Document No 510: "Last But Not Least: J-Boat WHIRLWIND, 1930" | ||||||||||||||||||||
REF : 0 EDITION : 1930 DATE : 1930 COURSE : 6 DESCRIPTION SITE : Oil on linen, 28" x 48" HistoryIn answer to Lipton’s challenge of 1929 the Americans designed four J-Class yachts as possible defenders. Enterprise, Whirlwind, Yankee and Weetamoe were launched within a month of each other; Weetamoe and Enterprise from the Herreshoff yard and Yankee and Whirlwind from Lawley & Son’s yard in Bristol. Whirlwind, the second J, was the most revolutionary of the four. Francis L Herreshoff had moved away from conventional yachts and designed a boat, which took the new rule to its extreme. Whirlwind combined many new ideas and Herreshoff experimented with hull shape and rig. She was the longest of the early J’s at 86ft on the waterline and remained so until Ranger and Endeavour II were built in 1937. This original painting won the Yachting Award at the 2013 Mystic International Marine Art Exhibition and later sold into private collection. NOTES AMERICA-SCOOP :LICENCE : Autorisation de l'auteur acceptée le 31/03/2019 |
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BATEAUX : WHIRLWIND | ||||||||||||||||||||
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