Friday, 7 April 2017
Design 1985 Prospect of Whitby II

Earlier this week we posted an article about the Palmer Johnson 40, design #2025. A blog reader asked: "Is the boat with sail number 130 on the PJ advertising Prospect of Whitby II? Are her lines the same as those of the PJ/Swan 40?" The simple answer is no. Prospect of Whitby II is shown here. She was built of steel by Frans Maas of Holland and launched in 1968. She was designed for Admiral's Cup racing.
Here are the plans.


And an article about her.

I must admit though I am scratching my head about that PJ40 image we showed with the sail number of 130. Here's Prospect I (design #1781) and II sailing together, each with a sail number of 130. I just don't have an explanation.

LOA 42'-7"
LWL 32'-8"
Beam 12'-2"
Draft 7'-1"
Displacement 24,635 lbs
Ballast 8,997 lbs
Sail Area 763 sq ft
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Design 2058 Morning Cloud II

This is the second Morning Cloud designed for Sir Edward Heath. She is a relatively small boat but met the requirements of the Admiral's Cup. She is constructed of wood and was built by the Clare Lallow yard of Cowes, England and launched in 1971. The boat was quite competitive. Rod Stephens spent the first couple of weeks sailing with her right after her launch getting the bugs out.
Here are the plans.


Here are a couple of nice details. Note the genoa tracks.

And I like the trim tab control shown here.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 40'-8"
LWL 31'-8"
Beam 12'6"
Draft 6'-9"
Displacement 22,520 lbs
Ballast 11,000 lbs
Sail Area 725 sq ft


Friday, 24 March 2017
Design 1736 Kiwi II

This pretty sloop was designed to the R.O.R.C. Rule. She was built by Cantiere Carlini of Rimini, Italy. She is constructed of white oak backbone, framing, mahogany planking and with silicon bronze fasteners. The boat was launched in 1963. Unfortunately we possess no photographs of this boat.
Here are the general arrangement and deck plans.


Principal Dimensions
LOA 45'-7"
LWL 30'-5"
Beam 11'-0"
Draft 6'-5"
Displacement 25,075 lbs
Ballast 10,000 lbs
Sail Area 880 sq ft
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Design 1197 Windbourne II

The more I study this design the more I am impressed. I could be perfectly happy with this for a cruising boat. Windbourne II was built by Paul Molich of Denmark, a top notch builder. She is constructed of wood and launched in 1956.

Here are a couple of magazine reviews. Please double click for zoom.


Here are the plans.


And some detailed images, both inside and out.




Principal Dimensions
LOA 40'-0"
LWL 27'-10"
Beam 10'-10"
Draft 5'-9"
Displacement 18,230 lbs
Ballast 6,500 lbs
Sail Area 750 sq ft

Monday, 20 March 2017
Design 1642 Patricia II

I sure wish we could find a better image of this nice design as I suspect this boat looks even better in the flesh than it does in these interesting drawings. This boat was built and launched in 1963 by the famous Italian shipyard Cantiere Sangermani. I count 17 boats that were built by Sangermani to our designs over the years.

As you can see from the general arrangement shown above, the boat has a generous raised salon yet a very sleek profile.
Here's the sail plan.
Principal DimensionsLWL 50'-0"
Beam 15'-5"
Draft 9'-5"
Displacement 95,974 lbs
Friday, 17 March 2017
More About 1985 Prospect of Whitby II

We have received a couple of emails plus comments from blog readers related to the image that was shown on the PJ40 brochure versus Prospect of Whitby II. Here's a detailed shot of Prospect's cockpit. I have admit that image on the PJ brochure is pretty clearly her, especially when one focuses on the details such as handrails, winch location, traveler and deck prisms. It just seems very strange they would use this image and not an image of a Swan 40, very strange indeed.
Saturday, 11 March 2017
Models in the Madrid Naval Museum Part II
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Champantain(19th C.), Chinesecoast guard vessel, generally used to pursue opium smugglers (I've never come across this name for a vessel type. I wonder if there's a different term in English.) |
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| (another shot of the champantain in the previous photo. She looks speedy, as a contraband patrol boat should.) |
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Junk Keying(19th C.), Two models of junks similar to the Keying, the first Chinese vessel to sail from Hong Kong to London (The trip was via Cape of Good Hope and USA, in 1846-48. See the Wikipedia article for more.) |
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| (the stern of the junk on the right of the previous photo) |
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Chinesefunerary offering (17th C.) (Just as Chinese grave goods often depicted the happy home and residents of deceased lands-people, so too did boat dwellers depict their homes in goods buried with loved ones) |
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Sampantanka(19th C.), River vessel for passenger carriage and selling merchandise (i.e., a sampan. The model wasn't specifically identified as Chinese, but I'm pretty confident that it is) |
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| Lorcha (19th C.), Chinese; used for cabotage and piracy. (Cabotage is coastal cargo carriage. This one is definitely a pirate. If you click to enlarge, you'll see cannon in the bow and stern, and the rowers are protected by round shields, as in the old, inaccurate illustrations of Viking ships.) |
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"House of Flowers" (18th C.), Chinesepleasure vessel (model appears to be made of ivory. The detail carving is lovely and intricate.) |
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| (closeup of the vessel "House of Flowers," in previous photo) |
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Design 2009 Salacia II

Around 1969, the boat to beat in Australian waters was Ragamuffin, the boat designed and built for Syd Fischer. She is design #1949 and we have discussed her before. In 1970 Arthur Byrne decided to challenge her dominance and asked us to design a similar boat. Byrne turned to Quilkey Brothers of Taren Point, New South Wales, Australia to build her, the same builder as Ragamuffin.
Salacia II was built using cold molded epoxy techniques. Her frames are of laminated Queensland Maple and planking of Oregon Pine. At the time she was declared the most expensive ocean racer ever built in Australia.
The design is similar to Ragamuffin, but she is wider, especially at her transom and has a shallower canoe body. She was designed to rate better under the I.O.R. Rule. She was designed for Admiral's Cup competition and was a member of the 1971 Australian team alongside Ragamuffin and Koomooloo. The team finished second that year.
Here's her sail plan. I apologize that we don't have a scanned copy of her general arrangement handy.

LOA 48'-6"
LWL 36'-0"
Beam 13'-0"
Draft 7'-9"
Displacement 30,975 lbs
Ballast 16,000 lbs
Sail Area 1,068 sq ft

Friday, 3 March 2017
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