The boat was designed in 1913−14 in the village of Osterville, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for a group of sailors from the Wianno Yacht Club.They requested Horace Manley Crosby to design a sailboat for racing on Nantucket Sound. Manley Crosby was a member of the Crosby family, noted for building the famous Crosby catboats.Fourteen boats were delivered and raced that summer.
WIANNO SENIOR
The WIANNO SENIOR Knockabout was designed as a one-design day sailer for summer residents of Wianno, Cape Cod, and has remained the principal one-design class of the Wianno Yacht Club. Additional fleets were subsequently organized at the Hyannis, Hyannis Port, Bass River and Stone Horse Yacht Clubs. The original builder was the Crosby Yacht Building […]
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New Boat Construction. February 26, 2018 wiannosr. No new fiberglass boats had been built since 1990, and without new boats, the class was not going to survive. ... Wianno Senior Class Association Kevin Cain, Secretary P.O. Box 1242 South Yarmouth, MA 02664.
Wianno Senior
The Wianno Senior is 25 feet long and 8 feet wide, with an oak keel with cast iron ballast and a movable wooden centreboard. The first 14 were built by Crosby in the winter of 1913-14 and sold at the agreed figure of just over $600. Until the 1980s, the boats were built with oak frames and mahogany planking, deck and cockpit in cypress boards ...
The Legacy of the Wianno Senior
The Wianno Senior - The WYC commissioned the Crosby Yacht Yard to design and build a small fast yacht capable of sailing and racing in the choppy-shoal-ridden sailing grounds of Cape Cod's South Shore. ... Two boat yards are still building Wianno Seniors. Crosby Yacht Yard, Inc. in Osterville, Massachusetts, and Shaw Yacht, Inc, in Thomaston ...
Wianno Senior
The classic Wianno Senior is a gaff-rigged sloop designed and built by Crosby Yacht since the early 1900s. Crosby was commissioned by a group of local sailors to create a class of sailboats uniquely designed for the local waters and sufficient for convenient one-design racing. Her full keel and deep draft adjustable centerboard are perfect for ...
Wianno Senior
The Wianno Senior is a 25-foot gaff-rigged sloop that is raced and sailed principally in Nantucket Sound, although the Senior can be found in waters between Maine and Maryland, as well as in Italy. Racing fleets compete out of yacht clubs in Osterville, Hyannis/Hyannis Port, and Bass River. Racing is organized during these clubs from mid-June ...
Classics: Wianno Senior
The fact that the Wianno Senior is all of these things — and graceful as a swan — is one reason the 104-year-old gaff-rigged sloop is among the longest-lived one design sailboats in the annals of American yachting. She has an overall length of 25 feet and is just under 18 feet on the waterline. The long keel hides a centerboard, giving the ...
Wianno Senior
Wianno Senior is a 25′ 0″ / 7.6 m monohull sailboat designed by H. Manley Crosby and built by Crosby Yacht Building and Storage Co. (USA) starting in 1913. ... Cape Cod. The boat has remained a popular and competitive class on Nantucket Sound. Since 1914, about 180 boats have been built. Recent boats are of Fiberglass. About 140 still exist ...
About the Association
Fiberglass Wianno Senior. David D. Steere, the late Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Association, spearheaded the effort from 1985 to 1987 to develop and finance a fiberglass version of the Wianno Senior Knockabout. The design and engineering of the new boat (by Sparkman & Stephens) and the manufacturing of the necessary tooling for ...
Wianno Senior : Wianno Yacht Club
Wianno Senior. The Wianno Senior Knockabout has been racing on Nantucket Sound since the summer of 1914. The boat was designed as a day sailor for summer residents of Wianno and has remained the principal one-design class of the Wianno Yacht Club since the first summer. Generations of families on Cape Cod have been racing Seniors off the coast ...
Victura
President John F. Kennedy's beloved sailboat Victura (Latin for "about to conquer") is a 25-foot Wianno Senior sloop purchased in 1932 as a 15th birthday gift from his parents. It is on the Victura that he taught his wife Jackie to sail and also where the Kennedy family enjoyed their love of sailing on Cape Cod.. John F. Kennedy was an avid sailor, having won many sailing events ...
Class Association Information
[email protected]. General Correspondence: Wianno Senior Class Association. Kevin Cain, Secretary. P.O. Box 1242. South Yarmouth, MA 02664. The flagship one design of Cape Cod and Nantucket Sound. Information about the Class Association, History, and Current Fleet.
The Wianno Senior Story
By Stan Grayson, Foreword by Llewellyn Howland III. Published by Tilbury House and the Wianno Senior Class. Association, 264 pages hardcover $49.95. One of the most enduring one-designs in the United States, the Wianno Senior was commissioned by a group of sailors at the Wianno Yacht Club in Osterville, MA. Designed by Horace Manly Crosby, a ...
