20'3" Flatfish Class Sloop
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Join to view PDFThe winter of 1913 saw the great Nathanael G. Herreshoff wintering in Bermuda, with a new boat, ALERION, designed for his own use. He was so pleased with this new design that most of his subsequent small sailboat designs could trace their lineage to her.In 1914 came the wonderful 12½-footer, and the next winter brought a somewhat larger version, known as the Fish class. The boats in Alerion's extended family, including the Buzzard's Bay 25s, the Newport 29s, and the Fishers Island 31s, share certain traits-shapely hulls, fast sailing, impeccable manners, and long lives. Flatfish Particulars
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Hard to imagine a more wonderful boat. I have a Buzzard’s Bay 14 (‘glass, sorry about that), a 17 ft. upscaling of the 12 1/2 by LFH that is kind of halfway between the 12 1/2 and the Fish. I would love to have the longer boat–for one thing, it would be less susceptible to wakes from thoughtless power boaters.