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| 15163 | St. Mary's - Sloop |
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| N.Y.N. SS "St. Marys" - The New York Nautical School Ship "St. Mary's" Vessel Name – USS St. Marys Class – sloop of war Hull - wood Masts - 3 Carried – 16 - 32 pound cannons, 6 - 8” guns Designed by – Build date - 1844 Built by – Built at – U.S. Naval Yard, Washington, D.C. Built for – U.S. Navy Named for – the first colonial settlement in Maryland Displacement 958 tons Gross tons - 766 Length – 149’3” Beam – 37'4" Draught - 18' Sail area – Crew – 195 Number – Disposition - Laid up at Mare Island September 1866 Recommissioned fall of 1870 Placed in ordinary at Norfolk, VA., 3 June 1873 Transferred to the Public Marine School at New York in 1875 - served as school ship until June 1908 Final Disposition - sold for scrapping in August 1908 to Thomas Butler and Co., Boston November 1908 - dismasted and dismantled hull burned at Point of Pines, Massachusetts, for the purpose of getting the copper that was in her. "Southwest Harbor, Me., August 7 - The schoolship St. Mary's arrived at this place to-day, twenty-four days from Madeira. All on board are well. The vessel is commanded by Commander A.S. Crowninshield, United States Navy." - The New York Times, August 8, 1890. Arent Schuyler Crowninshield (March 14, 1843-May 27, 1908) was a Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. He saw combat during the Civil War, and after the war held high commands both afloat and ashore. Born in New York, he was the grandson of Jacob Crowninshield (appointed Navy secretary under Jefferson but who died before taking up the office), and grandnephew of George Crowninshield (adventuring owner of Cleopatra's Barge, first yacht to cross the Atlantic). Arent graduated from the United States Naval Academy on May 28, 1863 and immediately went into action in the American Civil War, participating in the assault on Fort Fisher while serving on the steam sloop Ticonderoga. After the war, he rose steadily through the ranks, becoming Lieutenant in 1866, Commander in 1880, where he was from 1887 to 1891 commander of the school ship St. Mary. Promoted Captain on July 21, 1894, he took command of the new battleship Maine at her commissioning in 1895, leaving in 1897 to become chief of the Bureau of Navigation. - Arlington National Cemetery In 1886 Commander Crowninshield, U.S.N. and family of Washington, D.C. were listed as spending the summer at “The Anchorage” in Seal Harbor. "USS St. Marys (1875-1908) - A sloop of War built in 1844, USS St. Marys served in the Pacific Fleet during the Civil War and made some patrols against the slave trade. She was assigned to the City of New York as a training ship to the newly formed New York Nautical School by the Secretary of the Navy by Act of Congress. After thirty-three years of service, the longest of all the training ships, she was retired." - http://www.maritimeindustrymuseum.org/ships.htm - Accessed 2007. "USS St. Mary's - 1875-1908 - The Original USS St. Mary’s, built in the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard in 1844, was named for the first colonial settlement in Maryland. She was 149 feet, 3 inches in length and had a tonnage of 766 and an original battery of twenty guns. Her main truck towered 150 feet above the spar deck. Following her commissioning as a naval vessel in 1844, she cruised with the Home Squadron and saw active service in the Mexican War taking part in the capture of Tampico in 1846 and later brought home trophies captured during the Mexican campaign. From 1848 to 1873, the St. Mary’s was attached to the Pacific and Asiatic Squadrons, and in 1860, her sailors and marines cooperated with the forces aboard H.B.M.S. Clio, in quelling insurrections at Panama. In 1873, upon arrival at Norfolk, Virginia the vessel was laid up in ordinary. The St. Mary’s was one of the fastest sailing ships of her time. She was one of the ships in Admiral Perry’s fleet which opened up Japan in 1850 and was a sister ship of the USS Saratoga which also took part in that historic voyage to the Japanese Empire. The St Mary’s was commissioned as the training ship for the New York Nautical School in 1874 and served in this capacity until February, 1908. On November 14th of that year, the dismasted and dismantled hull was burned at Point of Pines, Massachusetts, for the purpose of getting the copper that was in her. Her history closely parallels that of the USS Saratoga which ended her active service about the same time after a colorful career. The Forty-five ensign that flew at the gaff of the old St. Mary’s when she was decommissioned in 1908 is on display in the Museum. This very flag was flown by second USS St. Mary’s