giving her 38 Tons Thames Measurement and she sets 2000 sq’ of sail.
She is built in best Rangoon teak on grown oak frames with a teak deck and 18 tons of lead ballast. She carried a gaff yawl rig but with a very small mizzen mast. As a cutter she would have had a 40’ boom to take it over the counter as yachting correctness required but Worth considered this arrangement unseaworthy for off-shore sailing so he shortened the boom and added the small mizzen, it’s boom still being over the counter.
His shake-down cruise was Cowes to Vigo and back, leaving 9th May 1925. He sailed with 2 friends and, of course, 2 paid hands in the focs’le – a sign of the times! In 1926 Worth and Tern IV voyaged to the Azores and back. Many other passages followed in the wake of these early ones.
Claud Worth must have been very satisfied with Tern IV as he never commissioned another yacht until his death in 1936. Since then she has had many ups and downs but is still afloat and is today cruising in the Mediterranean and remains a tribute to a great designer and to a great shipbuilder.
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