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There are currently 45 names in this directory beginning with the letter A.
Abu
Abu - was designed by Johan Anker for himself and built by Anker & Jensen in Vollen, Asker, Norway. In her he won the Scandinavian Gold Cup at Gothenberg, Sweden. For 1932 he sold her to the great helmsman Magnus Konow, who the same year won both the Gold Cup and the One Ton Cup. In 1933 she was brought to Cowes and sold to A.E. “Daddy” Lees who raced her at Burnham-on-Crouch for two years, before selling her. - Sail Number: GRB 32 - Type: 6mR (Rule 2) - LOA: 36’8” / 11.22m - LOD: 36’8” / 11.22m - LWL: 24’1” / 7.35m - Beam: 6’1” / 1.86m - Draft: - Displacement: - Ballast: - Hull material: Wood - Sail Area: 462 sq.ft / 42.9sq.m - Designer: Johan Anker - Built by: Anker & Jensen, Vollen, Asker, Norway - Year Launched: 1931 - Current Name: Abu - Current Owner: Christian Teichmann - Other Name(s): - Original Owner: Johan Anker
Acrospire II
Acrospire II - is a 25 foot class yacht built in 1911 by Charlie Peel for Joe White of Joe White Maltings, Ballarat. She was first seen by APYC members at a 1912 Lake Colac regatta, this beautiful yacht caused quite a stir. - LOD: 25’0″ / 7.62m - LWL: 22’0″ / 6.71m - Hull Number: - Designer: Charlie Peel - Original Owner: Joe White, Joe White Maltings, Ballarat - Current Owner: - Year Built: 1911 - Built By: Peel Brothers, Australia - Hull Material: Carvel construction with kauri planking copper naeil fastened and celery top pine frames(dynel sheathed). - Sail Number: A1 - Sail Area: 46.7 sq.m
Acrospire III
Acrospire III - Raced in Sayonara Cup in Sydney 1928, restored in Melbourne 1997, competes regularly in CYAA Victorian series. - LOA: 59’0″ / 17.98m - LOD: 50’0″ / 15.24m - LWL: 38’2″ / 11.64m - Beam 10’6″ / 3.23m - Draft 6’11” / 1.86m - Hull Number: - Designer: Charlie Peel - Original Owner: - Current Owner: Colin Anderson - Year Built: 1923 - Built By: Hayes Brothers Sydney - Hull Material: NZ Kauri - Displacement: 8 tons / 9000kg - Sail Number: R4 - ARHV Number: HV000541
Acrospire IV
Acrospire IV - Built to challenge “Vanessa” for the “Sayonara Cup” in 1929 and again in 1930, both times unsuccessful. Used in 1965 by Jock Sturrocks team to train against Gretel whilst they were building “Dame Patti”. Winner of the Lipton Cup, Portsea, International, Cactus, John Colvin and Sir Ernest Clark Cups. - LOA: 54’0″ / 16.45m - LWL: 36’0″ / 10.97m - Beam: 9.5' / 2.89m - Draft: 7’0” / 2.13m - Hull Number: - Designer: Charlie Peel - Original Owner: Joe White - Current Owner: Gary Martin - Year Built: 1929 - Built By: Saint Kilda, Victoria, Australia - Hull Material: - Gross Displacement: 13 tons - Sail Number: F 1929 - ARHV Number: HV000545
Action
Action - Sistership of Pumula, ACTION (hull 395) is a 40-metre sloop, launched in 2014. Superyacht ACTION was built by the premier Dutch manufacturer, Royal Huisman - Type: Sloop - Action - Specifications: - LOA: 122’3″ / 37.3m - LOD: 122’3″ / 37.3m - LWL: - Beam: 24’05” / 7.48m - Draft: 16’4” / 5.0m - Hull Number: 395 - Designer: Dykstra Naval Architects - Interior Designer: Rhoades Young - Current Owner: - Year Launched: 2014 - Built By: Royal Huisman, Vollenhove shipyard - Hull Material: Aluminium hull and aluminium superstructure - Gross Displacement: 115 Tonnes - Sail Area up-wind: 781 mÇ / 8,407 ftÇ
Adamant
Adamant - was designed by Fred Goeller and the class was named after Charles Francis Adams, former Secretary of the Navy, and yacht racing skipper of long standing. - Vessel Type: Adams Interclub Class - LOA: 24’6″ / 7.47m - LOD: 24’6″ / 7.47m - LWL: 17’0″ / 5.18m - Beam: 6’0″ / 1.82m - Draft: 4’0″ / 1.22m - Displacement: 27,000 lbs / 12,246.99kg - Ballast: 1,000 lbs / 453.59kg - Built By: Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Quincy MA (formerly F. D. Lawley, Inc.) - Sail Area: 253 ft² / 23.50 m² - Designed by: Fred Goeller - Original Owner: - Launched: 1937 - Hull Material: Wood - Hull Number: Hull number 2 - Home port:
Adix
