Sammy

Design 1621 Knickerbocker Class

I have always liked the look of these boats. The class was developed for the Knickerbocker Yacht Club of Port Washington, New York, which closed it's doors in 2009, after 135 years of operation. The design was developed in 1961. The boats were built by American Boatbuilding Corporation of Warwick, Rhode Island.

The boat was designed with blade jib, main and spinnaker: and no genoas. They were designed for around the buoy racing and also the occasional over-nighter.

Here are the plans.


Here's a copy of an old spec sheet.


These boats are fairly readily available on the used boat market for reasonable cost.