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COURAGEOUS yacht model
America
Cup's winner in 1974 and 1977
Courageous is the first all aluminum-hulled
12-metre class yacht, quite conservative in her lines,
and very elegant. Courageous won the America's Cup
twice, in 1974 and 1977. In the history of America's
Cup, only three boats have achieved this distinction:
Intrepid in 1967 and 1970, and
Columbia in 1899
and 1901.
Courageous is a landmark in
the design of Twelves being the first 12m built in
aluminum alloy. Aluminum was strong but light; It
allowed any kind of shape. The
aluminum Courageous didn't weight less than the wooden
Twelves. The hull was lighter, about 4,000 lbs
less than a wood hull, but a heavier keel would make up
for it with about 5,000 pounds of lead. “We've
just put the weight in different places for better
speed,” said Chuck ‘Sadler, who was in charge of
building Courageous. According to
Halsey Herreshoff,
a Naval architect who designs and builds
boats who
would be a navigator aboard Courageous, the entry of
aluminum yachts will bring “one of the greatest
America's Cup competitions since postwar rating began in
1958.”
Courageous was designed by
the famed
Olin J. Stephens, from whose
drawing boards at Sparkman & Stephens sprung Intrepid,
Columbia and Constellation, other cup defenders, as well
as Valiant. Courageous has an overall length of 66 feet 6
inches and measures 45-6 on the waterline. Her
beam is 12 feet, her draft 8 feet 10 and her sail area
is 1,770 square feet.
Courageous' geometry
represents a new interpretation of the 1967 Intrepid. As
designed, the lighter aluminum hull suggested extra
ballast, and that made possible a slightly shorter and
finer ended hull than the earlier boat, with lower
profiles at both ends. By reducing the depth of the afterbody between the keel and the rudder, the wetted
surface was also reduced.
Australia and France were the challengers. The
Aussies brought two boats, Southern Cross and
Gretel II, the wood boat defeated by Intrepid in 1970. The French again sailed France I.
The Defense Trials were
raced between Courageous, Heritage,
Intrepid and Valiant. After beating Intrepid in races
hardly won, she was appointed official defender. Courageous handily defeated the Australian Southern
Cross by four races to one in the America's Cup Match. In the same year Courageous also won the Chandler Hovey
Gold Bowl (NYYC).
It's interesting to know
that when Ted Hood
built a new boat which he thought was faster than
Courageous, he sold Courageous to
Ted Turner. During the defender trials for 1977
America's Cup, Turner beat Hood, and then went on to
successfully won the America's Cup.
In the 1977 trials, with Ted Turner as skipper,
Courageous outperformed the other
contenders, Independence and Enterprise. In Match
she won easily four races to none against Alan
Bond's Australia. With this victory, she became
the second Twelve, after Intrepid to have successfully
defended the Cup. In 1977, she again won the Chandler
Hovey Gold Bowl.
Both Courageous and Intrepid are still sailing and
racing today in Newport, Rhode Island. Courageous was
donated to a Museum in 1997 and
was designated as Rhode Island's State Yacht. In
July, 2002, she was restored to her original
configuration.
“It took four years of blood, sweat and tears to put
this all together,” said McCullough, a vice commodore of
the New York Yacht Club. Courageous'
refinements are superb and sophisticated. She has
a longer overhang and more waterline, which will help
pick up sailing faster, a low boom, a lot of little
things. Above all, she's a beauty.
We offer this primarily wood America's Cup model Courageous
in two sizes:
32" long x 45" tall x
7" wide
2,950 Shipped
with mast collapsed. Shipping and insurance in
the contiguous USA included. Other places: $600 flat
rate. Setting it up is very easy, as there are
hooks and hookeyes on the rope.
24" long x 33" tall x
5" wide
2,550 Shipped
with mast collapsed. Shipping and insurance in
the contiguous USA included. Other places: $400 flat
rate. Setting it up is very easy, as there are
hooks and hookeyes on the rope.
We can ship these models
with mast erected for extra $400 and $300.
This model is built per commission only. We require only
a small deposit to start the process $500  The
remaining balance won't be due until the boat is
completed, in less than six months.
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