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introduced 1946 · Stockton and San Francisco Bay

Junior Clipper

Stephens Brothers, 1946 — the Farallone Clipper's little sister

A 26-foot sloop from the yard that built the Farallone Clipper, sold from 1946 as the junior version of it. Until now this class existed in this atlas only as a name in a 1954 newspaper list.

Builder
Stephens Brothers, Stockton, California
Introduced
1946, advertised as 'the junior version of Stephens' famous Farallone Clipper'
Price
$2,695 f.o.b. Stockton
Length
26 ft
Recovered from
A Stephens Brothers advertisement and a dealer news item, both Yachting, January 1946
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
  • A April 1946 Yachting item describes a 'Baby Clipper Class, designed and built by Stephens Brothers… a plywood sloop, a little over 20 ft in length'. Whether that is an early prototype of the Junior Clipper under a working name, or a genuinely separate smaller class, is unresolved — the lengths differ by six feet.
  • No designer of record was found. Stephens Brothers is credited as builder; whether the design came from within the yard is not established.

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