Recreational Small Boat Fleet
Sailing Team – Dinghy Fleet
Sailing Team - Offshore Fleet
Crew Team Fleet
Coach and Workboat Fleet
Sailing Team – Dinghy Fleet
Club 420
Maritime College maintains a fleet of twenty 420’s purchased in the fall of 2004. The Club 420 was developed by Vanguard twenty-years ago in response to the growing need for a more durable, high-performance, double-handed racing dinghy that could stand up to the rigors of club and collegiate programs. Ideal for crews ranging in size from 220-310 lbs., the Club 420 is simple and safe for beginning sailors and yet quick enough to keep collegiate All-Americans interested. More than 100 high schools and colleges maintain fleets of 420’s (adapted from Vanguard’s web site).
Specifications: · LOA: 13'9”
· Beam: 5'5”
· Draft: 3'2”
· Main & Jib: 110 Square Feet
· Hull Weight: 230 Pounds
Club Flying Junior “FJ”
Maritime College has six FJ’s. The Vanguard Club Flying Junior, "FJ", is sailed by more collegiate sailing teams than any other double-handed sailboat. Also popular as a junior trainer, the FJ is a light, tough, agile performer. Especially popular on lakes and rivers, the FJ tacks and accelerates quickly, making the best use of restricted sailing areas. Its large comfortable bouyancy tanks ensure that the FJ is both self rescuing and safe. With a tough untapered mast, external halyards, and a simple layout, the Flying Junior is suitable for optimist sailors and college All-Americans alike. With over 900 boats in use in club programs today, and more than 100 active college fleets, the Flying Junior is a fantastic choice for clubs, high schools or colleges looking to introduce young sailors to double-handed sailing (adapted from Vanguard’s web site).
Specifications:
· LOA: 13'3”
· Beam: 4'11”
· Draft: 3'2”
· Main & Jib: 100 Square Feet
· Hull Weight: 210 Pounds
Sailing Team – Offshore Fleet
J/35 Privateer (Hull # 84; built in 1984)
Privateer (formerly Pipeline) was received as a donation from Annapolis, Maryland in 2003. After racing the boat for a year, students initiated an exhaustive restoration involving more than 2,000 volunteer hours to strip the boat, replace 100 square feet of balsa core, make extensive fiberglass repairs including replacing the entire starboard deck, replace all windows and hatches, re-design and install new hardware, awl grip deck and topsides and barrier coated and paint bottom. Privateer has been raced in western Long Island Sound Yacht Racing Association regattas by the students who restored her since being rededicated on September 19, 2005 by Gary Jobson ’73.
About J/35’s…
What made the J/35's dazzling performance so accessible to sailors of varying experience and ability? Primarily it was its pure hull form, a sweet easily driven shape free of the rating rule-induced exaggerations that made other handicap racers of the 1980s cranky and difficult to sail. With its light weight and long sailing length, big but uncomplicated rig and sensible deck layout, the J/35 was graced with a responsive yet forgiving nature over a wide range of conditions.
- Bill Schanen, Sailing Magazine (from J-Boat’s web site)
Specifications · LOA: 35.50 ft.
· LWL: 30.00 ft.
· Beam: 11.8 ft.
· Draft Deep: 6.90 ft.
· Displacement: 10,500 lb.
· Lead Keel: 4,400 lb.
· 100% Sail Area: 636 ft2
· Aux. Diesel: 28 hp
· Designer: Rodney S. Johnstone
J24
Through the generosity of donors Maritime College has been able to build a fleet of six J24 sailboats with an extensive sail inventory. These boats are the work horses of Maritime's training fleet being used by the sailing team for match racing, recreationally by the sailing club and for learn to sail programs for MUGS (freshmen), faculty and staff and the community.
Specifications
· LOA: 24'
· LWL: 20’
· Beam: 8’9”
· Draft: 4’
· Displacement: 3,100 lb
· · Engine: outboard
· 100% SA: 261 ft2
Crew Team Fleet (coming soon!)
Recreational Boat Fleet – Coach and Workboat Fleet
Coach/Safety Boats
Maritime College maintains and operates a number of coach/safety boats including two U.S. Sailing Zodiacs and two Boston Whalers. The utility players in Maritime’s fleet these boats serve as coach boats during practices, safety and mark set boats during regattas, as instructional vessels in the hands-on safe powerboat handling courses and any where else a small versatile boat is needed.
Viking: The Lobster Boat The work horse of the waterfront, Viking (formerly Brutus) was recently renamed in honor of Al Rohr who worked on Maritime's Waterfront for 25 years. With her powerful single screw Detroit Diesel engine Viking is used to get the big jobs done from setting and hauling moorings to towing docks and other boats. Students also appreciate her wide-open deck and cabin as race committee boat and for fishing or motorboat club trips. Alumni enjoy relating the story of Viking when it was called Miami Vice in recognition of her former career as a drug running boat before coming to Maritime.
