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Red Jacket 17 is a 17 ′ 3 ″ / 5.3 m monohull sailboat designed by Per Brohäll and built by Hill & Cameron Yachts starting in 1973.

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Red jacket 17

The red jacket 17 is a 17.26ft fractional sloop designed by per brohäll and built in fiberglass by hill & cameron yachts (australia) since 1973..

The Red jacket 17 is a light sailboat which is a very high performer. It is very stable / stiff and has a low righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a day-boat.

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In 1965, Canadian yachtsman Perry Connolly commissioned the Cuthbertson and Cassian design group to create the “meanest, hungriest 40-footer afloat.” The racing sloop, named Red Jacket , was built by Bruckmann Manufacturing in fiberglass with a balsa core and is the first sailboat engineered with a cored hull. The resulting structure was strong, stiff, and significantly lighter than the wood or solid fiberglass yachts that were sailing at the time. Launched in May 1966, she took 11 out of 13 starts that summer.

That winter, Red Jacket headed south and became the first Canadian boat to win the famed Southern Ocean Racing Circuit (SORC), competing against more than 85 of the best international racers of the day.

Now, Harris & Ellis Yachts is honoured to present this veritable Canadian sailing icon for sale. She is in good condition with many upgrades and refits throughout the years. Her most recent major refit was in 2007, at Bruckmann Yachts, when most electrical and electronic systems were updated. She has a favourable appraisal survey from 2020.

Truly launch-ready and able to start racing with little to no prep, Red Jacket offers a rare opportunity to own a remarkable piece of Canadian sailing history.

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Red Jacket returns to the race course

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The famous Canadian racer has new owners and will be on the lakes this summer. Story by Wendy Mitman Clarke for SAIL magazine:

Red Jacket, the 40-footer that became the first Canadian boat to win the SORC and launched what would become C&C Yachts, will be back on the racecourse this summer under new ownership, after her future had become worryingly uncertain.

“In Canada there are two significant sailing vessels in my mind, the Bluenose, on our dime, and Red Jacket,” says Brian Post, who purchased the storied boat with his sailing buddy, John Salasny. He said it only took them a moment to know they would buy her to prevent her from being “disposed of or falling into hands that couldn’t care for her…I’m excited as heck to sail her.”

“Everybody thought it was an old 1966 racing boat that was falling apart. But we took a quick gander, we were only on the boat a minute, two minutes, and there was nothing wrong with it,” Salasny says. “So we took a shot at it, right?”

Only one other bidder made an offer, he says, and they would have moved the boat out of Canada. “That boat shouldn’t be leaving Lake Ontario. That was part of our proposal, that it would sail on Lake Ontario, and we would show it.” – Full report

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Red Jacket , by George Cuthbertson

Red Jacket 's crew: (back row) David Osler, Bill West (navigator), Jack Beatson, Don Tyler, Loran Gowe (front row) Gordon Fisher, Perry Connolly (owner), Peter Mackinnon

A celebrated sailboat that revolutionized the construction of boats in her day, won lots of races and resulted in a little known Canadian boat designer vaulting to almost instant success. The boat is called Red Jacket and was designed by George Cuthbertson of the design team of Cuthbertson and Cassian Ltd., (later to become C&C Yachts Ltd.). The boat was launched in May 1966 and was found docked at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto for many years

Red Jacket was designed for Perry Connolly and featured a first in sailboat construction – an extremely light weight balsa core, which allowed the vessel to compete with – and beat – other 40-foot boats in the Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC), or "the circuit." It was the first Canadian boat to win against a fleet of about 85 others, many being the cream of American racers.

Designer George Cuthbertson recalls a batch of orders for racing boats after the big victory. "She came out of the north completely unknown," he said. "The Americans sat up and paid attention".

Red Jacket also made use of a spade rudder instead of hanging the rudder on a skeg, and also featured a bow sprit as a lighter way to reduce pitching. Red Jacket , which draws 7 feet and has an 11 foot beam, weighed 17,455 pounds at launch, which is heavy by 21st century standards, with some low-density foam cored boats of comparable size weighing in at at under 10,000 pounds.

But in her day, Red Jacket was very light. And very fast.