THE WIANNO SENIOR
The name "Wianno Senior" did not come about until 1922 with the introduction of the "Wianno Junior" as a training boat for the younger sailors in the fleet. In the sport of sailboat racing, the summer residents of Wianno saw that it was the perfect venue for their children, both sons and daughters, to learn to "play fair"; to ...
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The Wianno Senior is a 25 foot gaff rigged sloop built since 1914 on the Southern shores of Cape Cod (Massachusetts). Designed for the difficult waters of Nantucket Sound, a stretch of sea characterized by strong winds and tidal currents and frequent unmarked sandy shallows. Wianno Senior with her elegant lines, centerboard, low freeboard, wide ...
2003 Crosby Wianno Senior Antique and Classic for sale
Attention Wianno Senior Sailors Aleyoop hull #190 is for sale and presently stored at EMC Crosby Boat Works. 190 was one the first fiberglass boats built and rigged by Bernie Shaw Boat Company. Soon after being built, Aleyoop was trucked to Lars Guck's Boat Shop and her bottom was prepped and long board sanded for optimum performance. Aleyoop reportedly had some of the best finishes of all the ...
New Boat Construction
Since 2001, an additional 38 Wianno Seniors have been launched. In 2016, with the retirement of Bernie Shaw, fabrication of the hull components was moved to Whitecap Composites in Peabody MA. The construction of hull #225 is shown below with hull #226 in the molds waiting for a buyer. #225 was launched in Spring 2017, and went on to win the ...
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Karls Boat Shop First Light Boatworks. MEDIA. Billy Black Photography. FLEET SAILS/CANVAS. Doyle Sailmakers Squeteague Sailmakers. ASSOCIATIONS. Wianno Senior Italia International Sailing Federation ... Wianno Senior Class Association Kevin Cain, Secretary P.O. Box 1242 South Yarmouth, MA 02664.
Attention Wianno Senior Sailors Aleyoop hull #190 is for sale and presently stored at EMC Crosby Boat Works. 190 was one the first fiberglass boats built and rigged by Bernie Shaw Boat Company. Soon after being built, Aleyoop was trucked to Lars Guck's Boat Shop and her bottom was prepped and long board sanded for optimum performance. Aleyoop reportedly had some of the best finishes of all the ...
Fleet Roster
Fleet Roster - April 2024. Prior yacht names are shown (in parentheses) Original yacht names are bold. Please send corrections to Webmaster. Broken up in 1994 at Middleboro, MA.. Missing since 1977, last known location: Newport, RI. Last Registered Owner: John F. Mazza. Missing since 1995, last known location, Warwick, R.I.
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The boat was designed in 1913−14 in the village of Osterville, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for a group of sailors from the Wianno Yacht Club.They requested Horace Manley Crosby to design a sailboat for racing on Nantucket Sound. Manley Crosby was a member of the Crosby family, noted for building the famous Crosby catboats.Fourteen boats were delivered and raced that summer.
The WIANNO SENIOR Knockabout was designed as a one-design day sailer for summer residents of Wianno, Cape Cod, and has remained the principal one-design class of the Wianno Yacht Club. Additional fleets were subsequently organized at the Hyannis, Hyannis Port, Bass River and Stone Horse Yacht Clubs. The original builder was the Crosby Yacht Building […]
Find Crosby Wianno Senior boats for sale in your area & across the world on YachtWorld. Offering the best selection of Crosby boats to choose from.
New Boat Construction. February 26, 2018 wiannosr. No new fiberglass boats had been built since 1990, and without new boats, the class was not going to survive. ... Wianno Senior Class Association Kevin Cain, Secretary P.O. Box 1242 South Yarmouth, MA 02664.
The Wianno Senior is 25 feet long and 8 feet wide, with an oak keel with cast iron ballast and a movable wooden centreboard. The first 14 were built by Crosby in the winter of 1913-14 and sold at the agreed figure of just over $600. Until the 1980s, the boats were built with oak frames and mahogany planking, deck and cockpit in cypress boards ...
The Wianno Senior - The WYC commissioned the Crosby Yacht Yard to design and build a small fast yacht capable of sailing and racing in the choppy-shoal-ridden sailing grounds of Cape Cod's South Shore. ... Two boat yards are still building Wianno Seniors. Crosby Yacht Yard, Inc. in Osterville, Massachusetts, and Shaw Yacht, Inc, in Thomaston ...
The classic Wianno Senior is a gaff-rigged sloop designed and built by Crosby Yacht since the early 1900s. Crosby was commissioned by a group of local sailors to create a class of sailboats uniquely designed for the local waters and sufficient for convenient one-design racing. Her full keel and deep draft adjustable centerboard are perfect for ...
The Wianno Senior is a 25-foot gaff-rigged sloop that is raced and sailed principally in Nantucket Sound, although the Senior can be found in waters between Maine and Maryland, as well as in Italy. Racing fleets compete out of yacht clubs in Osterville, Hyannis/Hyannis Port, and Bass River. Racing is organized during these clubs from mid-June ...
