Glenaan

Also known as: G2

Built 1947W A Clapham

Glenaan is a wooden sailing yacht of 18 feet waterline, built in 1947 by W A Clapham of Bangor, County Down, to design 400 of the Glen Class. This design was produced by A. Mylne & Co. in 1945 and represents the practice of the Scottish yacht design office in the post-war period. The vessel remains in existence.

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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

Built1947

Yard number2

BuilderW A Clapham, Bangor, Co Down

ConstructionWood

Current locationDublin Bay

Registry & Identity

Sail numberG17

Design Archive

Misc

Design No. 400

Glen Class

Designed 1945

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Sister Yachts

37 other vessels built to the same design.

Historical Context

Design 400, the Glen Class, was created by A. Mylne & Co. in 1945, during the final year of the Second World War, when yacht design offices in Britain were beginning to plan for the resumption of leisure sailing. The design emerged in a period when the Scottish firm, established in 1896, was among the most prolific and respected practitioners of yacht design in the British Isles. Small wooden yachts of this type—modest in dimension but seaworthy—formed a significant part of Mylne's output in the 1940s. Glenaan, built two years after the design was completed, exemplifies the transition from wartime austerity to renewed recreational sailing. The construction by W A Clapham, a builder based in Bangor, Northern Ireland, indicates the geographic reach of Mylne designs beyond Scotland.

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