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What is a Double-Ender Boat?

A double-ender is a type of boat that is propelled by two engines and has two pointed, symmetrical bows. This type of boat is extremely efficient, as both engines are utilized in powering the boat forward and can be steered from both ends. This design allows for quick changes in direction and is often used in activities such as fishing and water sports, due to its manoeuvrability. This type of boat is also used in commercial applications, as it is able to navigate tight spaces with greater ease than other boat designs.

Which manufacturers build double-ender power boats?

Manufacturers that produce double-ender power boats include Pettersson and Fifie .

How much does a double-ender power boat cost?

A used double-ender power boat on TheYachtMarket.com ranges in price from £15,000 GBP to £63,700 GBP with an average price of £39,300 GBP . Factors including the condition, age, model and specification will affect the price of a double-ender.

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Tayana 37 Double-ender for sale in San Diego, California United States of America

San Diego, California United States of America

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Tayana 37 Double-ender

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- Stock #Bob Perry designed 1977 Tayana 37. Refit with no expenses spared; over $75K in upgrade!!! Too many upgrades to list! Truly ready for world travel! If you are looking for a Bluewater cruiser or a spacious liveaboard, you've found it with this Tayana 37! Located in San Diego, California, this 1977 Tayana, also known as CT37, is a great starting point for your bluewater cruise to explore. Next destination: Sea of Cortez and then the Polynesian Islands!!.

Bob Perry designed 1977 Tayana 37. Refit with no expenses spared; over $75K in upgrade!!! Too many upgrades to list! Truly ready for world travel! If you are looking for a Bluewater cruiser or a spacious liveaboard, you've found it with this Tayana 37! Located in San Diego, California, this 1977 Tayana, also known as CT37, is a great starting point for your bluewater cruise to explore. Next destination: Sea of Cortez and then the Polynesian Islands!!. It's time to stop dreaming and start living. You always talked about casting off and sailing along coastal waters or the deep blue seas. This 1977 Tayana 37 Cutter Rigged Sloop is a proven bluewater cruiser. Seller reports to have spent over $75,000 in upgrades and refit the boat to modern standards. Seller's loss and buyers gain with a newer updated vessel and a true blue water cruiser! This vessel is a true outlier - nothing is need to upgrade other than maintenance. All hard rigging, chain plates, etc., replaced 2018 - extensive list of upgrades upon request. The Tayana 37 sailboat design is a classic and successful full-keel double-ender created by Bob Perry marking the modern design of a full keel and obtaining boat speed. Built in 1977 with an interior that shows quality and pride with wood joinery that is classy and functional for a vessel of its age. Below deck, the main cabin includes a compact and well laid out galley with a deep sink, stove/oven, large ice box and a portable ice maker!. The galley is positioned for easy access from the helm or adjacent dinette. The entire cabin is detailed with excellently-maintained teak with an enclosed propane heater. Several opening porthole windows and a teak skylight in the salon provides plenty of light and ventilation. To the starboard is a navigation station and aft berth and midship settee for the crew. The navigation station is riddled with updated electronics an monitoring systems. Forward is a spacious main cabin with a queen-sized bed and ample locker storage for gear and sails. A roomy head with shower is in the bow. The engine room is easily accessible below gangway stairs and is a newer 2017 diesel Volvo Penta with low-hours. She may be an older boat but has been modernized with electronics and refit with newer wiring from bow to stern completed in 2021. Two 100 watt solar panels with fast charging Lithium battery bank. Solar system is monitored with a Victron controller and multifunction display for easy read-out and ability to monitor from your cell phone. Self contained with endless power for multiple days while off grid. Rigging includes a roller furling jib and battened main along with staysail. A cutter rigged staysail with a quick release pelican hook for temporary removal of the staysail for sloop rigged sailing. Two regular and two self-tailing winches, main sheet traveler and lifelines ready it for any adventure. Custom bow pulpit with newer windlass and dual anchor harness. Windlass controls strategically positioned near the helm. Too many upgrades to list which can be provided upon request or make a showing to observe for yourself? We are looking for people all over the country who share our love for boats. If you have a passion for our product and like the idea of working from home, please visit WhereFreedomTakesYou [dot] com to learn more. Please submit any and ALL offers - your offer may be accepted! Submit your offer today! Reason for selling is no longer used. At Pop Yachts, we will always provide you with a TRUE representation of every vessel we market. We encourage all buyers to schedule a survey for an independent analysis. Any offer to purchase is ALWAYS subject to satisfactory survey results. You have questions? We have answers. Call us atto discuss this boat. Selling your boat has never been easier. At Pop Yachts, we literally sell thousands of units every year all over the country. Calland we'll get started selling your boat today. Take a look at ALL ***215 PICTURES*** of this vessel, AND A VIDEO, on our main website at POPYACHTS DOT COM. We appreciate that you took your time to look at our advertisement and we look forward to speaking with you!

