The West Coast Yankees

 
There were originally six Yankees on the West Coast. Four were built in San Francisco by the W.F Stone Boat Yard between the late 1940s and the late 1950s. The Stone Boat Yard is the oldest continuously operational yard in California. The last two Yankees were built by Alameda Boat Works, in the 1960's.
 
David White, the Yankee One Design historian, wrote this brief history of the West Coast boats.

"The SF Bay fleet started with some local builders who served in Europe in WWII and heard about and saw these fine vessels, then brought a set of plans back to the Bay.

Jim Linderman started off building Flame in Alameda right after the war, then he built Venture, and finally Tarfon. He was a close friend of Jack Eirhorn, who was the foreman of Stone Boat Works.

Lester Stone got tired of losing to the YODs, so he had Jack build Clipper and Doodle as a pair at the same time. They were built of better materials than the first three, while the final boat, Flotsam, was a compilation of all that was learned over about 15 years of building, racing, and repairing YODs on the Bay.

Flame had a lot of iron in her, Venture was more a combo of iron and bronze fastenings, while Tarfon was almost all bronze. The two Stone YODs were all 'gold platers' with all bronze, teak, honduras, etc., while Flotsam incorporated fir full-length planks, laminated oak frames, and bronze reinforcements where necessary and desirable."

 
Where are they now?
 
Four of these boats were taken to Seattle in the 1970's and 1980's, in the hopes of establishing a Northwest fleet. Clipper was shipped back to California in 2002, and Doodle was sent to the East Coast in 2001.
 
Sirocco was built in Massachusetts, raced in Cleveland, and then in 1985 was shipped to Washington state, where she is being restored.

• Flame ......Richmon, CA
• Venture ......Seattle, WA
• Tarfon ......Seattle, WA
• Clipper ......San Francisco, CA
• Doodle ......New York?
• Flotsam ......Alameda, CA
• Sirocco ......Pt. Townsend, WA (built in MA)