Yolande was a an American gaff rigged racer from the 1880's. The drawing was enlarged from a book entitled Traditions and Memories of American Yachting by William P Stephens. It is the re-publication of a long series of articles which appeared in Motor Boating magazine between 1939 and 1946- a fascinating and comprehensive review of American yachting from it's beginnings into the 20th century.
Yolande was designed by M. Roosevelt Schuyler in 1879 with an overall length on deck of 31' and a beam of 7'. The displacement was 7 tons and plain sail area was 765sq ft. Schuyler was recognised as the head of a movement known as the 'cutter-cranks'. After 25years of hard racing and cruising the transom of Yolande is apparently preserved in the house of the Knickerbocker Y.C. at Port Washington.
The hull of my model is planked in cedar on 6mm ply frames and glassed and resined on the inside. The hull is 48'' long giving a scale of approximately 1:8. When preparing the drawings I decided to enlarge the body plan slightly more than the elevation to give a little more displacement. Although the hull looks good I feel this was probably a mistake- the hulls displaces 30lb, which I knew before commencing- but I do wish now that I had a slightly lighter model.
So far, only the hull deck and bulwarks are complete and the companion, coachroof and skylight exist only as card mock-ups. It is scandalous that this model has been on the stocks for about fifteen years!
Yolande was designed by M. Roosevelt Schuyler in 1879 with an overall length on deck of 31' and a beam of 7'. The displacement was 7 tons and plain sail area was 765sq ft. Schuyler was recognised as the head of a movement known as the 'cutter-cranks'. After 25years of hard racing and cruising the transom of Yolande is apparently preserved in the house of the Knickerbocker Y.C. at Port Washington.
The hull of my model is planked in cedar on 6mm ply frames and glassed and resined on the inside. The hull is 48'' long giving a scale of approximately 1:8. When preparing the drawings I decided to enlarge the body plan slightly more than the elevation to give a little more displacement. Although the hull looks good I feel this was probably a mistake- the hulls displaces 30lb, which I knew before commencing- but I do wish now that I had a slightly lighter model.
So far, only the hull deck and bulwarks are complete and the companion, coachroof and skylight exist only as card mock-ups. It is scandalous that this model has been on the stocks for about fifteen years!