44' Herreshoff New York 30 Class Sloop (1905) - ALERA
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Owner’s Description
Alera was built in 1904 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Rhode Island. Since then she has had numerous owners and homeports, but was always named Alera and has always carried her sail number NY 1. She has participated in hundreds of regattas, won more than a hundred, and has appeared in more than 1,500 newspaper articles. She was sailed until the late 1970s and then sat patiently waiting for a restoration until late 2004. On January 3, 2005, to the day exactly 100 years after she had been first launched, her restoration began and she was able to compete in the New York 30 class Centenary Regatta of the New York Yacht Club in Newport half a year later.
Alera is the first of eighteen identical boats built to the New York 30 class, hence her sail number. The class had been developed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for members of the New York Yacht Club. The NY30s are one of the world’s oldest one-design sailing classes and often said to be the most successful class of larger one-design yachts. Which may well be, considering that from 1905 until about 1939 they continuously raced as one class in more than a thousand regattas, were never modified, and that of the eighteen boats originally built twelve have survived to this very day and most continue to race.
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Beautiful boat, beautifully maintained. Thank you
She’s a gorgeous classic! Thank you for sharing.
Ein Traum!
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Stunning as always HH.