: - Original Name: Victory - Original Owner: Mr. Jagger, Hauraki Gulf - Current Owner: Peter Mence - Year Launched: 1906 - Designed by: Arch Logan - Design Number: - Built by: Logan Bros - Hull Material: Wood
Victory Class
Victory Class - Junius Spencer Morgan III, the son of J. P. Morgan, the renowned financier, was instrumental in forming the Victory Class the year after World War I in the fall of 1919. Twenty yachtsman came forward through his efforts to build the vessel at Henry B. Nevins Shipyard in City Island N.Y. - LOA: 31’8″ / 9.69m - LWL: 20’8″ / 6.33m - Beam: 7’0″ / 2.13m - Draft: 4’10” / 1.24m - Hull Number: - Designer: William Gardner - Original Owner: - Current Owner: - Year Built: 1920 - Built By: Henry B. Nevins Shipyard, City Island N.Y - Hull Material: Wood - Gross Displacement: - Sail Number: V - Rig: Marconi Rigged-Sloop
Victura
Victura - In 1932 Hull number 94, was purchased by Joe and Rose Kennedy as a present for their son Jack’s fifteenth birthday. The “Victura” would become the Kennedy Family’s favorite boat. With a draft of 2.5 feet, with the centerboard up, the Wiannos could easily sail over most shoats, but still had to be sailed with caution around Nantucket Sounds shallowest spot Horseshoe Shoals at 6″ - Sail Number: 94 - Type: Wianno Senior - Victura Specifications: - LOA: 25′ / 7.62m - LWL: 17.6′ / 5.36m - Beam: 8′ / 2.44m - Sail Area: 366 sq ft / 34 m2 - Draft Board Up: 5.5′ / 1.68m - Draft Board Down: 2.5′ / .76m - Displacement: 4,100 lbs / 1,860 kgs - Ballast: 1,200 lbs / 544 kgs - Designer: H. Manley Crosby - Builder: Crosby Yacht Building and Storage Co. (USA) - Crosby Yacht Yard, Inc: https://crosbyyacht.com/ - Hull Number: 94 - Year Built: 1932 - Wianno Senior Class Association: http://www.wiannosenior.org/
Vigilant
Vigilant - was one of Uffa’s early ventures into keelboat design. Built in 1930, she is based on the 22 Square Metre Skerry Cruiser rules. She is of very light construction, so much so that the Q Class which raced on the Solent refused to allow her to compete. - Sail Number: 22/K1 - Type: 22 Square Metre Skerry - Vigilant Specifications: - LOA: 34’6″ / 10.51m - LWL: 25’6″ / 7.77m - Beam: 6’4″ / 1.93m - Draft: 4’3” / 1.29m - Hull Number: - Designer: Uffa Fox - Original Owner: Uffa Fox - Current Owner: - Year Built: 1930 - Built By: - Gross Displacement: 2 tons - Sail Area: 236 sq ft
Viola
Viola - VIOLA was built in 1908 by William FIFE at the FAIRLIE (SCOTLAND) shipyards. Her original registration at GLASGOW is No. 53/1908. She was again registered at GLASGOW under number 39/1934, with the installation of a fixed engine. Her REGISTRED BRITISH SHIP OFFICIAL NUMBER is 128198. VIOLA is to date French owned under the number 7684/3220 and measured by the French services in August 1992, and was classified as a historical monument, 12 June 1993. - Sail Number: - Vessel Type: Gaff Cutter - LOA: 50’0″ / 15.25m - LOD: 41’10” / 12.75m - LWL: 28′ 0″ / 8.53m - Beam: 9′ 6″ / 2.89m - Draft: 6′ 2″ / 1.88m - Displacement: 8 grt / 8 nrt / 12 tm - Sail Area: 115 m² - Built By: William Fife & Son (no. 557) - Designed by: William Fife III - Launched: 1908 - Original Owner: Thomas M Hunter, Cove, Dunbartonshire - Website: Gaff Cutter Viola. - Registration No. (Original Glascow 53/1908) - Flag: France - Club: YCM (Yacht Club of Monaco.) - Homeport: L’Île-d’Yeu
Virginia
Virginia - Type: New York 70 - Four boats were constructed for members of the New York Yacht Club. They were lightly built, raced hard, leaked extensively and only two boats continued sailing after the first year. - LOA: 106 ′ 0″ * LOD: 106′ 0″ * LWL: 70′ 0″ * Beam: 19′ 4″ * Draft: 14′ 0″ * Ballast: * Displacement: * Sail Area: 6,000 sq ft * Yard Number: 533 * Hull Material: * Rig: Cutter * Class: NY 70 * Designer: N.G. Herreshoff * Built by: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, RI * Year Built: 1899 * Restored By: * Original Owner: W.K. Vanderbilt * Original Price: $32,594 * Status: Destroyed * Sail Number:
Vixen
