Source – Wikipedia – The Bluenose is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by William James Roué as a one design racer and first built in 1946. Roué was also the designer of the Bluenose racing schooner, built in 1921. The term Bluenose is a nickname for people from Nova Scotia.
Roué produced a design, at the request of a group from the Armdale Yacht Club in Halifax, for a small one-design sloop that would be both fast and elegant and could be sailed easily by two or three people.
The schooner Bluenose was still afloat, but had been sold to the West Indian Trading Company for use as a freighter.
The new class was given the name Bluenose to help perpetuate the memory of the great champion. The first Bluenose class sloops were launched in the spring of 1946, just months after Bluenose was lost on a Haitian reef.
Other sources:
- Bluenose Class Sloop – The Flinn Files – These pages were assembled by Scott Flinn, a former participant in class events who had a lot of fun in a Bluenose and thought the story of this vessel needed to be recorded.
- Chester Bluenose Fleet – History – The history of the Bluenose Class sloop begins in 1946 when naval architect William J. Roué designed the wooden one design for a group of sailors from the Armdale Yacht Club. The first Bluenose class sloops set sail in Nova Scotia water in the spring of 1946.