The New York 30 (NY-30) is a monohull sailboat designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff in 1904 as a class for the New York Yacht Club. It was the first one-design class designed for the Universal Rule of yacht measurement: "It is the first model I have worked on to be under the 1/4 beam length [Universal Rule] measurements, and I am well pleased with it, and also it has been more pleasure to work on it, as I have not had the restraint of getting the biggest boat possible for the W.L. length."

List of NY-30 yachts

Eighteen yachts were built to the NY-30 Class rule in 1905 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company.

+ Boat Hull number Names Owners Comments 1 626 Alera A.H. and J.W. Alker, John L. Cutler, Francis W. Belknap, Howard F. Whitney, Harold Palmer & Stanley R. Latshaw, S. C. Slaughter, Clifford F. Baker, Fred Benton Bjarnow, P. J. Hunt Sr., W. A. Cannon Jr., H. H. Lancaster & A. L. Holmes, Daniel Michael Donovan & Dianne Dorothy Donovan, Terrance J McClinch Restored by David Stimson from Boothbay Harbor Shipyard in 2005. 2 627 Ibis C. O'Donnell Iselin 3 628 Atair Cord Meyer The bright star in the constellation Aquila 4 629 Maid of Meudon W. D. Guthrie Mr Guthrie's mother family lived in Meudon near Paris in the 18th century, and the name of her father's country place in Ireland was Meudon 5 630 Pintail, Gossip, Yolanda, Lena, Cockatoo II August Belmont, E.D. Morgan, Lloyd Griscom, Ogden Reid, Gerard Lambert, William Winberg Jr., Lloyd Bergeson She was lost in 1979, south of Greenland, during the return trip of an transatlantic crossing to Norway 6 631 Dahinda Wm. Butler Duncan Jr. Dahinda is from Longfellow's Hiawatha and means Bullfrog 7 632 Tabasco, Alice Henry F. Lippit, Gherardi Davis Mr Lippit named his yacht after this particular kind of pepper, he had another yacht called Paprika 8 633 Carlita Oliver Harriman 9 635 Adelaide II, Amorita Philip H. and George A. Adee, Fred B. Bragdon, A. G. Paine, 3rd, Hendon Chubb, Howard C. Brokaw, Francis W. Belknap, George W. Lau, Jed Pearsall In July 2007 Amorita was tragically struck during the Robert H. Tiedeman Regatta by the 1914 94 ft Fife design Sumurun. She sank immediately in 55 ft of water of Jamestown, RI and was recovered only 3 days after. She was rebuilt at MP&G in Mystic, CT and relaunched in June 2011. 10 636 Linnet Amos Tuck French 11 637 Oriole Lyman Delano 12 638 Neola II, Hera II, Okee III, Amaranth, Rowdy, Okee, Minx, Rowdy George M. Pynchon, Holland Duell, Marek Jachimczyk, Ted Boylan Neola was an Indian princess of the Tuscarora tribe. She has been faithfully restored to original Herreshoff specifications between 2011 and 2014. 13 648 Minx Howard Willets Broken up on Long Island in 1986. 14 639 Cara Mia Stuyvesant Wainwright 15 640 Banzai Newbury D. Lawton Banzai is 'cheer' in Japanese and means "Ten thousand years!" / a/o 2026 still sailing in Long Island Sound, New York 16 642 Nautilus A.G. and H.W. Hanan a/o 2026 still sailing by owner Oakcliff Sailing Center on Long Island Sound, New Yorkhttps://classicsailboats.org/n-g-herreshoff-new-york-30-nautilus/ 17 643 Phryne Henry L. Maxwell Phryne was a famous Athenian beauty, said to have been one of Praxiteles' model 18 648 Anemone II, Caprice, Alerion II, Adios, Blue Moon, Caprice, Anemone Jr. John Murray Mitchell

Construction

The requirements from the NYYC members were: "A wholesome seaworthy craft, free from freak features, about 30 feet waterline, with short overhangs, moderate beam and draft, cabin house, complete but simple outfit for cruising, sail area about 1000 square feet."

N. G. Herreshoff proposed the following design: 43'6" LOA, 30' LWL, 8'10" beam, 6'3" draft; "framing best white oak; fastening bronze and copper; planking yellow pine, to be double below the turn of the bilge to the sheerstrake, the inner thickness to be of cypress; deck selected white pine canvas covered; Mahogany raised cabin house; outside lead ballast; sloop rigged"

The 18 boats were built at an impressive speed. Alera was built in 35 days and launched on January 3, 1905. Each of the other 17 were completed in one week intervals. All boats were ready for delivery by mid-April 1905. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Co was building three hulls at a time using molds. Other parts, designed to be interchangeable between one-design boats, were fabricated by other craftsmen.

Each boat was sold in 1905 for $4,200.

MIT Museum - Hart Nautical Gallery The Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum collection contains hundreds of NY-30 documents: original plans (profile, body plan, table of offsets), various Herreshoff Manufacturing Co records and historical photographs.

Events

1905 season Thirteen NY-30 raced regularly during the 1905 first season. Based on thirty-eight races, the ranking was: 1 Cara Mia (Stuyvesant Wainwright), 2 Nautilus (Hanan brothers), 3 Alera, 4 Neola II, 5 Dahinda, 6 Atair, 7 Ibis, 8 Phryne (Harry Maxwell), 9 Banzai, 10 Minx, 11 Adelaide II, 12 Carlita, 13 Oriole, 14 Maid of Meudon, 15 Pintail, 16 Linnet, 17 Anemone II, 18 Tabasco.

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