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Classic Yacht Register of Heritage
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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There are currently 18 names in this directory beginning with the letter W.
W-22
W-22 - Constructed initially for Nantucket/Palm Beach as a one design class. Designed for shallow waters with strong winds. - LOA: 22’10″ / 6.76m - LWL: 18’4″ / 5.60m - Beam: 6’1″ / 1.85m - Draft 11 1/4” / .29m – 1’10” / .60m - Displacement: 1,900 lbs - Designer: W-Class Yachts - Freeboard (at station 7) 1′ 6 1/4″ - Wetter Surface Area: 91.5 sq ft - Water-Plane Area: 62.5 sq ft - Center of Buoyancy: 53.8% (Aft of 0) - First Built: 2015 - Built By: Artisan Boatworks, Rockport, Maine - Hull Material: Wood - Sail Area: 204.6 sq ft (Main-131.1 – Jib-74.1) - Sail Number: W-22 US-1
Wachiwi
Wachiwi - Type: Buzzard Bay 30 - Ordered by the Beverly, Massachusetts, Yacht Club and were raced as a class. Three 30s (Young Miss, Lady M, and Quakeress III) were restored by French and Webb in Belfast, Maine, and all three were launched in time for the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta in 2008. - ex Lady M, ex Evelyn, ex Quissett, ex Vado, Blue Dolphin - LOA: 46′ 6″ - LWL: 30′ 0″ - Beam: 10′ 10″ - Draft: 5′ 3″ - Hull Number: 562 - Rig: Gaff-Rigged Sloop - Displacement: 20160 - Sail Area: 1,400 - Designer: N.G. Herreshoff - Built By: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, - Bristol, RI - Original Owner: - Current Owner: Paxon Offield - Current Location: - Built: 1902 - Documentation or State Reg. Number: 136975 - Number of Engines: 1 - Engine Model: Volvo D2-40 (35 hp)
Wanderer
Wanderer - was named after the daughter of sugar and shipping magnate John D. Spreckles, the Pilot Schooner GRACIE S was a San Francisco Pilot Association stalwart for more than 50 years. Christened by Miss Jessie Armager, granddaughter of Pilot Jones, and Miss Nellie Erskine and launched in 1893 out of the local Union Iron Works - Sail Number: No. 3 - Type: (Pilot Boat) - LOA: - LOD: 95’ 6″ / 29.10m - LWL: 81′0″ / 24.68m - Beam: 24′7″ / 7.49m - Draft: 10′2″ / 3.09m - Designer: - Original Owner(s): Pilots Jones. McCuilough, Erskine, Mayo, Boyd, Meyer, Kautz, Matthew and Johnson - Year Launched: December 23, 1893 (11:00am) - Built By: Union Iron Works in San Francisco Bay - Hull Material: Wood - Displacement: 91.4 gross tons / 86.83 net tons - Former name(s) Gracie S - O.N. 86275 - Status: (November 1, 1963) – Lost off the southern tip of Rangiroa Island, 200 miles northeast of Tahiti
Wanderer Four-master Barque
Wanderer was a magnificent steel four-masted sailing barque, built and owned by W.H.Potter and Co. of Queen’s Dock Liverpool and launched on Thursday the August 20th. 1891. - Vessel Type: Four-masted steel barque - LOA: 308’9″ / 94.10m - LOD: 359’0″ / 109.00m - Beam: 45’11″ / 14.00m - Draft: 25’7” / 7.80m - Displacement: 2,903.29 gross tons / 2,800.59 net tonnage - Sail Area: - Original Name: Ships name suggested by the son of Wanderer owner W.H. Potter. Name given by Mrs. W.H. Potter, as the vessel stood on the ways before launching. - Original Owner: Wanderer S. Co., W.H. Potter & Sons, Liverpool - Year Launched: August 20th, 1891 - Engine: - Crew: Twenty able-bodied seamen, in total thirty-seven men
Built by: W.H. Potter & Sons, Liverpool, Yard No. 150 - Designed by: P.S.P. Morter - Hull Material: Metal hull on metal frames. - Homeport: - Status: Lost at 2a.m. on April 14th. 1907
