Yak

Design 204 Orient

This is another case where we don't possess any good images but nonetheless this boat is worth some study. The profile is very beautiful and I really like the geometry of the deckhouse and the aggressive windows.

Orient was built by the Wing-on-Shing Shipyard of Hong Kong and launched in 1938.

Here are the plans.


And an article from Yachting magazine.


It is not the original owner who brought so much fame to this yacht but her second owner, Tim Mosely of San Fransisco who would sail her to victory in major West Coast races, starting in 1955. Mosley was the father of the Barient Winch Company and he used Orient for a test bed. The boat still carries a set of Barient prototype winches. An interesting aside is that the owner of Baruna (design #222) was so interested in the winches that he ordered a set for his own boat and decided to go into business with Mosely. The name Barient is a combination of the names Baruna and Orient. How's that for yachting trivia?