A Bay one-design that had almost vanished from the record. Seventeen hulls, built by the Nunes brothers at Sausalito, with their own perpetual trophy given by Sir Thomas Lipton's estate — and until now this atlas could not identify it at all.
- Builder
- Nunes Bros. Boatyard, Sausalito
- Hulls
- 17 built
- Trophy
- The Sir Thomas Lipton Pacific Coast Perpetual Trophy was awarded exclusively within the class, 1952–1973
- Record
- Pictured as the class representative in the 1959 Yachting Year Book
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
- Everything in this entry rests on a single owner-submitted record in the WoodenBoat Register. No other source for the class — hull count, builder, the Lipton trophy years, or Random's earlier names — could be found anywhere. It is recorded here because it is the only account there is, and flagged because that is a fragile basis for a class entry.
- No individual naval architect could be confirmed for the class. Whether Ernie Nunes designed it, as he did the Bear and the Mercury, is a reasonable hypothesis but is not sourced.
- The class is named in a 1954 San Francisco Chronicle roundup of Bay one-designs and then effectively disappears from the literature.
Wooden Boat Atlas v3.0 · built 30 July 2026 · a project of the Golden Gate Wooden Boat Foundation · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · open data · corrections