Adix - One of the largest sailing yachts built since the 1930’s, and styled after the William Gardner designed 1903 yacht Atlantic. - Type: Three-Masted Gaff-Rigged Topsail Schooner - Ex; Jessica, Ex; XXXX - Adix Specifications: - LOA: 212.76′ / 64.85m - LWL: 135’11’ / 41.44m - LOD: 183.7′ / 56m - Beam: 29.13′ / 8.88m - Draft: 13.41′ / 4.09m - Designer: Arthur Holgate, South Africa - Original Owner: Carlos Perdomo, Argentina - Contract Price: 350 million pesetas - Current Owner: - Year Launched: 1984 - Built By: Astilleros de Mallorca, Palma, Illes Balears, Spain - Hull Material: Steel - Gross Displacement: 370 tonne - Sail Area: 18,513 sq ft / 1,720 square meters
Adventure
Adventure - was designed by Thomas F. McManus of Boston and built at the John F. James & Son Yard in Essex, Massachusetts, for Captain Jeff Thomas of Gloucester, Adventure was one of the last wooden sailing vessels of her kind built for the dory-fishing industry. - Sail Number: - Type: Gaff rigged topsail schooner - LOA: 122″0″ / 37.00m - LOD: 122″0″ / 37.00m - LWL: 109 ft / 33.00m - Beam: 24’6″ / 7.47m - Draft: 13’6” / 4.11m - Designed by: William Townsend - Original Owner: Captain Jeff Thomas, Gloucester - Current Owner: Gloucester Adventure, Inc., - Port: Gloucester, Massachusetts - Year Launched: September 16, 1926 - Built By: John F. James & Son Yard in Essex, Massachusetts - Hull Material: Wood - Displacement: 130 gross register tons - Engine: Detroit Diesel 671 (2012–) - National Register of Historic Places: 19 April 1994 - The Gloucester Adventure, Inc: Schooner-Adventure.Org
Adventuress
Adventuress - is a 133-foot (40.53m) gaff-rigged schooner launched in 1913 in East Boothbay, Maine. She has since been restored, and is listed as a National Historic Landmark. She is one of two surviving San Francisco bar pilot schooners. - Sail Number: TS/15 - Vessel Type: Gaff-Rigged Schooner (The A”) - LOA: 133’0″ / 40.53m - LOD: 101’0″ / 30.78m - LWL: 71’0″ / 21.64m - Beam: 21′ 0″ / 6.40m - Draft: 12′ 0″ / 3.65m - Displacement: 115 tons - Sail Area: 5,478 / 508.90 m2 - Built By: Rice Brothers Boatyard, East Boothbay, Maine. - Designed by: Bowdoin B. Crowninshield - Launched: 1913 - Original Owner: John Borden II - Engine: 250 hp diesel - National Historic Landmark: April 11, 1989 - Registration No. - Flag: USA - Homeport: Port Townsend, WA
Adventuress (Bowdoin B. Crowninshield)
Ala-Ala
Ala-Ala - Originally, the archipelago cruiser was a boat that sailed only in the Baltic Sea, but today many boats have been moved to the US and Central Europe where they are appreciated for their beauty and speed. - Sail Number: 95 S5 - Type: SK-95 (skärgårdskryssare) - LOA: 56′ 3″ / 17.15m - LOD: 56′ 3″ / 17.15m - LWL: - Beam: 8′ 11″ / 2.73m - Draft: 7′ 7″ / 2.30m - Displacement: 8.5 tons - Hull material: Wood - Designer: August Plym - Type: 1918 95 Square Meter Rule - Built by: Stockholms Båtbyggeri - Year Built: 1919 - Engine: Yanmar 30 - Current Name: Ala-Ala - Former name(s) Dafne 1919-1974 - Flag: Sweden (SE) - Locator:
Albatros
Albatros - The Albatross was built as Albatros a schooner at the state shipyard (Rijkswerf) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1920, to serve as a pilot boat (named Alk) in the North Sea. The ship spent two decades working the North Sea before being purchased by the German government in 1937. She served as a radio-station ship for submarines during the Second World War. In 1949, Royal Rotterdam Lloyd bought her for use as a training ship for future officers of their company (Dutch merchant marine). The fact that she was small made her ideal for this kind of work, and the dozen trainees could receive personal attention from the six or so professional crew. While under Dutch ownership she sailed the North Sea extensively, with occasional voyages as far as Spain and Portugal. - Sail Number: - Type: Pilot Boat - LOA: - LOD: 82′ 8″ / 25.19m - LWL: - Beam: 20′ 8″ / 6.29m - Draft: 9′ 8″ / 2.94m - Displacement: - Sail Area: - Original Owner: - Year Launched: 1920 - Designed by: - Built by: Rijkswerf, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Hull Material: - Former name(s): Albatross, Alk, Orion, loodschoener No.3, loodsschoener No.2, - Status: Sunk in a white squall, 125 mi (201 km) west of the Dry Tortugas in 1961
