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Skin-On-Frame Dinghy SKIN-ON-FRAME DINGHY • BANKS DORIES • VINTAGE DAWN CRUISER THE MAGAZINE FOR WOODEN BOAT OWNERS, BUILDERS, AND DESIGNERS The Irish Ketch ILEN MARCH/APRIL 2020 Kansas City’s Steamboat ARABIA NUMBER 273 A Classic 12-Meter Reborn $7.95 $8.95 in Canada www.woodenboat.com Welcome Back, Particulars LOA 71' 3" LWL 46' 6" Beam 12' Draft 9' Displacement 27 tons Designer Alfred Mylne Builder Bute Slip Dock Co. Year 1939 Rebuilt 2019, Robbe & Berking Classics 78 • WoodenBoat 273 out hesitation, Berking proceeded with the purchase. The salvage operation was rough on the boat’s frag- ile remains; when laid on her side on the barge, she JENETTA broke into three pieces. The lead ballast keel and a few chunks of not-so-rotten planks and frames were shipped to Germany in a container and piled in a heap in a cor- A classic Mylne 12-Meter, ner of Berking’s shipyard, where they remained for seven years. I asked him about the pile of tinder during raised and rebuilt a 2017 visit, and he forbade me to photograph it. At the time he was still waiting for an owner to invest in the rebuild project, and wanted no dispiriting photograph by Sam Fortescue to get out. Now, after an intensive 18-month rebuilding that cost a reported €1.5 million (about $1.65 million) and n November 11, 2009, the hulk of the 12-Meter- 20,000 man-hours, the boat is probably stronger than class sloop JENETTA was raised to the surface she ever was. She has four co-owners, including Berk- Oof Pitt Lake in British Columbia. The yacht had ing, who became a silent partner in order to get the recently succumbed to years of neglect and sunk at project going. “I sold only part of the boat,” he told me her mooring. This might have been the end of her, as we watched JENETTA racing again for the first time save for the efforts of the German shipyard owner in about 60 years. “But it was so big that I said, ‘Look, and silversmith Oliver Berking. we just have to start.’” Berking (see WB No. 258) has long had a love affair with Meter yachts. The day after JENETTA’s sinking, he ar was looming in 1938 when Sir William “rang the Canadian owner” from his home in Flens- Parker Burton commissioned the Scottish burg, Germany. “We agreed a price. Then I had to Wyacht designer Alfred Mylne to design JEN- speak to the International 12-Meter Association. There ETTA, which was the third 12-Meter that Burton had wasn’t much original material left…would they accept commissioned from Mylne. She was to be each man’s her as an original?” The answer was positive and, with- swan song. Previous page—The 12-Meter-class sloop JENETTA was raised from the bottom of Pitt Lake in Canada in 2009, and has been recently rebuilt by Robbe & Berking Classics of Flensburg, Germany. As Robbe & Berking proprietor Oliver Berking says lightheartedly, “She is 63 percent original by weight, thanks to the 17 tons of lead in her keel.” Below left—Englishman William Parker Burton commissioned JENETTA’s design with Alfred Mylne in 1938; she was Burton’s third and final Mylne- designed 12-Meter. Below right—JENETTA was built in Scotland at Bute Slip Dock, which was run by Mylne’s brother, Charles. INA STEINHUSEN INA ALFRED MYLNE ARCHIVES (BOTH) March/April 2020 • 79 The sunken JENETTA was so weakened by age and neglect that she broke into three pieces when raised in 2009. That was of little consequence, because the boat’s entire structure would be replaced. Save for an honorary chunk of original timber, she is a new boat. 1938 she again placed third. It was time for a new boat, and with Burton aged 74, he knew it was likely to be his last. This time, Mylne and Burton had their eyes firmly set on the American 12-Meters. Olin Stephens had designed two very competitive yachts in short order. A third was on the drawing board for Harold S. Vander- ROBBE & BERKING bilt, specifically intended to challenge the British 12-Meters in their home waters. She was to become Burton, who had made his wealth building a national VIM. So much was at stake, then, with the design and wholesale grocery empire, was a consummate yachts- build of JENETTA. man. He had skippered SHAMROCK IV, the British The ample correspondence between Burton and challenger for the 1920 AMERICA’s Cup. Later, he Mylne discusses everything from the competition to the worked with several designers trying to find the ideal most minuscule of design details. In March 1939, Bur- 12-Meter. First, in 1924, he went to Johann Anker (see ton sent Mylne a newspaper clipping about the evolu- WB No. 239), who designed and built NORESKA for tion of VIM. On the 21st of that month, Mylne him. In 1926, he bought the Fife 12-Meter MODESTY responded: “It certainly will be safer to wait and see while she was under construction. The next year he what the American boat is like because these newspa- ordered IYRUNA from Charles Nicholson. per figures are very seldom correct. 