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Lulworth (yacht)
''Lulworth'' is a racing yacht which was built in Southampton in 1920.
==The Big Class==
The boat's name comes from Lulworth Castle, which belonged to her second owner, Herbert Weld, whose grandfather was a charter-member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. The ''Lulworth'' (1920) was built by the White Brothers' Yard for Richard H. Lee, who wanted a racing boat to compete in the premier yachting league in Europe: the British "Big Class".
Shortages in the supply of premium spruce after World War I meant that ''Lulworth''s original lower-mast was made of steel instead of wood. This constraint handicapped ''Lulworth'' greatly, leaving her trailing older, more famous Big Class racers like Thomas Benjamin Frederick Davis's Herreshoff-designed schooner ''Westward'' (1910), ''HMY Britannia I'' (1893) and Sir Thomas J. Lipton's Fife-designed 23mR ''Shamrock'' (1908).
Her gaff-rigged sail plan was updated several times to no avail, until America's Cup naval architect Charles Ernest Nicholson redesigned the rig with a wooden lower-mast and adjusted the keel balance. By 1924, ''Lulworth's'' flaws were corrected and she became an accomplished racer in all subsequent seasons of the Big Class: from 1920 to 1930, she took part in 258 regattas, taking 59 first places, 47 of which were after 1924.
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