Built by: W.H. Potter & Sons, Liverpool, Yard No. 150 - Designed by: P.S.P. Morter - Hull Material: Metal hull on metal frames. - Homeport: - Status: Lost at 2a.m. on April 14th. 1907
Wanderer III
Wanderer III -Wanderer III, a 30-foot (9.1 m) Laurent Giles sloop, carried the Hiscocks around the world via the tropics at a time when few people were cruising the world for pleasure on small sailboats. The voyage and book accorded them a degree of popular celebrity, and was the first of their three circumnavigations. It was also the start of a series of books detailing their later voyages on their sailboats Wanderer III, Wanderer IV and Wanderer V. The trips in Wanderer III, together with previous voyages, provided much technical information for his technical how-to volumes on small boat sailing and ocean cruising, Cruising Under Sail and Voyaging Under Sail (later combined and published as Cruising Under Sail). - LOA: 30’3″ / 9.22m - LWL: 26’5″ / 8.05m - Beam: 8’5″ / 2.56m - Draft: 5’0″ / 1.52m - Design Number: 39 - Designer: Laurent Gilles - Original Owner: Eric Hiscock - Current Owner: Thies and Kicki Matzen - Year Launched: 1952 - Built By: William King, Burnham-on-Crouch, UK - Hull Material: Wood - Gross Displacement: 7.2 tonns - Sail Area: 600 sq ft / 55.74 sq m
Water Gypsy
Water Gypsy - was designed in 1929 by John G. Alden for William McMillan. She was built in 1931 by Hodgdon Brothers, East Boothbay ME - Type: Staysail Schooner - LOA: - LOD: 59’1″ / 17.97m - LWL: 43’3″ / 13.13m - Beam: 13’9″ / 4.20m - Draft: 8’0″ / 2.43m - Displacement: 61,200 lbs / 27,818 kg - Ballast: 22,000 lbs / 10,000 kg - Sail Area: 1,798 sq ft / 167.10 sq.m. - Original Owner: William McMillan, Baltimore, MD - Original Home Port: - Year Launched: 1931 - Designed by: John G. Alden - Design No. : 466 - Built by: Hodgdon Brothers, East Boothbay ME - Hull Material: Wood
Westward
Westward - Class: Big - Westward was designed to the International Rule by N.G. Herreshoff to compete in Europe. Westward was the biggest boat built at the time by the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, Rhode Island. - LOA: 135’0″ / 41.14m
LWL: 96’0″ / 29.26m - Beam: 26’8″ / 8.12m - Draft: 16’11” / 5.15m - Hull Number: 692 - Designer:N.G. Herreshoff - Original Owner: Alexander S. Cochran - Original Skipper: Charlie Barr - Last Owner: Thomas B. Davis - Year Built: March 31, 1910 - Built By: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. - Contract Cost $ 118,000 - Gross Displacement: 323 tons - Sail Area: 12,000 sq ft - Status: Destroyed (Scuttled on July 14, 1947)
LWL: 96’0″ / 29.26m - Beam: 26’8″ / 8.12m - Draft: 16’11” / 5.15m - Hull Number: 692 - Designer:N.G. Herreshoff - Original Owner: Alexander S. Cochran - Original Skipper: Charlie Barr - Last Owner: Thomas B. Davis - Year Built: March 31, 1910 - Built By: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. - Contract Cost $ 118,000 - Gross Displacement: 323 tons - Sail Area: 12,000 sq ft - Status: Destroyed (Scuttled on July 14, 1947)
When and If
When and If - When and If was commissioned after the Arcturus, with Patton and his wife Beatrice aboard, was badly damaged in a storm while en route to San Diego. Patton was hospitalized as a result, and while there, Beatrice contacted John Alden, the “world’s most celebrated marine architect” at the time, to recruit him to design a new yacht along with Patton in the hopes of cheering him up. - Type: Schooner (full keel) - LOA: 80’1” / 24.41m - LOD: 63’5” / 19.33m - LWL: 47’3” / 14.40m - Beam: 15’1” / 4.60m - Draft: 8’6” / 2.60m - Designer: John G. Alden - Design Number: 669 - Current Name: When and If - Original Owner: Colonel George S. Patton, Jr. (45 years old) - Current Owner: Captain Seth Salzmann - Year Built: 1939 - Built by: F.F. Pendleton, Wiscasset, Maine. - Hull material: Double planked Mahogany and White Cedar over Hardwood Frames - Displacement: 84,640 lbs / 38,392 kg - Engine: Lugger 110 HP Diesel (2008)
