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Endeavour, JK4

Launched: 1934

Designer: Charles E Nicholson

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Endeavour was designed for the 1934 America’s Cup by Charles E Nicholson and built at Camper & Nicholson’s in Gosport for Sir Thomas Sopwith. Along with Shamrock, Endeavour is one of the two remaining J Class yachts which actually raced for the America’s Cup. Indeed she came closer to winning the Cup than any other Challenger. Against Harold S Vanderbilt’s Rainbow, Endeavour won the first two races and was considered to be the faster boat. With better tactics Rainbow then took wins in Races 3 and 4. Sopwith protested against one contentious manoeuvre but lost and Rainbow went on to win 4-2. At home, one headline read, “ Britannia rules the waves and America waives the rules ."

After the Cup she raced successfully in England but was partially wrecked in 1937 after breaking a tow. Since then she has had numerous owners, refits and repairs.

Endeavour was fully restored by Elizabeth L. Meyer over five years at Royal Huisman and this initiative, and her restoration of Shamrock, stimulated renewed interest in restoring and building replica J Class yachts.

Endeavour was relaunched on the 22nd June 1989 following a refit with Dykstra Naval Architects and sailed for the first time in 52 years. Meyer organised the first J Class racing that September when Endeavour raced Shamrock V in Newport RI.

She had a major refit in 2010/11 with modifications by Dykstra Naval Architects with a new sail plan and deck layout, the work carried out by Yachting Developments in Auckland, New Zealand. That refit included a new deck structure, new rig and sails, a new deck layout, an engine room upgrade and a new crew interior. Fresh from refit Endeavour proved she has performance potential, winning the 2012 Saint Barths Bucket against Shamrock V and Velsheda.

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1999 Antigua Classic Regatta

Competed against Velsheda and Shamrock V

‍ 2001, J Class Regatta, The Solent

Endeavour wins against Velsheda and Shamrock V ‍

2012 St Barths Bucket Regatta

Endeavour wins ‍

2013 Loro Piano Superyacht Regatta, BVI

Endeavour competes

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Elizabeth Meyer – Queen of the J-Class

Elizabeth Meyer talks to Dan Houston about rescuing Endeavour , her time with the J Class, how Jackie Onassis caused a dock to sink, the founding of the IYRS and more…

Elizabeth Meyer wants to get one thing straight: “I’m not an heiress. Please don’t call me an heiress. I made my own money buying and selling land.” Her celestial blue eyes fix mine and I feel instantly guilty; not two days ago I had been saying to a colleague I was going sailing with her, and that she was, ahem, an heiress. I mean how else could she make enough money to restore her own J-Class Yacht, Endeavour – the 1934 America’s Cup British challenger?

And her grandfather, Eugene Meyer Jr, an investment banker, had bought the Washington Post, in 1933. “Yes but he bought it at a bankruptcy auction,” she corrects. “He ended up spending his fortune on it, keeping it afloat and improving it. My parents were both doctors and I was the youngest of four kids. We were brought up in Baltimore very decently but we didn’t feel super-rich. Our (Quaker) prep school and college were paid for, but back then college was a hell of a lot cheaper than it is now.” It was her aunt, Katherine Graham, who owned and published the Post during the 1970s Watergate scandal.

She remembers her grandparents from annual family reunions at Thanksgiving: “Grandpa just wanted us to have fun. Between courses he’d make us race around the table for a silver dollar – which he awarded to the wrong kid, while grandma glared and tried to make us shut up.”

I think grandpa’s influence must have been formative, because Elizabeth Meyer seems very adept at having fun. Meeting in Italy (CB277) this summer to sail the J-Class Shamrock V – the restoration of which she had managed in 1999 and 2000 – she was in generous good humour.

She travelled with that coolest of accessories, a few cases of Veuve Clicquot, which she handed out after racing, insisting for instance that Cambria’s crew, to whom we’d lost, had an equal share to ours. In light airs she had us doing a wind dance, shuffling like red Indians doing a staccato chant: “hey-yeheh-yoh” before revealing that she got that idea from Senator Ted Kennedy who helmed Endeavour in her 1990 J-Class Regatta in Boston – part of a three-year series promoting the Js’ renaissance.

Yes; the renaissance of the Js. Would it have happened without her?