in Tokyo during the Japanese surrender. The Second USS St. Mary’s, under the command of Captain E. R. Glosten, class of 1908, and took an honored place in the hard hitting forces of Admiral Nimitz." - Maritime College, State University of New York web site, http://www.sunymaritime.edu/Maritime%20Museum/TrainingShipWing/stmarys.aspx, Accessed 2007. "...1903 graduate of the New York Nautical School, the institution out of which eventually emerged present day Maritime College. In that period, the School for all intents and purposes was conducted primarily aboard the St. Mary's, and it was on this ship that students eventually would sail to foreign ports." - The Frederick M. Hendrickson Class Of 1903 Student Papers by Nicholas J. Falco, Archivist, January 1999 - Deposited at the Archive/Maritime Historical Records Collection, Stephen B. Luce Library, SUNY Maritime College. | 
Description: N.Y.N. SS "St. Marys" - The New York Nautical School Ship "St. Mary's" Vessel Name – USS St. Marys Class – sloop of war Hull - wood Masts - 3 Carried – 16 - 32 pound cannons, 6 - 8” guns Designed by – Build date - 1844 Built by – Built at – U.S. Naval Yard, Washington, D.C. Built for – U.S. Navy Named for – the first colonial settlement in Maryland Displacement 958 tons Gross tons - 766 Length – 149’3” Beam – 37'4" Draught - 18' Sail area – Crew – 195 Number – Disposition - Laid up at Mare Island September 1866 Recommissioned fall of 1870 Placed in ordinary at Norfolk, VA., 3 June 1873 Transferred to the Public Marine School at New York in 1875 - served as school ship until June 1908 Final Disposition - sold for scrapping in August 1908 to Thomas Butler and Co., Boston November 1908 - dismasted and dismantled hull burned at Point of Pines, Massachusetts, for the purpose of getting the copper that was in her. "Southwest Harbor, Me., August 7 - The schoolship St. Mary's arrived at this place to-day, twenty-four days from Madeira. All on board are well. The vessel is commanded by Commander A.S. Crowninshield, United States Navy." - The New York Times, August 8, 1890. Arent Schuyler Crowninshield (March 14, 1843-May 27, 1908) was a Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. He saw combat during the Civil War, and after the war held high commands both afloat and ashore. Born in New York, he was the grandson of Jacob Crowninshield (appointed Navy secretary under Jefferson but who died before taking up the office), and grandnephew of George Crowninshield (adventuring owner of Cleopatra's Barge, first yacht to cross the Atlantic). Arent graduated from the United States Naval Academy on May 28, 1863 and immediately went into action in the American Civil War, participating in the assault on Fort Fisher while serving on the steam sloop Ticonderoga. After the war, he rose steadily through the ranks, becoming Lieutenant in 1866, Commander in 1880, where he was from 1887 to 1891 commander of the school ship St. Mary. Promoted Captain on July 21, 1894, he took command of the new battleship Maine at her commissioning in 1895, leaving in 1897 to become chief of the Bureau of Navigation. - Arlington National Cemetery In 1886 Commander Crowninshield, U.S.N. and family of Washington, D.C. were listed as spending the summer at “The Anchorage” in Seal Harbor. "USS St. Marys (1875-1908) - A sloop of War built in 1844, USS St. Marys served in the Pacific Fleet during the Civil War and made some patrols against the slave trade. She was assigned to the City of New York as a training ship to the newly formed New York Nautical School by the Secretary of the Navy by Act of Congress. After thirty-three years of service, the longest of all the training ships, she was retired." - http://www.maritimeindustrymuseum.org/ships.htm - Accessed 2007. "USS St. Mary's - 1875-1908 - The Original USS St. Mary’s, built in the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard in 1844, was named for the first colonial settlement in Maryland. She was 149 feet, 3 inches in length and had a tonnage of 766 and an original battery of twenty guns. Her main truck towered 150 feet above the spar deck. Following her commissioning as a naval vessel in 1844, she cruised with the Home Squadron and saw active service in the Mexican War taking part in the capture of Tampico in 1846 and later brought home trophies captured during the Mexican campaign. From 1848 to 1873, the St. Mary’s was attached to the Pacific and Asiatic Squadrons, and in 1860, her sailors and marines cooperated with the forces aboard H.B.M.S. Clio, in quelling insurrections at Panama. In 1873, upon arrival at Norfolk, Virginia the vessel was laid up in ordinary. The St. Mary’s was one of the fastest sailing ships of her time. She was one of the ships in Admiral Perry’s fleet