Centerboard Schooner Yacht GRAYLING, 1883
oil on canvas, 20” x 28”
$4,500
The GRAYLING was a wooden centerboard schooner yacht built in 1883, for Latham A. Fish, a prominent Atlantic Yacht Club member.
She was designed by Philip R. Ellsworth, and built at the Richard & Cornelius Poillon shipyard in 1883.
Known for her shallow draft she was famously involved in a capsizing incident shortly after her launch in 1883.
Click here to read The New York Times article published at the time of the capsizing in May, 1883.
