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There are currently 16 names in this directory beginning with the letter S.
S&S 34
S&S 34 - British yachtsman, and PR agent Michael Winfield commissioned Olin Stephens to design a 34' production racer-cruiser, the resulting design was established as a new class in 1968 and quickly achieved great racing success. One of Mr. Winfield's first customers was former Conservative Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath. A novice sailor with a keen eye and after seeing one at the 1969 London Boat Show, so impressed with the design he order one. The same year Sir Edward Heath entered and won the 1969 Sydney Hobart race, the second Brit to win this prestigious race in its history. So began the distinguished racing career and dominance on racing podiums throughout the world. - LOA: 33' 6" / 10.2m LWL: 24' 2" / 7.4m - Beam: 10' 1" / 3.1m - Draft: 5' 10" / 1.8m - Design Number: - Rig: Bermudan Sloop - Displacement: 11,000 - 13,000 lbs / 4,900kg - 5,900kg - Sail Area: 592 - 700 sq ft / 55 - 65m2 - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - Built By: - Original Owner: - Current Owner: Designed: 1968

Sadie
Sadie - In 1914 hull number of 732 was commissioned by E.C. Benedict, and was a further improved Alerion design. In order to make her less tender and wet in choppy conditions, Sadie was designed with more length, beam, flair, and internal ballast than her predecessor. - LOA: 27′ 0″ – LWL: 21′ 9″ – Beam: 8′ 0″ – Draft: 2′ 8″ – Hull Number: 732 – Contract Date: 3/17/1914 – Contracted By: Elias Cornelius Benedict (Wall Street investor and former Seawanka Corinthian Yacht Club Commodore) – Original Price: $1,850 – Designer: N.G. Herreshoff

Sagittarius
Sagittarius - Type: IOR - is the sister ship of the second Morning Cloud, and one of the very first IOR boats designed by S&S, with the lines being drawn by the young German Frers. - LOA: 40′ 7″ - LWL: 32′ 8″ - Beam: 12′ 6″ - Draft: 6′ 8″ - Design Number: 2058 - Rig: Marconi Sloop - - Displacement: 10,5 tons - Sail Area: 110 m² - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - - Built By: Cantiere Navale Carlini, Italy - Original Owner: Giorgio Carriero - Current Owner: Thierry and Frederic Lafitte - Launched: 1971 - Sail Number: FRA 6065

Sayonara
Sayonara - Japanese for goodbye, was built by Mr G F Garrard, then commodore of the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria (RYCV) at a time when the largest yacht in Australia were to be seen on Port Phillip Bay. Designed as a fast cruising yawl with high bulwarks by W Fife of Scotland, being a sister ship to his own champion Cirego, she was built by Mr A McFarlane of Birkinhead, Adelaide, and launched Novemeber 1897. She then cruised around to Melbourne in record time. - LOD: 57’7″ / 17.58 - LWL: 38’2″ / 11.64 - Beam 10’6″ / 3.23 - Draft - Hull Number: - Designer: William Fife III - Original Owner: G.F. Garrard - Current Owner: Sayonara Syndicate - Built: 1897 - Sail Number: R6 - ARHV Number: HV000367

Scarlett O’hara
Scarlett O’hara - Type: SK 30 - Jonas Brundin is the Swede who came to Australia in 1992 as a business migrant bringing with him the plug for the 30-square-metre yachts, a Harry Becker design. He joined up with Garth Stewart and John Taylor with the view of building 30-square-metre yachts in Australia. - LOA: 12.70m * LWL: 9.5m * Beam: 2.23m * Draught: 1.48m * Displacement: 2.72tonnes

