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Clara Brown (sloop)
Buffalo, New York
NR Reference Number: 13000098
Listed: 03/20/2013
First Buffalo River Marina, 32 Fuhrman Blvd, Buffalo, NY
Summary:
The Clara Brown is significant under Criterion C in area of architecture as a distinctive work of renowned naval architect John G. Alden. While Alden is most well known for his naval designs, he designed Clara Brown to be an elegant and fast cruising sloop. With the depth of Lake Champlain in mind, he crafted a sleek, shallow vessel meant to cruise along the bays ofVermont's biggest body of water, while still being fast enough to compete in the Mallets Bay Boat Club races each year, winning several times in the 1950s and 60s.
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