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Frances 26 is a 25 ′ 11 ″ / 7.9 m monohull sailboat designed by C. W. (Chuck) Paine and built by Northshore Yachts, Morris Yachts, Victoria Marine (UK), and Custom Build starting in 1975.
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Rig and Sails
Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.
The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
Sail Area / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3
- SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
- D : Displacement in pounds.
Ballast / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Ballast / Displacement * 100
Displacement / Length Ratio
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
- LWL: Waterline length in feet
Comfort Ratio
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
- LOA: Length overall in feet
- Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet
Capsize Screening Formula
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
From BlueWaterBoats.org :
Inspired by the sweet curving lines from the east coast fishing boats of Scotland, the Frances 26 is an early Chuck Paine design for his own use. Optimised for fast and simple sailing, the resulting boat is a peculiar mix of daysailer and offshore cruiser. Since her introduction in 1974, over 200 have been built on both sides of the Atlantic and at least one has circumnavigated.
Paine started by scaling down the size of a traditional double-ender, and then applied lessons from modern design thinking to produce a minimalist sailboat that would be affordable for him to sail. Her design draws heavily from her Scottish heritage with a hint of Norwegian double-ender thrown in for good measure. Most striking are her elegant lines – there’s a fine entry, a lively sheer, full bilges and a long keel.
She’s proven to be a great cruiser which can accommodate up to four in a relatively open-plan layout. Belowdecks the interior is all wood but her flush deck means she is missing full standing headroom at only five feet of clearance. A version was built in the UK by Victoria Marine which offered six feet of standing headroom by trading the flush deck for a coachroof. The production hulls were solidly built from fiberglass with 9 1/2 oz cloth, additionally a number have been custom-built using cold-moulded wood and many of these have also added a coachroof. Both cutter and sloop rigs were offered and some have been converted to gaff.
With a high ballast to displacement ratio, in excess of 50%, owners comment she can hold onto her full sail area well after many others have reefed. You’ll find this boat easily driven with excellent directional stability and surprisingly fast. Of the various rigs the ones with larger headsails and smaller mainsails tend to be faster and more weatherly (at the expense of more trimming work).
Plans for the Frances 26 are still available from Chuck Paine. More recently in 2011, as a “what if” exercise, Paine updated the design to be inline with more current design thinking.
“If I had it to do over again I’d change a few things, hence FRANCES II (Frances the second). The most significant improvement would be to replace the undulating profile shoal draft keel with a much more modern and effective one. With a slightly deeper keel and the “full flow aperture” I developed on the later of my offshore oriented custom designs, FRANCES II will stand up to a whole lot more sail and point much closer to the wind.”
Besides being slightly larger in all dimensions, the biggest change is a deeper, shorter and more effective keel. The rig has been updated to be taller with a masthead genoa. Additionally, the rudder has been fully balanced to reduce helm forces and a small cabin house added to give full standing headroom. With the new keel and rig the new Frances II promises to be a much better performer, being stiffer and more weatherly.
The design influence of the Frances 26 design came from a backpacking trip in the early 1970s when Chuck Paine, 30 years old at the time, was inspired by the sweet curves of the double-ended fishing boats on the east coast of Scotland.
Paine commented, “I wanted a boat that embodied everything I knew about the design of efficient cruising vessels of GRP construction. She had to be capable of yearly cruises to and among the Caribbean islands, small enough to fit my limited budget, but large enough to survive a gale at sea.”
Upon his return to the US, he laid up the first hull in 1974 out of fiberglass at his workshop in Maine. This first hull was destroyed by fire prior to completion, but fortunately Tom Morris from Morris Yachts had taken a mold and it was from this his yard built the subsequent hulls. Paine fitted out the fourth Morris-built hull for himself, which he took cruising down the East Coast of America.
By the late 1970s, the boat had also emerged in the UK. After first appearing in a review in Yachting World Magazine, Bernard Hayman, editor at the time, loved the design enough to encourage Victoria Marine (now Victoria Yachts) based in Southampton to win the rights for UK construction. In later years Victoria Marine made a few changes to the boat including a shallow well forward of the mast, a coachroof to enable full standing headroom and more accommodation. This version was initially called the Victoria 26, and as it evolved, later became the Victoria 800.
The UK boats were just as successful as the their US counterparts. Production continued through until the late 1990s until sadly, with a strange repeat of history, the moulds for both designs were destroyed by fire.
Paine also designed a couple of siblings based on the Frances 26 – a 24-footer called Carol and a 30-footer called Leigh. Leigh was later built by Victoria Yachts.
Links, References and Further Reading
» Frances26.org , owners forum, information and reviews » The official Morris Yachts website . » Chuck Paine’s official website including the Frances 26 plans. » The Best Boats to Build or Buy by Ferenc Mate » Small Boat Journal #40, Frances 26 – Sophisticated Tradition in a Proper Yacht by Steve Callahan, January 1985
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Morris Frances 26
It was while backpacking through Scotland in the early 1970s that a 30-year-old Chuck Paine came up with the idea of the Frances 26.
Inspired by the sweet curves of the double-ended fishing boats he saw on the east coast of Scotland, the American designer sketched out the lines of a 26ft (7.9m) cruiser thatpossessed similar characteristics.
The resulting design was, indeed, a seaworthy little vessel, and one that draws heavily on her Scottish roots, with a hint of Norwegian double-enders thrown in, too. At 26ft (7.9m) LOA and 8ft 4in (2.6m) on the beam, she’s delightful to look at – her lines are simple and elegant, with a jaunty sheer, fine entry, full bilges and long, deep keel.