Sometimes the best way to assess a person’s achievements is to imagine how things might be if they were not there. It’s difficult to imagine the number of Js sailing in the world today, with the three originals – Shamrock V, Endeavour and Velsheda, plus the new ones: Ranger, Hanuman, Lionheart and others in build – without the feisty flair of Elizabeth Meyer who literally put them back on the map with a series of very public races in the waters of the Chesapeake, New York Harbour, Newport and Boston 20 years ago.

Which means it’s also difficult to imagine the re-emergence of the Big Class in the same way, and classics becoming cool again – even the America’s Cup Jubilee in 2001 might have been very different. “Wasn’t that amazing,” she beams, when I ask her about it. “I was sailing on the 12-M Onawa (Starling Burgess, 1928) during the Round the Island race and that was like our sailing Woodstock! Now we look back and say: “Were you there?” She’d sold Endeavour by then, to Dennis Kozlowski, in 2000 for $15m.

It’s also difficult to imagine a far more benevolent project without her – the International Yacht Restoration School, which she founded in 1993 and which this year took on 61 students and to date has restored 350 boats. “That’s the best thing I did,” she says without needing to think. “The ballsiest thing I ever did was to restore Endeavour, but IYRS is my proudest achievement.” Elizabeth has always been a sailor. “My mother Mary (a Star Class sailor) sailed in the summer. And she would put us babies in the bilge of her dinghy and go sailing. She said that once she looked down and noticed that I was beginning to drown in the water in the bottom of the boat so she said: “Someone put the baby to windward of the centreboard trunk, she’s drowning.”

Fascinated by sailing “After graduating from college, aged 22, a friend of mine said we should buy a boat together, and it was then I got serious about sailing with our 1960 Concordia yawl Matinicus. She was so well designed and so beautiful that I became totally fascinated by sailing. Originally I wanted to work in a zoo. I was just out of college and volunteering at the reptile centre at the Baltimore Zoo. But I invested in some land in Martha’s Vineyard, and started a house-building business. I built or restored a lot of houses and my big claim to fame was building a house for Jackie Onassis, so I got to know her. “But you know some people involved in building houses are really rough. You’d go to the gaol on Monday morning to get your workers out to start the week. And it got to the point where I thought: yachts are so wonderful. Everybody is so lovely. So I decided to sell the business to my partners and move into yacht restoration management. I had invested in land on the Vineyard and that was where I made what I thought was quite a lot of money.” By then Elizabeth was writing for yachting magazines and in 1983 had published the hilarious Yaahting (sic), a one-off spoof magazine with off-the-wall features like ‘How to walk down a dock’, which sold 40,000 copies. “In 1984 I was doing a story on the Big Class and went to see Astra, Candida, Lulworth and Velsheda. I was sailing on Velsheda in the Solent when I saw Endeavour on the hard at Calshot Spit. And when I saw Endeavour I just went crazy. She was out of the water and had nothing inside her but she was like something out of a dream. My mother had showed me pictures of J boats as a kid, telling me we’d never see their like again and I was at college when Ian Dear’s book Enterprise to Endeavour came out. That’s a really good book and I would read it and read it and became obsessed.” Elizabeth bought the hulk of Endeavour, made her seaworthy and two years later relaunched her to take her to the Royal Huisman yard in Holland for fitting out. That same year, 1986, she founded J Class Management and also took on the restoration of Shamrock V – in America. Her dream was to see both boats racing again, in the waters where their first owners, Thomas Lipton and TOM Sopwith had pitted them against America’s finest. It wasn’t until September 1989 that Shamrock V and Endeavour sailed against each other, at Newport, Rhode Island, being skippered by America’s Cup legends Ted Turner and Gary Jobson. “I couldn’t have done that without Gary,” Elizabeth says. “That was because we needed 45 sailors for each boat and I didn’t know that many! I told him we needed 90 top sailors. We could not afford to pay them, couldn’t even give them a place to stay… not even their air fare; all we could offer was some clothing and some kudos! “Anyhow we had mailed out invitations with these forms to fill in to Gary’s contacts and the word must have gone around like wildfire because we got about 300 replies – people had photocopied the form and passed it on! In the end I think we probably had 500 people sailing in races and regattas during that period. “When the boats arrived at Newport there were around 3,000 spectator boats, it was crazy, there were more than there had been in 1937. Jackie Onassis was there too, and she saw Endeavour, and she came on the radio with her breathy voice saying could she come aboard? Well of course everybody heard it and, by the time Jackie arrived alongside Endeavour in a tender, the dock was so crowded it broke apart and sank! “That regatta was the first time Js had raced since 1937. Endeavour had met Velsheda in the Solent earlier that summer, but you honestly could not call that meeting a race. There was no course or race committee and Velsheda was so hopelessly outclassed by Endeavour we ended up sailing circles around her just to keep close.

