Specification
- Name: WHEN AND IF
- Class: B
- Nationality: United States of America
- Year built: 1939
- Home port: Key West
- Rig: Gaff Schooner 2
- Height: 16.2793679752554 m
- Length of hull: 12.5699519808937 m
- Entered by: When and If
About
- Number of trainees: 6
- Number of permanent crew: 6
Biography
The designer, John Alden, had made his name as a builder of elite racing schooners that retained all their beauty and style while constantly winning the premier ocean races of the time. When and If was a new idea: a yacht which would maintain all her classic beauty and hold her own in recreational racing whilst being sturdy, comfortable, safe and luxurious enough to take a family on the voyage of a lifetime
She spent the next 17 years cruising the coast of the U.S. and occasionally racing in classic yacht regattas, the When and If turned heads wherever she went.