The fact that the Wianno Senior is all of these things — and graceful as a swan — is one reason the 104-year-old gaff-rigged sloop is among the longest-lived one design sailboats in the annals of American yachting. She has an overall length of 25 feet and is just under 18 feet on the waterline. The long keel hides a centerboard, giving the ...
Wianno Senior is a 25′ 0″ / 7.6 m monohull sailboat designed by H. Manley Crosby and built by Crosby Yacht Building and Storage Co. (USA) starting in 1913. ... Cape Cod. The boat has remained a popular and competitive class on Nantucket Sound. Since 1914, about 180 boats have been built. Recent boats are of Fiberglass. About 140 still exist ...
Fiberglass Wianno Senior. David D. Steere, the late Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Association, spearheaded the effort from 1985 to 1987 to develop and finance a fiberglass version of the Wianno Senior Knockabout. The design and engineering of the new boat (by Sparkman & Stephens) and the manufacturing of the necessary tooling for ...
Wianno Senior. The Wianno Senior Knockabout has been racing on Nantucket Sound since the summer of 1914. The boat was designed as a day sailor for summer residents of Wianno and has remained the principal one-design class of the Wianno Yacht Club since the first summer. Generations of families on Cape Cod have been racing Seniors off the coast ...
President John F. Kennedy's beloved sailboat Victura (Latin for "about to conquer") is a 25-foot Wianno Senior sloop purchased in 1932 as a 15th birthday gift from his parents. It is on the Victura that he taught his wife Jackie to sail and also where the Kennedy family enjoyed their love of sailing on Cape Cod.. John F. Kennedy was an avid sailor, having won many sailing events ...
[email protected]. General Correspondence: Wianno Senior Class Association. Kevin Cain, Secretary. P.O. Box 1242. South Yarmouth, MA 02664. The flagship one design of Cape Cod and Nantucket Sound. Information about the Class Association, History, and Current Fleet.
By Stan Grayson, Foreword by Llewellyn Howland III. Published by Tilbury House and the Wianno Senior Class. Association, 264 pages hardcover $49.95. One of the most enduring one-designs in the United States, the Wianno Senior was commissioned by a group of sailors at the Wianno Yacht Club in Osterville, MA. Designed by Horace Manly Crosby, a ...
The name "Wianno Senior" did not come about until 1922 with the introduction of the "Wianno Junior" as a training boat for the younger sailors in the fleet. In the sport of sailboat racing, the summer residents of Wianno saw that it was the perfect venue for their children, both sons and daughters, to learn to "play fair"; to ...
The Wianno Senior is a 25 foot gaff rigged sloop built since 1914 on the Southern shores of Cape Cod (Massachusetts). Designed for the difficult waters of Nantucket Sound, a stretch of sea characterized by strong winds and tidal currents and frequent unmarked sandy shallows. Wianno Senior with her elegant lines, centerboard, low freeboard, wide ...
Attention Wianno Senior Sailors Aleyoop hull #190 is for sale and presently stored at EMC Crosby Boat Works. 190 was one the first fiberglass boats built and rigged by Bernie Shaw Boat Company. Soon after being built, Aleyoop was trucked to Lars Guck's Boat Shop and her bottom was prepped and long board sanded for optimum performance. Aleyoop reportedly had some of the best finishes of all the ...
Since 2001, an additional 38 Wianno Seniors have been launched. In 2016, with the retirement of Bernie Shaw, fabrication of the hull components was moved to Whitecap Composites in Peabody MA. The construction of hull #225 is shown below with hull #226 in the molds waiting for a buyer. #225 was launched in Spring 2017, and went on to win the ...
21. Contact. 617-917-2253. 1. Sort By. Filter Search. View a wide selection of Crosby Wianno Senior boats for sale in your area, explore detailed information & find your next boat on boats.com. #everythingboats.
Karls Boat Shop First Light Boatworks. MEDIA. Billy Black Photography. FLEET SAILS/CANVAS. Doyle Sailmakers Squeteague Sailmakers. ASSOCIATIONS. Wianno Senior Italia International Sailing Federation ... Wianno Senior Class Association Kevin Cain, Secretary P.O. Box 1242 South Yarmouth, MA 02664.
Attention Wianno Senior Sailors Aleyoop hull #190 is for sale and presently stored at EMC Crosby Boat Works. 190 was one the first fiberglass boats built and rigged by Bernie Shaw Boat Company. Soon after being built, Aleyoop was trucked to Lars Guck's Boat Shop and her bottom was prepped and long board sanded for optimum performance. Aleyoop reportedly had some of the best finishes of all the ...
Fleet Roster - April 2024. Prior yacht names are shown (in parentheses) Original yacht names are bold. Please send corrections to Webmaster. Broken up in 1994 at Middleboro, MA.. Missing since 1977, last known location: Newport, RI. Last Registered Owner: John F. Mazza. Missing since 1995, last known location, Warwick, R.I.