Wendameen (yacht)
Description and history
Wendameen is a wooden two-masted auxiliary schooner, measuring 67 feet (20 m) in length, with a 51-foot (16 m) deck and a 17-foot (5.2 m) beam. She is rigged with a gaff-headed schooner rig. She is fitted below decks with staterooms trimmed in mahogany, and has a rated carrying capacity of 41 passengers.
Wendameen was designed in 1912 for businessman Chester Bliss by John G. Alden. She was built at the Adams Shipyard in East Boothbay, Maine. She is the twenty-first recreational fisherman design executed by Alden, and is one of the oldest to survive. In 1915 Bliss sold her to Erwin C. Uihlein, who sailed her for about 20 years on the Great Lakes. In 1933 she was purchased by Gerald W. Ford, a yacht dealer. Hauled out and partially restored, she languished on land until being sold in 1985 to Neal Parker. Parker gave her a full restoration, and began using her for "windjammer" cruises, based out of Camden, Maine. She is now owned by the Portland Schooner Company, and is used for charters and two-hour cruises out of Portland.
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Wendameen (yacht)". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
External links
Media related to Wendameen (ship, 1912) at Wikimedia Commons