which opened up Japan in 1850 and was a sister ship of the USS Saratoga which also took part in that historic voyage to the Japanese Empire. The St Mary’s was commissioned as the training ship for the New York Nautical School in 1874 and served in this capacity until February, 1908. On November 14th of that year, the dismasted and dismantled hull was burned at Point of Pines, Massachusetts, for the purpose of getting the copper that was in her. Her history closely parallels that of the USS Saratoga which ended her active service about the same time after a colorful career. The Forty-five ensign that flew at the gaff of the old St. Mary’s when she was decommissioned in 1908 is on display in the Museum. This very flag was flown by second USS St. Mary’s in Tokyo during the Japanese surrender. The Second USS St. Mary’s, under the command of Captain E. R. Glosten, class of 1908, and took an honored place in the hard hitting forces of Admiral Nimitz." - Maritime College, State University of New York web site, http://www.sunymaritime.edu/Maritime%20Museum/TrainingShipWing/stmarys.aspx, Accessed 2007. "...1903 graduate of the New York Nautical School, the institution out of which eventually emerged present day Maritime College. In that period, the School for all intents and purposes was conducted primarily aboard the St. Mary's, and it was on this ship that students eventually would sail to foreign ports." - The Frederick M. Hendrickson Class Of 1903 Student Papers by Nicholas J. Falco, Archivist, January 1999 - Deposited at the Archive/Maritime Historical Records Collection, Stephen B. Luce Library, SUNY Maritime College. [show more] | |||||
| 15244 | Pusheen Gra - Catboat |
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| 15260 | Rebecca - Sailing Yacht |
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| The Rebecca is a 139' aluminum yacht built in England. She is owned by Charles Butt of San Antonio, Texas and Northeast Harbor, Maine. | 
Description: The Rebecca is a 139' aluminum yacht built in England. She is owned by Charles Butt of San Antonio, Texas and Northeast Harbor, Maine. | |||||
| 15411 | Gelouba - Custom 41’ Cutter |
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| 15501 | Valhalla - Yawl Vega Mai Tai Currituck Janie C |
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| The following information, and the photographs attached to item 15388, were contributed in January 2018 by David Vieira of Lisbon Portugal. David is the current owner of Valhalla. He has embarked on a restoration project to bring Valhalla to her former shape and rigging plan. ### VALHALLA is a 65 foot yawl rigged ocean racer designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built in 1949-1950 by Hinckley Yachts, Southwest Harbor, Maine, US. She was designed under the Cruising Club of America Rule (CCA) and has participated in major US regattas from 1950 to 1965 such as Bermuda, Transpacific / Honolulu, Annapolis to Newport races. In 1966 she was acquired by Dr. Manuel de Mello, a Portuguese yachtsman (very active sailor in the Star Class), for racing along Portugal's local and coastal regattas. Before shipping her to Portugal, Dr. Mello ordered a new rig and sailplan from Sparkmans & Stevens, because he favored the cutter rig (image 15388-14 shows the "new" sailplan by Sparkman & Stephens, from 1965. Item 15405 shows the original sailplan.) In 1973 Dr. Manuel de Mello decided to stop sailing and donated "VALHALLA" to the Portuguese Navy to be used has a sail training vessel for young officers. The Portuguese Navy renamed her "VEGA." She was the star of the Navy sailing fleet together with the tall ship "SAGRES." In 1976 she crossed the Atlantic again to participated in the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations (Operation Sail 1976) Regattas and Naval Parade in the Hudson river. From 1973 to 2007 she had a very intense and successful training and racing career, but she started to show her age and was in need of constant care. Sadly, in 2008 she was decommissioned. The Navy had just recently taken ownership of a bigger and more modern aluminum yacht built by Jachtwerf Jongert B.V. (Medemblik - Holand). Unfortunately, since 2009 she had been in the hard (but under a tent). The Navy itself has a very deep connection with "VEGA" and wanted her to be taken care of properly. However, the process of selling any item from the Navy is complicated, in particular when it comes to such a vessel that triggers so many emotions for so many high ranking Navy officers. Finally in the beginning of 2017, after many appeals, David Vieira was able to buy and rescue VALHALLA from an uncertain future! | 