Brain Tumour “I could not sail with Endeavour across the Atlantic back to America that summer,” Elizabeth continues. “I had to have surgery for a recurring brain tumour in June. I’d had it since I was young. I used to complain of headaches but as the youngest of four kids, and with two doctors for parents they thought I was a hypochondriac. I did not get it diagnosed until I was older. It’s right in the middle of my pituitary gland. I had to have surgery for it in ’85, ’89, ’99 and again in 2004. It’s not pleasant; they kind of lift your face off to get at it… but I went for a check up last year and the surgeon thought it had gone.” The re-emergence of the Js electrified America’s eastern seaboard, spurring a renewed interest in classic boats. “Besides Ted Turner and Gary Jobson, who spent time on each boat, we also did some exhibition racing, at places like Annapolis – keeping the boats sailing and tacking really close to each other. Then we did a regatta in Boston where the skippers were Ted Kennedy and John Carey and that was really fun. We were lucky with celebrity skippers like David Vietor and Ted Hood as well. That was because we wanted to get attention for what we were doing and they liked it too. “But I did not have anything like the amount of money needed to do it properly. By then Endeavour was 98 per cent of my net worth. We could charter and get a million bucks a year out of her – we hired her for $60,000 a week or $12,000 a day. But that still meant that I was running the boat to care for her, and not using her as much as I wanted and it was hard work. At times I just wish I could have afforded her and used her as a yacht. “We were also trying to raise the money for Shamrock’s restoration and there was a lot of pressure because in 1993 I’d founded the International Yacht Restoration School plus we were organising the Concordia Yawl reunions.” Elizabeth owned the Concordia Matinicus from 1975 through to 1993 and has written books on the Ray Hunt-designed class. It was not all hard work. In between the racing schedule Elizabeth had time to sail Endeavour to some interesting cruising destinations. “We did sail all over,” she remembers, “we went to Turkey, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Italy, the Greek Islands, the Caribbean and Alaska. We went the whole way down the West Coast of America to San Diego for the start of the America’s Cup in 95.”

Rewriting history One gets the feeling that some of her remembered frustration was from a lack of recognition. “I remember the media frenzy over yachts like Whirlwind, launched in 1986, as being 100ft long and I thought: ‘hang on I’ve restored and run two boats longer than that!’” She was also incensed by a recent omission on the J-Class website that stated the Js only got back to race together at Antigua in April 1999. “Sometimes it’s like they’re trying to expunge my piece of the class history,” she says, obviously hurt by the omission. “I think some have a hard time just admiring what we did and saying: ‘Attagirl’. It seems to me they all wish madly they had done what I did and they are still having fits about it. So I must have done something pretty cool, I guess.” Of the current situation for the J Class she says: “Now it’s become an arms race, with 3DL sails and all that carbon to make a J boat fast in modern terms. It’s really a shame, especially for the original three. Velsheda was built as 123ft long but she’s now about ten feet longer than Endeavour (130ft – 39.6m); they added 12in to her topsides, and you can see where the aluminium joins the steel. “All the decisions you make in a restoration have a cascade effect on the original boat. So for instance do you have a single engine and bow thruster or twin engines? Each decision is like a fork in the road, and it’s scary. If you are not faithful to the original you’ll lose it. But it also has to be viable. So Endeavour had had no engine, no hot water, no air con… but I needed to be able to sail and charter her. And so you have to focus on that too to give the boat a chance of surviving another 50 years. It’s when you take a boat like Shamrock, wood on metal frames, and say let’s build the whole lot out of carbon – that would be the end of the boat. That’s the end of it. The best way to keep a boat is replacing a plank at a time; using like with like. Then she knows who she is – she’s still there. That’s not a difficult principle to understand. But I would say now that my J-Class period is dealt with,” she adds. She now sails Seminole, a 1916 Lawley-built 47ft (14.3m) gaff yawl she bought in 1996 sight unseen for a dollar in California, but not restored until 2005. Together with her husband of 19 years, the shipwright Michael McCaffrey of Narragansett Shipwrights, Rhode Island, she has also restored Bystander, the 1930 42ft J-Class tender used by Harold S Vanderbilt for his America’s Cup defences. She has sailed Seminole 18,000 miles including taking a shower in a waterfall in Toba Inlet, 190 miles north of Vancouver Island BC. “It was an incredible experience. We couldn’t breathe, or see, until we powered through into sunshine again. We joked about setting up a business – The Great North Western Boatwash…” I think life is a bit like that, when you’re Elizabeth Meyer. “I was Queen of Js wasn’t I? But then some called me Queenie and now sometimes it’s just Q!” she laughs.

