Description
Photographs by Kathy Mansfield
PLEASE NOTE: THE CALENDAR IS A BIT SMALLER THIS YEAR.
Wall calendar opens to 12" x 18".
Photographer Kathy Mansfield makes her home in the UK, by way of Massachusetts. You will have seen her work in WoodenBoat as well as Water Craft magazine in the UK, and other magazines.
Sailboats featured in this edition include:
January: Corinthian was built as a Universal Rule P Class yacht in 1911, designed for the Seawanaka Corinthian Yacht Club in New York by Nathaniel Herreshoff. She has been recently restored and races here in the Voile de St. Tropez in France.
February: As rain clouds gather, the 34' cold moulded Buzzards Bay 25 Lilith, built by Artisan Boatworks in 2001, sails ahead of the 1945 Nevins-built Polly in the 2024 Castine Yacht Race in Maine.
March: Moonbeam IV was built in 1914 but because of WWI wasn't officially registered until 1920. She has won countless races and is also famous as the yacht on which Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly.
April: The lovely 41.5' Cynthia was built in 1910 by the designer Thomas Jacket and sails in the Solent during the 2024 Richard Mille Cup.
May: The yawl Stormy Weather, one of Olin Stephens's most famous designs, built in 1934 when he was 26, the winner of many awards right up to the present day. She was built at Henry B. Nevin's New York shipyard of mahogany on oak with bronze fastenings. She sails here some years ago at the Régates Royals in Cannes, France.
June: The New York 32 Siren, designed by Olin Stephens and built in 1936, picks up light airs near the Camden Hills at the Castine Classics Race.
July: The 45' gaff cutter Thalia, with a plumb bow and counter stern, was built in 1889, designed by George F. Wanhill in Dorset, England and built of pitch pine on oak.
August: The Eggemoggin Reach Race: the 50' Rascal, designed in 2019 by Jim Taylor, and a 1922 John Alden designed schooner, Malabar II, are almost stationary in the fog.
September: Moonbeam of Fife, the third Moonbeam, was first designed as a yawl by William Fife III in Scotland in 1903, and then changed to a gaff cutter. Here she races in the 2024 Richard Mille Cup in the Solent.
October: Baruna is a Sparkman & Stephens yawl built in 1938, sailing in the Voiles de St Tropez in France.
November: The 46' yawl Palawan, designed and built by Sparkman & Stephens in 1952, winning her class in the 2024 Castine Yacht Race.
December: And for something different, waiting for next summer: an iconic Herreshoff 12 1/2, Picnic, on its mooring. Designed by Nathaniel Herreshoff for the sons of the big yacht owners of Newport, RI, she's really a work of art.