Boat

Viking was built in 1957 at the boatyard of Borge Børresen in Denmark. It has a mahogany planked varnished hull, framed with ash. Deck planking was pine covered originally with canvas, then with light fiberglas cloth. It’s original sail number was D139, the boat was named Bluenose, and was sailed from the Hellerup Sailclub., In … Read more

Nortic was built by Pedersen and Thuesen (P&T) in 1960 for Bill Citron of the Solent in the UK. P&T built almost 100 Dragons from 1950 to the eariy 1970s, but the early 60s Dragons were known for their speed. In 1965 She was sold to L.H. Muir and C.H. Welsh at the Royal Canadian … Read more

Intrigue was built in 1974 by Godsil/Miller in Seattle, USA. She had a red hull and the cuddy was built from a new mould. The original owner, Herman Lax, kept her at the Corinthian YC in Seattle. In 1982 she was sold to Canada and given a new sail number, CAN131 where she was raced … Read more

Butterfly was built in 1948 by Anker & Jensen and bought by Lars Lynges who raced her as N192 in the Oslo area. Lars moved to Seattle in 1951 and brought his Dragon with him with the intent of starting a new sailing class on the West Coast. In all, ten Dragons were shipped to … Read more

Dragon hull number 556 was built by Børresen in Denmark in 1970, and is a carvel planked Classic Dragon built with mahogany, teak and oak hardwoods, with softwoods used for the deck beams, carling and shelf. Mistral was built for Marty Godsil in Seattle, Washington and the original sail number was US250. The hull colour … Read more

USA253 was the second GRP Dragon built by Børresen in 1971. She was bought by Maurice van Horne who brought her to the Rochester Yacht Club. Mr. van Horne had owned a number of Dragons prior to this one, which he called Applejack. USA253 changed ownership a number of times over the years and was … Read more

The original owner of USA40 was W. H. Jaynes of Seattle, WA. Troll of Trondheim was competitively raced in the 50s and 60s by Don Blair who was a several-time winner of the Le Bon Marche trophy for Dragons, raced during the annual Seafair. The August 1954 National Geographic had an article about the builder, … Read more

Aphrodite USA219 was built by Kelvin Savell of San Diego for Lowell North for the purpose of racing her in the 1964 Olympics, Tokyo, Japan where Lowell won the Bronze medal. She was sold to Bob Mosbacher of the Texas Corinthian YC, Houston TX in 1965.  In 1967 Aphrodite, helmed by Mosbacher, placed 2nd in the … Read more

Built in 1951 by Brodrene Roland in Norway and imported to the USA in 1956. Original home port was the Richmond YC San Francisco Bay, Oakland, she remained in the San Francisco Bay area until 1983. She changed ownership in 1959, again in 1964 when she was moved to the Meridian YC in Berkley, CA … Read more

USA312 is one of the Brites Dragons that were shipped to the US from Portugal – they are distinguished by a B inside a star stamped on much of the hardware (Brites built Stars as well as Dragons). Of the 11 Brites Dragons that were shipped to the US, there are five that ended up on … Read more