Engineering:Corwith Cramer (ship)

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Brigantine Corwith Cramer
Brigantine Corwith Cramer under full sail in the Caribbean Sea
History
United States
Name: Corwith Cramer
Builder: ASTACE Shipyard, Bilbao, Spain
Launched: 1987
Identification:
Status: active
General characteristics
Displacement: 280 tons
Length:
  • 134 ft (41 m) overall,
  • 98 ft (30 m) on deck
Beam: 26 ft (7.9 m)
Draft: 13 ft (4.0 m)
Propulsion: Sail; auxiliary 500 hp (370 kW) Cummins diesel
Sail plan: Brigantine, 7,800 sq ft (720 m2) of sail
Complement: 38 persons

The Corwith Cramer is a tall ship (specifically a brigantine) owned by the Sea Education Association (SEA) sailing school, named after SEA's founding director. Her home port is Woods Hole, Massachusetts , United States. She was designed by Wooden and Marean specifically for SEA and was constructed by ASTACE in 1987 in Bilbao, Spain. She is a 134-foot (41 m) steel brigantine built as a research vessel for operation under sail, and generally sails in the Atlantic Ocean.

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