The Herreshoff Eagle, also called the Herreshoff Eagle 21, is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by

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as a

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and first built in 1976.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 36.

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/ McGraw-Hill, 2010. The Herreshoff Eagle is a development of the Herreshoff America, with a clipper bow, bowsprit and a gaffhead sloop rig.

Production

The design was initially built by Nowak & Williams in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States. It was also later built by

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and Squadron Yachts, both of Bristol, Rhode Island, and Nauset Marine of Orleans, Massachusetts, but it is now out of production.

Design

The Herreshoff Eagle is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It is a topsail gaff-rigged masthead sloop; with a clipper bow and bowsprit; a plumb

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; a shallow, transom-hung rudder controlled by a

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and a stub keel with a retractable

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. It displaces and carries of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of with the centerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a trailer. The boat is normally fitted with a small stern well-mounted outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. The design has sleeping accommodation for two people, with a double

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in the bow. The

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is located on the starboard side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is equipped with a sink. The

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is located opposite the galley on the port side. Cabin headroom is . For sailing the design is equipped with boom-mounted jib. The design has a hull speed of .

Operational history

In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "although the ads didn't say so, this boat appears to be the Herreshoff America 18 dressed up in an old-timey costume with a bowsprit, topsail, and jib added. Strangely, the ads at first called her a '21' and later she became a '22.' though by scaling off her LOD from the plans, we measure her as an '18.' We wonder why the builders, no longer around to ask, advertised her with such a major discrepancy in size. Best features: To some she may appear to be a pretty replica of a 19th century vessel, though we doubt that she has a close resemblance to any real boat of the past. Her good features generally match the Herreshoff America 18 ... Worst features: The rather long bowsprit and small forward deck with no lifelines or rails make dousing the jib a precarious and chancy affair. The “clipper bow” appears to us to be inappropriate to use with the fat bull and the blunt stern, though some might feel it looks okay. Wheel rather than tiller on a boat this size is a bad idea, reducing control rather than improving it."

References

External links

Collection of Herreshoff Eagle photos
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Production

Design

Operational history

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