Spartan: A Vintage NY50 Finds Salvation

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The owners took Spartan on the racing circuit last summer (2011) starting in Maine, where they participated in the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta. There, they led the Herreshoff Class fleet at the twelfth annual Castine Classic Yacht Race to Camden, and took honors in all three races that also included the Camden Feeder Regatta. After Maine, Spartan returned to Nantucket to compete in the 39th Opera House Cup Regatta where she had been dismasted 31 years before. She placed third in her division. Next winter Spartan’s owners plan to take her to the Med to race against the Fifes where she is certain to do well.

“There is scuttlebutt over the NY50s being the greatest one-design class ever built. I certainly agree with that statement,” said Spartan’s former captain, John Wenz. “I have never sailed anything quite like her. She responds like a nimble modern ocean racer but yet has a solid feel of a classic yacht. She is all thoroughbred and all business. She wants to go fast all the time.”

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[bamamick]

This is why you can never really give up hope on a boat. When I was the Dragon class guru I was always being asked if a boat was 'restorable', and my answer was always that every boat is restorable, it's just a matter of how much money you want to spend, or how much time you have to do the work in.

My boat was pretty much a wreck when I got it. Over the years I have thought about getting a much newer Dragon, one with a proven track record of winning and one that would require a lot less maintenance. In the end I could never do it simply because I could never give up my boat. The work that we have done on her has pretty much made her one of the family, and I guess she will be until I am no longer able to worry about it.

Mickey Lake

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[Gerarddm]

It is thrilling that she was restored so lovingly. What a magnificent yacht!

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It is thrilling that she was restored so lovingly. What a magnificent yacht!

I've seen her on the Mystic River......beautiful

[SchoonerRat]

I remember a NY 30 named Spartan from my youth in Long Beach, CA. Could there be a family tie?