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[The original article featured in Classic Boat: September 2011]

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As part of a 16-page J Class special in the March issue of Yachting World, an exclusive video of ENDEAVOUR has been released.

Filmed off Cascais, Portugal, ENDEAVOUR can be seen in all her glory, running under full sail at an effortless 12 knots. Yachting World Technical Editor, Toby Hodges, described the experience of sailing ENDEAVOUR as a “dream come true”, and her performance as “sensational”.

Offered for sale exclusively through Edmiston, ENDEAVOUR is widely seen as the yacht that reignited interest in both the America’s Cup and J Class design.

Steeped in history but also offering an incredible opportunity for her future owner, ENDEAVOUR is one of only three original J’s still on the water. Having been rescued and completely restored by famous yachtswoman Elizabeth Mayer in 1989, her current owner embarked on a major refit in 2012, installing the latest sailing technology and rigging, not only creating a supreme performer but also a majestic cruiser.

You can read the full J Class and ENDEAVOUR article in the March issue of Yachting World, on sale now, or  click here  to see the online feature.

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Toby Hodges jumped at the chance to helm the J Class Endeavour, one of the world’s most distinguished and beautiful yachts.

The mighty press of canvas fills as her bows fall off from head to wind. As she loads up and heels, everything changes – there’s a distinct mood adjustment aboard. It’s a switch to a more serious attitude from the sailors perhaps and their respect both for the craft and the loads she creates.

It seems there’s a change in the yacht herself though. Now silent, slipping through the water Endeavour seems totally in her element.

Skipper Luke Bines relays to the trimmers “coming up ten”. Endeavour ’s tumblehome is fully immersed, water streams over the capping rails now, as she loads up and points her bow to weather. And that’s when the magic really starts.

Trimmers aboard Endeavour with Toby Hodges at the wheel.

What a day. Not many people get to take the wheel of a J Class, so to be handed the helm for four hours of sailing in ideal conditions still makes me feel giddy thinking about it.

Endeavour is not only described as the most beautiful J Class, but the 1934 America’s Cup challenger is perhaps more highly regarded than any other single yacht in the world.

She is currently up for sale and her brokers Edmiston created a unique opportunity for us to sail and photograph her from her home port of Cascais in November.

Sailing a legend

Departing the marina berth that morning was a smooth, near silent operation. Once at sea the mechanics kick in as the process of setting sail begins.

The 490sq m mainsail with its distinctive JK4 insignia is hoisted. “On the lock,” the crew finally shouts back to Bines. “Cunningham on, lazys off,” he replies.

Endeavour with twin headsails.

A mastbase winch ferociously spits out halyard tails as the foresails shoot up in the blink of an eye and I am instantly reminded of how modern technology has transformed the way a yacht designed over 80 years ago is handled.

That said, even in her 1934 launch year Endeavour was ahead of her time. Sir Thomas Sopwith and his lead engineer, Frank Murdoch, applied their aircraft design experience to the rig and deck gear of Endeavour and helped introduce a number of innovations.

These included winches that could be rowed using horizontal bars, strain gauges on rigging wire and a masthead wind vane with a windspeed repeater.

In 1934 Endeavour had a ketch mast temporarily stepped and was sailed and towed across the Atlantic where she began Britain’s closest challenge ever to lifting the America’s Cup.

Eighty-three years later, however, she is for sale lying in Palma – a turnkey original J on the eve of the biggest year ever for this class.

The 10-15 knots of wind that morning was the ideal strength for Endeavour and her 3DL cruising sails. Although Js race with genoas now, the more manageable yankee and staysail are set when cruising.

Included in Endeavour ’s sale is a brand new full set of 3Di racing sails (three hours’ use) plus spinnakers.

On taking the wheel I couldn’t help but think of who has sailed the boat over two lifetimes. Sopwith won the first two Cup matches against Vanderbilt’s Rainbow during that 1934 challenge and four out of six starts.

