Comet one design sloop DUCHESS

Comet one design sloop

Comet one design sloop DUCHESS, #444, designed by C. Lowndes Johnson, built by Walter S. Dayton, Sr., from knockdown kit; launched May 16, 1937; V-bottom, hard chine with deadrise; planked hull & topsides, cedar deck of straight laid planks; white topsides and bottom; red boot top; bright deck; light off-white interior; equipment: mast, boom, trailer, rudder, tiller with extension, boom crotch, paddle, 2 splash boards, spinnaker pole, sip-up rudder case, halyard sling, dust cover.