Type: Three-Masted Schooner (re-creation)
Wolfhound Specifications:
LOD: 121′ 00″ – LWL: 91′ 06″ – Beam: 24′ 00″ – Draft: 12′ 00″ – Displacement: 182 Tons (m) – Ballast: – 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 – Special Advisors: A long list of yachtsmen and professionals
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.
Detailed construction drawings were never produced for this design. so some of the details in the implementation have to be inferred from other Alden designs from the same time period, such as the 1926 126’ 2-masted auxiliary schooner yacht “Starling”
Wolfhound has crossed the Atlantic twice since her launch in 2021 and cruised two summers in Scandinavia. In 2022 her captain and crew received the CCA Cruiser of the Year award from the CCA SF station.