Mariette (yacht)

Mariette

History
France
Name|

* Mariette
* Kebyar
* Janeen
* Gee Gee IV
* Cleopatras Barge II'
* Le Voyageur
* Guinevere
* Evening Star
* Mariette[1]

Builder| Herreshoff, Bristol
Launched| 1916
Status| In service
General characteristics
Displacement:|  165 tonnes
Length:|

* 33.50 m (total) [2]
* 24.30 m (hul) [2]

Beam:|  7.20 m [2]
Draught:|  4.20 m [2]
Propulsion:|

* 786/1033 m² of sail [2]
* 2 Caterpillar engines (180 shp) [2]

Boats & landing
craft carried:|

* sailing cutter
* gasoline launch
* dingy

Capacity:|  8 passengers[2]

Mariette is a classic two-masted gaff schooner, designed and built by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff in 1915 for Harold S. Vanderbilt. She now sails out of Antibes, France , under the French flag.

## Design

Mariette was built as "Project 698" by Nathanael Herreshoff, at his Bristol, Rhode Island yard, for prominent yachtsman Harold S. Vanderbilt.[2] She was part of a series of seven large schooners built between 1903 and 1905 by the Herreshoff shipyard. Mariette and her sister-ship Vagrant are the last of this series still in service. The ships are smaller versions of the earlier Eleonora and Westward, also by Herreshoff.[3]

Design

* Construction plan

* Half-hull model on display at the MIT Museum

## History

Skipper Jacob F. Brown sailed on Mariette until 1927.[2] She was then sold to Francis B. Crowninshield, from a family with a sailing tradition, whose first ship was Cleopatra’s Barge. In homage to this ship, they renamed Mariette to Cleopatra’s Barge II. The rigging was modified into a Bermuda rig. Writer James A. Michener was a regular guest aboard, and mentions the ship in his novel Chesapeake (1978).

In 1939, Mariette was requisitioned for service with the US Coast Guard and used for patrols.[3] Crowninshield was given his ship back in 1946, in a state of disrepair, and sold her.

In the following years, Mariette had several owners and various names. At some point, she was owned by Walter Boudreau under the name Janeen.[4] From 1979 to 1990, she belonged to Andrea Rizzoli, who had her restored at the Beconcini shipyard (Cantieri Navali Beconcini) in La Spezia, Italy. In 1982, she was used as a charter in the Caribbean.[3] In 1995, Thomas J. Perkins, from San Francisco , purchased her and restored her original rigging. The same year, Mariette collided with the 6-metre Taos Brett IV[2] during the Nioulargue race, killing one of the sailors.[3]

He sailed in various Mediterranean races until 2005. He then sold Mariette to a French skipper, base in Antibes.

Model on display at MIT

* port view

* aft

* mid-section

* bow

## Notes and references

References

1. ↑ Mariette on superyachttimes.com
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 "Yacht: Mariette". classicyachtinfo. http://classicyachtinfo.com/yachts/mariette/. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "MARIETTE". voiliers-2-mats. http://voiliers-2-mats.blogspot.com/2011/03/mariette.html. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
4. ↑ "Mariette" (in en-GB). https://classicyachtinfo.com/yachts/mariette/.

External links

* Mariette - Site classic yacht info
* MARIETTE - Site voilier à 2 mâts
* Mariette of 1915 yacht NOT for charter*
* Mariette of 1915
* Mariette
* Living legend: Inside the major refit of Herreshoff schooner Mariette of 1915

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