Alca
Alca - She was commissioned by Bank Director Martin Geber and constructed to be lightweight but strong. In her first Summer she won 9 of 11 races, including the passage of the best boats in the North. - LOA: 45.93' / 14m * LOD: 45.93' / 14m * LWL: 29.52' / 9m * Beam: 9.51' / 2.9m * Draft: 6.56' / 2m * Ballast: * Displacement: 8 tons * Sail Area: * Yard Number: * Hull material: Wood * Rig: Mast-Head Yawl * Mast: * Designer: Axel Nygren * Type: * Built by: August Plym * Year Built: 1896 * Restored By: Jan Thulin * Current Name: Alca * Original Owner: Martin Geber * Current Owner: * Sail Number:
Alejandra
Alejandra - was designed by Bruce King and built and launched in 1993 by Astilleros Mefasa S.A., San Juan De Nieva, Spain. - Sail Number: - Type: Ketch - LOA: 134’6” / 41.00m - LOD: 134’6” / 41.00m - LWL: 100’0” / 30.50m - Beam: 26’3” / 8.00m - Draft: 12’7” / 3.85m - Displacement: 170 tons - Ballast: - Hull material: aluminum - Sail Area: 7,707 sq ft - Designer: Bruce King - Built by: Astilleros Mefasa S.A., San Juan De Nieva, Spain - Year Launched: 1993 - Current Name: Alejandra - Original Owner: King Juan Carlos of Spain - FLAG: United Kingdom (GB) - Location: Marine Traffic
Alera
Alera - Type: New York 30 - Class: Vintage - NY-1 Alera, built for the Alker brothers of Manhasset Bay, she was the first completed yacht in the series of eighteen NY30’s and left the roles of the NYYC in the early 1920’s. A lost treasure until 2004, when she was rediscovered in Hamilton, Ontario, purchased and shipped to Samples Shipyard in Boothbay, Maine where her new owners completed a full restoration for the 2005 100th Anniversary Season. - LOA: 43′ 9″ - LWL: 30′ 0″ - Beam 8′ 9″ - Draft 6′ 4″ - Hull Number: 626 - Designer: N.G. Herreshoff - Original Owner: Alphonse H. Alker - Built: 1904 - Sail Number: NY 1
Allure
Allure - In 1927 Bob Prothero and Ernest McDonald opened the Prothero & McDonald Boat Company in a floating seaplane hangar, and Frank Prothero came aboard as shop foreman in 1930. In 1931 the brothers built for their own use the 42-foot schooner Allure, which they later sold to Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984), an Olympic swimming Gold Medalist also known for playing Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ape man Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s. - Sail Number: 91 - Type: Schooner - LOA: 58’0″ / 17.67m - LOD: 50’ 0” / 15.24m - LWL: 42’0″ / 12.80m - Beam: 13’7” / 4.14m - Draft: 7’5” / 2.26m - Design Number: - Designer: Frank M. Prothero - Current Owner: Folsom, Guy S. - Year Launched: 1931 - Built By: Frank M. Prothero - Hull Material: Wood - Displacement: 23 tons - Former name(s) Santa Guadalupe - ON: 231002 - Engine: Detroit 353 - Home Port: San Diego, CA
Almaran
Almaran - Type: NY 32 - The New York Yacht Club were looking for a new one-design class, to replace the old (designed 1905) Herreshoff New York 30s, S&S won the design competition, and was selected against competing designs by Alden and Nicholas Potter Twenty boats were built by Nevins of City Island at a cost of $11,000 each. In Olin Stephen’s words “We set out to design a good cruiser/racer with good all-around form, guided by the lines of Dorade, Stormy Weather and Edlu, and emphasized seaworthiness rather than around-the-mark agility.” - LOA: 45′ 4″ - LWL: 32′ 0″ - Beam: 10′ 7″ - Draft: 6′ 6″ - Design Number: 125 - Rig: Bermudan sloop - Displacement: 12,000 lbs - Sail Area: 950 sq ft - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - Built By: Henry B Nevins Yard, City Island NY - Original Owner: - Current Owner: Manuel Lopez - Launched: 1936 - Sail Number:
Altair
Altair - Captain Guy H. MacCaw had Altair designed for prolonged ocean cruising to the South Seas Islands and beyond, but his ambitious plans lasted only two years and the yacht was sold. - LOA: 133′ 10″ / 40.79m - LOD: 108′ 4″ / 33.02m - LWL: 77′ 9″ / 23.71m - Beam: 20′ 4″ / 6.20m - Draft: 13′ 11″ / 4.25m - Original Rig: Gaff-Schooner - Hull Number: 789 - Construction: Wood - Designer: William Fife
Original Owner: Captain Guy H. MacCaw - Built: 1931 - Year Refit: 1985-87 Southhampton Yacht Services - Built By: William Fife & Son
