Young Nick is an Olin Stephens designed 36' sloop that represented New Zealand in the One Ton Cup in the early 1970's

Her construction is three skins of Kauri, two 1/4" diagonals, with the outer skin 5/16" fore and aft fully glued with aerodux; on 1 1/4" x 1" ribs at 6" centres on 2 1/4' x 1" stringers each side of the 8" x 3" laminated kauri keel. The bustle is built down on a 12" x 2" kauri core morticed through the keel and linked to floors. The design has an all lead fin bolting direct to the keel and including a trim tab, which like the rudder is of timber.
  • Designer: Olin Stephens (1969) (SS 2035)
  • Builder: Brin Wilson (1970)
  • Owner: Lou Fisher (1970-1973)
  • Skipper: Alan Warwick (1971-1972)
  • Navigator: Bevan Woolley (1971-1972)
  • LOA 36' 5 1/4"
  • LWL 27' 4"
  • Beam 10' 9 3/4"
  • Draught 6' 1 1/2"
  • Displacement 13,930 lb
  • One Ton Cup: 1971 - Auckland - came 3rd
  • One Ton Cup: 1972 - Sydney - came 5th
Young Nick was given her name as a result of the bicentenial celebration of the following historical incident:

On 6th October 1769, Nicholas Young, the surgeon's boy, sighted the coastline of New Zealand from the masthead of The Endeavour.

On 8th October the Endeavour sailed into a bay, and laid anchor at the entrance of a small river in Tuuranga-nui (today's Poverty Bay, near modern Gisborne). 

Cook named a peninsula in this bay Young Nick's Head after Nicholas Young.

Also visit Sparkman & Stephens excellent blog.

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