Sail Area
Main and Jib: 34 m2/365 sq.ft.
Mainsail: 17.4 m2/187 sq.ft.
Jib: 9.1 m2/98 sq.ft.
Genoa: 17 m2/183 sq.ft.
Spinnaker: 40 m2/431 sq.ft.
assym.: 60 m2/646 sq.ft.
Evolution Non-BR
Discount Sails
Boater’s Closet Non-BR
Hull: Fin with rudder on skeg
Finn w/sep.skeg rudder
from original brochure.
Production version of ‘Tina’, winner of 1 ton cup (RORC), 1966.
A more cruising oriented version with a longer coach roof was available.
At least 10 boats were of steel construction (aka STANDFAST 37?), the rest of fiberglass. The RORC rule was said to favor steel yachts at the time.
Based on the same design (and also from Wauquiez): AMPHITRITE 43.
Reported sail area includes: main + 140% genoa.
LOA incl. bow sprit: 54.0′
Similar to another Bingham design called CHRISTINA.
2 boats molded in Korea and finished in USA. (construction supervised by designer).
Unknown number of others from this design built of FG or ferro-cement.
Thanks to ‘Bill O’ for providing information.
The original STAR class boats of 1911 evolved from another smaller boat called the BUG, built in 1906. The the first batch of 22 were built in the winter of 1910-1911 by Isaac Smith at Port Washington NY.
Stars continued with the gaff rig until a short Marconi rig became an option in 1920.
Measurements are from the original Gardner plans dated Nov. 1910
Francis Sweisguth worked for the firm of William Gardner at this time.
Loosely based an earlier, very popular (centerboard) Scow design published in ‘The Rudder’ magazine, (1898) with Star-type keel and rudder added. Raced in Holland with a resurgence of interest in recent decades. Only scantlings specified so actual weight is an estimate.
Seair also built the VANCOUVER 27. It’s possible that the hull of SEAIR 27 came from the same mold.
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