Whirlwind
Whirlwind - was designed by L. Francis Herreshoff, and was built of composite construction at George Lawley & Son in Neponset, MA for syndicate members Landon K. Thorne, Alfred Loomis, Paul Hammond, George M. Pynchon, Elihu Root, and Marshall Field, in response to Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton’s fifth challenge for the America’s Cup in 1930. A total of four defenders, Enterprise, Yankee, Weetamoe and Whirlwind were built within a month of each other; Weetamoe and Enterprise from the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, and Yankee and Whirlwind from Lawley & Son’s yard in Neponset. - Sail Number: 3 - Type: J Class - LOA: 130’0” / 39.62m - LOD: 130’0” / 39.62m - LWL: 86’0” / 26.21m - Beam: 21’8” / 6.60m - Draft: 15’6” / 4.72m - Displacement: 158 tons - Ballast: - Hull material: Mahogany planking / steel frames. - Sail Area: 7335 sq. ft. - Designer: L. Francis Herreshoff - Built by: George Lawley & Son, Neponset, MA - Year Launched: May 7, 1930 - Current Name: - Original Owner: Whirlwind Syndicate: Landon K. Thorne, Alfred Loomis, Paul Hammond, George M. Pynchon, Elihu Root, and Marshall Field.
White Cap
White Cap Type: Buzzards Bay 25 - Current Name: Aria - LOA: 32′ 0″ - LWL: 25′ 0″ - Beam 8′ 9″ - Draft 5′ 4″ - Original Rig: J&M - Hull Number: 738 - Designer: N.G. Herreshoff - Original Owner: C. R. Holmes - Built: 1914 - Original Price: $2,000 -- Boat Location: Bristol, RI - Current Owner: Herreshoff Marine Museum Owner Since: 1992
Whitefin
Whitefin - Built to beat the Bruce King designed Whitehawk, and launched in the time for the duel at the 1983 Opera House Cup Regatta. "We Eat Hawk Meat" blazoned on the "Fins" crew shirts. Whitefin did beat Whitehawk that day, but not on corrected time with the "Hawk" winning the OHC that year. - LOA: 90’0″ / 27.43m * LOD: 90’0″ / 27.43m * LWL: 71’10 / 21.67m * Beam: 21’05 / 6.55m * Draft: 9′ 02 – 12’08 / 2.80m – 3.90m * Ballast: * Displacement: 120,000lbs * Sail Area: 4,050 sq ft * Yard Number: * Hull material: Wood construction * Rig: Sloop * Designer: King * Built by: Renaissance Yachts, Maine* Year Built: 1983 * Restored By: * Current Name: Whitefin * Original Owner: Phil Long * Contract Cost: * Current Owner: * Sail Number:
Whitehawk
Whitehawk - Styled after the famous Herreshoff racing vessel Ticonderoga, the 105’ Whitehawk was designed by renowned Maine yacht designer Bruce King and commissioned in 1978. Her hull is one of the largest ever built using the Wood Epoxy Saturation Technique (WEST SYSTEM), which insures superior strength along with incredible lightness. Whitehawk’s performance capabilities along with her state-of-the-art technology and magnificent appointments make her the ideal vacation vessel for New England summers and Caribbean winters. - LOA: 105’| LOD: 92′ | WL: 78′ | BEAM: 20′ 6″ | DRAFT: 7′ 6″ | Daggerboard: 16’10” | Displacement: 84 Tons | Fuel Capacity: 830 | Water Capacity: 700 (Watermaker 60 Gallons Per Hour) | Sail Area: 4,484 | CABINS: 3 | Hull: Wood (Cold-Molded)
Wild Horses
