Herreshoff Rozinante

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Herreshoff Rozinante
Development
Designer L. Francis Herreshoff
Location United States
Year1952
Builder(s) South Coast Seacraft
Kenner Boat Company
Artisan Boatworks
Role Day sailer-cruiser
NameHerreshoff Rozinante
Boat
Displacement 6,550 lb (2,971 kg)
Draft 3.75 ft (1.14 m)
Hull
Type monohull
Construction fiberglass
LOA 28.00 ft (8.53 m)
LWL 24.00 ft (7.32 m)
Beam 6.33 ft (1.93 m)
Hull appendages
Keel/board typelong keel
Ballast3,360 lb (1,524 kg)
Rudder(s) keel-mounted rudder
Rig
Rig type Bermuda rig
I foretriangle height24.00 ft (7.32 m)
J foretriangle base8.00 ft (2.44 m)
P mainsail luff27.80 ft (8.47 m)
E mainsail foot12.50 ft (3.81 m)
Sails
Sailplan fractional rigged ketch
Mainsail area173.75 sq ft (16.142 m2)
Jib/genoa area96.00 sq ft (8.919 m2)
Total sail area269.75 sq ft (25.061 m2)
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The Herreshoff Rozinante is an American full-keel, double-ended sailboat that was designed by L. Francis Herreshoff as a daysailer and cruiser and first built in 1952. [1] [2] [3]

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Production

Plans for the design were first published in The Rudder magazine. [1]

In the past the design was built by South Coast Seacraft and Kenner Boat Company in United States. Today it is available as a custom-built boat from Artisan Boatworks. [1] [3] [4] [5]

Design

The Herreshoff Rozinante is a recreational keelboat, with early boats built from wood, while later boats are built predominantly of fiberglass, with wooden trim. The hull is a double-ended canoe design. It has a fractional ketch rig, a spooned raked stem, an angled transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed long keel. It displaces 6,550 lb (2,971 kg) and carries 3,360 lb (1,524 kg) of ballast. [1]

The boat has a draft of 3.75 ft (1.14 m) with the standard keel. [1]

When not sailed, the boat is normally propelled by oars, but may also be fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. [1]

The design has sleeping accommodation for two people. [3]

Operational history

The boat was at one time supported by a class club, the Herreshoff Rozinante Association, but the club seem to no longer be in business. [6]

In his 2012 book, In the South - Tales of Sail and Yearning, Geoff Heriot wrote of the boat, "the teenager immediately recognised and responded to the concept of simplicity in design, design for purpose and the elegance of what might result. Once attuned, Atkins found through reading that he quickly discovered L. Francis Herreshoff. 'Somewhere out of everything came Rozinante (Herreshoff's 28-foot canoe-yawl) and the concept that you could have something so perfect,' he said. Rozinante was another Herreshoff design to be named after a character in the Cervantes novel Don Quixote. But, for those of a maritime inclination, her fame and her curvaceous lines outstripped any identity from literature. Rozinante was the name of Don Quixote's horse and, according to the rambling narrative of Herreshoff’s book, The Compleat Cruiser: 'She was a long, thin animal but every time the Don mounted her he had remarkable adventures.' So too did the supposed skipper of Herreshoff's lean sailing 'canoe', even though the designer said, like Don Quixote, 'seven-eighths' of the adventure might take place in the mind." [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Rozinante (Herreshoff) sailboat". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2021). "L. Francis Herreshoff 1890 - 1972". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 Artisan Boatworks. "Rozinante by L.F. Herreshoff". artisanboatworks.com. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  4. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2021). "South Coast Seacraft Co. 1965 - 1981". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  5. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2021). "Kenner Boat Company 1948 - 1971". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  6. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2021). "Rozinante (Herreshoff)". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 11 June 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  7. ↑ Heriot, Geoff (2012). "In the South - Tales of Sail and Yearning" . Retrieved 15 June 2021.
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