Designer : W. Starling Burgess Builder : Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
-1930: Defender, winner of the 14th America's Cup, in 1930, crushing Shamrock V by 4 wins to nil.
1930
Just after the America's Cup races, Enterprise was drydocked. It would never sail again.
1935 Broken up for scrap.
ENTERPRISE 1930
USA
Yacht Club: New York Yacht Club.
Defender, winner of the 14th America's Cup, in 1930, crushing Shamrock V by 4 wins to nil.
Owner: Syndicate (Winthrop W. Aldrich, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Vincent Astor, syndicate manager, George F. Baker, Jr., Floyd L. Carlisle, E. Walter Clark et George Whitney).
Keel sloop fitted with two centerboards
Universal Rule
Rating: J Class, 76.0. Sail number: 4
Designer: W. Starling Burgess
Builder: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island
Sailmaker: Ratsey & Lapthorn, New York and Preston Wilson, New York.
Mast: designed by Charles Paine Burgess, built by Glenn L. Martin Company, Baltimore, Maryland.
Winches: Merriman Bros.
Launched: April 14th 1930
Skipper: Harold "Mike" Vanderbilt.
Boatswain: George H. Monsell
Mates: Harry Klefve, Adolph Nelson, and Oli Larsen.
Afterguard: William Starling Burgess, Charles F. "Bubbles" Havemeyer, C. Sherman Hoyt, Winthrop Aldrich.
Crew: 31
L.O.A.: 36.49 m.
L.W.L.: 24.38 m.
Beam: 6.73 m.
Draft: 4.42 m.
Displacement: 127.6 tons.
Wetted surface: 189.8 m2
Sail Area: 704.48 m2
Mast height: 45.97 m.
Boom: 24.01 m.
)
