1911 Herreshoff schooner Elena

oil on Panel 12x18

Norseman 1881

Oil on Panel

12x18

Above are a couple of new schooner paintings, just completed. The first shows Elena  The near sister vessel to Westward. She differed in her keel having a slightly rounded section to her keel and a centerboard. She was the dominate schooner in America from her launch in 1911 until the first world war.

The second painting shows the 129ft schooner Norseman built for prominant New York Yacht Club member Ogden Goelet for cruising. Norseman was designed by William Townsend and built by C. and R. Poillon at there Brooklyn yard

Her principal dimensions where

Length over all           129ft

Length on waterline   114ft 3inch

Beam                           25ft 2inch

Draught                       12ft 2 inch

Spar dimensions

Main mast deck to hounds         90ft

Foremast                                    86ft

Maintopmast                              45ft

Foretopmast                               45ft

Mainboom                                 74ft

Maingaff                                    36ft

Bowsprit outboard                     20ft

Jibboom outboard                      27ft

tonnage gross                             154.34

tonnage net                                 146.61