He certainly had the boat to win the Cup – Endeavour ’s universal appeal was sealed that year – but he was let down by a late crew change and tactical errors. And in 2012 I had the privilege of witnessing Torben Grael take this wheel and helm her to victory in St Barth when four Js raced for the first time .

I am brought back to the present by the wholly unnatural mechanical sound of winches labouring under load. The ease of a sheet vibrating through the deck, or the shudder as the mainsheet jerkily comes on, are the harsh reminders of the loads exerted aboard today’s J.

There’s a big load on that wheel too when we harden up, yet Endeavour responds handsomely to the trim of her sails. I remain in a trance, looking along 100ft of clean decks to that pin sharp bow.

An offshore breeze blows a decent, but relatively smooth ground swell. As Endeavour heels the incredible power and load of her keel-hung rudder is felt. Trying to turn that immense appendage through a tack at speed is a workout in itself, but as I hand-over-hand the spokes rhythmically, her bow starts to respond.

I quickly appreciate how necessary it is to have the mainsheet trimmer directly in front of the wheel – without coordinating with him, turning the wheel would have little effect.

A push button panel also provides the trimmer with the suite of hydraulic controls – indeed during the St Barth’s Bucket in 2012, it was designer Gerry Dijkstra who operated the traveller, cunningham, outhaul and backstay from this remote panel.

The Cariboni hydraulic rams that drive the mainsheet traveller lie hidden in lockers beneath the aft deck. These rams are a perfect example of how the deck layout has improved, saving the need for two crew and two winches when racing.

The deck of JK4 today is clean with the number of winches reduced to the minimum. Gone are the large dorades in favour of forced aircon. “She looks more like the 1934 Endeavour now than she did in the 1980s,” Bines remarked.

The inviting cherry woodwork within Endeavour ’s dining area and saloon – the latter with a working open fireplace.

The sun breaks through and the breeze rises with it, up to 17 knots now. The upwind figures of 9.5 to 10.5 knots and up to 12 knots reaching are typical for a J. But it’s the consistency with which she maintains such speed that delights. Displacement and length work perfectly to ensure Endeavour just keeps slicing through the water.

A rediscovered jewel

Endeavour ’s history is one that typifies the highs and lows of the J Class fleet. She was sold for scrap in 1947 only to be bought hours before demolition.

When American Elizabeth Meyer purchased her in 1984, after three decades laid up in Solent mudberths, Endeavour ’s resurgence, and that of the J Class, slowly began.

Meyer had Endeavour reconfigured by Dykstra & Partners, shipped to Royal Huisman and restored in the late 1980s, before cruising and racing her all around the world.

Nav station aboard Endeavour .

Twenty years later Endeavour ’s current owner commissioned a subsequent major overhaul at Yachting Developments in New Zealand. Virtually all machinery was replaced or upgraded and a new Southern Spars carbon mast stepped with ECSix rigging.

John Munford and Adam Lay reconfigured her crew accommodation, while subtly keeping an ‘original’ 1980s look to the interior.

The saloon is, as it should be, the wonderfully welcoming heart of the boat. One can imagine the lively dinner parties held around the dining table.

Guests would then move to the green leather sofa, place their liqueur on a coffee table supported by Endeavour ’s old compass binnacle, and enjoy the warmth of the working open fireplace.

Endeavour remains seaworthy in her design below. A sail locker still resides beneath the saloon sole, low and central, where it would have been originally.

In the passageway that leads to the owner’s aft cabin, is a fabulous navstation, with a U-shape leather seat that allows you to sit to a chart table facing forward or aft. The owner’s cabin features an offset berth and leecloths.

Owner’s cabin aboard J Class yacht Endeavour .

Jon Barrett was integral to both Endeavour ’s major refits. He was project manager at Huisman and the owner’s rep when she went to Yachting Developments. He knew where to source every fitting – down to where to get the stars on the light switches recast.

I asked Barrett what makes Endeavour so special. “She has a unique history. During the closest match in history, she was eventually out-sailed, but her reputation as a beautiful and fast J was well established.”

She is also resilient, he says, describing her decades of disrepair. “In the last 25 years, in addition to the normal cruising routes, she has sailed to China and Japan, to New Zealand and the fjords of Norway and Alaska. I would guess that she has trekked the globe more than most yachts and certainly more than all the current Js.”

I could not think of a more prestigious vessel to purchase – to be a guardian of – particularly in this, what could be the most historic year yet for the J Class.

Enormous primary winches aboard Endeavour.

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