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There are currently 15 names in this directory beginning with the letter M.
Malabar I
Malabar I - A stout yacht, with short ends, graceful sheer leading to a high bow. Two cabin trunks, which adds to the strength of the yacht, providing strong partners for the mainmast. The first three Malabars are similar, but 2 and 3 are sleeker and yachtier. - LOA: 41’3 / 12.57m * LOD: * LWL: 31’10 / 9.70m * Beam: 11’7 / 3.53m * Draft: 6’2 / 1.88m * Ballast: * Displacement: 29,100 lbs / 13,200 kgs * Sail Area: * Yard Number: 155 * Hull material: Wood construction * Rig: Bald-Headed Schooner * Designer: Alden * Built by: C.A. Morse & Son, Thomaston, ME * Year Built: 1921 * Restored By: * Current Name: Dorothea,

Malabar II
Malabar II - Slight variation of the first Malabar, constructed with a single cabin, allowing more interior room, built from the same lines, but slightly fuller in the bow, with sheers slightly flattened, and different in accommodations, and ballast. - LOA: 41’6 / 12.60m * LOD: * LWL: 32’11 / 10.03m * Beam: 11’3 / 3.43m * Draft: 6’2 / 1.88m * Ballast: * Displacement: 28,600 lbs / 12,973 kgs * Sail Area: 938 sq ft * Yard Number: 162 * Hull material: Wood construction * Rig: Schooner * Designer: Alden * Built by: C.A. Morse & Son, Thomaston, ME * Year Built: 1922 * Restored By: Elmer Collemer, Camden, Maine * Current Name: Hispaniola * Original Owner: John G. Alden * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Malabar III
Malabar III - Malabar II and Malabar III were built from the same lines, and were almost identical except in their accommodations and ballast. Malabar III has a slightly different arrangement with the port quarter berth has a bulkhead around it to make a small, private after stateroom. Malabar III has no engine, but was provided with a shaft log and propeller. - LOA: 41’6 / 12.60m * LOD: * LWL: 32’11 / 10.03m * Beam: 11’3 / 3.43m * Draft: 6’2 / 1.88m * Ballast: * Displacement: 28,600 lbs / 12,973 kgs * Sail Area: 938 sq ft * Yard Number: 162b * Hull material: Wood construction * Rig: Schooner * Designer: Alden * Built by: C.A. Morse & Son, Thomaston, ME * Year Built: 1922 * Restored By: * Current Name: * Original Owner: John G. Alden * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Malabar IV
Malabar IV - In comparison Malabar I had a ballast-displacement ration of 33%, compared to 49% in Malabar 4. To use this greater stability 4 had a lot more sail area than her predecessors. In 1923, her first season, she won all of her races, going 8 for 8, one of which was the prestigious New London/Bermuda race. She was the first Malabar to be built by another yard other than C.A. Morse, with the next 4 being built in Maine. - LOA: * LOD: 46’9 / 14.25m * LWL: 35’6 / 10.82m * Beam: 11’1 / 13.63m * Draft: 6’9 / 2.06m * Ballast: * Displacement: 37,200 / 16,874kgs * Sail Area: 938 sq ft * Yard Number: 205 * Hull material: Wood construction * Rig: Schooner * Designer: Alden * Built by: C.A. Morse & Son, Thomaston, ME * Year Built: 1923 * Restored By: * Current Name: Black Duck

