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In August 1981 the Yachting Monthly magazine provided a supplement called Classic Yachts. Two articles relate to Sparkman & Stephens, the first about the influence of Olin & Rod Stephens, the second (in copy here) about “The enduring S&S 34 cruiser-racer”. The article feature John Blake’s Slipstream, a S&S 34 he restored completely after her tough years as a RAF training boat.
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“James Jermain sail a design from the heyday of Sparkman & Stephens, which jas been cruised and raced at the highest levels”
In the late Sixties and early Seventies, yachts really were expected to be both front-line racing boats and seaworthy, comfortable cruisers. In many people’s minds the S&S 34 represented the apogee of this era. The design became famous of course , in the hands of Ted Heath, then the leader of the Opposition, when, in the first Morning Cloud, he won a string of offshore races, culminating in a triumphant Sydney-Hobart in 1969.
In the late Sixties and early Seventies, yachts really were expected to be both front-
Terry Sprake and Morning's End, an S&S 34, have covered 30,000 miles together. He bought
her in 1987, the year he gave up full-
The 30,000 miles have not been clocked up pottering round the Solent or creek crawling
up the East Coast. They include a full-
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THERE isn’t much doubt that the good publicity provided by Mr Edward Heath's decision to buy an SS34 will do a lot to boost the sales of this craft. On the other hand she is quite capable of standing on her own merits and if Mr Harold Wilson were to chance his luck in some rival design (a thought to cherish by the fireside) it would be hard to say how the voting would go.
THERE isn’t much doubt that the good publicity provided by Mr Edward Heath's decision to buy an SS34 will do a lot to boost the sales of this craft. On the other hand she is quite capable of standing on her own merits and if Mr Harold Wilson were to chance his luck in some rival design (a thought to cherish by the fireside) it would be hard to say how the voting would go.
Renaissance could hardly have been a more fitting title for the 1992 fully-
Appropriately, therefore, the race was named the Hartlepool Renaissance Round Britain Yacht Race — and was won not by the largest boat in the fleet, but by a 20-year-old, home-built 34-footer designed by Sparkman & Stephens. Furthermore, another S&S design, Sunstone, won the Class Two.
Few would argue that, during the 1960s, one of the most respected and influential yacht designers of international repute as Olin Stephens Jr who, for many years, headed the Sparkman & Stephens design office in Madison Avenue, New York. Perhaps it was natural, therefore, that it was to Stephens that the International Yacht Racing Union turned in 1967 to chair the International Technical Committee of the Offshore Rules Co-ordinating Committee, whose brief it was to propose a replacement for the Royal Ocean Racing Club and Cruising Club of America rules.
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