Windward Class

A 33-foot Rhodes sloop that raced as a Bay one-design through the late 1940s and 50s — the second Rhodes class on the Bay after the Rhodes 33, and equally forgotten until now.

Designer

Philip L. Rhodes

Dimensions

33'6" LOA · 23'0" LWL · 8'6" beam · 5'2" draft

First boat

Owned by John Woerner, launched at Oakland; reported in Yachting, August 1947

Growth

'The first two of the new 33-ft Windward Class at San Francisco' noted January 1948

Not only local

Golden Vanity was built to the design for an owner in Saugatuck, Connecticut, 1952

Bay boats recorded

Sirocco (Dr. David Singman, Berkeley YC, 1948); Westerly; Koolau (1954)