New York 30

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NY-30
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Development
Designer Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
LocationBristol, R.I.
Year1905
No. built18
Design One-Design Universal rule
Builder(s)Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
Boat
Boat weight 17,782 lb (8,066 kg)
Draft 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Air draft48 ft 6 in (14.78 m) top of gaff to waterline
Hull
Type Monohull
ConstructionWood
LOA 43 ft 6 in (13.26 m)
LWL 30 ft (9.1 m)
Beam 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m)
Hull appendages
Keel/board typeFixed
Ballast8,800 lb (4,000 kg)
Rig
Rig type Gaff rig
Mast length42 ft 7 in (12.98 m)
Rig otherboom length 33 ft (10 m)
Sails
Mainsail area770 sq ft (72 m2)
Jib/genoa area287 sq ft (26.7 m2)
Spinnaker area400 sq ft (37 m2)
Other sailsballoon jib 372 sq ft (34.6 m2)
Upwind sail area1,057 sq ft (98.2 m2)
Downwind sail area1,542 sq ft (143.3 m2)

The New York 30 (NY-30) is a monohull sailboat designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff in 1904 as a class for the New York Yacht Club. [1] It was the first one-design class designed for the Universal Rule of yacht measurement: "It is the first model I have worked on to be under the 1/4 beam length [Universal Rule] measurements, and I am well pleased with it, and also it has been more pleasure to work on it, as I have not had the restraint of getting the biggest boat possible for the W.L. length." [2]

Contents

List of NY-30 yachts

Eighteen yachts were built to the NY-30 Class rule in 1905 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. [3] [4] [5]


BoatHull numberNamesOwnersComments
1626AleraA.H. and J.W. Alker, John L. Cutler, Francis W. Belknap, Howard F. Whitney, Harold Palmer & Stanley R. Latshaw, S. C. Slaughter, Clifford F. Baker, Fred Benton Bjarnow, P. J. Hunt, Sr., W. A. Cannon, Jr., H. H. Lancaster & A. L. Holmes, Daniel Michael Donovan & Dianne Dorothy Donovan, Terrance J McClinchRestored by David Stimson from Boothbay Harbor Shipyard in 2005.

[6] [7] [8] [9]

2627IbisC. O'Donnell Iselin
3628AtairCord MeyerThe bright star in the constellation Aquila
4629Maid of MeudonW. D. GuthrieMr Guthrie's mother family lived in Meudon near Paris in the 18th century, and the name of her father's country place in Ireland was Meudon
5630Pintail, Gossip, Yolanda, Lena, Cockatoo IIAugust Belmont, E.D. Morgan, Lloyd Griscom, Ogden Reid, Gerard Lambert, William Winberg, Jr., Lloyd BergesonShe was lost in 1979, south of Greenland, during the return trip of an transatlantic crossing to Norway [10]
6631DahindaWm. Butler Duncan, Jr.Dahinda is from Longfellow's Hiawatha and means Bullfrog
7632Tabasco, AliceHenry F. Lippit, Gherardi Davis Mr Lippit named his yacht after this particular kind of pepper, he had another yacht called Paprika
8633CarlitaOliver Harriman
9635Adelaide II, AmoritaPhilip H. and George A. Adee, Fred B. Bragdon, A. G. Paine, 3rd, Hendon Chubb, Howard C. Brokaw, Francis W. Belkanp, George W. Lau, Jed PearsallIn July 2007 Amorita was tragically struck during the Robert H. Tiedeman Regatta by the 1914 94ft Fife design Sumurun. She sank immediately in 55ft of water of Jamestown, RI and was recovered only 3 days after. She was rebuilt at MP&G in Mystic, CT and relaunched in June 2011.
10636LinnetAmos Tuck French
11637OrioleLyman Delano
12638Neola II, Hera II, Okee III, Amaranth, Rowdy, Okee, Minx, RowdyGeorge M. Pynchon, Holland Duell, Marek Jachimczyk, Ted BoylanNeola was an Indian princess of the Tuscarora tribe. [11] She has been faithfully restored to original Herreshoff specifications between 2011 and 2014.
13648MinxHoward WilletsBroken up on Long Island in 1986.
14639Cara MiaStuyvesant Wainwright
15640BanzaiNewbury D. LawtonBanzai is 'cheer' in Japanese and means "Ten thousand years!"
16642NautilusA.G. and H.W. Hanan
17643PhyrneHenry L. MaxwellPhryne was a famous Athenian beauty, said to have been one of Praxiteles' model
18648Anemone II, Caprice, Alerion II, Adios, Blue Moon, Caprice, Anemone Jr.John Murray Mitchell

Construction

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New York 30 class design

The requirements from the NYYC members were: "A wholesome seaworthy craft, free from freak features, about 30 feet waterline, with short overhangs, moderate beam and draft, cabin house, complete but simple outfit for cruising, sail area about 1000 square feet."

N. G. Herreshoff proposed the following design: 43'6" LOA, 30' LWL, 8'10" beam, 6'3" draft; "framing best white oak; fastening bronze and copper; planking yellow pine, to be double below the turn of the bilge to the sheerstrake, the inner thickness to be of cypress; deck selected white pine canvas covered; Mahogany raised cabin house; outside lead ballast; sloop rigged" [12]

The 18 boats were built at an impressive speed. Alera was built in 35 days and launched on January 3, 1905. Each of the other 17 were completed in one week intervals. All boats were ready for delivery by mid-April 1905. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Co was building three hulls at a time using molds. Other parts, designed to be interchangeable between one-design boats, were fabricated by other craftsmen. [13]

Each boat was sold in 1905 for $4,200. [14]

The Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum collection contains hundreds of NY-30 documents: original plans (profile, body plan, table of offsets), various Herreshoff Manufacturing Co records and historical photographs. [15]

Events

1905 season

Thirteen NY-30 raced regularly during the 1905 first season. Based on thirty-eight races, the ranking was: 1 Cara Mia (Stuyvesant Wainwright), 2 Nautilus (Hanan brothers), 3 Alera, 4 Neola II, 5 Dahinda, 6 Atair, 7 Ibis, 8 Phryne (Harry Maxwell), 9 Banzai, 10 Minx, 11 Adelaide II, 12 Carlita, 13 Oriole, 14 Maid of Meudon, 15 Pintail, 16 Linnet, 17 Anemone II, 18 Tabasco. [16]

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