The first of the class was laid up in GRP in 1974 by Paine in his workshop in Maine,but prior to completion was destroyed by fire. Fortunately, however, Tom Morris, of nearby Morris Yachts, had taken a mould, and it was from this that the yard built more than 100 boats.
Frances 26s emerged in the UK in the late 1970s after a review appeared in Yachting World magazine. Bernard Hayman, editor at the time, was particularly enamoured with the design, and it was through his encouragement that the Southampton-based Victoria Marine (now Victoria Yachts) eventually won the rights to build them in the UK. Although originally flush-decked,
Victoria Marine’s version was built with a shallow well forward of the mast, and a coachroof that gave good standing headroom below.
The double-ender proved to be as much of a success here as in the USA and production continued until the late 1990s. The hulls were solidly built of 91⁄2oz GRP by Northshore
Yachts of Havant in Hampshire and fitted out and marketed by Victoria Marine. In later years the Frances 26 was joined by the Victoria 26, which featured the same hull, but a larger coachroof and more accommodation. Sadly, and in a strange repetition of history, the moulds for both designs were destroyed by fire and have not since been remade.
As a cruiser, the Frances 26 has proved a great success, with accommodation for four in a relatively open-plan layout. Paine commented at the time that he wanted a yacht that could “carry her sail well, plus have the desirable performance of a tender boat”. He achieved this, producing a very capable little boat that is easily driven and has good directional stability.
She has an encapsulated lead keel and a high ballast to displacement ratio, which makes her particularly good in a blow, to the extent that many owners have commented that she can hold onto full sail for a lot longer than similar-sized boats. She carries 340sqft (31.6m2) of sail on a tall, fractional bermudan rig, and both cutter and sloop versions were offered. Some have also been converted to gaff.
Editor’s choice
Bernard Hayman, former editor of Yachting World, owned a Frances 26 called Barbican 3.
Design and fit out
Chuck Paine fitted out the fourth Frances 26 – built for himself – and cruised her along the East Coast of America.
Younger siblings
Chuck Paine later designed a couple of siblings for the Frances 26: a 24-footer called Carol and a 30-footer called Leigh. The 30ft (9.1m) version was later built by Victoria Yachts. Although these are no longer built, Victoria Yachts still build the Paine-designed Victoria 34 and 38.
Victoria Yachts were, for a long time, based at the former Rampart Boat Building Works yard at Southampton.
Plans for the Frances 26 are still available from Chuck Paine, priced at around £1,600 ($3,000) per set (see p91).
Second-hand boats
Although the design is no longer built, second-hand boats do occasionally come up for sale. Expect to pay between £20,000 and £30,000, depending on condition.
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Victoria Frances 26
MEASUREMENTS
Description.
The Frances 26 is an early Chuck Paine design originally designed for his own personal use, made for fast, simple sailing. They offer a mix of day sailor and offshore cruiser and since their introduction in 1974 over 200 have been built on both sides of the Atlantic with one known to have circumnavigated.
The Frances 26 is an early Chuck Paine design originally designed for his own personal use, made for fast, simple sailing. They offer a mix of day sailor and offshore cruiser and since their introduction in 1974 over 200 have been built on both sides of the Atlantic with one known to have circumnavigated. Shebeca is a very fine example of this capable yet compact cruising yacht and been exceptionally well kept and maintained by her current owner. She was out of the water antifouled and serviced in February 2022 and is now berthed on the River Dart awaiting new adventures with her next owners.
Sleeps 4 in 4 single berths in 1 cabin plus saloon
- Companionway steps
- Ample shelving and stowage
- Blue upholstery
- Starboard side Navigation station with large port facing chart table
- Instrument/switch panel.
- Saloon table
- Coach roof windows
- Timber flooring
- Barometer & Clock
- 2 x single berths forward
- 2 x single berths stern
- Hanging rail
- Portside linear galley
- Work surface
- Origo 2-burner Gas cooker
- Cutlery / crockery
- Stainless-steel sink
- New Jabsco manual marine toilet
Anchoring and Mooring Equipment:
- 25 lb CQR anchor
- Bruce anchor
- New 8mm anchor chain
- 6 x fenders
- 8 x mooring warps
Navigation Equipment:
- Lowrance HDS 5m Chartplotter
- NASA log / speed (2021)
- NASA wind indicator (2021)
- NASA echosounder (2021)
- Lowrance VHF with AIS receiver
General Equipment:
- Sprayhood new 2021
- Cockpit canopy new in 2020
- Stack Pack sail cover
- Cockpit cushions
- 1 x cockpit locker
- Teak cockpit grating
Safety Equipment:
- Stainless steel pushpit, pulpit and lifelines
- Radar reflector
- Automatic bilge pump
- Manual bilge pump
- Water level alarm
- Navigation lights
Hull & Construction
- Hand-laid GRP hull
- Moulded non-slip surface to deck, coachroof and cockpit coamings
- Tiller steering
- Cruising speed 5 knots
- Maximum speed 5.5 knots
- Sea water cooled
- Last service Feb 2022
- Shaft drive
- Engine access under companionway steps
Electrical:
- 2 x batteries both 2020
- Victron battery charger
- Shore power
- Solar panel
- Stainless Steel fuel tank (45 litres capacity)
- New freshwater tank
- Manual water system
Deck & Rigging:
- Bermudan sloop rig
- Stainless-steel standing rigging (2011)
- Running rigging
- Slab reefing mainsail
- Headsail furling
- Plastimo roller furling system
- Spinnaker pole
- Midship spring cleats
- Wooden coach roof grab rails
- Spare Mainsail
- Main and Genoa washed and serviced 2022
- 2 x Gibb genoa winches
- 3 x Gibb Halyard winches
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ABOUT VICTORIA FRANCES 26
The Victoria Frances 26 is 26 feet long and has a 8 feet beam. This 1981 Victoria Frances 26 with 9 horsepower. The Victoria Frances 26 is made of grp.
