Engineering:Mariette (yacht)
 Mariette
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 France
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| Builder: | Herreshoff, Bristol |
| Launched: | 1916 |
| Status: | In service |
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| Displacement: | 165 tonnes |
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| Beam: | 7.20 m [2] |
| Draught: | 4.20 m [2] |
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| 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]
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.
port view
aft
mid-section
bow
Notes and references
- References
- ↑ Mariette on superyachttimes.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 "Yacht: Mariette". classicyachtinfo. http://classicyachtinfo.com/yachts/mariette/. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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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