Description: The following information, and the photographs attached to item 15388, were contributed in January 2018 by David Vieira of Lisbon Portugal. David is the current owner of Valhalla. He has embarked on a restoration project to bring Valhalla to her former shape and rigging plan. ### VALHALLA is a 65 foot yawl rigged ocean racer designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built in 1949-1950 by Hinckley Yachts, Southwest Harbor, Maine, US. She was designed under the Cruising Club of America Rule (CCA) and has participated in major US regattas from 1950 to 1965 such as Bermuda, Transpacific / Honolulu, Annapolis to Newport races. In 1966 she was acquired by Dr. Manuel de Mello, a Portuguese yachtsman (very active sailor in the Star Class), for racing along Portugal's local and coastal regattas. Before shipping her to Portugal, Dr. Mello ordered a new rig and sailplan from Sparkmans & Stevens, because he favored the cutter rig (image 15388-14 shows the "new" sailplan by Sparkman & Stephens, from 1965. Item 15405 shows the original sailplan.) In 1973 Dr. Manuel de Mello decided to stop sailing and donated "VALHALLA" to the Portuguese Navy to be used has a sail training vessel for young officers. The Portuguese Navy renamed her "VEGA." She was the star of the Navy sailing fleet together with the tall ship "SAGRES." In 1976 she crossed the Atlantic again to participated in the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations (Operation Sail 1976) Regattas and Naval Parade in the Hudson river. From 1973 to 2007 she had a very intense and successful training and racing career, but she started to show her age and was in need of constant care. Sadly, in 2008 she was decommissioned. The Navy had just recently taken ownership of a bigger and more modern aluminum yacht built by Jachtwerf Jongert B.V. (Medemblik - Holand). Unfortunately, since 2009 she had been in the hard (but under a tent). The Navy itself has a very deep connection with "VEGA" and wanted her to be taken care of properly. However, the process of selling any item from the Navy is complicated, in particular when it comes to such a vessel that triggers so many emotions for so many high ranking Navy officers. Finally in the beginning of 2017, after many appeals, David Vieira was able to buy and rescue VALHALLA from an uncertain future! [show more] | |||||
| 15523 | Evans Islander Heeling |
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| 3041 | Endeavor - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| Ralph Stanley built the 25 foot open-cockpit Maine Sloop Boat “Endeavor” on speculation in 1979 at his boat shop on Clark Point Road. She originally had beach rocks as movable internal stone ballast, later replaced by lead. "The Friendship Sloop" videorecording, DVD, produced by The New Film Company, Inc. in 1986, featured Ralph Stanley building "Endeavor". Ralph sold the vessel to Shaw Mudge of Harrington, Maine in 1981 who later sold it to Ralph’s friend, Betsy Holtzmann of Southwest Harbor. | 
Description: Ralph Stanley built the 25 foot open-cockpit Maine Sloop Boat “Endeavor” on speculation in 1979 at his boat shop on Clark Point Road. She originally had beach rocks as movable internal stone ballast, later replaced by lead. "The Friendship Sloop" videorecording, DVD, produced by The New Film Company, Inc. in 1986, featured Ralph Stanley building "Endeavor". Ralph sold the vessel to Shaw Mudge of Harrington, Maine in 1981 who later sold it to Ralph’s friend, Betsy Holtzmann of Southwest Harbor. [show more] | |||||
| 3705 | Gladiator - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| Built in 1902, the Gladiator fished off Monhegan Island before being sold for use as a Yacht in Chesapeake Bay. In the early 1970s, the Gladiator was returned to Friendship Harbor in Maine. | 
Description: Built in 1902, the Gladiator fished off Monhegan Island before being sold for use as a Yacht in Chesapeake Bay. In the early 1970s, the Gladiator was returned to Friendship Harbor in Maine. | |||||
| 14031 | Ticonderoga - Bermuda Ketch |
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| Bermudan Ketch “Ticonderoga” was designed by Lewis Francis Herreshoff, built by Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Quincy, Massachusetts for Harold “Harry” Edward Noyes (1898-). “Launched as Tioga in 1936, this glorious ketch finished first in twenty-four of her initial thirty-seven races. Renamed Ticonderoga in 1946, she went on to set more elapsed-time records than any ocean racer in history. Ticonderoga held more than thirty course records in races on several oceans, surpassing even the best performances of the hard-driven nineteenth-century clipper ships. But Ticonderoga wasn't designed for racing. Her creator, L. Francis Herreshoff, shaped her for genteel "afternoon