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26’ FRANCES. A small double-ended cruiser.
HULL NUMBER 1 of the Frances design, built by Tom Morris in 1975. It had a custom tall, double spreader sailplan, no pulpits, and beautiful sails, for racing.
LALUZ. A flush decked Frances that has sailed more than halfway around the world.
THE TALL RIG boosted performance in light airs, but required a reef much sooner when the wind piped up. The majority of FRANCESes had a short house so you could stand up in them.
The second FRANCES was fractional sloop rigged with a self-tending jib. The first few FRANCESes were flush decked like this. When a short house was added with full headroom (if one was less than six feet tall), and more efficient sailplans were designed, interest in the boat blossomed. Before all was said and done, more than 200 yachts were built to this design.
ORIGINAL FRANCES DIMENSIONS
LOA: 25′ 10″
LWL: 21′ 3″
BEAM: 8′ 4″
DRAFT: 3’ 10″ (NOW 4′-1″)
DISPLACEMENT, as built: 6,800 lbs Full load 7300 lbs (approx)
BALLAST (lead): 3,500 lbs
SAIL AREA (100% foretriangle): 317 to 340 sq ft (varies)
DISPL/L RATIO: 316 – 330 (varies)
SAIL AREA/DISP RATIO: 14.5 to 15.6 (varies)
LA LUZ cruising in the tropics. She sailed from Maine to New Zealand.
The FRANCES is one of recent history’s most admired small cruising designs. Well over 200 of the small yachts are now sailing, and they are well loved wherever they voyage. I decided to design this small but capable cruising boat in 1974. My own boat was flush-decked, and I cruised it from Maine to Rhode Island. Another (LA LUZ) is halfway through a circumnavigation. A third (YANLI) has sailed from England to Australia and then to Hawaii and back to Australia. Many of the sisterships added a small house for full headroom, and a variety of sailplans have been fitted.
FRANCES es were built in fiberglass by Morris Yachts in America and Victoria Marine in the U.K. Quite a few fine examples were custom built from our plans of cold-moulded wood using the WEST system.
And now, in her dotage, new aspirants are restoring these fine old boats for their own adventures. Sailing the open ocean in such a small boat is borderline foolhardy- though many have successfully crossed oceans. But if you are aware of the discomforts of facing a storm at sea in something of this size, and are aware of the many advantages of a small, manually handleable yacht, the Frances is one of the better alternatives.
The lines of the original FRANCES.
A preliminary sketch for the first FRANCES .
I often ponder what it might be about the FRANCES design that makes it so popular. I think it must be the aesthetics first and foremost. But the real surprise is how well it sails. Nearly half of her weight is ballast, and it is made of lead. So despite her shallow draft she is reasonably stable and surprisingly fast. Of the various rigs the ones with larger headsails and smaller mainsails proved to be the faster and more weatherly, at the expense of more work trimming, of course. Some of the earlier sailplans were frankly overcanvassed, and a new sailplan, designed in 2020, offers more drive with less heeling,
YOU COULD add a spinnaker, and then you could race her. With a shallow keel and a lot of wetted surface, racing the short-rigged Frances is an exercise in futility. But it’s colorful and if there’s not a lot of windward work, you might just possibly collect silverware.
In the last year I have been contacted by three Frances owners who want to improve their 45-year-old boats, and one who intends to build a new one. The biggest improvement among many small ones is to fit a carbon fiber mast and a new sailplan. This new rig falls about halfway between the old short and tall rigs. It specifies a roller-furler for the jib and a genoa, and a solid vang for the boom, plus a deployable Spectra inner forestay and Solent jib for windier conditions. If you own an old Frances and want to improve it, or can buy one for a reasonable price but are realistic about the significant cost to bring it up to date, contact the designer and invest in a new rig and sails that will significantly improve your boat’s performance, and leave the political craziness and economic uncertainty of life ashore behind.
The original FRANCES hull is pared away in width below the points where the cabin sole needs width and the fairing radius between keel and hull is tight. This is a shape without a lot of form stability, so the FRANCES compensated with an unusually low center of gravity thanks to 3500 pounds of lead ballast.
THE NEWEST SAILPLAN. It uses a carbon fiber mast and simplified rigging with sweptback spreaders, a single aft lower shroud, and larger diameter stainless steel rigging. The offshore or inshore mission of each boat can be addressed by the amount of overlap of the genoa. This particular boat’s owner anticipates heading off on an immediate ocean crossing, so the genoa is of modest overlap and a deployable Spectra stay and Solent jib are available for heavy weather.
I adored my little FRANCES . She was beautiful, well mannered, stable enough, and just plain fun. Her sleek lines cut through resistance like a dreadnaught. Point FRANCES toward a destination and she was unstoppable. Her timeless virtues seem to have disappeared from the modern world. They just don’t build ’em like FRANCES anymore.