Current Name: Altair - Current Owner: - Sail Number:
Original Owner: Captain Guy H. MacCaw - Built: 1931 - Year Refit: 1985-87 Southhampton Yacht Services - Built By: William Fife & Son
Current Name: Altair - Current Owner: - Sail Number:
Amadour
Amadour - was built with teak planks on oak frames. Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, sailed aboard her, and in 1952, she also played host to actress Rita Hayworth. Between 1961 and 1991. - LOA: 52.16′ / 15.9m - LWL: 37.72′ / 11.5m - Beam: 11.15′ / 3.40m - Draft: 7.54′ / 2.30m
Hull Number: - Designer: Lomakhine (Marsiglia) - Year Built: 1938 - Built By: Chantiers de la Liane (Marsiglia – France) - Hull Material: - Teak Planking on Oak Frames - Gross Displacement: 21 tons - Sail Number: Mon 77 - Sail Area: 1,539 sq.ft / 143 m²
Hull Number: - Designer: Lomakhine (Marsiglia) - Year Built: 1938 - Built By: Chantiers de la Liane (Marsiglia – France) - Hull Material: - Teak Planking on Oak Frames - Gross Displacement: 21 tons - Sail Number: Mon 77 - Sail Area: 1,539 sq.ft / 143 m²
Amazon
Amazon - Type: IOR Racing Yacht - Class: Modern Classic - Heavy displacement yacht built of Corten steel to Lloyds 100A 1 standards. Suited for elegant long range cruising, and spirited racing. - LOA: 73' 1" / 22.25m - LWL: 57' 0" / 17.37m - Beam: 18' 0" / 5.48m - Draft: 10' 6" / 3.23m - Design Number: 2084 - Rig: Yawl - Displacement: 105,132 lbs - Sail Area: 2,430 sq ft - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - Built By: Camper & Nicholson, LTD, Southhampton, England - Original Owner: Mr. John B. Goulandris - Current Owner: - Launched: 1971
America
America - America was designed by James Rich Steers and George Steers (1820–1856) - Traditional “cod-head-and-mackerel-tail” design gave boats a blunt bow and a sharp stern with the widest point (the beam) placed one-third of the length aft of the bow. - Type: Gaff Schooner - America Specifications: - LOA: 101’3″ / 30.86m - LWL: 89’10” / 27.38m - Beam: 22’10” / 6.95m - Draft: 10’11” / 3.33m - Designer: George Steers and Co - Original Owner: New York Yacht Club Syndicate – headed by NYYC charter member Commodore John Cox Stevens - Current Owner: Scrapped, 1945 - Year Launched: May 3rd, 1851 - Built By: William H. Brown - Hull Material: Wood (white oak, locust, cedar and chestnut) - Gross Displacement: 92 tonnes - Sail Area: 5,296 sq ft (492.0 m2)
America (Recreation 1)
America (Recreation 1) - The first replica of America was built for Rudolph Schaefer, Jr of the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co - Type: Gaff Schooner - America (Recreation Number 1) Specifications: - LOA: 101’10″ / 31.03m - LWL: 90’8″ / 27.63m - Beam: 22’10” / 6.95m - Draft: 11’6” / 3.50m - Design Number: 1897 - Designer: Recreation Sparkman & Stephens - Original Owner: Rudolph Schaefer, Jr F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co - Current Owner: - Year Launched: May 3, 1967 - Built By: Goudy & Stevens in E. Boothbay Harbor, Maine - Hull Material: Double planked frames on laminated double sawn oak frames - Gross Displacement: - Sail Area: -
America (Recreation 2)
America (Recreation 2) - Established in 1976, Scarano Boat Building operates a vessel design and construction business, located in the Port of Albany in New York’s Capital Region, and Classic Harbor Lines runs a water vessel sightseeing business that operates in New York City; Rhode Island and Key West, Florida. With daily public tours and private excursions, the high demand for the company’s vessels warranted the construction of a new, larger boat so plans were made for the America 2.0. - Type: Gaff Schooner - America (Recreation Number 2) Specifications: - LOD: 105’0″ / 32.00m - LWL: - Beam: 24’09” / 7.54m - Draft: 10’0” / 3.04m - Design Number: - Designer: Recreation John Scarano - Original Owner: America 2.0, LLC - Current Owner: Dennis Conner - Year Launched: 1995 Port Albany NY - Built By: Scarano Boat Building - Hull Material: End-grain balsa core, sandwiched between two layers of Port Orford Cedar over wooden laminated frames - Gross Displacement: 92 tonnes - Sail Area:
