Design 2151 - Bardoo

This little motorsailer was built by Halvorsen, Morson & Gowland Pty, Ltd. of Mona Vale, Australia and launched in 1974. She is constructed of wood "equivalent to white oak" frames (my guess is a local Australian wood) and planked in Oregon pine. Power is derived from a single Perkins 4-326 diesel generating 70 hp at 2,400 rpm.


Here are the plans.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 51'-9"
LWL 37'-6"
Beam 14'-11"
Draft 6'-5"
Displacement 41,700 lbs
Ballast 18,000 lbs
Sail Area 1,130 sq ft

Design 2477 - Queen Nefertiti

This large motorsailer was built for a repeat client by the Astilleras y Talleras Celaya Shipyard of Bilboa, Spain. This shipyard also built this client's S&S motoryacht. She was launched in 1985.

Queen Nefertiti is built with a steel hull and aluminum superstructure. She is powered by a single GM 16V71 marine diesel generating 455hp at 1,800rpm.

Here are the plans.


Here are some interior images.

Main Salon

Main Salon

Dining Room

Owner's Stateroom

Guest Stateroom

Principal Characteristics
LOA 126'-8"
LWL 96'-0"
Beam 27'-7"
Draft 11'-0"
Displacement 415,000 lbs
Ballast 59,000 lbs
Sail Area 4,944 sq ft

Design 2544 - Baltic 52

The Baltic 52 is the smallest of four models designed for Baltic Yachts in the mid to late '80s. This is the most popular of this series with 17 boats being built to this design.

These boats were nicely built with twin cockpits (social cockpit amidships and sailing cockpit aft) and very creative interior layouts. Here are the plans for the 52'.


Other models include the Baltic 58' (design #2580), 64' (design #2517) and 83' (design #2501).

Principal Dimensions
LOA 52'-6"
LWL 43'-2"
Beam 15'-5"
Draft 9'-2"
Displacement 31,967 lbs
Ballast 13,228 lbs
Sail Area 1,310 sq ft

Design 2 - Kalmia

This little sloop of 30' length overall was really the first paying customer for the newly formed Sparkman & Stephens as design #1 was for a class of boats (with hopeful future sales). She was built for a Mr. Arthur Hatch, constructed by Minneford Yacht Yard of City Island, New York and launched in 1929. Unfortunately we can't seem to find a lot of information about this boat in our files.

Here are the plans.

Here's the body plan. It's interesting to study such an early design.

Principal Dimensions

LOA 30'-0"
LWL 20'-0"
Beam 7'-6"
Draft 4'-9"

Design 1663 - Tiziana

This big beautiful ketch was built by Abeking & Rasmussen and launched in 1963. She is constructed of steel.


Here are the plans.


And here are a few interior images.

Principal Characteristics
LOA 116'-9"
LWL 80'-0"
Beam 24'-1"
Draft 10'-4"
Displacement 311,800 lbs
Ballast 54,000 lbs
Sail Area 5,346 sq ft

Design 1054 - Finisterre

Here is the somewhat unlikely legend, Finisterre. Responding to the C.C.A. (Cruising Club of America) Rule at the time of her design, which favored short waterlines, extreme beam and light ballast she was designed not as an all out racing yacht but as a reasonably comfortable, shallow draft cruising yacht for two persons. It was the talent of her owner, Carleton Mitchell and his crew that drove her to become a legendary ocean racer. Three Bermuda Race wins in a row convinced the non-believers and soon every major designer in the world was pushing out boats of similar type. The popularity of the type continued until the death of the C.C.A Rule and the introduction of the I.O.R rule which favored a completely different class of boats.

