PURITAN yacht 1885
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:35 pm
Built as a centre board sloop by George Lawley & Son at Boston, Mass. for a syndicate from Boston, Mass. headed by General Charles J. Paine.
26 May 1885 launched as the PURITAN.
Displacement 105 ton, dim. 29 x 6.88 x 2.64m, length on waterline 24.98m.
Sail area 741,6 m².
Designed by Edward Burgess.
She was an early combination of American and English design.
In 1885 was she the defender of the 5th America Cup in the waters off New York for the New York Yacht Club against the British GENESTA under skipper J. Carter.
07 September 1885 was the first race, the PURITAN under skipper Aubrey J. Crocker, but the race due to lack of wind was stopped.
08 September the second race, but the PURITAN got in collision with the GENESTA just after the start and was disqualified.
Thereafter two races were postponed due to lack of wind.
14 September 1885 an other race took place where the PURITAN beats the GENESTA by 16 minutes 19 seconds in corrected time.
16 September 1885 was the second race where the PURITAN again beats the GENESTA by 1 minute 38 seconds in corrected time.
1886 The PURITAN was auctioned to settle the accounts of the Boston syndicate; she was bought by J. Malcolm Forbes a member of the syndicate.
She was hard to beat till an improved version was built under the name MAYFLOWER.
1884 Converted to a schooner and she was bought by a broker, who removed her lead keel.
At the beginning of the 19th century she was sailing in Europe, converted in a cargo-passenger vessel between Portugal and the Azores and sometimes to New Bedford in Mass.
1925 She was not so economical more and was dismasted and scrapped on the America east coast.
Only her steering wheel remains, hanging as decoration over the counter of a pub in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Solomon Islands 1986 18c sg570a scott?
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan_(yacht) http://32nd.americascup.com The storey of the America Cup 1851-2003 by Thompson and Rayner.
26 May 1885 launched as the PURITAN.
Displacement 105 ton, dim. 29 x 6.88 x 2.64m, length on waterline 24.98m.
Sail area 741,6 m².
Designed by Edward Burgess.
She was an early combination of American and English design.
In 1885 was she the defender of the 5th America Cup in the waters off New York for the New York Yacht Club against the British GENESTA under skipper J. Carter.
07 September 1885 was the first race, the PURITAN under skipper Aubrey J. Crocker, but the race due to lack of wind was stopped.
08 September the second race, but the PURITAN got in collision with the GENESTA just after the start and was disqualified.
Thereafter two races were postponed due to lack of wind.
14 September 1885 an other race took place where the PURITAN beats the GENESTA by 16 minutes 19 seconds in corrected time.
16 September 1885 was the second race where the PURITAN again beats the GENESTA by 1 minute 38 seconds in corrected time.
1886 The PURITAN was auctioned to settle the accounts of the Boston syndicate; she was bought by J. Malcolm Forbes a member of the syndicate.
She was hard to beat till an improved version was built under the name MAYFLOWER.
1884 Converted to a schooner and she was bought by a broker, who removed her lead keel.
At the beginning of the 19th century she was sailing in Europe, converted in a cargo-passenger vessel between Portugal and the Azores and sometimes to New Bedford in Mass.
1925 She was not so economical more and was dismasted and scrapped on the America east coast.
Only her steering wheel remains, hanging as decoration over the counter of a pub in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Solomon Islands 1986 18c sg570a scott?
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan_(yacht) http://32nd.americascup.com The storey of the America Cup 1851-2003 by Thompson and Rayner.