sailing," giving her uncommon elegance of form with a clipper bow, elliptical transom, raked rig, gilded garnish, and a bathtub. It is these qualities of unsurpassed opulence and beauty, combined with her astonishing speed, that have made Big Ti so incomparable.” - “Ticonderoga: Tales of an Enchanted Yacht” by Jack A. Somer, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. “Ticonderoga” was 72’0” x 16’0” with a 7’10” draft – an elegant and very fast ocean-going racing yacht. The boat has raced across the Atlantic and Pacific, the Caribbean and Mediterranean, and along the coasts of three continents for decades. She won the Transpac race from San Francisco to Honolulu in 1963 and 1965 (raced by owner Robert Johnson) and was winning important races up to the 1970's. “Herreshoff carried out his lines to suit the flow of water – and the eyes of the beholder.” - “A Life in Boats: The Years Before the War” by Waldo Howland, p. 118, published by Mystic Seaport Museum, 1984. | 
Description: Bermudan Ketch “Ticonderoga” was designed by Lewis Francis Herreshoff, built by Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Quincy, Massachusetts for Harold “Harry” Edward Noyes (1898-). “Launched as Tioga in 1936, this glorious ketch finished first in twenty-four of her initial thirty-seven races. Renamed Ticonderoga in 1946, she went on to set more elapsed-time records than any ocean racer in history. Ticonderoga held more than thirty course records in races on several oceans, surpassing even the best performances of the hard-driven nineteenth-century clipper ships. But Ticonderoga wasn't designed for racing. Her creator, L. Francis Herreshoff, shaped her for genteel "afternoon sailing," giving her uncommon elegance of form with a clipper bow, elliptical transom, raked rig, gilded garnish, and a bathtub. It is these qualities of unsurpassed opulence and beauty, combined with her astonishing speed, that have made Big Ti so incomparable.” - “Ticonderoga: Tales of an Enchanted Yacht” by Jack A. Somer, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. “Ticonderoga” was 72’0” x 16’0” with a 7’10” draft – an elegant and very fast ocean-going racing yacht. The boat has raced across the Atlantic and Pacific, the Caribbean and Mediterranean, and along the coasts of three continents for decades. She won the Transpac race from San Francisco to Honolulu in 1963 and 1965 (raced by owner Robert Johnson) and was winning important races up to the 1970's. “Herreshoff carried out his lines to suit the flow of water – and the eyes of the beholder.” - “A Life in Boats: The Years Before the War” by Waldo Howland, p. 118, published by Mystic Seaport Museum, 1984. [show more] | |||||
| 14080 | Rose - Ketch |
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| “In 1982, I built a twenty-eight-foot boat called the “Rose” for Peter Godfrey. She was based on L. Francis Herreshoff’s design for the “Rozinante,” which is called a canoe yawl but is actually a ketch. She had a teak deck, and she was really quite a fancy boat. Peter had Herreshoff’s plans, and that boat always interested me, from way back when I first saw her in “Rudder” magazine and read about her as a kid. But there were some parts that I didn’t like, and when I built the “Rose,” I had the opportunity to change those and do it my own way. Herreshoff’s original “Rozinante” was designed to be built with a skeg that came straight down from the deadwood. I changed that and made the boat with a built-down keel. That gave her a wineglass shape and made her much stronger. I didn’t like some of Herreshoff’s way of fastening things together either, like fastening the keel on with lag screws. So I used bolts. I made the boat a little heavier, too, but the top of her looked the same.” - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 100. | 
Description: “In 1982, I built a twenty-eight-foot boat called the “Rose” for Peter Godfrey. She was based on L. Francis Herreshoff’s design for the “Rozinante,” which is called a canoe yawl but is actually a ketch. She had a teak deck, and she was really quite a fancy boat. Peter had Herreshoff’s plans, and that boat always interested me, from way back when I first saw her in “Rudder” magazine and read about her as a kid. But there were some parts that I didn’t like, and when I built the “Rose,” I had the opportunity to change those and do it my own way. Herreshoff’s original “Rozinante” was designed to be built with a skeg that came straight down from the deadwood. I changed that and made the boat with a built-down keel. That gave her a wineglass shape and made her much stronger. I didn’t like some of Herreshoff’s way of fastening things together either, like fastening the keel on with lag screws. So I used bolts. I made the boat a little heavier, too, but the top of her looked the same.” - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 100. [show more] | |||||
