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In a small bay on the north shore of Long Island there is a quaint yacht club named the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club. And from this club sail 13 one design racing yachts, the first design commission of Sparkman & Stephens. Designed in 1928, she was Olin Stephens' first professional work, at age 20.

There's a great article from the 1996 September/October issue of Wooden Boat magazine and they recite a quote from Olin Stephens from 1928 as follows: "In any design, the most important factors of speed seem to be long sailing lines and large sail area, with moderate displacement and small wetted surface. Then comes beauty, by which is meant clean, fair, pleasing lines. Though per se beauty is not a factor of speed, the easiest boats to look at seem the easiest to drive". This is a fine example of these concepts.

Here are the plans.


Here is how it came to be: In 1928 the Junior Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound solicited designs for a new class of boats for sail training young sailors. The broker Drake Sparkman asked young Olin if he wanted to try his hand at a design, knowing Olin from Larchmont Yacht Club and knowing he was a budding designer. Olin accepted the invitation and the firm was born, October 28, 1929.

Here's an article from Yachting Magazine. Double click for readable view.

This design is essentially an enlarged version of the highly successful Gaia Class design. The design features a separate keel and rudder and a trim tab on the after end of the keel. The trim tab was controlled by a smaller wheel within the steering wheel which can be seen on the attached inboard profile if one looks carefully but is more apparent on the construction plan at bottom. The boat was designed to rate under C.C.A., R.O.R.C. and also as a two-tonner.

Four boats were built to this design by Cantiere Benello of Italy. Construction is of fiberglass using sandwich construction and an Airex core. The boat was introduced in 1968.

Here are the plans. It looks like she would make a fine cruising boat.

This is an interesting design for a number of reasons. First this boat was designed by and for Gilbert Wyland, our chief engineer for many, many years. It was a project that was concieved just prior to the end of World War II, and Gil was thinking about a stock production boat to be built in aluminum.

Aluminum had come very much to the forefront as a valid boat building material and Wyland, being an engineer, was well aware of just how suitable a material it was. At the same time Irving Jakobson of the Jakobson Shipyard Yard of Oyster Bay had come to the very same realization.

Three boats were built to this design: Nugget, Temperance and Wind Call for Wyland. These boats were riveted but used an internal backup seam so that the external plating would be flush. The outside of the plating was drilled to allow the rivet head to be countersunk. Decks were of plywood.

Here's an image of a boat in need of some work but it gives a good impression of the shape.


Here are the plans.

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