Endeavor 30"

Endeavor 30"

Endeavour pioneered the Quadrilateral genoa, a two clewed headsail with immense sail area and power. It also has a larger and better designed spinnaker but Sopwith was disappointed for poor crewing.

Endeavour passed through many hands over the next 46 years; the yacht was sold to a scrap merchant in 1947 only to be saved by another buyer before itsscheduled demolition. Endeavour sank in the Medina River in Cowes. Again, Endeavour was bought for ten pounds sterling by two carpenters in the seventies, patching the holes in her hull with plastic bags and got it to float again. In the early eighties, Endeavour was stationed in an abandoned seaplane base in southern England. The Endeavour suffered a complete wreck, a rusting and forlorn hulk with no keel, rudder, ballast or interior.

In 1984, Endeavour was bought by an American yachtswoman named Elizabeth Meyer and it took five years to rebuild the yacht. Endeavour's hull was restored and the missing keel and ballast were rebuilt and a new rudder was fabricated. Endeavour sailed again on June 22, 1989, for the first time in 52 years.