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Mariette (yacht)

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Mariette

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General characteristics
Displacement: 165 tonnes
Length:
  • 33.50 m (total) [1]
  • 24.30 m (hul) [1]
Beam: 7.20 m [1]
Draught: 4.20 m [1]
Propulsion:
  • 786/1033 m² of sail [1]
  • 2 Caterpillar engines (180 shp) [1]
Boats & landing
craft carried:
Capacity: 8 passengers[1]

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.[1] 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.[2]

Design
  • Construction plan
    Construction plan
  • Half-hull model on display at the MIT Museum
    Half-hull model on display at the MIT Museum

History

Skipper Jacob F. Brown sailed on Mariette until 1927.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] 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.[2] 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[1] during the Nioulargue race, killing one of the sailors.[2]

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
    port view
  • aft
    aft
  • mid-section
    mid-section
  • bow
    bow

Notes and references

References
  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 "Yacht: Mariette". classicyachtinfo. http://classicyachtinfo.com/yachts/mariette/. Retrieved 9 April 2020. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "MARIETTE". voiliers-2-mats. http://voiliers-2-mats.blogspot.com/2011/03/mariette.html. Retrieved 9 April 2020. 
  3. ↑ "Mariette" (in en-GB). https://classicyachtinfo.com/yachts/mariette/. 
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