Boat builders at the time were worried about the balsa becoming wet and deteriorating, and Red Jacket was pulled out of the water and weighed each year, along with core samples being taken, but no damage to the core was discovered. Eventually, the testing stopped.

The boat changed hands over the years, and was owned for more than 20 years by Paul Phelan. When he reached his eighties, Phelan no longer raced the boat but watched a hired crew, led by Bryan Gooderham, sometimes from a motorboat nearby as Red Jacket rounds the weather mark.

Red Jacket , by Peter Rindisbacher , CSMA ; oil on canvas, 16" x 20".

"He likes a good gybe set," said Gooderham of the boat owner. "He's terrific with his crew. He refers to us as his young bucks, although some of us are in our mid 50s." Gooderham said that the boat was still competitive "which says something for the workmanship" and the design of the 33-year-old racer.

In her heyday, Red Jacket won 11 of 13 races in her first season, including the Freeman Cup and the Lake Ontario International. In the 1967 SORC race from St. Petersburg to Venice in Florida, Red Jacket finished first, and so began the spotlight on the boat. Over the years, Red Jacket has had some redesign work, including the addition of a teak deck and a more comfortable interior, a shaved down keel, a hydraulic backstay and boom vang, a larger rudder and a few other changes.

After Paul Phelan passed away in 2002, Red Jacket was owned by Peter Milligan, a Vice Commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, and was superbly maintained, sailed and raced.

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The schooner Red Jacket was an early design by Ted Geary, and has had a long and illustrious life. She has always been a private yacht and has suffered numerous mishaps over the years – a typhoon, two fires, one sinking and the loss of her keel to name a few.

"Red Jacket" was built in the NW in 1920 by Blanchard Boat Co and Designed by Ted Geary. Geary is a highly reputable NW designer in both sail and power designing such well known vessels as the fantail yachts " Malibu " (also built by Blanchard), " Thea Foss ", " Blue Peter " and " Gosling ". He also designed sailboats. "Sir Tom" and "Pirate" which won most of the West Coast competitive races of their time. "Red Jacket" is of such pedigree.

"Red Jacket" was originally built and launched on Seattle's Lake Union and named 'Katedna" which was named for the owner Fred Baxter's wife Kate Edna McGraw the daughter of the states 2nd Governor. Frank was the Vice Commodore of Seattle Yacht Club and participated in the first Opening Day Ceremony with "Katedna". She was then sold in 1921 to a LA banker whom sailed her to Australia for their honeymoon.

Upon her return she was sold to a California land developer Otto Wildey, who was the first Commodore of the California Yacht Club at Wilmington, and whose company built the Los Angeles Coliseum. In 1925 they cruised the South Seas for 5 years.

In 1933 she was purchased by George Webb who brought her back up to Seattle and renamed her "Red Jacket" after Chief Red Jacket a prominent Seneca orator who wore a red uniform coat given to him by a British soldier.

In 1935 she was purchased by Paul Henry who was the incoming Seattle Yacht Club Commodore who had Geary redesign the rig and transform "Red Jacket" into the most elegant sailing yacht in Seattle.

The current owners Terry & Renee Paine of Tacoma have lovingly refurbished, upgraded and maintained the "Red Jacket" thru the Kelley Maritime Museum.

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"Red Jacket" Comes to Kingston

By: robert mazza.

The name Red Jacket invokes instant pride and recognition among knowledgeable Canadian sailors.   She not only beat all US competitors in the prestigious Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC) in Florida in 1968, but in doing so she launched the International reputation of Canadian designers and builders, resulting in the creation of C&C Yachts.

C&C was a Canadian company that dominated the North American sailboat industry for the next twenty years, with production facilities in three countries.   Through the generosity of Peter Milligan, her late owner, this Canadian sailing legend will be coming to her new home at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston this coming summer.

What were the keys to Red Jacket’s success? What made her unique, and what made her a legend? The answer to these questions lies in three areas – Design, Construction, and the People involved in her creation and campaigning.

Red Jacket was designed in 1965 by the emerging yacht design firm of Cuthbertson & Cassian Ltd. of Port Credit, ON, for Canadian contractor Perry Connolly. This firm was headed by young mechanical engineer, George Cuthbertson.

The legend is that between the 2nd and 3rd periods of a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game, Connolly asked his good friend Cuthbertson to design the “meanest, hungriest, 40 footer afloat”. Cuthbertson and his associate George Cassian took that instruction to heart.