America (Recreation 3)
Skythia - Built 2003-2005 by shipbuilder Nautica in Bulgaria modeled after the famous yacht “America.” - Type: Gaff Schooner - America (Recreation Number 3) Specifications: - LOA: 118’1″ / 36.00m - LOD: 78’8″ / 32.00m - LWL: - Beam: 18’08” / 5.70m - Draft: 8’10” / 2.70m - Design Number: - Designer: Nautica - Original Owner: - Current Owner: Sea Independent - Year Launched: 2005 - Built By: Nautica, Varna, Bulgaria - Hull Material: - Gross Displacement: 55 tonnes - Sail Area: 377m² (topsail 14m²)
Amigo
Amigo - an auxiliary yawl, was built in 1953 by Heidtmann-Werft of Hamburg, Germany from designs by Sparkman & Stephens, Inc. - Sail Number: - Type: Loki Yawl - Amigo Specifications: - LOA: 38’0-3/4″ / 11.60m - LWL: 26’0″ / 7.92m - Beam: 9’7″ / 2.92m - Draft: 5’8” / 1.72m - Design Number: 1001G - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - Original Owner: Dr. August Morris - Current Owner: Private - Year Launched: 1953 - Built By: Heidtmann-Werft Yacht Yard, Hamburg, Germany - Hull Material: Wood - Displacement: 18,000 lbs - Ballast: 7,260 lbs - Sail Area: 700 sq ft
Anemone II
Anemone II - Type: New York 30 - LOA: 43′ 9″ - LWL: 30′ 0″ - Beam: 8′ 9″ - Draft: 6′ 4″ - Original Rig: J&M - Hull Number: 647 - Designer: N.G. Herreshoff - Original Owner: J.M. Mitchell - Built: 1905 - Original Price: $4,200 - Boat Location: Bristol, RI - Current Name: Anemone II - Current Owner: Herreshoff Marine Museum - Sail Number: NY 18
Anitra
Anitra 1926
Anitra - has been owned by the same family for 94 years and five generations have been sailing her. She has spent her lifetime on Lake Ontario. She was built for racing at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and raced successfully for many years, and cruising in the Thousand Islands. She is still going strong for her age. Cypress Cedar on Oak, single plank. All spars and mast of sitka spruce. Honduras Mahogany trim.- Sail Number: SP 20 - Type: Offshore sailing yacht (ketch) - LOA: 44’9″ / 13.63m - LOD: 39’2″ / 11.93m - LWL: 29’6″ / 8.99m - Beam: 9’6″ / 2.89m - Draft: 5’6″ / 1.67m - Displacement: 7.49 tons / 1,600 lbs - Ballast: 6,000 lbs (cast iron) - Yard Number: - Hull material: - Designer: Montye Macrae - Built by: Robertson Burnside, Hamilton Ontario - Year Launched: September 1926 - Original Name: Anitra - Former name(s) - Sail Area: 1,100 sq ft - Official number:
Antonisa
Antonisa - Wanting a larger version of the owners previous yacht “Whitefin”, Natuzzi hired Bruce King Yacht Design, to build a wooden yacht with the same aesthetics, allowing more space to accommodate his crew. Owned by Italy’s largest furnishing firm, the Natuzzi Group, Antonisa is named after the owners wife. In honour of the owners son, the yacht is adorned with a little star on the stern, Natuzzi used to call his son Stelluccia, (Little Star) when he was small. - LOA: 124’0″ / 37.80m * LOD: * LWL: 89’11 / 27.43m * Beam: 25’05 / 7.77m * Draft: 9′ 75 – 26’06 / 2.97m – 8.08m * Ballast: 106,000 lb * Displacement: * Sail Area: * Yard Number: * Hull material: Wood construction * Rig: Sloop * Designer: King * Built by: Hodgdon Yachts, Maine* Year Built: 1999 * Restored By: * Current Name: Antonisa * Original Owner: Pasquale Natuzzi * Contract Cost: * Current Owner: * Sail Number:
Apache
Apache - In 1935, when the New York Yacht Club was looking for boats to replace the “Thirties” created by Herreshoff, their requirements included blue water seaworthiness in addition to grace and quickness. Olin Stephens submitted the winning design, and during the winter and spring of 1936, Henry B Nevins built 20 hulls in City Island, New York. - Sail Number: NY2 - Vessel Type: Fractional sloop - LOA: 45′4″ / 13.81m - LOD: 45′4″ / 13.81m - LWL: 32’0″ / 9.75m - - Beam: 10′7″ / 3.22m - Draft: 6’6″ / 1.98m - Displacement: 25,000 - Ballast: 11,000 - Sail Area: 990 ft² / 91.97 m² - Original Owner: Charles F. Havemeyer - Current Owner: Tyson M. Streeter - Current name: Apache - Year Launched: May 9, 1936 - Designed by: Sparkman & Stephens (No.125) - Built by: Henry B. Nevins - Hull Material: Oak frames (1 5/8″ on 8″ centers), heavy Philippine mahogany planking,