45ft in the water- In 1931, Burton turned to Mylne, with whom he had line is a very short boat, and if this length is correct, she worked in 1905 to build the 80' centerboard sloop BRIT- will be 6" less than one of last year’s ‘Twelves’ by the OMART. The new 12-Meter resulting from that commis- same designer.” sion was VERONICA, and she was initially described as He went on to discuss another new 12-Meter, Hugh “rather dull and sluggish in light winds,” by Anthony Goodson’s FLICA II, then being built by Fife to a Lau- Heckstall-Smith of Yachting World. But she underwent a rent Giles design. “The ends of the former boat are rig change during the winter of 1932–33, and that set more tucked in and she gets additional sail on that her up for a blistering performance in 1933. Moving account, but she will not have the sailing length at the mast aft not only improved her looks, according to speed.” Then, in a line that demonstrates the depth of Heckstall-Smith, but also made her faster in light airs. understanding between the two men: “We shall be all She had 22 first-place finishes, 13 seconds, and 7 thirds right if we can get ours along in the light stuff.” out of 50 starts in the British season. The following year Mylne finishes by giving Burton a detailed update she was less successful, and lost her mast in the last race on the state of the build, which was taking place in of the season. Scotland at Bute Slip Dock—the yard run by his brother, Burton commissioned a second 12-Meter, MARINA Charles. JENETTA’s plank seams were splined with (see sidebar), from Mylne. This yacht built on the les- mahogany by then, which was a departure from the sons learned with VERONICA, especially regarding the original plan of using oakum and red-lead putty. Her rig. Her novelty lay in the use of jumper struts to sup- full specification was based on that of MARINA, and port the upper portion of the mast so there was no extends to 11 pages of detailed text in the purple ink of need to attach an outer forestay to the stemhead. This early duplicators. Scrawled notes and crossings-out improved the set of the jib upwind and simplified spinnaker handling. She led the field in 1935 and 1936, beating Brit- ish archrivals WESTRA and FLICA. None- theless, by 1937 she was starting to show her age, managing only third place over the season and being dismasted twice. In Every third frame in the new JENETTA is of stainless steel; the frequency increases to every other frame in the maststep region. These frames were cut by water jet and welded together. The slots in the keel are for the intermediate frames, which are of laminated ash. SOMMERWERCK ULF 80 • WoodenBoat 273 Lennard Voigt, a boatbuilder at Robbe & Berking Classics, fine-tunes the edge of a plank for the new JENETTA. 12-Meters to scrap for the honors. “One could not say how JENETTA and TOMAHAWK compared to each other, or with the other boats EVAINE and TRIVIA,” The Times concluded. The next day’s racing saw a clear win from VIM, which maneuvered more smartly than the British boats and cemented a small lead during the long windward beat. JENETTA finished second on the 24-mile race, a full 3 minutes 46 seconds behind VIM. The Times observed that JENETTA had “slowly but remorselessly” ROBBE & BERKING overhauled T.O.M. Sopwith’s TOMAHAWK. On the passage race down to Southend the following bear witness to the alterations made by Burton, and weekend, the formula was repeated. VIM stretched out they paint an interesting picture of a man who spared a long lead of more than 11 minutes during more than no expense in matters of performance, but was very eight hours of racing, with JENETTA leading the British willing to save a penny or two elsewhere. For example, boats. There was much talk of VIM ’s better rig, but The the Honduras mahogany planking was beefed up from Times is clear: “My own view is the hull of VIM is not all 9 15 1.28" (1 ⁄32") to 1.46" (1 ⁄32"), but the requirement for “the that superior to the British.
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