Her underwater profile utilized a separate keel and an all-movable spade rudder. This was in sharp contrast to the full keels with attached rudders that had persisted in offshore yacht design for too many years. This split configuration is now the norm, but in 1966 when she was launched, this was definitely avant-garde.

The configuration greatly reduced her wetted surface, increased the efficiency of her “foils”, and improved maneuverability and control. Above the waterline, the focus was on weight reduction and improved efficiency. The weight reduction was particularly targeted to the ends of the hull, in order to reduce the pitching moment for a smoother sailing in waves. The traditional longer overhangs were reduced by utilizing a reverse transom aft and an aluminum “hair pin” bowsprit forward. The efficiency of the rig was improved by reducing drag with the use of internal shrouds that crossed internally to the other side of the mast.

Engine weight was reduced by installing a rotary Wankel engine, which ultimately proved unreliable in a marine environment. Weight was further reduced with the installation of a stark interior, with no accommodations forward of the mast to allow for better sail storage, and to further reduce the weight in the ends of the boat. And, of course, the ultimate way to save weight was in her choice of construction.

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In 1966, the popular material choice for racing yacht construction was wood, steel, or aluminum. Early fiberglass was being used in smaller, higher volume production boats, but seldom in competitive, custom, one-off race yachts. Red Jacket turned that theory on its head by employing for the first time an engineered composite hull construction, which utilized a light-weight, end-grain balsa core, sandwiched between two load bearing, engineered fiberglass skins. This was the first time that this had been done in North America. Although unique at the time, sandwich cored construction soon became the norm in all performance composite structures, from aircraft to wind turbine blades. Indeed, the mammoth wind blades turning on Wolfe and Amherst Islands owe their very existence to the composite engineering theories and practices pioneered in Red Jacket . Keep in mind that this reduction in weight was achieved with a substantial increase in stiffness, but no loss in strength.  

This construction technique was so new in racing yacht construction that her builder, Erich Bruckmann, had never built a boat like this ever before. He would soon, however, become the master of the method and build some of the finest boats in the world, in the C&C Yachts Custom division.

People Involved

The people involved in the creation of Red Jacket – her owner, designers, and builder, as well as her crew – had been working together on a number of other projects for a good many years, before the creation of Red Jacket . This was a classic example of the 10,000 hour theory of creativity.   Red Jacket was innovative and revolutionary for her day, but she did not come out of thin air.

Connolly, Cuthbertson, Cassian, and Bruckmann had all worked together on other projects for a good number of years, all culminating in Red Jacket. After her launch in May 1966, she dominated racing on Lake Ontario, winning 11 of her 13 races that season. That success prompted Connolly to follow the advice of American Jim McHugh, owner of the not yet finished Cuthbertson designed and Bruckmann built Inferno II, to combine their crews to enter Red Jacket in the 1967 SORC, a series of five offshore races in Florida, which were considered the World Series of yacht racing. She lost the overall prize by one bad race, and ended up second in "B" division, being beaten by a boat that she had beaten in four out of five races. Also she came so close to winning that Connolly decided to return the following year.  

Her all Canadian crew in the 1968 SORC was made up of others who had been involved in this process, notably Gordon Fisher, who had launched his own Cuthbertson & Cassian designed, Bruckmann built, full keel strip plank 40 footer Thermopylae two years before Red Jacket .   Red Jacket had built on all the lessons learned from her predecessors, and then took it to the next level.   These were people who had worked together in close collaboration for many years, perfecting the ultimate ocean racer. With Red Jacket , their time had come.

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Red Jacket’s success in 1968 led directly to the public stock offering that resulted in the creation of C&C Yachts in 1969, and that, too, is the stuff of sailing legend. The design firm of Cuthbertson & Cassian amalgamated with the three Ontario builders producing their designs in fiberglass – Bruckmann Manufacturing, Hinterhoeller Yachts, and Belleville Marine – to create a combined manufacturing and marketing entity.