Aphrodite
Aphrodite - The yacht Aphrodite was constructed from 2003 to 2005, from the plans by Gustav Estlander. The original boat, the R 33 Hagen, served as a model. The 40s Skärenkreuzer / Skärgårdskryssare combines today as then classic elegance with excellent sailing characteristics. - Sail Number: G54 - Vessel Type: SK 40 (skärgårdskryssare) - LOA: 47′ 0″ / 14.33m - LOD: 47′ 0″ / 14.33m64′ 6″ / 19.67m - LWL: 31′ 6″ / 9.60m - Beam 9′ 9″ / 2.96m - Draft 7 10″ / 2.40m - Displacement: 3 tons - Ballast: - Hull material: Wood - Year Built: (2003-2005) - Original name: Aphrodite - Current Owner: Private - Designer: Gustaf Estlander - Built by: H. Fischer - Website: - Flag: - Location:
Aquarius
Aquarius - was designed by Dykstra Naval Architects and built by Royal Huisman for her owners who wanted a elegant yet muscular sailboat with a classic profile. - Sail Number: - Vessel Type: Ketch - LOA: 36′9″ / 56.00m - LOD: 36′9″ / 56.00m - LWL: 28’6″ / 41.00m - Beam: 11′2″ / 9.50m - Draft: 5’7″ / 4.80m - Displacement: 264 tons - Sail Area: sq ft / m² - Original Name: Aquarius - Year Launched: January 2018 - Yard Number: 399 - Exterior Designed by: Dykstra Naval Architects, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Interior Designed by: Mark Whiteley - Built by: Royal Huisman - Hull Material: - Homeport:
Araminta
Araminta - Class: Vintage - The successor to “Quiet Tune” for the same owner Edwin M. Hill was designed for daysailing and short range cruising in Maine waters. Three feet three inches longer with a clipper bow and with a more generous sail plan than “Quiet Tune” Beautiful to look at a very fast sailer, with the interior kept spartan. - LOA: 33′ 0″ * LOD: * LWL: 28′ 3″ * Beam: 8′ 6″ * Draft: 5′ 0″ * Ballast: 5950 lbs * Displacement: Sail Area: 582 * Design Number: 89 * Yard Number: * Rig: Ketch * Designer: L.F. Herreshoff * Built by: Norman Hodgdon of Boothbay Harbor, Maine * Year Built: 1948 * Restored By: * Current Name: Araminta * Current Owner: Mystic Seaport Museum * Original Owner Edwin M. Hill
Araner
Araner - was a Jack Hanna-designed wooden-hulled auxiliary ketch built in 1926 at Essex, Massachusetts by the Arthur D. Story Shipyards and acquired by motion picture director John Ford in June 1934. Originally named Faith, she was refurbished, and renamed Araner in honor of the Aran Islands, whence his wife’s family had come. - Wartime designation: USS Araner (IX-57) - Type: Auxiliary Ketch - LOA: 106′ 5″ / 32.44m - LWL: - Beam: 25′ 2″ / 7.67m- Draft: 10′ 6″ / 3.20m - Displacement: 147 Tons - Sail Area: - Original Owner: Walden W. Shaw, - Chicago Industrialist - Original Name: Faith - Year Launched: 1926 - Designed by: John Griffin Hanna - Built by: Arthur D. Story Shipyards, Essex, Massachusetts - Hull Material: Wood - In service: 26 February 1942 - Out of service: 14 October 1944 - District: 11th District (The Los Angeles District had three hundred miles of exposed coastline.)
Argyll
Argyll - Designed by Olin Stephens to build on the success of STORMY WEATHER and DORADE this yacht has a successful race record in her own right and is known to been one of her designer’s favourites. Perhaps the same could be said of Ed Burnett, whose design skills and empathy for this boat have been a continuous thread throughout her restoration. ARGYLL’s potential to win on the classic race circuit is almost as exciting as the balance of her Olin Stephens lines……..breathtakingly beautiful. - Sail Number: 125 - Vessel Type: S&S Yawl - LOA: 57’5″ / 17.50m - LOD: 57’5″ / 17.50m - LWL: 40′ 0″ / 12.19m - Beam: 12′ 9″ / 3.89m - Draft: 8′ 2″ / 2.49m - Displacement: 21.5 Tons - Ballast: 17,857 lbs / 8,100 kg - Built By: Simms Brothers Marshfield, Massachusetts - Designed by: Sparkman & Stephens - Launched: 1948 - Original name(s): - Hull Material: Double planked mahogany / laminated cedar frames - Engine: Beta 3300, 75 HP - Design Number: 381 - Flag: United Kingdom (GB) - Club: BCYC
Ariki
Ariki - Ariki (Maori name for chief or leader) was designed by Archibald Logan and built by Logan Brothers for Charles Horton of the Horton publishing family as a combined racing and cruising yacht.
