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In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "here is a masthead sloop with a hull almost as wide (9 1/2 feet) and as heavy as a typical Cape God Catboat. She was the first fiberglass cruising sailboat built by Ted Hermann, at his Seaford Harbor, Long Island Boat Shop, way back at the beginning of the fiberglass era.
In 1910 there were 65 boats registered at the club of which 27 were sail boats. The largest of these was the sailing houseboat Savilla 86' with a 24' beam. HYC is a founding member of US Sailing, the "Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound" and the "Junior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound".
The Long Island Maritime Museum is the current home of Priscilla and Modesty, two vessels which are National Historic Landmarks. Other vessels include "Pauline," [2] "Kid," [3] and "Lorelei." [4] The Long Island Maritime Museum acquired Priscilla in 1976. The vessel was significantly altered throughout her extensive career.
In 1914 an engine was installed and the Christeen was used as a cargo vessel transporting potatoes between Long Island and New London, and furniture and other goods between New York City and the eastern end of Long Island. From 1958 to 1976 she was a pleasure yacht and finally in 1989 was abandoned and nearly sunk in New London, Connecticut.
Working with German boat yard Abeking & Rasmussen, he designed a prototype which he showed to yacht clubs along the east coast. The initial cost of the boat was $1800, below that of competing boats. [8]: 14 The Atlantic is a racing keelboat, with early examples built predominantly of wood and later ones from fiberglass, with wood trim.
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The design of the boat is what is known as a Bermuda sloop, or a Marconi sloop, being single-masted and Bermuda rigged. The result may be considered a reminder of yachting's "Golden age" with the traditional metre-boat's long overhangs, graceful sheer, deep, narrow hull, and lofty rig. An IOD sloop and a 19th-century Bermudian working boat in ...
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