Scheherazade
Scheherazade - The yacht “Scheherazade” was named after the clever and exotic heroine of The 1,001 Arabian Nights, ” (a collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.” With a staff of up to one-hundred people working on Scheherazade at one point during the build, the project took approximately four years to complete. On a foggy morning on September 27 in East Boothbay, ME, 3000 people showed up for the launch of Scheherazade. The 154’ ketch is the largest private yacht built in the US as of 2003. - LOA: 154’8″ / 47.15m * LOD: * LWL: 118’05 / 36.10m * Beam: 28’06 / 8.69m * Draft: 13′ 00 / 3.96m * Ballast: 153,000lbs * Bare Hull Weight: 110,000 lb * Sail Area: 9,940 sq ft * Main Mast Above Deck: 174′ * Mizzen Mast Above Deck: 110′ * Yard Number: 404 * Hull material: Wood construction * Rig: Ketch * Designer: Exterior Bruce King / Interior Andrew Winch * Built by: Hodgdon Yachts, Maine* Year Launched: September 27, 2003 * Restored By: * Current Name: ASOLARE * Original Owner: Bill and Barbara Stewart * Contract Cost: * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Signe
Signe - LOA: 112’0″ / 34.01m * LOD: 100’0″ / 30.48m * LWL: 87’06 / 26.70m * Beam: 22’00 / 6.70m * Draft: 8′ 00 – 22’00 / 2.43m – 6.70m * Ballast: 93,000lb / 42185kg. * Displacement: 230,000lbs * Sail Area: 5,230 sq ft. * Yard Number: * Hull material: Wood construction * Rig: Sloop * Designer: King * Built by: Renaissance Yachts, Thomaston, Maine * Year Built: 1990 * Restored By: * Current Name: Signe * Original Owner: * Contract Cost: * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Skylark of 1937
Skylark of 1937 - Skylark, design 146, was a further improvement of Stormy Weather (design 27), Avanti (design 85) and Sonny (design 94) In 1972 Skylark completed a 31,106 mile circumnavigation. 2013 Currently sailing and racing in the med. - LOA: 53' 0" LWL: 38' 0" - Beam: 12' 0" - Draft: 7' 7" - Design Number: 146 - Rig: Yawl - Displacement: 45,725lbs - Sail Area: 1,981 sq ft - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - Built By: Pendleton Yacht Yard of Wiscasset, Me - Original Owner: - Current Owner: Tara Getty - Launched: 1937 - Sail Number:

Sonny
“Sonny” Specifications: - LOA: 53′ 6″ - LWL: 39′ 0″ - Beam: 12′ 6″ - Draft: 7′ 7″ - Design Number: 94 - Rig: Sloop - Displacement: 46,774 lbs - Sail Area: - Sail Number: - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - Built By: Jacob’s Shipyard, City Island, NY -Original Owner: - Current Owner: Joe Dockery - Launched: 1935

Sophie
Sophie - Type: Bruce King Sloop - Class: Grand Prix - Jan Stenbeck, a Swedish lifelong sailor who went to Harvard Business School and who worked at Morgan Stanley in New York, chasing the America’s Cup had been a longtime dream. In 1983, after Conner lost the Cup to Australia, Stenbeck later told friends, ”I just felt joy.” He bought the committee boat used in that race, Black Knight, and built a 90-foot replica of the America’s Cup yacht Endeavor, and named her after his daughter Sophie. - LOA: 91’0″ / 27.73m * LOD: * LWL: 60’00 / 18.28m * Beam: 16’04 / 4.99m * Max Draft: 14’0 / 4.26m * Ballast: * Displacement: * Sail Area: * Yard Number: * Hull material: Wood construction * Rig: Sloop * Designer: King * Built by: Renaissance Yachts, Maine * Year Built: 1991 * Restored By: * Current Name: Sophie * Original Owner: Jan Stenbeck * Contract Cost: * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Spartan
Spartan - Type: New York 50 - Class: Vintage - CRF Rating: 53.4 - The fleet of NY50s was commissioned by the New York Yacht Club and built in the winter of 1912-1913 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol (HMCo), Rhode Island. The boats were graceful yet powerful, comfortable in heavy weather and so swift that they won the Astor Cup for sloops 9 times. Of the 9 NY50s built, the only known remaining vessel is Spartan (though Barbara may be out there somewhere, according to legend). Originally constructed as a jack yard tops’l gaff sloop, Spartan measures 72’ LOA and 50’ LWL. She has a 14’ 7” beam and a draft of 9’ 9”, displacing about 74,000 pounds. She carries 35,500 pounds of lead ballast.