Vixen - Type: 15 Square Metre - Was designed by Knud Reimers and built at the Kungsors boatyard in central Sweden by Oscar Schelin. Imported to the UK before the Second World War, she was one of only a handful of the elegant Square Meter Rule yachts. At the time building to the rule was prolific in the Baltic but scarcely known in the UK. As co-skipper Jack Gifford explains, “Much finer in form and lighter in displacement than her British counterparts, Vixen and her kind were viewed with suspicion by the (British) yachting establishment and with her light and efficient construction deemed as ‘un-seaworthy.” One famous British sailor had fallen in love with the Swedish Square Meter yachts and collaborated with Reimers to build his own yacht. That, of course, was Uffa Fox, and the boat he built at Cowes was the Vigilant. So confident was Uffa in its sea keeping that he set out to sail it to its spiritual homeland of Sweden to take part in the Swedish championships. – LOA: 33″ 0″ / 10.05m * LWL: 21′ 8″ / 6.64m * Displacement: 1.3 Tonnes * Year Built: 1937 * Built By: Oscar Schelin Kungsors Boat Yard, Sweden * Restore By: 2011 Brooklin Boat Yard
Volante
Volante - Type: Q-Boat - LOA: 42’0″ / 12.80m - LWL: 32’0″ / 9.75m - Beam: 10'0" / 3.04m - Draft: 6’6” / 1.98m - Rig: Fractional Sloop - Hull Number: - Designer: George Wayland - Original Owner: Charles Langlais, Commodore of the St Francis Yacht Club - Current Owner: Graham Wheelock - Year Built: 1936 - Built By: Nunes Bros, Sausalito, CA - Hull Material: Wood - Gross Displacement: 18,000 Lbs - Sail Area: 740 - Sail Number: Q8
Vortex
Vortex - Knud Reimers originally designed the Swede 55 in 1975 to be built out of fiberglass, so when Steve White contacted Reimers in the mid 1990s he told him he wanted to build the Swede 55 out of wood. Reimers made changes to the original design including deepening the keel and incresing her ballast. - LOA: 52’6″ / 16.00m - LWL: 39′ 0″ / 11.88m - Beam: 9’7″ / 2.92m - Draft: 6’5” / 1.95m - Hull Number: - Designer: Knud Reimers - Original Owner: Steve White - Current Owner: Steve White - Year Built: 1990 - Built By: Brooklin Boatyard - Hull Material: Cold Molded - Gross Displacement: 16534 lbs - Ballast: 6283 lbs - Sail Area: 694 sq ft / 55m² - Sail Number:
Vril
Vril - Built for G.L. Watson along with co-owners John Lawrence and J.B. Hilliard. The trio borrowed a corner of D&W Henderson’s yard (where Britannia would later be built) to create a yacht that would shake up all preconceptions in yacht design. Vril was the first yacht constructed with external lead ballast. She was round bodied with great sail-carrying ability. Short counter with a knuckle on the quarter, with no bulkheads. Last yacht fashioned with a stu’n’s’l, fore and aft studding-sail. - Type: 5-Tonner - LOA: 50’2″ / 15.30m - LOD: 32’4″ / 9.85m - LWL: 28’9″ / 8.78m - Beam: 6’3″ / 1.92m - Draft: 5’6” / 1.69m - Gross Displacement: 6.6 tonnes - Design Number: 5 - Designer: G.L. Watson - Original Owner(s): G.L. Watson, John Lawrence and J.B. Hilliard - Current Owner: - Year Built: 1894 - Built By: Messrs. Henderson’s Yard, Patrick, Glasgow - Hull Material: Wood - Status: Destroyed - Sail Number:
Vryling
Vryling - Skylark, design 146, was a further improvement of Stormy Weather (design 27), Avanti (design 85) and Sonny (design 94) In 1972 Skylark completed a 31,106 mile circumnavigation. 2013 Currently sailing and racing in the med. - LOA: 53' 0"
LWL: 38' 0" - Beam: 12' 0" - Draft: 7' 7" - Design Number: 146 - Rig: Yawl - Displacement: 45,725lbs - Sail Area: 1,981 sq ft - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - Built By: Pendleton Yacht Yard of Wiscasset, Me - Original Owner: - Current Owner: Tara Getty - Launched: 1937 - Sail Number:
LWL: 38' 0" - Beam: 12' 0" - Draft: 7' 7" - Design Number: 146 - Rig: Yawl - Displacement: 45,725lbs - Sail Area: 1,981 sq ft - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - Built By: Pendleton Yacht Yard of Wiscasset, Me - Original Owner: - Current Owner: Tara Getty - Launched: 1937 - Sail Number:
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