LA LUZ had a big genoa so she goes very well in light airs. She spent five years sailing in the South Pacific and ended up in New Zealand.
THE NEW VERSIONS will have a short cabin very similar to this, perched atop the midship raised deck. The perception of space this lends to the interior is quite amazing.
WITH THE SHORT, almost 6-foot headroom house, the interior of a Frances could feel much larger than you’d expect on a 26-foot boat. This is a custom WEST-system boat built in New Zealand.
The Aft Head arrangement for the Frances with one seaberth and a permanent double. (Note: The companionway steps may have to be slid forward depending upon your choice of propulsion).
The Aft Head arrangement for the Frances with two settees, and a large double berth forward. (Note: The companionway steps may have to be slid forward depending upon your choice of propulsion).
The original FRANCES is a highly respected, classic design. She’s comparable in many ways to an MGTD or a J3 Cub. They spewed oil and weren’t very fast by today’s standards, but they were so cute and stylish and safe that owners have enjoyed every minute of their use for decades. The hullform is conventional, heavily ballasted , with no concessions made for speed. It has a CSV (capsize screen value) of 1.70. Anything less than 2.00 is considered a good choice for offshore voyaging.
This design is featured in both of my recent books; MY YACHT DESIGNS and the Lessons they taught me, and THE BOATS I’VE LOVED— 20 Classic Sailboat Designs by Chuck Paine. Both are beautiful, full colored, first class books which give you lots more information on this design, and can be purchased on this website.
QUITE A FEW sailplans have been fitted to a FRANCES. This is one of the “tall rigs”, which could even be raced, and really got the boat going in light to moderate airs, but are too overcanvassed for offshore voyaging. If your idea is to sail around the world, the more conservative rigs, with a three-foot shorter mast, would require reefing less often.
A British built cutter rigged FRANCES. photo credit Charlie Whiteman
FOR MORE PHOTOS OF LA LUZ , A FLUSH-DECKED FRANCES THAT HAS BEEN SAILED HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD, CLICK HERE:
http://frances26.org/laluz.php
Further information may be obtained from:
CHUCKPAINE.COM LLC Tenants Harbor, Maine 04860-0114
To email Chuck:
A LONG, FUN HISTORY OF THE FRANCES 26 DESIGN
You’ll find great histories of the FRANCES design in both of my books, available as digital downloads from this website. But a recently formed Facebook Group called The Chuck Paine Yacht Designs Fan Club has produced all sorts of photos from owners all over the world, and a few interesting anecdotes. With the benefit of these gifts from the 48-year history of the Frances design, here is a much longer story, told mostly in pictures..
The first of many eventual sailplans had a tall fractional sloop rig with a self-tending jib set on a jibboom. This worked okay before jib roller-furling became popular, but the boomed jib gave up some potential sail area and the tall mast was heavy and required a lot of rigging with its weight and windage.
THERE I WAS at age 30. Young and ambitious, I’d come up with an idea of what life was about for me. Design a new yacht, build a prototype in my beautiful rented shop, sell it to one of the many emerging fiberglass boatbuilders and do it all over again. With my superb shop full of the finest tools someone else’s money could buy, a pretty girlfriend who looked like she might stick around, and my loyal dog Shep at my feet, what could possibly go wrong?
IN 1973 I had recently quit my job working for Dick Carter as a draftsman. I’d met this girl (now my wife) and decided to take her on a backpacking trip from Scotland to India. I had this idea that when we returned I would take my life savings and design and build a boat. The Westsail 32 had become a life-changing phenomenon for sea-seeking vagabonds, and I figured what the world needed was a smaller, more affordable double-ender. 26 feet was all I could afford so that determined her size. I lucked out and was able to rent this beautiful, heated and insulated shop full of the best woodworking tools for next to nothing. This shows the nearly finished hull upside down in midsummer of 1974, when I met this guy named Tom Morris who was getting started as a boatbuilder and fell in love with the design. We made a handshake deal that he would take a fiberglass mold off my hull, invest in a lot more tooling and a ballast mold, and I would press on and finish my boat in time for me to take it to the Newport Boat Show in September, and we would both become rich and famous. In the end, luck intervened.
AFTER TOM MORRIS had taken his mold off my hull the day came to turn her over.
AS THE SUMMER wore on my boat was nearing completion. Her hull was built using the then popular foam core over stringers method, with a conventional glass covered plywood deck over frames.
WITH MY BOAT NEARLY FINISHED, the shop burned to the ground. Gone were my new boat, my life savings, all my tools, my landlord’s beautiful shop that I had planned to live out my life in, and my newfound livelihood. But I dusted myself off and determined to take the insurance settlement and build another Frances in the Spring.
IN A STROKE OF GOOD FORTUNE I had met Tom Morris and he had committed to building new Franceses. When he heard about the loss of my boat he offered to sell me a hull from his new mold at cost, and space in his shop in Southwest Harbor in which to complete it. I hired my twin and he moved to Maine to help me get it built. We worked together for six months of intense work and got her finished in time to show her at the 1975 Newport Boat Show. Tom and I sat together on the side deck for four days and sold boats… it was that easy back in the halcyon days of fiberglass boatbuilding.
WHEN CUSTOMERS CAME ALONG who wanted to build a FRANCES of some other material than fiberglass, I would sell them the appropriate plans. Most of these customers hailed from other parts of the world. This one is Tom Thumb , built in Australia.