She was built by Seth Peterson of Old Saybrook, Connecticut and launched in 1954. Mitchell chose Sparkman & Stephens in great part due to his relationship with Rod Stephens with whom he had sailed with quite a bit on Rod's NY32, Mustang. As Mitchell himself said "Although it was my privilege to sail with many of the top sailors of the era, I don't think anyone else combined knowledge of deck layout, rigging and sails. Add Olin Stephens' innovative design genius, as exemplified by such diverse vessels as Dorade, which revolutionized ocean racing, and the super-J, Ranger, and it was easy to see why S&S was the go-to team."


And the plans. They are beautifully drawn. Please double click to zoom in.


After the tragic Fastnet Race of 1979, Olin often lamented the type until late into his life and preferred deep draft keel boats with superior stability over the beamy centerboarders.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 38'-6"
LWL 27'-6"
Beam 11'-3"
Draft 3'-11" (board up) 7'-4" (board down)
Displacement 18,640 lbs
Ballast 5,860 lbs (outside) 300 lbs (inside)
Sail Area 713 sq ft

Design 8 - Comet & Meteor

Comet

Two sisters were built to this 6-meter design, Comet and Meteor. They were built by Henry B. Nevins of City Island, New York and launched in 1930.

Meteor

Here are the plans.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 37'-6"
LWL 23'-0"
Beam 6'-4"
Draft 5'-4"
Sail Area 466 sq ft

Design 379 - Ciclon

This is the quintessential yacht photo: nice subject matter, great lighting, good background. And what a beautiful boat she is. The boat was built by Remigio Hernandorena in his own small shipyard near Havana, Cuba in 1942. I have posted previously about another boat built by this man, Criollo.

The boat has a commendable race record. We know she won the St. Petersburg-Havana Race of 1947 and the Miami-Nassau Race of '48, among others. The last we heard she was used by a sailing school in St. Petersburg, then wallowed in Texas for a number of years. She has since been purchased and shipped to Cyprus where she has been restored to her former self. Her new name is Maxine.

A sistership named Venture III was built to this design (now called Magic Venture), built by Simms Brothers of Dorchester, Massachusetts and launched in 1950. Venture III was a yawl. She also did not have the small fixed dodger. She is reportedly rotting on a beach somewhere in Central America.

Venture III, now-Magic Venture

Here are the plans.


Here is an article from Rudder magazine. Double click for bigger view.

Article Courtesy of Mystic Seaport Museum

And finally here is a fairly contemporary image of the boat on a Dockwise transport ship, which gives you a hint of her underbody.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 51'-8"
LWL 34'-0"
Beam 11'-6"
Draft 7'-0"
Displacement 35,390 lbs
Ballast 15,436 lbs
Sail Area 1,152 sq ft

Design 2741 - M29

Image Courtesy Onne van der Wal

If you are into sailing you can't help but be a bit envious of this fellow. Especially if you had about 6 miles of open water in front of you. This is the new M29 by Morris Yachts introduced in February of 2009.

Here's an image of her shakedown in February, 2009. Brrr.


The boat is lively and powerful. I sailed one last year out of Cedar Point Yacht Club in Westport, Connecticut. It was nice to see a trailerable keel boat launched with a single point crane and set up as quickly as she was. Here's an image of the boat on the crane.


We had a great sail in fairly heavy air. She tracks like a freight train and responds to minute helm adjustments. The boat is sensitive to hiking out but the reality it is not neccessary to do so.

Here's the boat on a trailer.


Here are the plans.


Click here to link to the Morris website and check out the video.

I will draw your attention to one item if interest. Note the boat sailing in the top image with spinnaker set. You can see it in the below picture: the opening in the deck just forward of the headstay. The chute launches and douses from that opening. It's an ingenious system. There is a douse line that is led to the center of the sail which pulls the sail into that slot. In this way the lone helmsman as shown can launch and retrieve the spinnaker without leaving the tiller.

Image Courtesy Onne van der Wal

Principal Dimensions
LOA 29'-2"
LWL 20'-10"
Beam 7'-4"
Draft 4'-6"
Displacement 4,375 lbs
Ballast 1,958 lbs
Sail Area 395 sq ft