Mariette (yacht)

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Mariette
History
French EnsignFrance
Name
  • Mariette
  • Kebyar
  • Janeen
  • Gee Gee IV
  • Cleopatra's Barge II'
  • Le Voyageur
  • Guinevere
  • Evening Star
  • Mariette[1]
BuilderHerreshoff, Bristol
Launched1916
StatusIn service
General characteristics
Displacement165 tonnes
Length
  • 33.50 m (total) [2]
  • 24.30 m (hul) [2]
Beam7.20 m [2]
Draught4.20 m [2]
Propulsion
  • 786/1033 m² of sail [2]
  • 2 Caterpillar engines (180 shp) [2]
Boats & landing
craft carried
Capacity8 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]

Design

  • 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.

Model on display at MIT

  • port view

  • aft

  • mid-section

  • bow

Notes and references[]

References
  1. ^ Mariette on superyachttimes.com
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Yacht: Mariette". Classic Yacht Info. classicyachtinfo. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "MARIETTE". Voiliers à 2 mâts (voiles auriques ou carrées). voiliers-2-mats. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Mariette". Classic Yacht Info. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
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