Document No 7167: Rainbow in 1937 | |||||||||||||||
REF : 0 EDITION : 1934 DATE : 1937 COURSE : 0 DESCRIPTION SITE : 1937 saw the building of the last two J’s on both sides of the Atlantic. Both Ranger and Endeavour II took the waterline length to its extreme, measuring 87ft LWL. Ranger, the American boat, was built at Bath Ironworks in Maine and designed jointly by W Starling Burgess and Olin Stephens. It was a design combination, which produced the greatest J of the fleet – the ‘super J’ as she was later known. She was built, for the cost of the materials only, of flush riveted steel plating and soon after launching had an accident. The upper parts of her rod rigging which stayed her duralumin mast shook loose and her mast snapped “with a report like a cannon”.
It is not Ranger and its characteristic rounded bow but rather the tapered bow of Rainbow. LICENCE :Autorisation en cours |
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BATEAUX : RAINBOW | |||||||||||||||
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