Humphrey Bogart's Yacht, SANTANA

[Andykev]

The Santana, Bogie's yacht, is back! There is a neat web page dedicated to the labor of love restoration by it's current owners here in the SF Bay Area.

The yacht apparently SANK in the bay, and was a literal wreck. Check out the pictures on this web page, which includes the history of the ship, it's list of owners, and how the boat has been returned to it's original configuration, a schooner! (Bogie had it when it was a Yawl, whatever that is!).

There are articles by Bogie, photos of the yacht as it once was, how it looked when it sank, and how they completely refitted and restored this beatuiful wooden yacht.

http://www.thesantana.com

 

[Hemingway Jones]

The boat at the end of "Key Largo" where Bogie takes on Edgar G. Robinson was the "Santana."

Thanks for posting that. -Interesting stuff.

 

[Mojave Jack]

Nice site, and great pictures of the yacht.

Incidentally, a yawl is a two-masted sailboat where the mizzen (or rearmost mast) sits well back on the boat, behind the rudder post, and is much shorter than the mainmast (as opposed to a ketch which has a shorter mizzen mast but the mizzen is set forward of the rudder post). The position of the mizzen is very apparent in this picture from 1945, where you can see the master at the rudder just forward of the mast. A schooner is a two-masted sailboat with the foremast shorter than the mainmast, as in this picture from 1999. Typically schooners are fore-and-aft rigged, though in the pictures the Santana has a Bermuda rig. It also has a Bermuda rig when it is configured as a yawl, but that is pretty typical rigging for a yawl. The difference between fore-and-aft rigged (also called gaff rigged) is that the sails are four-cornered, and are supported by a spar at the top of the sail and have a boom at the bottom. Bermuda rigs have triangular sails, with no spar at the top.

Probably more info than you were looking for (if you were looking for any at all!), but every gentleman should have some knowledge of yachting!