Mariette (yacht)

Mariette

Ship data flag  France Ship type Racing yacht home port Antibes Shipyard Herreshoff Manufacturing Company , Bristol

Ship dimensions and crew length 32.28 m ( Lüa ) 24.85 m ( KWL ) width 7.25 m Draft Max. 4.60 m displacement 165  t

Rigging and rigging Rigging More beautiful Number of masts 2 Number of sails 4th Sail area 807 m²

Mariette is a classic two-masted schooner with gaff sails . The American Jacob F. Brown commissioned Nathanael Herreshoff to build the racing yacht, which was built in 1915 at the Herreshoff shipyard in Bristol .

The Mariette and her sister ship Vagrant , which was built for Harold S. Vanderbilt , are part of a group of seven large schooners that Herreshoff built between 1903 and 1915. Of these, only the Mariette and the Vagrant are left today.

Brown drove the yacht until 1927. Then he sold the Mariette to Francis B. Crowninshield. An ancestor of Crowninshield was the first American yacht sailor. His ship was called Cleopatra's Barge . In memory of this yacht, Crowninshield renamed the schooner Cleopatra's Barge II . He changed the sails to a Bermudian rig . The American writer James Michener was a frequent guest on his travels on the east coast of the United States . Cleopatra's Barge II also appears in his novel Chesapeake .

In 1939 the yacht was seized by the US Coast Guard and used for patrols. After Crowninshield got the ship back badly damaged in 1946, he sold it.

In the following years the Mariette had several owners and different names. Between 1979 and 1990 it belonged to Andrea Rizzoli, who had it overtaken by Beconcini Cantiere Navali Beconcini in La Spezia . Thomas J. Perkins from San Francisco bought the schooner in 1995. He had the ship restored by Beconcini. The original gaff sails were also restored.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jan Schliebitz: Mariette: Daten ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . www.klassischeyachten.de, 2005 
2. ↑ Robert H. Eddy & Associates: 'Mariette' , 110 ′ Herreshoff Schooner built in 1915 ( memento of the original from January 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Fraco Pace: Classic Yachts in the Mediterranean . 1st edition. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld, 2004. ISBN 3-7688-1553-6
4. ↑ Jan Schliebitz: Mariette: Geschichte ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . www.klassischeyachten.de, 2005