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Design #444, 47'8" x 34 x 11'4" x 6'10" sloop, 1938 |
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Copperhead was designed as a sleek, narrow sloop, along the lines of Narada. She had a very successful racing career on Lake Michigan during the 1950s. Over the years she changed in various ways, as different owners asked Rhodes to make design changes. She went from a fractional sloop to a masthead sloop with a bowsprit. Then the boom was trimmed, a mizzen mast added, and she became a yawl, with a mizzen staysail for off-wind perfomrance. Her doghouse was removed to provide a sleeker profile, and her steering wheel was replaced with a tiller. Later on, her wheel came back She is now in San Francisco Bay, being restored, and still turning eyes. For photos, please go to:
The current skippker would
like to know more about her history. If you have any knowledge of
her past, please contact Robert at:
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