Design 1891 - Iorana

Iorana was constructed of wood by Abeking & Rasmussen of Germany. She was launched in 1969. She's a beauty. It's too bad this is the only image we possess of her. This is a powerful boat. Just look at her ballast to displacement ratio, her deep draft and large amount of sail area.

Of note, here we have an early example of the installation of a Hundested controllable pitch propeller.

The following are some designer's remarks from Rod Stephens. Please double click for zoom.


Here are the plans.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 63'-2"
LWL 45'-5"
Beam 14'-10"
Draft 9'-3"
Displacement 67,772 lbs
Ballast 32,000 lbs (outside) 1,000 lbs (inside)
Sail Area 1,815 sq ft

Design 2028 - Jakaranda

This big yawl was designed to the I.O.R. Rule. She was built by Franz Maas of Breskens, Holland and launched in 1970. Her construction is interesting: stainless steel sub-frame encapsulated in foam and fiberglass. The hull and deck are cored with Airex foam. I wonder how this has held up over the years.

Here are the plans.


And an article from Yachting World magazine from 1970. Please double click for zoom.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 56'-10"
LWL 40'-0"
Beam 14'-5"
Draft 8'-4"
Displacement 37,150 lbs
Ballast 18,200 lbs
Sail Area 1,453 sq ft

Design 2492 - Lacoste 39

This preliminary design was prepared for Chantiers Yachting of France as the Lacoste 39. The year was 1985. The design was never fully developed beyond the sketches you see here. The work is by the hand of Evan K. Marshall who went on to establish his own design office in London.

It's a tall order: a raised pilothouse with flybridge in 39' overall.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 39'-0"
LWL 33'-9"
Beam 13'-0"
Draft 3'-0"

Design 2011 - Nita III

The client who commissioned this design was enamored with design #1961, Tarantella which he had seen in and around his home port of Genoa, Italy. He turned to the very same builder, Cantiere Carlini of Rimini, Italy for his new yacht. The arrangement is somewhat unusual but she designed as specified by her owner. She was launched in 1970

Here's the general arrangement plan.

Here's an article in Italian. Please double click for zoom.

A sister was built, named Clerici. She is quite similar but with a different layout and a ketch rig. Here's the general arrangement, which is much more conventional.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 56'-3"
LWL 39'-6"
Beam 14'-6"
Draft 8'-4"
Displacement 37,630 lbs
Ballast 16,000 lbs
Sail Area 1,452 sq ft

Buzzy III - Design 1151

This beautiful 6-meter was built of wood by J.J. Taylor & Sons of Canada. She was launched in 1956. She was a very successful racing yacht in Canadian waters.

In 1971 she was modified by S&S to upgrade her shape, based in great part on advances in 12-meter design. Here's the modification to her Lines.


Here she is after her restoration in 2002. Note the owner has returned her to the original shape.


Here are the plans.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 37'-0"
LWL 23'-8"
Beam 6'-0"
Draft 5'-5"

Design 1428 - Pavane II

This handsome motorsailer was built of steel by Abeking & Rasmussen of Germany for an American customer, Uncas A. Whitaker. Whitaker was a repeat client. Click here to see his next boat.

She has a number of interesting design features. The most noticeable is the location of her engine room. While this allowed a much lower profile that would have been possible amidships, it must have caused some challenges in terms of sound attenuation being adjacent to the owner's cabin.

Notice the secondary "backing rudder" located just forward of the propeller and above the propeller shaft. The feature comes from river tow boats in Europe and includes independent controls and is used to assist when backing into a slip.

Also note the two steering stations: one on the bridge deck and one in the aft cockpit. The after station is used primarily when fishing.

Pavane II is powered by a single General Motors 4-71 diesel coupled to a Walters v-drive with 2:1 reduction producing a cruising speed of 11 knots under power. She was launched in 1959.

Here are the plans.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 52'-0"
LWL 46'-0"
Beam 14'-6"
Draft 5'-0" (board up) 8'-8" (board down)
Displacement 52,193 lbs
Ballast 4,500 lbs (outside) 750 lbs (inside)
Sail Area 1,194 sq ft

Design 1221 - Antilles

Here's another by Robert E. Derecktor of Mamaroneck, New York. She was constructed of wood and launched in 1958. Antilles was designed and built for Percy Chubb. Mr. Chubb was a repeat client. Click here to see his previous boat, Laughing Gull.