Malabar Jr
Malabar Jr - Malabar Juniors evolved through several designs, number 271 in 1926 (four sisters built); number 326 in 1927 (five sisters built); number 599 in 1936 (eight sisters built); number 691 in 1939 (26 sisters built); and number 762 in 1946 (16 sisters built). From a simple workboat type, inexpensive design, much like the Friendship sloop, to a more expensive yachty type, with long ends, slacker bilges, with higher freeboard amidships. - LOA: 30.00' / 9.14m * LOD: 30.00' / 9.14m * LWL: 23'3 / 7.09m * Beam: 9'9 / 2.97m * Draft: 5'1 / 1.55m * Ballast: 4800 lbs. / 2177 kgs. * Displacement: 12,6383 lbs./ 5,729 kgs * Sail Area: 572 sq ft * Yard Number: 326 (five sister ships built) * Hull material: Wood construction * Rig: Sloop * Designer: Alden * Built by: * Year Built: 1927 * Restored By: * Current Name: * Original Owner: * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Maria Cattiva
Maria Cattiva - International Superyacht Society Awards 2004 Best Sailing Yacht 36m+ Winner. International Superyacht Society Awards 2004 Best Sail Interior Winner. - LOA: 130.97 / 39.92m * LOD: 128.37 / 39.13m * LWL: 128.38 / 39.92m * Beam: 26.08 / 7.95m * Draft: 12.43 / 3.79m * Ballast: 153,000lbs * Displacement: 396,830lbs * Sail Area: 379 m2 * Yard Number: 377 * Hull material: Coros “Alustar” Temper Aluminum for hull plating * Rig: Ketch * Designer: Exterior Bruce King / Interior Rhoades Young Design * Built by: Royal Huisman Shipyard, Holland * Year Launched: 2003 * Restored By: * Current Name: Maria Cattiva * Original Owner: * Contract Cost: * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Mariette
Mariette - Commissioned by J. Frederick Brown, Mariette is one of two sisterships (Ohonkara no.827) to Harold S. Vanderbilt’s schooner yacht “Vagrant” - LOA: 109′ 0″ * LOD: 00′ 0″ * LWL: 80′ 0″ * Beam: 23′ 8″ * Draft: 14′ 4″ * Ballast: * Displacement: 183 Tons * Sail Area: 8,070 * Yard Number: 772 * Hull material: Steel * Rig: Schooner * Designer: N.G. Herreshoff * Built by: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol Rhode Island. * Year Built: 1916 * Restored By: * Current Name: Mariette of 1915 * Original Owner: Jacob Frederick Brown * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Marilee
Marilee - Type: New York 40 - Class: Vintage - One of the famous Herreshoff New York Yacht Club 40’s known as the “Fighting Forties.” Casper Whitney, in the August 1901 issue of Outing magazine referred to the New York Yacht Club 40’s as having “that Herreshoff characteristic of passing unperturbed through agitated waters.” Edwin J. Schoettle described the New York 40’s as “excellent, heavy-weather boats, having an ability to withstand all kinds of rough handling, both by men and weather.” Mr. Schoettle further commented, “I have been told that a 40 has never been seen reefed.” - LOA: 59′ 0″ - LWL: 40′ 0″ - Beam: 14′ 6″ - Draft: 8′ 2″ - Original Rig: Sloop - Hull Number: 955 - Designer: N.G. Herreshoff - Original Owner: Edward I. Cudahy - Built: 1925 - Original Price: $4,200 - Boat Location: New Bedford, MA - Current Name: Marilee - Current Owner: - Sail Number:

Mariquita
Mariquita - Type: 19 Metre - LOA: 125′ 0″ * LOD: 95′ 4″ * LWL: 66′ 0″ * Beam: 17′ 0″ * Draft: 12′ 0″ * Ballast: * Displacement: 79 Tonnes Sail Area: 6,260 sq ft * Yard Number: 595 * Hull material: Mahogany and steel frames * Rig: Gaff Cutter * Designer: William Fife III * Type: 19 Metre Class (First International Rule 19) * Built by: William Fife & Son, Fairlie * Year Built: 1911 * Restored By: Fairlie Restorations * Current Name: Mariquita * Original Owner: * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Mashnee
Mashnee - Type: Buzzards Bay 30 - Found abandoned in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. At the time of Mashnee’s restoration in Vermont, three other 30s (Young Miss, Lady M, and Quakeress III) were being restored by French and Webb in Belfast, Maine, and all four were launched in time for the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta in 2008. - LOA: 46′ 6″ - LWL: 30′ 0″ - Beam: 10′ 10″ - Draft: 5′ 3″ - Hull Number: 569 - Designer: N.G. Herreshoff - Built By: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, RI - Original Owner: - Current Owner: Jan Rozendaal - Current Location: 2010 Lake Champlain, cruises Maine coast - Built: 1902