Ariki’s design was based on the Logan brother’s highly successful Rainbow of 1898, which in turn had been inspired by the George Lennox Watson designed royal yacht Britannia of 1893. Ariki was a gaff-rigged cutter with a jackyard topsail. Featuring a spoon-bowed and counter-stern, her hull was planked in copper fastened kauri, consisting of two thinner layers of planks that were diagonal to each other and the third skin of planks running horizontally fore and aft along the yacht. She featured a flush deck with no cabin top visible above the deck. - Sail Number: A3 - Type: Gaff-rigged cutter - LOA: 54’0” / 16.46m - LOD: - LWL: 36’6” / 11.13m - Beam: 10’10” / 3.30m - Draft: 7’2” / 2.18m - Designer: Archibald Logan - Original Owner: Charles Horton, Horton publishing family - Current Owner: - Year Launched: October 1904 - Built by: Logan Brothers - Hull material: kauri planking - Sail Area: - Displacement: 9.35 tonnes - Engine: - Flag: Auckland, New Zealand - Club:
Ariki’s design was based on the Logan brother’s highly successful Rainbow of 1898, which in turn had been inspired by the George Lennox Watson designed royal yacht Britannia of 1893. Ariki was a gaff-rigged cutter with a jackyard topsail. Featuring a spoon-bowed and counter-stern, her hull was planked in copper fastened kauri, consisting of two thinner layers of planks that were diagonal to each other and the third skin of planks running horizontally fore and aft along the yacht. She featured a flush deck with no cabin top visible above the deck. - Sail Number: A3 - Type: Gaff-rigged cutter - LOA: 54’0” / 16.46m - LOD: - LWL: 36’6” / 11.13m - Beam: 10’10” / 3.30m - Draft: 7’2” / 2.18m - Designer: Archibald Logan - Original Owner: Charles Horton, Horton publishing family - Current Owner: - Year Launched: October 1904 - Built by: Logan Brothers - Hull material: kauri planking - Sail Area: - Displacement: 9.35 tonnes - Engine: - Flag: Auckland, New Zealand - Club:
Arion
Arion - First large vessel built entirely of “Fiberglass” - LOA: 42′ 0″ * LOD: 42′ 0″ * LWL: 37′ 11″ * Beam: 8′ 1″ * Draft: 5′ 6″ * Ballast: * Displacement: 10,500 lbs * Sail Area: 562 sq. ft. * Yard Number: * Hull material: Fiberglass * Rig: Ketch * Class: * Designer: Sidney DeWolfe Herreshoff * Built by: Anchorage Plastics Corp. * Year Built: 1951 * Restored By: Damian McLaughlin Boats * Current Name: Arion * Original Owner: * Current Owner: * Sail Number:
Astrée III
Astrée III - was designed by Bjarne Aas in 1959, and was his last 6mR boat, having designed 55 boats to this class. Boat lines were based on Yam Sing 6mR. - LOA: 35.85′ / 10.93m - LWL: 22.96′ / 7.66m - Beam: 6.10′ / 1.86m - Draft: - Hull Number: - Designer: Bjarne Aas - Original Owner: Pierre Bigar - Current Owner: Ossi Paija , Sam Fagerlund - Year Built: 1959 - Built By: Frederickstad - Hull Material: - Gross Displacement: - Sail Number: - Sail Area: 480.30 sq ft / 44.62 sq m
Athena
Athena - At 295ft / 90 meters long, Athena is considered the largest private sailing yacht in the world. A modern yacht with the styling of a classic sailer this beautiful sailing yacht and technological wonder sleep 10 guests and boasts a media lounge, diving facilities with a decompression chamber. - LOA: 295’3″ / 90m - LWL: 198’6″ / 60.52m - Beam 40’0″ / 12.20m - Draft 18’11” / 5.77m - Hull Number: 378 - Designer: Pieter Beeldsnijder Design – Dykstra Naval Architects - Original Owner: Dr. James H. Clark - Current Owner: Dr. James H. Clark - Year Built: 2004 - Built By: Royal Huisman - Hull Material: Alustar - Displacement: 1103 tonnes - Ballast: 221.5 - Flag: Cayman Islands - Sail Number:
Athena - Tore Holm
Athena - was designed and built as ILDERIM in 1939 to 3rd International Rule for Swedish banker Marcus Wallenberg Jr at Tore Holm’s Gamleby yard, Sweden. Wallenburg had been disappointed in his attempt at the 1936 Olympic title: sailing the previous ILDERIM, a politically influenced decision had found him relegated from the Gold Medal position to fourth. Wallenburg subsequently challenged the Germans and Italians for Coppa d’Italia, the European championship for the 8-Metre class, at Genoa in 1937 and 1938, winning on the second occasion and taking the cup home to Sweden. For the 1939 defense, he commissioned this ILDERIM, again from the board and yard of Tore Holm. She too was successful and won the last challenge for the Cup before the Second World War, beating, among others, such renowned 8mRs as PINUCCIA, SIRA, and GERMANIA III. - Sail Number: K36 - Type: International 8 Metre - LOA: 46′ 10″ / 14.26m - LOD: 46′ 10″ / 14.26m - LWL: 30′ 0″ / 9.13m - Beam: 8′ 7″ / 2.60m - Draft: 6″ 5″ / 1.96m - Displacement: 8.65 Tonnes - Hull material: Carvel mahogany on part composite frame - Designer: William Fife III - Built by: Holms - Båtvarv, Gamleby - Year Built: 1939 - Original Name: ILDERIM - Original Owner: Marcus Wallenberg, Jr, Swedish banker - Current Name: ATHENA - Current Owner: Jonathan Cork and David Glasgow - Engine: Beta 25hp Diesel - Location: United Kingdom
Athene
Athene - 1915 – First private yacht to pass through the Panama Canal, enroute to San Francisco – Rammed in 1941 off Miami, Fl and sunk. - LOA: 106 ′ 0″ * LOD: 106′ 0″ * LWL: 70′ 0″ * Beam: 19′ 3″ * Draft: 10′ 10″ * Ballast: * Displacement: * Sail Area: 6,000 sq ft * Yard Number: 520 * Hull Material: * Rig: Cutter * Class: * Designer: N.G. Herreshoff * Built by: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, RI * Year Built: 1899 * Restored By: * Original Owner: William O. Gay * Original Price: $27,125 * Status: Destroyed * Sail Number:
Athos
Athos - Athos is one of the most spectacular and innovative sailing yachts to be launched in recent years.
