Vigilant (yacht)
Vigilant
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| Yacht club |
 New York Yacht Club
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| Nation |
 United States
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| Designer(s) | Nathanael Greene Herreshoff |
| Builder | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company |
| Launched | June 14, 1893 |
| Owner(s) | Syndicate led by Charles Oliver Iselin |
| Fate | Broken up in 1910 |
| Racing career | |
| Skippers | Nathanael Greene Herreshoff |
| Notable victories | 1893 America's Cup |
| America's Cup | 1893 |
| Specifications | |
| Type | Centerboard sloop |
| Displacement | 138 tons |
| Length | 124.0 ft (37.8 m) (LOA) 86.19 ft (26.27 m) (LWL) |
| Beam | 26.25 ft (8.00 m) |
| Draft | 13.5 ft (4.1 m) |
| Sail area | 11,272 sq ft (1,047.2 m2) 1,014.5 m2 (10,920 sq ft) |
Vigilant was the victorious United States defender of the eighth America's Cup in 1893 against British challenger Valkyrie II. Vigilant was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built in 1893 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island. She was Herreshoff's first victorious America's Cup defender design.
Vigilant was a centerboard sloop with all-metal (steel and bronze) construction. She was owned by a syndicate led by Charles Oliver Iselin and which included Edwin Dennison Morgan, August Belmont, Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt, Charles R. Flint, Chester W. Chapin, George R. Clark, Henry Astor Carey, Dr. Barton Hopkins, E.M. Fulton, Jr. and Adrian G Iselin. She was skippered by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff himself.
Launched on June 14, 1893, Vigilant beat Colonia, Jubilee, and Pilgrim to win the 1893 American selection trials for the America's Cup defense.
In the 1893 America's Cup Vigilant faced Lord Dunraven's British keel cutter Valkyrie II in a best three out of five races format sailed on alternating courses. The races were sailed October 7, 9, and 13, 1893 off Sandy Hook, NJ just south of New York. The first and third races were 15 miles to windward off Scotland Lightship and return to leeward, the second race was a 30-mile equilateral triangle. Lord Dunraven's daughter became the first female to sail in an international yacht race in the United States.
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