Wild Horses - Type: W - Class: Grand Prix - “A spirited descendent of the swiftest boats of the early 20th Century, the W-76 racing yacht was conceived to pay homage to the legendary New York 50s, the thundering J-Class boats, and the nimble 12-Meters. The W-76 was the last of more than fifty distinctive designs from the drawing board of the late Joel White, the naval architect acclaimed for so beautifully reincarnating traditional wooden vessels using the most modern construction techniques. The W-76 is handcrafted in Maine. These award-winning, record-setting Spirit of Tradition racing yachts are fast, race-proven sloops with a bundle of trophies from wins in New England, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean.” - LOA: 76’4″ / 23.28m - LOD: - LWL: 53’11” / 16.18m - Beam: 16’01” / 4.90m - Draft: 11′ / 3.35m - Ballast: 26,450 lbs - Displacement: 52.900 lbs - Sail Area: 2,239 square feet - Yard Number: - Hull material: Wood construction - Rig: Sloop - Designer: White - Built by: Brooklin Boat Yard - Year Built: 1998 - Restored By: - Current Name: Wild Horses - Original Owner: Donald Tofias - Contract Cost: - Current Owner: Donald Tofias - Sail Number:
Winifred
Winifred - A replica of Wee Winn - In 1891 Nat Herreshoff invented the fin keel. He sent two yachts of this type, the Wee Winn and the Wenona to England. The Wenona won 17 out of 20 races, the Wee Winn won 20 out of 21 races. These fin keelers were so successful that they were effectively barred from competition. - Type: 1/2 Rater - LOA: 23’10″ / 7.26m - LWL: 16’3″ / 4.95m - Beam: 4’6″ / 1.37m - Draft: 3’0” / 0.91m - Rig: - Design Number: 425 - Designer: N.G. Herreshoff - Original Owner: Wee Winn – Eloise Cochrane, Bideford, England / Winifred – Brian Corbett - Current Owner: Wee Win – Herreshoff Museum / Winifred – Brian Corbett - Year Built: Wee Winn 1892 / Winifred 1999 - Built By: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. - Hull Material: Wood - Gross Displacement: 3 CWT - Sail Area: - Sail Number:
Winwood
Winwood - originally named Odin, was launched in 1936 as a Seefahrtkreuzer for use by the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine during World War II, primarily as regatta and recreational vehicles. Also said to have been used on a larger scale for secret reconnaissance, courier and espionage trips in foreign waters.
After the end of World War II, in 1945, approximately 100 of these vessels were taken as reparations from Germany by British forces, liberated, and used as winfall for sail-training and honing British’s navigation skills. For fifteen to twenty years they served the British valiantly, until their decommissioning, and release to private ownership. - Sail Number: III/29 - Type: Seefahrtkreuzer 30 qm (Windfall fleet) - LOA: 32’0” / 9.75m - LOD: 32’0” / 9.75m - LWL: 21’4” / 6.50m - Beam: 7’3” / 2.20m - Draft: 4’6” / 1.36m - Designer: Abeking & Rathmussen, Lines according to construction no. 2926 - Original Owner: Arsenal Kiel-Wiek (MRV) (name Odin) - Current Owner: James Green - Year Launched: 1936 - Built by: Abeking & Rathmussen, No. 3006 - Hull material: Wood (Mahogany on Oak) - Sail Area: 30-m² – Sv=Si(1.164-(0.21G/Si)) - Displacement: 6,000 lbs - Ballast: Lead - Engine: none
