CHEWINK Particulars

LOA 41' 10" LWL 25' 10" Beam 10' 4" Draft 6' 11" Displacement 12,335 lbs Sail Area 1,017 sq ft Designer B.B. Crowninshield Builder D. Fenton

HART NAUTICAL COLLECTIONS, MIT MUSEUM

CHEWINK, launched in 1901, was a member of the 25-foot cabin class. The cabin classes—there were also 21-, 30-, and 35-footers so designated—were restricted designs with minimal accommodations. She is passing Marblehead Light—a popular site for viewing sailboat races.

 

old Boston family that included the owner of first yacht in the United States, he had spent the summers of his youth sailing in Marblehead. His father, Benjamin W., was at one time commodore of the Corinthian Yacht Club.

Crowninshield’s design portfolio would range from the humble Old Town dinghy to the great seven-masted coasting schooner THOMAS W. LAWSON. And it would

include an enduringly popular one-design, the Manchester 17, which clearly took inspiration from the 18' knockabouts. Indeed, the Knockabouts were an incubator for American small sailboat design. The great W. Starling Burgess—co-designer (with Olin Stephens) of the J-class sloop RANGER, seaplane designer and builder, poet— designed them early in his career, too.

18' WL Bay City, Michigan, S-Class Sloop Charles D. Mower, 1921

19' WL Racing and Cruising Sloop Chester A. Neddick, 1924

30' 9" LOA Knockabout F.S. Nock, 1925