Dorinda

Also known as: Glen Dorinda

Built 1950W A Clapham

Dorinda is a wooden yacht of Glen Class design (design number 400) built in 1950 by W A Clapham of Bangor, Co Down. At 18 feet on the waterline with a beam of 6.5 feet and draft of 4 feet, she represents a modest cruising type from the post-war era. The Glen Class design originated in 1945 from the A. Mylne & Co. office. Dorinda is no longer extant.

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Specification

LOA (spar)7.6 m · 25 ft

LWL5.5 m · 18 ft

Beam2.0 m · 7 ft

Draft1.2 m · 4 ft

Sail area267 sq ft

TM tonnage3.5

Details

Built1950

Yard number23

BuilderW A Clapham, Bangor, Co Down

ConstructionWood

Registry & Identity

Sail numberG23

Design Archive

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Design No. 400

Glen Class

Designed 1945

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Sister Yachts

37 other vessels built to the same design.

Historical Context

The Glen Class design was created in 1945, at the close of the Second World War, when A. Mylne & Co. was refocusing on leisure yacht design after wartime constraints. Dorinda, built in 1950, exemplifies the modest cruising yachts constructed in the years immediately following the war, when wooden construction remained standard and Northern Irish yards such as W A Clapham's contributed to a distributed network of builders across the British Isles. The Glen Class represented a practical, economical design suited to cruising in home waters. By the 1950s, A. Mylne & Co. had established a substantial track record spanning five decades; Dorinda was one of numerous vessels built to Mylne designs during this period of sustained, if modest, production.

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