After the end of World War II, in 1945, approximately 100 of these vessels were taken as reparations from Germany by British forces, liberated, and used as winfall for sail-training and honing British’s navigation skills. For fifteen to twenty years they served the British valiantly, until their decommissioning, and release to private ownership. - Sail Number: III/29 - Type: Seefahrtkreuzer 30 qm (Windfall fleet) - LOA: 32’0” / 9.75m - LOD: 32’0” / 9.75m - LWL: 21’4” / 6.50m - Beam: 7’3” / 2.20m - Draft: 4’6” / 1.36m - Designer: Abeking & Rathmussen, Lines according to construction no. 2926 - Original Owner: Arsenal Kiel-Wiek (MRV) (name Odin) - Current Owner: James Green - Year Launched: 1936 - Built by: Abeking & Rathmussen, No. 3006 - Hull material: Wood (Mahogany on Oak) - Sail Area: 30-m² – Sv=Si(1.164-(0.21G/Si)) - Displacement: 6,000 lbs - Ballast: Lead - Engine: none
Witchcraft
Witchcraft - Type: Original – Gaff Sloop Current – Bermudian Rig - LOA: 66’0″ / 20.11m - LOD: 59’6″ / 18.13m - LWL: 36’6″ / 11.12m - Beam: 12’11” / 3.93m - Draft: 6’0″ / 1.82m - Displacement: 20 tons - Sail Area: 1,550 sq ft / 143.99 sq.m.) - Original Owner: William Rogers - Original Home Port: Lake Champlain - Current Owner: David S. Butler Jr., Maryland YC - Current Home Port: Rock Creek, MD - Year Launched: May 1903 - Designed by: Bowdoin Bradlee Crowninshield - Built by: Lawley Boat Yard Boston, MA - Hull Material: Carvel white cedar planking bronze fastened to white oak frames
Wolcott
Wolcott - a 100-foot patrol boat built to combat rum-runners during Prohibition, was one of 13 in her class, which were delivered to the United States Coast Guard. Corwin was delivered first on October 21, 1925, ending with WOLCOTT on July 26, 1926. These 13 were steel-hulled patrol boats that were capable of close inshore work but were slower than the 75-foot patrol boats. They made up for their slower speed and lack of maneuverability with better accommodations for the crew so that they could stay at sea for longer periods and work well off-shore. They were all built by Defoe Boat & Motor Works of Bay City, Michigan. - USCGC (YN-92) - Type: 100-foot Corwin Class Patrol Boat - LOA: 99’8” / 30.38m - LOD: 99’8” / 30.38m - Beam: 23’0” / 7.01m - Draft: 10’9” / 3.28m - Displacement: Gross 173 Net Tons 105 - Hull material: Rivited wrought iron - Power: Twin 671’s Detroit diesels - Generator(s): Two 371’s generators, One 12.5 kw onan - Tankage: 4000 fuel, 2500 water, 1200 blackwater - Speed: 12 knots maximum (original spec) - Built by: Defoe Boat & Motor Works of Bay City, Michigan. - Year Launched: July 1926 - Other name(s): 1955 Pacific, Willamette Pacific 1969, Imagineer 1980, Friendship 1980 - Complement: 15 (with 1 warrant officer) - Current Owner: Diane S. House, Shawn Berrigan
Wolfhound
Wolfhound - The exclusive rights to build this design, which after 86 years in Alden archives, will finally take shape as the schooner "Wolfhound" for it's current owner. - LOD: 121' 00" - LWL: 91' 06" - Beam: 24' 00" - Draft: 12' 00" - Displacement: 182 Tons (m) - Concept Construction: Wood - Construction: Steel - Design: John G. Alden - Design Number: 0347 (never built) - Design Year: 1927 - Type: Auxiliary Three-Masted Schooner - Sail Area (Upwind): 695 m2 - Naval architecture and consultant: Niels Helleberg, NHYD, Salem, MA - Structural Design: Paul Wester, WNA, Eindhoven, Netherlands
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I am in the process of having my moms Lawley 15 being restored and we are looking for pictures of the rigging or better yet a lawley 15 that might have the rigging. MY email is eppa@aol.com phone is 352 613 4478 please reach out or point me in a direction may encounter this boat.
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