An exhibition standard model of the schooner yacht Dream of the New York Yacht Club

R. NAPIER (AMERICAN, 20TH CENTURY); SEPTEMBER 1992

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An exhibition standard model of the schooner yacht Dream of the New York Yacht Club
R. Napier (American, 20th century); September 1992
in 1:32 scale, the hull of the model from wood with the bottom carved from mahogany and finished bright, the topsides are finished flat black. The decks are planked and painted white and buff and detailed with forward hatch, stove pipe, center coach roof, aft coach roof with companionway, belaying posts, cleats, turning blocks, tiller and other details. Rigged as a schooner, with a bow sprit, fore and main masts, mast hoops, main boom and gaff, fore and side stays, gaff hoists, jib, and main sheets, outhauls, topping lifts, flag halyards, and other rigging details. The model is displayed on a pair of turned wood pedestals and mounted on a cherry board.
30 x 27½ in. (76.2 x 69.9 cm.) model on stand.

Lot Essay

Isaac Webb of New York designed and built the schooner Dream in 1832 for a New York yachtsman. In 1834, Boston's Robert Bennett Forbes purchased her for pleasure sailing with a party of men called the "Dream Club," which was the first organized yacht club east of Cape Cod. When not being used for this, she was a pilot schooner. She was sold to George L. Schuyler of New York in 1836 and she bacame a member of the charter fleet of the New York Yacht Club in 1844.

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