O.A. Cruiser Sailboats for Sale

Hull Type

long

Rig

Gunter

LOA

18' · 5.49 m

First year

1919

In the modern landscape of digital yacht registries, the designation "O.A. Cruiser" from 1919 stands as a fascinating artifact of early database parsing. In classical naval architecture, "o.a." is the standard written abbreviation for "overall" (as in Length Over All). When historic yacht design ledgers and plans recorded an "18foot o.a. cruiser," early webscraping algorithms mistook the abbreviation for the builder's name, cataloging "O.A." as the manufacturer and "Cruiser" as the model. In reality, this highly refined, eighteenfoot pocket cruiser is the work of the legendary Scottish naval architect Alfred Mylne, drawn in 1919 as his Design Number 263. This elegant, gunterrigged wooden dayboat represents a pivotal moment in classic yachting history, capturing the postWorld War I transition from grand, professionalcrewed racing vessels to intimate, owneroperated family pocket cruisers.