Racing wins continued with other Cuthbertson & Cassian designed, Bruckmann built, custom race boats, notably the winning of the Canada’s Cup with Manitou in 1969, and the continued success in the SORC, where C&C products won overall and in three of the five division in 1972.   Cuthbertson would put down his drawing pencil and become President of C&C in 1973, and Connolly would later manage the Rhode Island subsidiary of C&C, and later Hinterhoeller Yachts, while Bruckmann continued to produce masterpieces in yacht construction throughout his long career.

The Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston

It is now 55 years since Red Jacket’s launching, and, sadly, none of the people mentioned above are still with us. Peter Milligan was her most recent owner, the last of a number of individuals who cared for and revered this remarkable piece of Canadian sailing history, while at the same time continuing her winning ways on home waters. In that regard, Peter always said he felt more like Red Jacket’s custodian than her owner, so he stipulated in his will that she should be donated to the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston upon his death, which came far too early.

The choice of the Marine Museum as her final home was based on the fact that Cuthbertson had already donated his entire drawing collection up to 1973 (including the Red Jacket drawings) to the Marine Museum. In addition, all the C&C drawings from 1974 to 1996, when the C&C assets were purchased by Fairport Marine in Ohio, had been donated to the museum by Tim Jackett of Fairport Marine in 2012. The Marine Museum is also the home of the Canadian Sailing Hall of Fame, in which George Cuthbertson was an early inductee. The Marine Museum will also be initiating the Register of Historic Canadian Sailing Craft, in which Red Jacket will logically be the first entry.

The plan is that Red Jacket, in her new home in Kingston, will continue to sail, allowing as many sailors as possible to try their hand at the wheel and trimming the sheets of this remarkable piece of Canadian sailing history.

For more information please contact: Doug Cowie, Museum Manager Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston

By Rob Mazza

Rob Mazza is a Mechanical Engineer and Naval Architect with over forty year in the marine industry.  He began as a yacht designer with C&C Yachts and Mark Ellis Design in Canada, and Hunter Marine in the US.  He moved to sales and marketing of structural cores and bonding compounds with ATC Chemicals in Ontario, and Baltek, Inc. in New Jersey. Returning to Canada in 2011, Mazza is currently semi-retired, acting as Technical editor for Good Old Boat magazine, and has written articles for Professional Boatbuilder , and Wooden Boat magazines. His articles often focus on the history and development of yacht design, especially in Canada.  Mazza sits on the Board of Directors of the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston, is a past Vice Commodore of the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club and is currently chair of the Canadian Sailing Hall of Fame Management Committee and the RHYC Heritage Committee.

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Red Jacket Sailboat TS This is a great little boat (17'6"), I sail it by myself, easily accommodate a crew. I am 59, I purchased this to see if I would enjoy it as a hobby, I do enjoy it but sailing does not float my boat if you get my drift. Extremely stable, have been out in high winds by myself and did not have any issues, other than my ability. It has a Main, Jib and Storm Jib, all rigging, the motor is not included. The rudder requires repair but it has required repair for the last year and I still sail it, the pics are from this weekend, as you will be able to tell from the pics it is dry at Eppalock and the boat is a bit dusty, dirty but it scrubs up OK.

It is a great looking boat, if I was into it, I would not be spending any time on the aesthetics, just enjoy the boat, but you may want to. It is currently parked as BeYC (Bendigo Yacht Club), Lake Eppalock, you will be required to pick up from there, I will meet you there, show you how I rig it and even go out on the water if there is sufficient wind. As this is going up for auction and I am not sure of the outcome, below are some points you need to take note of. 1. The trailer rego expired a few months ago so if you want the trailer registered there will be an extra $30 on top of the sale price. 2. The boat comes as is in the pics, minus the outboard, the outboard will be on classifieds board shortly, unless you express an interest. 3.

If you are towing it away you will need a light bar, if I get a decent price I might throw it in, a light bar will cost you around $90-100 from supercheap auto In all honesty, I would think about becoming a Member of BeYC and leaving the boat parked there, the storage fees are only about $50 PA, you will save that in petrol costs and the people there are helpful and friendly. Payment for the boat and if required delivery must be made prior to me getting in my car to meet you. I could play with the idea of delivering it close by or to Suburban Melbourne somewhere but you would have to pay for my petrol (to and from) and trailer rego. If you want to check it out go to BeYC on the weekend and let them know you are thinking about the Red Jacket, I am sore they will point you in the right direction. Payment is COD (you now what I mean) only.

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