NUTCRACKER was built in the WEST System by a lady sailmaker from Toronto.
HERE’s NUTCRACKER 46 years after first launched, restored to like-new condition. WEST System cold molded yachts last virtually forever, given a facelift every 50 years or so.
TOM THUMB coming at you. A lot of boat, a lot of ballast, and a lot of wind.
A GUY NAMED DICK CROSS BOUGHT A KITBOAT FROM Tom and hired my brother Art to help him finish it. Art drew a rig with a huge 150% overlap genoa, and in less than ten knots of wind the boat really flew. Like many well-drawn double-enders his boat KARMA could be easily steered by a wind-vane self steerer. Here Dick is having a kip while the boat steers itself happily to windward. Dick was a man’s man. No roller furling on that genoa, and if the breeze got above 10 knots he’d have to wrestle it into submission and hoist a smaller jib. And don’t forget his version had a bowsprit.
IN 2022 I caught up with hull number one of the FRANCES, built by Tom Morris alongside the hull that I was completing in his shop. She’s still going strong. I still remember that her original owner asked me to design a tall double-spreader rig for her so that she could be raced.
TOM MORRIS sent this photo of one of his first builds, BLENKEZOUKER, to most of the European yachting magazines. As a result Bernard Hayman, the then editor of Yachting World in Britain, wrote an embarrassingly favourable editorial, decrying the fact that it took a bloody Yank to design something so beautiful. Four British boatbuilders saw the editorial and heard that it had in the words of Hayman elicited more inquiries to Yachting World than any article in its history, and asked to build it under license. Tom Morris and I chose a young and ambitious entrepreneur, Peter Gregory, and his new company Victoria Marine, to build the Frances in the UK. In a few years he had built more than 150 Franceses is various versions, and commissioned three more Chuck Paine designs to be built at his shop in Warsash at the mouth of the Hamble river. The success of the Frances and my next design for Peter, the Victoria 30 , caught the eye of Charles Maunder at Bowman Yachts in Woolston (Southampton, UK), and in the next few years he built hundreds of yachts to four of my designs.
CHUCK AND DEBBY at their first London Boat Show, 1977.
HERE’S ONE OF the many Franceses at her birthplace Stone Pier Yard in Warsash, UK. Not your typical English weather, but when the sun shines in southern England, it’s glorious.
A CUTTER RIGGED Frances somewhere along the coast of England. The wobbly perimeter of the sunshade makes me crazy.
THUS BEGAN MANY YEARS of commuting to England to sell boats, and to convince either Peter or Charles Maunder of Bowman Yachts that he needed a new design. I would attend the London Boat Show at Earls Court Exhibition Centre every January, and the Southampton Boat Show every September. In all those years I can’t recall a Southampton show when the relentless rain that typifies an English summer didn’t cease for the week in September that I had to be at the show
A TYPICAL Southampton Boat Show scene.
DITTO. Was it my sunny disposition that brought the fine weather?
GALAVANT WAS built in New Zealand in wood/epoxy. If you ever get to Christchurch, drive to its seaport Lyttleton and maybe you will find her there.
SOME OF THESE home-built boats were really nicely done. GALAVANT ‘s owner decided to open up the interior by eliminating the usual “main bulkhead”, using a series of hanging knees to provide adequate strength. I like it.
SAME BOAT looking aft
I PARTICULARLY LIKE the cabin sole- nice, light color.
ANOTHER PHOTO OF HER SHAPE.
FELICITY . A British Frances that sailed to Maine.
SOLEIL . Tom Morris owned this one himself for awhile.
A VICTORIA FRANCES. Location unknown. This is the tidy original “British Cutter” rig. Not fast, but it could stand up to much more wind than the tall, racy rigs.
I FOUND YANLI in Bateman’s Bay, Australia. When I encountered her I didn’t know her story. She must have been shipped there on the deck of a freighter, I thought. Nobody would be crazy enough to sail a Frances that distance. Then through the Chuck Paine Yacht Designs Fan Club on Facebook I learned her actual story. A fellow bought her new in Warsash, UK. He financed her. Put down his down payment, hoisted the sails, and that was the last the bank heard from her owner for years. He sailed her south to the Canary Islands, then across to the Caribbean. Then through the Panama Canal. Howcum the bank didn’t have an arrest warrant waiting for her at this obvious choke point I can’t fathom. Then on he sailed to New Zealand. As if that weren’t enough adventure sailing too small a boat on too large an ocean, he then sailed across the Pacific again to the North, to Hawaii. And that is where the bank finally caught up with him. The bank arrested the boat and sold it to an Aussie. Who then sailed it BACK across the Pacific to Australia. Which is how I got to take this photo in Bateman’s Bay Australia three years ago- not looking too bad after the equivalent of sailing around the world!
THE JOYS OF downwind sailing.
INYONI . Needs some bottom paint.
TOM THUMB in Sydney, Australia.
TULA . Someplace in Florida, I think.
FREJA . Location unknown.
A BRITISH BUILT FRANCES, someplace in England..
THE CUSTOM VARNISHED companionway and forward hatch are nice touches.
FELICITY SAILED transatlantic from the UK to Maine. She lives in Rockland, Maine now, a few miles from my home.
WILDWOOD is one of the Tom Morris built beauties.
THIS BRITISH BUILT Frances is trying out her new mainsail.