Spellbound
Spellbound - Edmund A. Cutts, friend and disciple of L.Francis Herreshoff, designed and built SPELLBOUND for Abe Oberlin of New York City. Cutts. - LOA: 47’0″ / 14.32m - LOD: 44’0″ / 13.41m - LWL: 37'0" / 11.27m - Beam 10’10” / 3.07m - Draft 3’9” / 1.18m (centerboard) - Hull Number: - Designer: Edmund A. Cutts - Original Owner: Abe Oberlin, New York, N.Y. - Current Owner: Cuts and Case, Inc - Year Launched: 1970 - Built By: Cutts and Case, Oxford, MD - Hull Material: - Vertically framed, bronze strapped - Gross Displacement: - Sail Number:

Stella Polare
“Stella Polare”, sistership to “Corsaro II” descendant to 1953 “Baccarat” and “Ma Jong” but on a larger scale. Marginally adapted for the RORC rule; with a small amount of tumble home in the top sides, allowing for a more favorable rating. There are small differences between “Corsaro II” and “Stella Polare” although the design is numbered the same. - LOA: 69′ 4″ - LWL: 50′ 0″ - Beam: 16′ 1″ - Draft: 9′ 6″ - Design Number: 1505 - Rig: Yawl - Displacement: 104,960 lbs - Sail Area: 2,735 sq ft - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - Built By: - Original Owner: Einar Hansen, Malmo Sweden - Current Owner: Marina Militare - Launched: 1961 - Sail Number:

Stormvogel
Stormvogel - Feared by ocean racers throughout the world in the 1960s was a design collaboration between 3 designers. E. G. Van de Stadt drew the hull lines, John Illingworth, the Sailplan, with Laurent Giles, construction details and general oversight. The collaboration was formed because The Van de Stadt Zaandam office, had absolutely no time available to develop the construction plan in great detail. - LOA: 74’6″ / 22.73m * LOD: 74’6″ / 22.73m * LWL: 59’04 / 18.10m * Beam: 16’00 / 4.87m * Draft: 9’06 / 2.92m * Ballast: 29,000 lbs * Displacement: 62,000 lbs * Sail Area: 2,460 sq ft * Design Number: 17 * Hull material: Bruynzeel Plywood * Rig: Yawl * Designer: Collaboration – Hull: Van de Stadt, Construction Plans: Giles, Sailplan: Illingworth * Built by: Lamtico yard, Stellenbosch SA * Year Built: 1961 * Restored By: * Current Name: Stormvogel * Original Owner: Kess Bruynzeel * Contract Cost: * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather was designed to be an improved version of Dorade. - LOA: 53′ 11″ - LWL: 39′ 9″ - Beam: 12′ 0″ - Draft: 7′ 11″ - Design Number: 27 - Rig: Yawl - Displacement: 44,800 lbs - Sail Area: 1,332 sq ft - Designer: Sparkman & Stephens - Built By: Henry Nevins, City Island N.Y. - Original Owner: Einar Hansen, Malmo Sweden - Current Owner: Christopher Spray - Launched: 1934 - Sail Number:

Svanevit
Svanevit - Type: 8 Metre - In 1939 consul Walter Edström comissioned Tore Holm to build Svanevit (shipyard in Gamleby, sail No. S 12). Edström, sailed the Svanevit for many years at the south coast of Sweden in the region around Göteborg. During those days the boat was intensively used by the family. – LOA: 48.06′ / 14.65m * LOD: * LWL: 29.52′ / 9,19m * Beam: 8.0′ / 2.44m * Draft: 6.23′ / 1,90m * Displacement: 8,6 tonnes * Ballast: * Sail Area: * Design Number: * Yard Number: * Rig: Sloop * Designer: Tore Holm * Hull: Mahogany on Oak Frames * Built by: Gamleby SE * Year Built: 1939 * Restored By: * Boat Location: * Current Name: * Original Owner: Walter Edström * Current Owner: * Sail Number: S12


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