Burgess's 30-foot fractional sloop, mostly built at Quincy in Massachusetts — but the last of the forty-two came out of Stone Boat Yard in Alameda.
- Designer
- W. Starling Burgess, 1937
- Built
- 42 hulls, 1937–1963, chiefly by Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Massachusetts
- LOA / LWL
- 30'6" / 24'
- Bay connection
- Flotsam, sail number Y42 — the last Yankee — was built by John Linderman at Stone Boat Yard, Alameda, with laminated frames and bronze fastenings
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
- The Bay-specific detail — that Flotsam is Y42, the last of the class, built by John Linderman at Stone Boat Yard in Alameda — rests on the WoodenBoat Register and Sailboatdata alone. The general class facts are corroborated across several independent listings.
- Hull counts differ: 42 built 1937–1963 by one account, 39 built 1937–2010 by the class's own site.
- Flame (1949) is sometimes credited to 'Herreshoff, Burgess, Paine'. She is a Yankee One Design. The three-name credit is best explained by the composition of Burgess's Boston office at the time — W. Starling Burgess in partnership with Frank Paine and A. Loring Swasey, with L. Francis Herreshoff on the payroll — so the whole office was credited rather than Burgess alone. This is a reasoned explanation, not a documented one.
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