Iconic Sails Yawl

Yawl

A Yawl is a two masted boat with a small aft mast ("mizzenmast") stepped far aft. The mizzenmast is aft of the rudder post and the boom usually overhangs the stern.

The small mizzensail The sail set on the mast aft of the mainmast makes it easy to trim the steering when sailing single-handed.

Possible Choices

Orion

length	64
beam	12.8
height
draft	7.9
displacement	16
sailarea	?
built	1934

Designer: Sparkman & Stephens
Builder: Henry Nevins, NY (1934)
Home Port: Seattle WA

Beautiful woodwork on deck
Main cabin set well aft with a pale green roof.
Cutter Having two or more jibs rigged with short bowsprit A spar entending forward from the bow, typically used to anchor a forestay.

Originally named Edlu, Orion won the Newport Bermuda race in 1934, and served as a patrol boat vs. German U-Boats in WW2. After the war she made her way to California, then Washington, undergoing extensive renovations in 2010.

Carlyn

length	62
beam	13
height
draft	7.5
displacement	42
sailarea	1450
built	1995

Builder: Scarano brothers (1995)

A high-aspect mainsail the sail right behind the mainmast, usually the largest means a larger gap between mainsail and mizzensail The sail set on the mast aft of the mainmast.
Cutter-rigged Having two or more jibs but with no bowsprit A spar entending forward from the bow, typically used to anchor a forestay. ("knockabout")
all white hull
Mainsail and Mizzensail are fully battened

White Bermuda-Rigged having a triangular mainsail Yawl. As shown in the picture, she occasionally flies a mizzen staysail A sail attached to a stay (instead of a mast) in the gap ahead of the mizzenmast The smaller mast aft of the mainmast.

Built for the Four Winds Camp and named after a former camp director, Carlyn Stark. She is strip plank constructed with laminated frames and a plywood deck.

Joshua

length	55
beam	14.25
height
draft	4.5
displacement
sailarea
built	1982

Designer: Joshua Slocum
Builder: Bill Elliott and William Harpster (1982)
Home Port: Camano Island WA

White hull bowsprit, dark green Covestripea decorative horizontal stripe along the top line of planking of the hull
Both mainsail and mizzensail look gaff-rigged (mizzen is technically "lug-rigged")
Clipper bow.

Joshua is an historical replica of the Spray, the first vessel to be solo-circumnavigated around the world 1895-1898 by Captain Joshua Slocum. She was launched in San Francisco Bay in 1982.

Pacifica

length	48.75
beam	11
height
draft	7.25
displacement	15.8
sailarea	1175
built	1946

Designer: Sparkman & Stephens
Builder: Henry B. Nevins, NY (1946)
Home Port: Port Townsend WA

Bermuda rigged yawl
7019 on mainsail.
White hull with green bottompaintpaint below the waterline, usually to discourage weeds, barnacles, and decay and red bootstripea decorative horizontal stripe along the waterline.
Wooden cabin with white top.

Built for a Fuller Brush magnate, and originally named Eroica. Later owned by physicist (he was a protoge of Enrico Fermi), aerospace inventor and yacht racer Gabriel Gianninni, who sailed her to Italy, then relocated her via the Panama Canal to San Diego CA. She was renamed Pacifica and extensively overhauled. She has a fine racing record and was one of the first ocean racers to use an aluminum mast.

Aeolus

length	42
beam	9
height
draft	6
displacement
sailarea
built	1932

Designer: Leigh Coolidge
Builder: Schertzer (Seattle) (1932)
Home Port: Seattle WA

Gaff-rigged quadrilateral sail attached at the top to a gaff Yawl
"AE" on mainsail
Boomkina spar or arched projection off the stern of the ship, typically to hold stays
White hull an cabin, dark blue cabin roof.

Heavy frames, fir on oak. Based in Eagle Harbor and extensively cruised.

Querencia

length	38.7
beam	11.5
height
draft	3.9
displacement
sailarea
built	1960

Designer: Sparkman & Stephens
Builder: Wing on Shing, Hong Kong (1960)
Home Port: Bainbridge WA

Bermuda rigged yawl
number 2 on mainsail
White hull, long wooden cabin.
Wooden masts

Querencia is sister-ship to "Finisterre", three-time winner of the Bermuda to Newport race. She competes in Swiftsure regattas and wooden boat festivals.