Sail Number: 4
Vessel Type: New York 70
“Yankee” Specifications:
LOA: 106′ 0″ / 32.30m – LWL: 70′ 0″ / 21.33m – Beam 19′ 4″ / 5.89m – Draft 14′ 0″ / 4.26m – Displacement: 84 tons – Ballast: 40 Tons – Sail Area: 6,945 ft² / 645.21 m² – Original Rig: Cutter – Hull Number: 534 – Designer: N.G. Herreshoff – Contracted By: Whitney & Duryea, Harry Payne & Herman B. – Contracted amount: $32,593 – Launch Date: June 18, 1900 – Status: Destroyed
Historical
Four 70-footers were built respectively for August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt, W.K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and Harry Payne Whitney. To this date, the most expensive one-design class ever conceived for some of the most influential owners of this day. Superiority will only be achieved by each owners ability to excel by ones skill in sail handling and tuning by a crew of 15 professionals.
As a one-design class the owners desire to see a fair proportion of the original build price, or return on investment as possible, unlike the all an out racing machines that are outdated the following season for more extreme machines
The 70-footers are the result of the application to a larger class of the ideas and conditions that made racing in the smaller classes so interesting.
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
- Owner/Guardian: (1900) Whitney & Duryea, Harry Payne & Herman B.