Al Na’Ir
Sparkman & Stephens Alpa 12.70 1971
The Alpa 12.70 yacht was produced in very few specimens from the historic site of Offanengo (Cr). It was designed by Olin Stephens in 1969 at the request of a group of passionate Italian sailors, in order to participate in international offshore races. The hull, characterized by remarkable rakes, adopted rudder with skeg. Fitted with the masthead, Alpa 12,70 revealed balanced and easy to handle in all conditions, even in rough seas. Despite the initial project foresaw a short deck, to facilitate maneuvers on the foredeck during the races, some specimens were made with the long deckhouse, with modified interior layout. The first version has an aft cabin with separate access, while the second involves only the navigator's bunk.
Roland Von Bremen
Henry Gruber – 1936
Roland von Bremen has been designed for the annual transatlantic race from Bermuda to Cuxhaven, and its designer, knowing that almost the entire route would be downwind or on a reach, drew the front rather full with fine lines stern. This, rather than impair its nautical ability, probably would have improved these capabilities, a hull with clean outbursts would not disturb the wave of the wake, so it could be worn with greater momentum in downwind.
Bona Fide
Charles Sibbick 1899
Bona Fide , 110 years of glory. Defying resistances and prejudices, the British yacht designer Charles Sibbick in 1899 designed and built in his yard in Cowes a boat that, in view of the competitions across the Channe, would be appropriate to the formula of the Jauge Nationale Française.
Sibbick went to work and conceived an extraordinary project . Length over all 16,12 m Armament . - Hull 13,10 - flotation 8.90 - Width 2.57 - 1.86 draft . Thin fin keel comes with lead ballast and rudder suspended, with a sail area of 44 square meters.
In 1900, the boat was sent near Paris, on the Seine, in the basin of Meulan , where, in May , they would have played the second Olympics in history, after 1500 years of stasis and in which, for the first time, the sailing was represented. Even here Bona Fide aroused great attention and in an extremely favorable conditions, in calm waters and light winds, made clean sweep of opponents getting their first win in Olympic sailing of its class, with a disarming advantage of almost 21 minutes over a distance of about 10 miles
Magic
Richard F. Loper 1857
Richard Fanning Loper was born in Philadelphia in 1800 and went to sea in his youth. His method of designing can best be described as the "cut and try" method; in spite of his engineering ability he appears to have blindly followed the methods of design that were prevalent among the "sand-bagger" builders.
His first yacht was the Magic, a centerboard sloop built for him in 1857 on his model. She was built by Byerly and Son in Philadelphia and launched early in 1857.
In 1870, she was one of the fleet that defended the America's Cup against the Cambria, not only beating the challenger, but also the fleet, made up of such noted racers as Halcyon, Fleetwing, Idler, Madeleine, SyIvie, America, Rambler and Phantom.
