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Sparkman and Stevens
Design #11 30 Auxiliary
Madeline
Ex Windoon
Ex Cuyuga
Ex Restless IV
Ex Alsumar
Good news! She has been SAVED and
will undergo a museum quality restoration at Taylor and Snediker's yard in
CT!! We will be keeping a restoration log, of course, and more than
likely write some articles for different publications---keep an eye out!
What follows bellow is old text, please
remember she is no longer available:
Madeline is being offered for adoption via WBRF Bruce
Elfstrom as manager. Please direct all questions to him.
WBRF would greatly appreciate a gift of some sort in exchange for this boat.
Madeline is on the hard in Rhode Island. She is
in need of a thorough restoration including all new frames, deck,
refinishing cosmetics, etc. Her planking is mostly good and her shape
is very fine. He interior, cabin top and sides, and cockpit are in
fine, shape in need of minor repair and full refinishing. She is 100%
complete with pedigree, all rigging, sails, spars, etc. The Minneford
and New York Yacht Club bronze plaque are still attached to the
companionway.
Historical Summation:
Note from Current Owner:
To: Mr. Bruce Elfstrom
Thanks for your note and for your offer
to assist in finding a new home for her. Very unfortunately I have no time
to take on the project of restoring her.
As
the sister ship but smaller S&S designed sailing vessel of DORADE (they
were built next to each other at the Minneford Yacht Yard on City Island),
MADELINE is a very historical Sparkman & Stephens yawl.
When
Olin & Rod finished building DORADE and successfully took her across the
pond and won the Fastnet Race, they rushed back to Minneford's and
completed the construction of MADELINE and kept her for themselves as
their personal racing vessel.
DORADE
won the Transat from Newport to Plymouth(17 days, 1 hour, 14 mins) in 1931
and then went onto win the Fastnet later in the same year. In 1932 she won
the Newport-Bermuda Race and won the Fastnet again in 1933.
There
was a full page article in Yachting Magazine I believe in the late 1930's
that tells about the huge success that Olin & Rod had racing MADELINE from
the Chesapeake up to Maine. If my memory is correct from the article, very
few sailing vessels beat her over a period of three years or so.
STORMY
WEATHER was designed from the lines of MADELINE & DORADE. STORMY
WEATHER though was given a little more beam and firmer bilge sections.
We
purchased MADELINE around 1992 from a retired gentleman on Long Island who
for many years raced her actively on the Sound. He told me that because of
her very tall mast she used to pick up light air wind that the rest of the
fleet did not. So in light air she was even more difficult to beat.
MADELINE only had one other owner after the Stephens family sold her. She
was also hard to beat to windward.
We
mostly kept her at anchor in Bristol Harbor very close to the Herresshof
Marine Museum in Narragansett Bay
http://www.herreshoff.org/.
(note from Bruce Elfstrom: Many
pictures and more documents are available)
Note from S and S. co. 12/10/06
Bruce,
Thanks
for your call! Mitch is in meetings this morning, but I’ll talk to him
about your discovery when I get a chance. Attached is some of what we have
on Design #11. I’ve also attached the first two pages of a “Manual of
Operations” I found in the file for the same model, having been converted to
a yawl rig. I hope it’s interesting!
Best,
Jasmine
Note from Olin Stevens to Bruce Elfstrom co. 12/19/06
Dear Bruce
Elfstrom,
Sorry I have to say that there is a great deal of misinformation in
Mr. Reade's letter.
There was only one "Dorade", financed by my father and sailed by me
and my brother, either or both and successfully but hardly up and down the
coast. She placed 3rd in the Bermuda race of 30, and was extremely
successful in the trans-Atlantic race and Fastnet of 1931. She cruised to
Eurome in '32 under my brother Rod and won the CCA 'Blue water medal for his
return in late summer via a northern route.
"Madeline" was designed for an individual owner and sailed by him
without stress on racing, though she was a reasonably fast boat due to a
relatively generous rig for her home waters in Long Island Sound
Please feel free to contact Bruce Elfstrom
with any questions:
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