| 14503 | Dolphin - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| 14504 | Euryale - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| 14534 | Alert - Sloop |
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| 14537 | Nirvana - Yawl |
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| 13149 | Venturer - Yawl |
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| The Southwest Harbor Public Library owns a large collection of production, launching and sea trial photographs of "Venturer." | 
Description: The Southwest Harbor Public Library owns a large collection of production, launching and sea trial photographs of "Venturer." | |||||
| 13563 | Dictator - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| 13564 | Venture - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| 13612 | Hieronymus - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| 13778 | Amos Swan - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| 13781 | Amity - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| 13962 | Morning Star - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| The 28’ “Morning Star” was built in 1912 by Albion F. Morse in Cushing, Maine. Ralph Stanley completely rebuilt her in 1976 with a Westerbeke 20 HP 2-cylinder diesel engine for Robert Wolfe. | 
Description: The 28’ “Morning Star” was built in 1912 by Albion F. Morse in Cushing, Maine. Ralph Stanley completely rebuilt her in 1976 with a Westerbeke 20 HP 2-cylinder diesel engine for Robert Wolfe. | |||||
| 13963 | Freedom - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| 13992 | Jack Tar - R-Class Racing Sloop |
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| The 36’ R-class “Jack Tar” was built in 1916 by Wood & McClure, City Island, New York from designs by Tams, Lemoine & Crane (52 Pine Street, New York City) bought by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1920. “Jack Tar” may have been designed by Clinton H. Crane (1873-1958), the well-respected yacht designer and broker, a partner in the firm Tams, Lemoine & Crane. The company designed and built some of the best-known yachts of the time, including large ocean-worthy steam yachts. Crane’s specialty was the “race-about class” of boats, designed for speed in regattas and cup races. “In 1978, I got the job to rebuild an old R-class racing sloop for a member of the Rockefeller family. That was the “Jack Tar.” She was originally built in City Island, New York, in 1916 I believe, and the Rockefellers got her in 1920. That sloop stayed in the family for years, but finally sold her after they had a fiberglass boat built. The man who bought the “Jack Tar” took her to Portland and had her down there for awhile. He had quite a lot of work done on her from time to time. Then he got transferred to the West Coast, so he put her up for sale and the Rockefellers bought the boat back. They sailed her around that summer and then brought the sloop to me. By that time she really needed to be rebuilt, and that was quite a little job. Even the lead keel had to be melted down and recast. But she still sailed nice. You could take that boat when it was calm and just give her a push and she’d go forever. Every R-class sloop was a little different. Some had the mast stepped way aft. Some had the mast stepped way forward. And they were all sizes. That was fine, as long as they conformed to the rule that was written to rate these sailboats. Naturally, whenever somebody makes a rule like that, all the naval architects try to build a boat that will beat it. We didn’t have the original plans to go by but, of course, we had the old boat. When we saw her pulled apart, we took every other timber out and every other plank off. We put new timbers in, and then we replanked her. By doing it that way we could keep the shape about the way it was originally. The “Jack Tar” turned out pretty good.” - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 99-100. "Father didn’t like sailing and rarely ventured out on the water. This was a great disappointment to Mother, who had been raised on Narragansett Bay among a family of sailors. Eventually Father bought a beautiful 36-foot racing sloop, an “R” boat named Jack Tar, undoubtedly as a concession to my older brothers. Being the youngest, I didn’t get much sailing time on it, although when I was 17 a friend and I sailed 100 miles east to Saint Andrews in New Brunswick, across the treacherous waters of Passamaquoddy Bay. Jack Tar had no engine, so Captain Oscar Bulger [Oscar Spurling Bulger (1872-1943)], who worked for the family for many years, followed along in his lobster boat in case we got into trouble." - From "Memoirs," by David Rockefeller, published by Random House, 2002. “…I think my wife [Margaret “Peggy” (McGrath) Rockefeller (1915-1996)] came to love [Mt. Desert] every bit as much as I did and we really learned to sail together. For many years we were allowed to use what was called the “Jack Tar,” which was a 36-foot sloop, with no engine, no head. A day-sailor. But she sailed beautifully, and fast, and we even did some racing in the August cruises…” – Interview with David Rockefeller by Kathleen W. Miller, “Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Vol. XII 2011, p. 94. | 
