Essentials
| Designer | Britton Chance Jr. (USA) | |
| Builders | Hermann Egger, Egger H., St.Aubin (SUI) | |
| Material | cold laminated mahogany | |
| 1st certificate issued | 1968 | |
| Original boat name | Cloud Nine | |
| Original country | USA | |
| Original sail number | 079 | |
| Current location | Stonington, CT (USA) |
Notes
- Current Location - 12.09.2008 by Brian Krafjack
- I purchased Cloud 9 from David Stoff on 9/6/2008 and will be sailing her out of Stonington, CT USA.
- Copy of a note posted by David Stoff on 06.04.2008 on USA-072 page. - 29.06.2008 by Site Administrator
- USA 79
I hope that I can clarify some of the confusion. I have USA 79; sailing in Casco Bay, Maine. It is an Egger built cold molded hull. Moveable mast step. When I purchased the boat I was also given two blueprints. One was the sail plan, the other was the construction drawing. Great boat!
D. Stoff - Building year - 21.02.2008 by Matti Muoniovaara
- Cloud Nine was built 1968. It was also designed 1968 B. Chance Jr. des #36.
- First race - 18.02.2008 by Matti Muoniovaara
- The U.S. 5.5-Meter championship was the first race for the new Chance designs, Stanley Leibel's (Canadian) Tiger (KC-69) and Gordon Lindemann's Cloud Nine (US-79). They did not seem to be significantly faster than the 1966 "models", Cadenza (US-68) and Truant (US-70). Tiger finished a close second to Cadenza in the U.S. Championships, but Cloud Nine never was in contention except for a second in the second race.
- The photo from the US 5.5 Meter Championship 1968 - 18.02.2008 by Matti Muoniovaara
- The photo on the right show the flat counter of the second Cloud Nine. This is design #36 of Britton Chance Jr., reminds more of 68 designs 36B of Skylla 2 and Artemis VI.
The counter of the first Cloud 9 is round an resembles more earlier 65-66 designs of Caro 7 and Cybèle.
The boat is now located in Maine, US.
- Confusion between USA-072 Cloud 9 and USA-079 Cloud Nine - 03.11.2007 by Site Administrator
- This is a typical case of one the aim of this web site : to point out and clarify the unclear situations left by the history which is by nature uncomplete.
Following Matti Muoniovaara's source: "there were two Cloud 9s which were owned by Gordon Lindemann. The first was Cloud 9 US-72 and the second Cloud Nine US-79".
See USA-072 for complementary details.
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Ownership history
| Sail# | Boat name | Owner name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| USA-079 | "Cloud Nine" | Gordon Lindemann (1968-?) | |
| USA-079 | "Cloud Nine" | Herbert Melquist (1978-?) | |
| USA-079 | "Cloud Nine" | David Burgess (1987-1995) | |
| USA-079 | "Cloud Nine" | Gardner S. Doughty (1995-?) | |
| USA-079 | "Cloud Nine" | David Stoff (2000-2008) | |
| USA-079 | "Cloud Nine" | Brian Krafjack (2008-?) | |
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