Mikado
Mikado - Type: Clyde Linear 30 - William Fife built Mikado for Sir William Corry as a 'Clyde 30' at a time when the rules were in a state of flux, allowing him to do more or less as he wished. Originally a Gaff Cutter, Mikado was converted in 1924 into a cruiser racer with a Bermundan rig. - LOA: 42′ 0″ * LOD: * LWL: 30′ 0″ * Beam: 8′ 7″ * Draft: 6′ 7″ * Ballast: 4000 kilograms * Displacement: 7.7 tonnes * Sail Area: * Yard Number: 509 * Hull material: Mahogany and Pitch Pine * Rig: Bermudan Cutter * Designer: William Fife * Type: 1904 Clyde Linear 30 class * Built by: W Fife Fairlie * Year Built: 1904 * Restored By: * Current Name: Mikado * Original Owner: Sir William Corry * Current Owner: Sir Michael & Beverley Briggs * Sail Number: 6

Mineola
Mineola - Type: New York 70 - LOA: 106′ 0″ - LWL: 70′ 0″ - Beam 19′ 4″ - Draft 14′ 0″ - Displacement: 84 tons - Sail Area: 6,950 sq. ft +or- - Original Rig: Cutter - Hull Number: 529 - Designer: N.G. Herreshoff - Contracted By: August Belmont - Contract Date: 10/11/1899 - Status: Destroyed

Mink
Mink - Type: Buzzards Bay 25 - LOA: 32′ 0″ - LWL: 25′ 0″ - Beam: 8′ 9″ - Draft: 3′ 0″ - Hull Number: 733 - Designer: N.G. Herreshoff - Original Owner: Howard Stockton, Jr. - Original Price: $2,000 - Built: 1914 - Location: Mystic, CT

Moonbeam of Fife
Moonbeam of Fife - MOONBEAM III was launched in 1903, a magnificent yacht which has now become one of the most successful classic yachts in the world. Designed to race, she sailed under the new RORC tonnage rule, which included sailing ships with fitted-out interiors. - LOA: 98′ 05″ / 30.00m * LOD: 81′ 04″ / 24.81m * LWL: 65′ 0″ / 19.83m * Beam: 15′ 05″ / 4.72m * Draft: 10′ 07″ / 3.25m * Ballast: * Displacement: 41 tonnes * Sail Area: 430 sq m * Yard Number: 491 * Hull material: Teak/Elm/Oak Frames * Rig: Original Yawl/ Current Gaff Cutter * Designer: William Fife III * Type: * Built by: William Fife & Son, Fairlie * Year Built: 1903 * Restored By: Fairlie Restorations * Current Name: Moonbeam of Fife * Original Owner: Charles Plumtree Johnson * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Mustang
Mustang - Type: NY 32 - Class: Vintage - In 1935 the New York Yacht Club were looking to replace the Herreshoff NY 30s. The NYYC’s requirements were that the vessel should be passage worthy, graceful, and fast. Olin Stephens designed and the Nevis Shipyard built the NY 32 with oak frames (1 5/8″ on 8″ centers), heavy Philippine mahogany planking, and a low, solid deck house, all without sacrificing speed or beauty. Rod Stephens bought Mustang in 1946, and owned her for 32 years. - LOA: 45′ 4″ - LWL: 32′ 0″ - Beam: 10′ 7″ - Draft: 6′ 6″ - Design Number: 125 - Rig: Sloop - Displacement: 24,250 - Sail Area: 950 - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - Built By: Nevins, City Island NY - Contract Price: $11,000 - Original Owner: Harvey Conover - Current Owner: - Current Location: - Built: 1946 - Documentation or State Reg. Number: - Number of Engines: 1


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