Description: The 36’ R-class “Jack Tar” was built in 1916 by Wood & McClure, City Island, New York from designs by Tams, Lemoine & Crane (52 Pine Street, New York City) bought by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1920. “Jack Tar” may have been designed by Clinton H. Crane (1873-1958), the well-respected yacht designer and broker, a partner in the firm Tams, Lemoine & Crane. The company designed and built some of the best-known yachts of the time, including large ocean-worthy steam yachts. Crane’s specialty was the “race-about class” of boats, designed for speed in regattas and cup races. “In 1978, I got the job to rebuild an old R-class racing sloop for a member of the Rockefeller family. That was the “Jack Tar.” She was originally built in City Island, New York, in 1916 I believe, and the Rockefellers got her in 1920. That sloop stayed in the family for years, but finally sold her after they had a fiberglass boat built. The man who bought the “Jack Tar” took her to Portland and had her down there for awhile. He had quite a lot of work done on her from time to time. Then he got transferred to the West Coast, so he put her up for sale and the Rockefellers bought the boat back. They sailed her around that summer and then brought the sloop to me. By that time she really needed to be rebuilt, and that was quite a little job. Even the lead keel had to be melted down and recast. But she still sailed nice. You could take that boat when it was calm and just give her a push and she’d go forever. Every R-class sloop was a little different. Some had the mast stepped way aft. Some had the mast stepped way forward. And they were all sizes. That was fine, as long as they conformed to the rule that was written to rate these sailboats. Naturally, whenever somebody makes a rule like that, all the naval architects try to build a boat that will beat it. We didn’t have the original plans to go by but, of course, we had the old boat. When we saw her pulled apart, we took every other timber out and every other plank off. We put new timbers in, and then we replanked her. By doing it that way we could keep the shape about the way it was originally. The “Jack Tar” turned out pretty good.” - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 99-100. "Father didn’t like sailing and rarely ventured out on the water. This was a great disappointment to Mother, who had been raised on Narragansett Bay among a family of sailors. Eventually Father bought a beautiful 36-foot racing sloop, an “R” boat named Jack Tar, undoubtedly as a concession to my older brothers. Being the youngest, I didn’t get much sailing time on it, although when I was 17 a friend and I sailed 100 miles east to Saint Andrews in New Brunswick, across the treacherous waters of Passamaquoddy Bay. Jack Tar had no engine, so Captain Oscar Bulger [Oscar Spurling Bulger (1872-1943)], who worked for the family for many years, followed along in his lobster boat in case we got into trouble." - From "Memoirs," by David Rockefeller, published by Random House, 2002. “…I think my wife [Margaret “Peggy” (McGrath) Rockefeller (1915-1996)] came to love [Mt. Desert] every bit as much as I did and we really learned to sail together. For many years we were allowed to use what was called the “Jack Tar,” which was a 36-foot sloop, with no engine, no head. A day-sailor. But she sailed beautifully, and fast, and we even did some racing in the August cruises…” – Interview with David Rockefeller by Kathleen W. Miller, “Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Vol. XII 2011, p. 94. [show more] | |||||
| 14928 | Kipper - A-boat |
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| Possibly owned by Gerrish Hill Milliken (1877-1947). | ||||||
| 14988 | Dovekie - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat |
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| Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat built by Ralph Stanley in 1988 for Frank Battles Newlin Jr. | 
Description: Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat built by Ralph Stanley in 1988 for Frank Battles Newlin Jr. |
