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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: Yankee R Class Boat
« on: September 22, 2012, 02:27:03 PM »
Dear Mr. Solinas,
I am delighted to hear that you are building a model of the R Class sloop Yankee. As you found out, the boat was moved to Chicago and was owned there by Eddie Schnabel. The boat raced successfully at the Chicago Yacht Club well through the 1960s. Then it was sold and I do not know the subsequent history. There also is a full model of the boat in the model room at one of the yacht clubs in Marblehead, perhaps the Corinthian Yacht Club.
It may interest you to know that Mr. Schnabel persuaded my father to bring the Live Yankee from Seattle to Chicago in 1946. Her rig had been simplified considerably since 1927 and she no longer had the forestay arrangement that you see on the Mystic Seaport plans. Live Yankee was sold to an owner in Cleveland in the 1950's. After one or two planks were found to have dry rot, the boat was broken up. Ironically, that was the only place where dry rot was found, so the boat could easily have been repaired.
I come occasionally to Genoa to help at the Gaslini Institute, so please contact me if you have further questions.
I am delighted to hear that you are building a model of the R Class sloop Yankee. As you found out, the boat was moved to Chicago and was owned there by Eddie Schnabel. The boat raced successfully at the Chicago Yacht Club well through the 1960s. Then it was sold and I do not know the subsequent history. There also is a full model of the boat in the model room at one of the yacht clubs in Marblehead, perhaps the Corinthian Yacht Club.
It may interest you to know that Mr. Schnabel persuaded my father to bring the Live Yankee from Seattle to Chicago in 1946. Her rig had been simplified considerably since 1927 and she no longer had the forestay arrangement that you see on the Mystic Seaport plans. Live Yankee was sold to an owner in Cleveland in the 1950's. After one or two planks were found to have dry rot, the boat was broken up. Ironically, that was the only place where dry rot was found, so the boat could easily have been repaired.
I come occasionally to Genoa to help at the Gaslini Institute, so please contact me if you have further questions.