Tyrone is Sam Crocker’s design #202 launched 1939 at the Simms Brothers boatyard in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

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Tyrone, the direction of his pipe being an indicator of the weather.

 

Tyrone was commissioned by A.C. Tener of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Tener wanted a rugged boat capable of crossing oceans yet able to be handled by himself, a hired captain and cook.

Tyrone is heavily built for her size with 1 5/8” mahogany planks bronze screwed to 5” double sawn oak frames on 16” centers. Her original mechanical compliment included a Lathrop Mystic 125 gas engine and a 3 Kilowatt two cylinder generator to run her refrigerator and other gear.

Specifications:

Length on Deck: 60’

Sparred Length: 73’

Beam: 15’

Draft: 8 1/2’

Sail Area: 1805 square feet

Displacement: 85,500 pounds

GRT: 47 Ton

120hp Cummins 6B

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To my knowledge, Tyrone was owned by Tener until roughly the mid-late 1960s. At which point she was purchased from the Tener estate by the young Chase family who raised a newborn daughter living aboard through Maine winters and setting off on an around the Atlantic voyage. After the Chase family another family purchased her and did much the same trip around the Atlantic. She was then owned by Townsend Thorndike and renamed William H Thorndike. Under his ownership she made a trip through the Panama Canal and into the Pacific spending significant time in San Francisco and making rounds to Alaska and Hawaii before returning to Maine. She was then owned by Matthew Sutphin who kept the boat on Cape Cod. Though she has travelled considerably abroad, much of her time has been spent in Boothbay Harbor, ME and New England. We are happy to give her a homecoming again calling Boothbay Harbor her homeport.

The following photos were provided by Don Grinberg who sailed with Carl and Susan Chase aboard Tyrone around Norway and Sweden in 1967…