PATRICIAN TIGER, built for an Italian owner Mr Vender by the Sangermani shipyard in Lavangna. Ceasare Sangermani a friend of Olin Stephens, created a racer with elegant style, and characteristics that make her so extraordinary: Beauty, Speed & Simplicity. Her fair lines, with no stretches, typical of the moment when Olin Stephens split the rudder from the keel, to reduce the water surface of the hull, leaving however an important connection between them and the skeg. This makes the Patrician amazingly easy to handle, while keeping a good stability route when sailing up-wind.

Originally named Patricia III , renamed by her second owner Mr. Tieger to PATRICIAN TIGER, she was designed to compete in the regattas of the I Class RORC.