She is the world’s largest privately-owned two-masted schooner and the most technologically sophisticated classic sailing yacht to date.
Athos is the result of the combined efforts of award-winning designer Andre Hoek, renowned Dutch builder Holland Jachtbouw and the yacht’s own highly committed owner who personally oversaw a raft of engineering innovations being introduced to the project. - Sail Number: - Type: Schooner - LOA: 203’0” / 62.00m - LWL: 132’0” / 40.18m - Beam: 36’0” / 10.88m - Draft: max 26’0” / 8.02m min 12’0” / 3.64m - Designer: Hoek Design Naval Architects - Original Name: ATHOS - Original Owner: Private - Year Built: 2010 - Built by: Holland Jachtbouw - Hull material: Alcan Sealium Aluminium - Sail Area: upwind 5,784 ft2 - Spinnaker: 4303 ft2 / 1312m2 - Displacement: 370 tonnes - Engine: 2 x Volvo D16C-A MH EVC (479 kW / 651 hp) - Flag: United Kingdom (GB) - Location: Marine Traffic
She is the world’s largest privately-owned two-masted schooner and the most technologically sophisticated classic sailing yacht to date.
Athos is the result of the combined efforts of award-winning designer Andre Hoek, renowned Dutch builder Holland Jachtbouw and the yacht’s own highly committed owner who personally oversaw a raft of engineering innovations being introduced to the project. - Sail Number: - Type: Schooner - LOA: 203’0” / 62.00m - LWL: 132’0” / 40.18m - Beam: 36’0” / 10.88m - Draft: max 26’0” / 8.02m min 12’0” / 3.64m - Designer: Hoek Design Naval Architects - Original Name: ATHOS - Original Owner: Private - Year Built: 2010 - Built by: Holland Jachtbouw - Hull material: Alcan Sealium Aluminium - Sail Area: upwind 5,784 ft2 - Spinnaker: 4303 ft2 / 1312m2 - Displacement: 370 tonnes - Engine: 2 x Volvo D16C-A MH EVC (479 kW / 651 hp) - Flag: United Kingdom (GB) - Location: Marine Traffic
Atlantic
Atlantic - The Atlantic was built in 1903 by Townsend and Downey shipyard, and designed by William Gardner, for Wilson Marshall. The three-masted schooner was skippered by Charlie Barr and it set the record for fastest transatlantic passage by a monohull in the 1905 Kaiser’s Cup race. The record remained unbroken for nearly 100 years. - Classification: WIX 271 - Type: Three-masted schooner (Goldstar Member – World War I Victory Medal – Patrol Force, Atlantic Fleet, Training. Ship) - LOA: 227’8″ / 69.40m - Beam: 29’0″ / 8.85m - Draft: 16’1″ / 4.90m - Displacement: 303 tonnes - Sail Area: 18,500 sq ft / 1,720 m2 - Original Owner: Wilson Marshall - Year Launched: July 28, 1903 - Designed by: William Gardiner - Built by: Townsend & Downey - Hull Material: Wood - Status: Scraped 1982 - Honors and Awards: Kaiser’s Cup, World War I Victory Medal, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal
Atlantic Class
Atlantic Class - LOA: 30' 6″ / 9.29m – LOD: – LWL: 21′ 6″ / 6.55m – Beam: 6′ 6″ / 1.98m – Draft: – Displacement: 4,559 lbs – Ballast: 2,835 lbs. – Sail Area: 377 sq ft – Design Number: – Yard Number: – Rig: Fractional Sloop – Designer: W. Starling Burgess – Built by: – Original Owner: – Year Built: 1929 – Restored By: – Boat Location: – Current Name: – Current Owner: – Sail Number
Atrevida
Atrevida - Launched in 1923 as WILDFIRE was one of the last yachts built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co, of which was sold a year after her commissioning. In 2002, saving her from the scrap mills, Gilberto Miranda, purchased her and she underwent a full refit and build at the MCP Yachts Shipyard. - LOA: 105′ 0″ / 32m - LOD: 91’8″ / 28m - LWL: 65′ 7″ / 20m - Beam 19′ 7″ / 6m - Draft 13′ 1″ / 4m - Hull: Steel - Displacement: 84 tons - Hull Number: 891 - Sail Area: 4,154sqft / 386msq - Designer: N.G. Herreshoff - Built By: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, R.I. - Contract Date: 12/13/1922 - Original Price: $ 76,000 - Boat Location: Santos, Brasil
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