Antilles is a typical beamy S&S centerboarder designed for cruising. There are some interesting features such as the hidden head in the forward cabin with folding wash basin and the crew cabin aft complete with it's own toilet and heater. That aft little deckhouse in essence creates a center cockpit which is a nice and secure cockpit for cruising offshore.

The best thing that can be said about this boat is from the book Ocean Sailing Yachts: "In Percy Chubb's ketch Antilles, we twice made fast passages: the first was 920 miles in five days. We told everyone to mark that in the record book, she would never do it again. On the next trip we did 960 miles in five days."

Here are the plans.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 46'-1"
LWL 32'-6"
Beam 12'-10"
Draft 4'-8"
Displacement 28,700 lbs
Ballast 8,200 lbs
Sail Area 1,042 sq ft

Design 1245 - Stock Finisterre Type

A blog follower sent us this great image of Morasum, his Finisterre type centerboarder built in 1958. Click here to learn more about this design. She was built by Wing on Shing Shipyard of Hong Kong. Morasum is her original name. Thanks for sending this image.

Design 1757 - Carillon

Three boats were built to this design. The first was Carillon, built by Robert E. Derecktor of Mamaroneck, New York. All three were constructed of aluminum. Carillon was launched in 1964.

Here's the second, yacht Alpha, built by Stephens Marine of Stockton, California and launched in 1966. She is identical but with 1,000 lbs of ballast added for the stiffer winds of San Fransisco.


The third was Lightnin', also built by Stephens Marine and launched in '67.

Here are the plans.

Here's an image of a model of Alpha. It's a nice model and shows a lot of deck detail.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 47'-5"
LWL 33'-0"
Beam 11'-9"
Draft 6'-9"
Displacement 28,557 lbs
Ballast 11,000 lbs
Sail Area 1,001 sq ft

Design 1331 - Egret

This typical S&S motorsailer was built by Abeking & Rasmussen of Germany. She was launched in 1958. She is constructed of wood with normal S&S specifications; white oak structure, double planking of mahogany and bronze fastenings.

Here are the plans.

Here are a few articles from various yachting magazines. Please double click for zoom.


Here are some designer comments regarding the design.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 56'-6"
LWL 47'-0"
Beam 15'-3"
Draft 4'-7"
Displacement 60,200 lbs
Ballast 6,000 lbs (outside) 500 lbs (inside)
Sail Area 1,361 sq ft

Design 982 - Killara

Sadly we have no images of this beautiful yawl. Killara was built by Abeking & Rasmussen of Germany. She was launched in 1955. Her construction is of standard S&S scantlings: white oak for backbone and framing, and double planked in mahogany.

Here is the general arrangement plan.


And an early article from Yachting magazine.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 51'-5"
LWL 37'-0"
Beam 11'-8"
Draft 7'-6"
Displacement 38,100 lbs
Ballast 14,500 lbs
Sail Area 1,202 sq ft

Design 243 - Goose

Goose is one of the best know and successful 6-meters of the Sparkman & Stephens designs. She was built by Henry Nevins of City Island and launched in 1938. Her race record is notorious, winning practically every international 6-meter event between 1938-1940. She remained very competitive right up until the onset of World War II.

Click here to access the Goose website. Read more about her on the North American 6-meter website.

Here is the sail plan.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 37'-0"
LWL 23'-8"
Beam 6'-6"
Draft 5'-5"
Sail Area 474 sq ft

Design 341 - 18' Runabout

We don't know much about this little mahogany runabout. She was designed for Avard E. Fuller, a repeat client. You can find some of his other boats by searching this blog using the search engine above. These poor images are scans of our microfiche files, not the originals. I'll see if I can find out who built her and if we have any images around in the coming week.

The year was 1940.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 18'-0"
LWL 17'-0"
Beam 6'-6"
Draft 2'-1"

Design 218 - Edlu II

Here is the second Edlu to be built for Rudy Schaefer. Edlu II was built by Henry B. Nevins of City Island, New York. She is double planked of cedar and mahogany with white oak frames. her original deck was of Port Orford cedar. She was launched in 1938.


Here are the plans.

A couple of interior images follow.

Today she is known as Blackwatch. She is in pristine condition and continues to race and win. To see a peek of her interior today please click here.

Here's a contemporary image, taken in North Cove Marina, New York City.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 68'-0"
LWL 48'-0"
Beam 14'-7"
Draft 9'-3"
Displacement 76,700 lbs
Ballast 33,000 lbs
Sail Area 2,125 sq ft