A HOME-BUILT Frances on turnover day. Location and details unknown.
FELICITY wing and wing.
TOLERANCE . In my dotage I’ve come to find varnished teak railcaps intolerable. I really like the ones that are simply painted white. They’re so much easier to take care of. And if the shape of the design is inherently beautiful, varnished teak is just gilding the lily.
A CLOSEUP OF GALAVANT sailing in Lyttlton Harbour, NZ.
ERICA . I think she’s at Universal Marina on the Hamble river.
GALAVANT Galavanting nicely to windward.
GALAVANT’s colorful reacher.
ONE YEAR PETER GREGORY showed one of his creations in the water at the Southampton Boat Show.
WHIM. Tollesbury, Essex, UK.
WHIM ‘s nice, wide open interior.
SOLEIL’ s Interior
SOLEIL – Morris built Frances
SOLEIL ‘s Galley.
A CUTTER RIGGED FRANCES. Location unknown.
AN ENGLISH FRANCES somewhere in the UK. One reason the Frances sails reasonably well despite the shoal draft is the absence of a garboard radius. The entire keel does its work of preventing leeway- all the way up to where it meets the hull.
A cutter rigged Frances somewhere in the UK.
ELLA is one of the two FRANCESes I am aware of that fitted a gaff rig.
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The Victoria 26 Sailboat
The Victoria 26 sailboat is a classic cruising boat designed by Chuck Paine and built in the UK by Victoria Marine. It is based on the Frances 26, a smaller-coachroofed sister boat that Paine created for his own personal use. The Victoria 26 is a long-keeled, canoe-sterned sloop that combines traditional lines with modern construction and fittings.
Essentially the same boat as the Frances 26, but built in the UK by Victoria Marine and renamed the Victoria 26.
Published Specification for the Victoria 26
Underwater Configuration: Long keel, canoe stern
Hull Material: GRP (fibreglass)
Length Overall: 26' 0" / 7.92m
Waterline Length: 21' 3" / 6.48m
Beam: 8' 0" / 2.44m
Draft: 3' 10" / 1.17m
Rig Type: Cutter
Displacement: 6,800lb / 3,084kg
Designer: Chuck Paine
Builder: Victoria Marine (UK)
Year First Built: 1982
Year Last Built: 1988
Owners Association: The Victoria Shadow Association
Published Design Ratios for the Victoria 26
1. Sail Area/Displacement Ratio: 15.1
2. Ballast/Displacement Ratio: 51.5
3. Displacement/Length Ratio: 316
4. Comfort Ratio: 29.0
5. Capsize Screening Formula: 1.7
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Summary Analysis of Published Design Ratios for the Victoria 26
1. A Sail Area/Displacement Ratio of just 15.1 suggests that she'll need a stiff breeze to get her going. In any other conditions, unless you've got plenty of time on your hands, motor-sailing will be the way to go.
2. A Ballast/Displacement Ratio of 51.5 means that she'll stand up well to her canvas in a blow, enabling her to power through the waves.
3. A Displacement/Length Ratio of 316, tells us she's clearly a heavy displacement cruising boat. You can load her down with all your cruising gear and equipment and it will hardly affect her waterline. Not an ideal choice for coastal sailing, but will come into her own on an offshore passage in testing conditions.
4. Ted Brewer's Comfort Ratio of 29.0 suggests that crew comfort in a seaway is similar to what you would associate with the motion of a coastal cruiser, which is not encouraging news for anyone prone to seasickness.
5. Her Capsize Screening Formula of 1.7 tells us that she would be a better choice of sailboat for ocean passage-making than one with a CS rating of more than 2.0.
Any Questions?
What other versions of the Victoria 26 were built?
The Victoria 26 is essentially the same boat as the Frances 26, but built in the UK by Victoria Marine and renamed the Victoria 26. The Frances 26 had a smaller and lower coachroof than the Victoria 26. There was also a version of the Victoria 26 built in the US by Victoria Yachts, designed by G. William McVay.
What is the accommodation like in the Victoria 26?
The Victoria 26 has a simple but nicely finished interior, with four berths, a separate heads, and a galley. The forward cabin has a V-berth, the saloon has two settee berths, and the head is located aft to port. The galley is opposite to starboard, with a sink, a stove, and a cool box. There is also a chart table and a hanging locker.
What, if any, alternative accommodation layout versions are available for the Victoria 26?
Victoria Marine offered semi-custom build, so interior layouts may vary from the example illustrated above. Some boats may have different arrangements of berths, storage, or equipment.
What sail plan and rigging options are available for the Victoria 26?
The Victoria 26 has a cutter rig, with a mainsail, a staysail, and a yankee jib. Some boats may have roller furling on the headsails, or slab reefing on the mainsail. The mast is deck-stepped, and supported by stainless steel wire rigging.
What keel options are available for the Victoria 26?
The Victoria 26 has a long fin keel with encapsulated lead ballast and a sternpost-hung rudder. There are no other keel options available for this boat.
What is the Victoria 26 like to sail?
The Victoria 26 is a heavy displacement cruising boat that is slightly underpowered. It needs a stiff breeze to get going, and may require motor-sailing in light winds. However, it is very stable and seaworthy and can handle rough conditions well. It is not very fast or agile, but it is comfortable and easy to handle.
What is the average cost of a secondhand Victoria 26?
The average cost of a secondhand Victoria 26 may vary depending on the condition, equipment, and location of the boat. However, based on some online listings, it may range from £15,000 to £25,000.
