NEW YORK YACHT CLUB 70
Gaff Head Cutter • Fin Keel • Built 1899–1900
Dimensions
- LOA
- 106 ft
- LWL
- 70 ft
- Beam
- 19.33 ft
- Max Draft
- 14 ft
- Displacement
- 114,000 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 1.59 (offshore safe)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 47.3
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 148
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 6950 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Fin Keel
- Rig Type
- Gaff Head Cutter
- Hull Material
- Wood planked
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1899
- Last Built
- 1900
- Number Built
- 4
Notes:
The first and largest of the Herreshoff designed New York Yacht Club one-designs. They were lightly built and it is said that re-bracing was necessary after the first season. For handicap racing they became obsolete with adoption of the Universal Rule in 1903. All were scrapped after a very few years.
Actual names were:
Mineola, Rainbow, Virginia, Yankee (owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt).
Visible in photo is 'Virginia'.
Designer
- Nathaniel G. Herreshoff (1848–1938)
Builder
- Herreshoff Mfg. Co. (1878–1943)