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Gitana

The schooner Gitana — owned by Eastern Yacht Club Commodore William Fletcher Weld II, designed by Dennison Joseph Lawlor, and built in 1882 — carried on its davits the tender that served as prototype for the first North Haven Dinghy.

Gitana, September 27, 1888. Photograph by Nathaniel L. Stebbins. Courtesy of Historic New England



Gitana in Virgin Islands, 1889



Gitana, 1883. Photograph by Nathaniel L. Stebbins. Courtesy of Historic New England




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