Is this boatbuilder still in business?
No, Victoria Marine ceased trading in 1998. However, there is an owners association called The Victoria Shadow Association that provides support and information for owners of Victoria and Frances boats.
What other sailboats have been created by this designer?
Chuck Paine, the designer of the Victoria 26, has created many other sailboats, such as Able 42, Annie 30, Apogee 50, Bougainvillaea 54, Bougainvillaea 62, Bowman 40, Bowman 42, Bowman 48, Cabo Rico 40/42, Cabo Rico 42 Pilot, and many more.
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Victoria Frances 26 Boat for Sale
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- Manufacturer: Victoria
- Location: Dartmouth, Devon
- LOA: 26'0" (7.92m)
- Beam: 8' 2'' (2.49m)
- Draft: 1.17
- ID no.: 17907
- Watertank Size: 22 Gallons
- Engine Make: Yanmar 1GM10
- Horsepower: 9hp
- Drive Type: Shaft drive
- Fuel Type: Diesel
- Fuel Tank Size: 12 Gallons
- Cruise Speed: 5k
- Top Speed: 6k
Broker Remarks
Frances 26 for sale. This lovely pocket cruiser has been carefully maintained by its one owner. Recent underwater epoxy treatment, new sails and engine service.
Accommodation
Sleeps 4 in 4 single or 2 single & 1 double berth in 2 cabins Forepeak with double or 2 single berths Saloon with settee berth & quarter berth Interior joinery is a blend of solid teak, teak veneered marine ply, plastric covered marine-ply and 'Dutch' style timber strip planking. Cabin sides are strip planked or white painted Teak & holly cabin sole Saloon table Lee cloths Galley area with gimballed gas cooker Stainless steel sink Ample stowage Heads compartment with marine wc Dry hanging locker Wet hanging area
Mechanical and Rigging
Built by Victoria Yachts for the present owner in 1990 Designed y Chuck Paine Hull # 9073 GRP hull, deck & superstructure Hull epoxy coated below waterline from new Hull grit blasted below waterline, re-epoxy coated & re-antifouled in 2008 for preventative purposes Teak laid decks, cockpit sole & seating Long keel Keel hung rudder Tiller steering Mechanical: Yanmar 1GM10 9hp diesel engine Engine removed for service, new exhaust elbow & new mounts in 2010 Seawater cooled 2.6:1 reduction gearbox Stainless steel shaft with 2-blade fixed pitch propeller New cutlass bearing 2010 Single lever morse control Instrument panel with visual auidible alarms Electrics: 12v System supplied by 2-batteries Switched & charged by engine alternator Tankage: Fuel capacity approx 12 gallons (55 litres) Fresh water capacity approx 22 gallons (100 litres) Water System: Manually pumped fresh water to galley Rigging: Sloop rigged with keel stepped anodised aluminium mast Stainless steel standing rigging Terylene running rigging Rigging professionally checked in 2009 Winches: 2 x Lewmar #16 chrome self-tailing sheet winches 2 x Gibb halyard winches Sails: Polyester 7.5oz Mainsail with 2 -reefs, 1996 Polyester 8.0oz Working jib, 2008 No 1 Genoa Foresails not self furling Storm jib
Navigation Aids: Plastimo Contest bulkhead mounted compass Autohelm ST50 Log/speed Autohelm ST50 Depth Icom M56 VHF Ground Tackle: Anchorman manual windlass Double bow roller 20lb CQR anchor with 30ft chain & 90ft warp General Equipment: Stainless steel guardwire, pulpit & pushpit Navigation lights Masthead tri-white light Manual bilge pump Warps & fenders Sprayhood Ensign & staff Midship mooring cleats Boarding ladder Safety Equipment: 3 x Safety harness points in cockpit Jackstays Lifebuoy with light Fire extinguisher Fire blanklet
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Apretty and traditional long-keeled double-ender, this Chuck Paine design had a completely flush deck and rudimentary accommodation at the start but quickly grew a short doghouse which offered a maximum of 6ft headroom. She was introduced in 1980.lnternal space is not her long suit, though the Victoria Marine fit-out made the most ofil She had two bunks forward (no forecabin), and two aft Under sail she is delightful and easy on the helm with a deceptive turn of speed, particularly off the wind. Cutter and gaff rigs were optional. Check the hull stiffening in the bilges. In 1983 a version with a longer coachroof and better equipped interior was introduced called the Victoria 26.
LOA 26ft (7.9m) LWL 21ft 3in (6.4m) beam 8ft2in (2.5m) draught 3ft lOin (1.1 m) displacement 6,800 Ib (3,091 kg) Price guide : £20,000 – £30,000.
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- LOA - 26' 0"
- LWL - 21' 3"
- BEAM - 8' 0"
- DRAFT - 3' 10"
- DISPLACEMENT - 6800 lbs
- BALLAST - 3500 lbs
- SAIL AREA (SLOOP) - 337 sq. ft.
- SAIL AREA (CUTTER) - 345 sq. ft.
- HEADROOM UNDER DECK/HATCH - 4' 8" / 5' 0"
- HEADROOM TRUNK CABIN - 6' 0"
- FUEL - 15 gallons
- FRESH WATER - 15 gallons
- Designer: Chuck Paine
- Builder: Morris Yachts
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Staysail leech = 22 ft. J = 9.25 ft. P = 30.5 ft. E = 11.75 ft. Another version is called the VICTORIA 26. According to the designers blog, this was his first design, which he sailed, single handed, to the Newport Boat Show. Plans for this and many other Paine designs can be purchased on his web site.
