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After its success in 1930 with Enterprise, Harold S. Vanderbilt created a new syndicate to confront his English "colleague" of aviation, TOM Sopwith. He turned to William Starling Burgess to design and it is the Herreshoff yard ...
... that built his last defender, the eighth in a continuing series from Vigilant in 1893. Starling Burgess resumes plans for a Class J he had started two years earlier and produces two models that he tests in the Ann Arbor yacht basin. Both models show faster than Enterprise and will be presented to Harold S. Vanderbilt late October 1933.
Construction begins before the end of 1933 with the manufacture and installation of frames. This is a classic building for this time with bronze planking on steel frames. It is said that the construction lasted 100 days. In reality, it would be rather 116 days between Tuesday, December 26, 1933 and Saturday, April 21, 1934.
The launch was held on 15 May 1934 and the duralumin mast manufactured by Glenn L. Martin Co. is rigged the same day.
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