26'. Victoria Yachts LTD Frances 26. Boat is uncluttered with old world technology sporting an antique decal. She has only been day sailed for the last 30 years. She was built for the 1983 London Bost show and shipped to the US. She has been bottom painted every year by me or now a yard. Also, her hull and smooth topsides have been waxed annually.
The Frances 26, a long-keeled, canoe-sterned sloop was designed by Chuck Paine and built in the USA by Morris Yachts. This Frances 26 is rigged for long offshore passages - note the windvane self-steering gear on the stern. Essentially the same sailboat as the Victoria 26, but built in the USA by Morris Yachts and renamed the Frances 26.
Frances 26 is a 25′ 11″ / 7.9 m monohull sailboat designed by C. W. (Chuck) Paine and built by Morris Yachts, Custom Build, Victoria Marine (UK), and Northshore Yachts starting in 1975.
The Frances 26 is an early Chuck Paine design originally designed for his own personal use, made for fast, simple sailing. They offer a mix of day sailor and...
Sailboat - Frances 26 by Morris Yachts and Victoria Yachts designed by Chuck Paine. BACK TO LISTING. FRANCES. Water: 15 Gallons. Diesel: 7 1/2 gallons. Engine: 1 cylinder Volvo Diesel. Electrical: One marine battery (1996), cabin lights, navigation lights, anchor light, Tri-color light, electric bilge pump, 20W solar panel. Accomodations: One ...
Although these are no longer built, Victoria Yachts still build the Paine-designed Victoria 34 and 38. Builders. Victoria Yachts were, for a long time, based at the former Rampart Boat Building Works yard at Southampton. Plans. Plans for the Frances 26 are still available from Chuck Paine, priced at around £1,600 ($3,000) per set (see p91).
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Sailboat - Frances 26 by Morris Yachts and Victoria Yachts designed by Chuck Paine. Yachting and Boating Magazine test sail a Frances. It was on a distinctly chilly clay that I met Peter Gregory of Victoria Marine at his Southampton office. Nevertheless, the sun was out and there was a good breeze, so clad in warm wear and windproofs we soon ...
The Frances 26 is an early Chuck Paine design originally designed for his own personal use, made for fast, simple sailing. They offer a mix of day sailor and offshore cruiser and since their introduction in 1974 over 200 have been built on both sides of the Atlantic with one known to have circumnavigated. Remarks :
BACK TO LISTING. 92 Frances Trunk Cabin Sloop . Type: Double ended, GRP long keeled sloop. Excellent ability under sail and well know as a superb seaworthy craft. Dimensions: LOA 26' (7.9m) LWL 21'3" (6.5m) Beam 8'2" (2.5m) Draught 3'10" (1.2m) Displacement approx3100Kg Ballast 1600KG Sail area 30 Sq Metres 327 Sq Ft Built By: Victoria Yachts Warsash, to a design by Chuck Paine, Grp Hull and ...
WITH THE SHORT, almost 6-foot headroom house, the interior of a Frances could feel much larger than you'd expect on a 26-foot boat. This is a custom WEST-system boat built in New Zealand. ... Peter Gregory, and his new company Victoria Marine, to build the Frances in the UK. In a few years he had built more than 150 Franceses is various ...
The Victoria 26 sailboat is a classic cruising boat designed by Chuck Paine and built in the UK by Victoria Marine. It is based on the Frances 26, a smaller-coachroofed sister boat that Paine created for his own personal use. The Victoria 26 is a long-keeled, canoe-sterned sloop that combines traditional lines with modern construction and fittings.
Notes. After a glowing review of the FRANCIS 26 in 'Yachting World', production was ramped up in the UK as the VICTORIA 26, which has the same hull as FRANCIS 26 but with a taller coach roof aft and shallow well forward of the mast. Hulls were built by Northshore Shipyard. Fractional sloop, cutter, and masthead sloop rig options were available.
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Cutter and gaff rigs were optional. Check the hull stiffening in the bilges. In. 1983 a version with a longer coachroof and. better equipped interior was introduced. called the Victoria 26. LOA 26ft (7.9m) LWL 21ft 3in (6.4m) beam 8ft2in (2.5m) draught 3ft lOin (1.1 m) displacement 6,800 Ib (3,091 kg) Price guide: £20,000 - £30,000.
This vessel was designed and built by the Victoria shipyard in 1992. Key features 1992 Victoria Frances 26: length 8.84 meters, beam 2.44 meters, boat displacement 3,094 kilograms and max boat draft 0.91 meters. Hull key features 1992 Victoria Frances 26: keel type - full keel. engine: fuel type - diesel.
3.11'. Maine. $46,000. Description: This wonderful pocket cruiser has been impeccably maintained by only four owners. From the. drawing boards of Chuck Paine, the Victoria Frances 26 is almost identical to the Morris. Frances 26 but with added interior volume due to a cabin that reaches further forward. The Frances is a proven design capable of ...
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I include the historical asking price of the boat in the statistics for reference purposes only. This does not mean the boat is for sale. ... Victoria Shadow Members Frances' ... Paine 26; Chuck Paine's Blog; Frances 26 Project - Outfitting La Luz; Tom's home built Frances; Restoring Tula;
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