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ABOUT TAYANA 37 DOUBLE-ENDER

The Tayana 37 Double-ender is 37 feet long and has a 12 feet beam. This 1977 diesel Tayana 37 Double-ender with 40 horsepower. The Tayana 37 Double-ender is made of fiberglass. This vessel comes equipped with anchor, battery as well as being equipped with autopilot, compass, gps, navigation lights, radar, vhf, wind instrument.

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1989 Pacific Seacraft 34

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Legendary Design and Build, at an Affordable Price

The Pacific Seacraft 34 was recently named by Cruising World as one of the top seven cruising designs under $100k.  This stout Bill Crealock double-ender is an ideal couples cruiser with room to sleep two, feed four, and entertain six.

Crealock 34's have classic proportions and lines, with a modern fin keel and tough skeg hung rudder. Her double-ender design lends itself to a very comfortable ride in heavy seas. 

Rain Dog's present owners have enjoyed cruising her throughout most of the Bahamas and coastal Florida for the past two years.   Unfortunately, health issues now require them to move in a different direction. 

Highlights Include:

• Monitor Wind Vane Steering
• Engel 12V/ 110V Portable Ice Chest/ Refrigerator
• New Standing Rigging 2009
• Vesper AIS system
• Garmin GPSMap 441
• Two 100W Solar Panels
• Composting Head
• Recent Survey from May 2016 is available to potential buyers
• Bottom Painted May 2016
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Twin 6'6" settees with storage under

Lee cloths on settees

Port settee converts to double berth

Norco Day/Night vent

2 x Caframo Sirocco fans

6 opening bronze porch

Large hatch for good ventilation

Brass Oil Lamp

Brass ships clock and barometer

Multiple 110v plugs

Multiple 12v plugs

4 x Alpenglow LED Reading Lights (2011)

2 x Alpenglow Overhead Lights (2011)

2 x LED Overhead lights

New salon cushions (2014)

Bulkhead mounted teak dining table.

Abundant storage

Engel MT45 portable refrigerator/freezer - 43QT

2 burner propane stove with oven

Propane selenoid

6 cubic foot ice-box

Propane locker, vented overboard, with 2 x 20 gallon propane tanks

Double stainless sink

Pressure and manual fresh water at galley

Drinking water filter with separate spigot at galley  

CO detector

Electric bilge pump

Opening Navigation Desk with large storage

Vesper Watchmate (2015)

Fusion MS-RA206 with 2 Polk speakers (2014)

Standard Horizon Matrix GX2100 VHF/AIS/DSC (2009)

Victron BMV 700 Battery Monitor (2014)

Teak Bnocular rack with 7 x 35 binoculars

2 x Hella 2-speed turbo fans (2012)

2 LED reading lights (2012)

Overhead light

6' latex mattress

Full length shelf along each side of v-berth

2-Door hanging locker with shelves and internal lighting

Overhead hatch

3 opening ports

110 volt outlets

12 volt outlets

USB Outlets

Access to anchor locker

Abundant storage below v-berth

Custom composting head

All original plumbing intact for conversion back to conventional head if desired

18 gallon holding tank with deck pumpout and direct overboard pumpout

Hella one-speed fan

Overhead LED light

Norco Day/Night solar vent

Opening Port

Hand held shower

Manual foot pump for fresh water wash-basin

Electrical System

2 x Trojan T-105 House bank (2014)

Starting Battery in separate bank

2 x 100w solar panels (2014)

Balmar Duo-charge (2014)

Midnite Solar "The Kid" MPPT charge controller (2014)

IOTA DLS-55/IQ4 four-stage charger (2013)

50' 30-Amp shorepower cord

Yanmar 3HM35F engine (30 hp)- Approximately 2000 hours on engine.

Lots of spares including spare alternator

Yanmar manuals and service manuals

New engine gauges and senders (2014)

New PSS Dripless Shaftseal (2015)

Rudder stuffing box repacked (2015)

Access to engine from cockpit and inside

Racor Fuel-water separator

Spare 40 gallon fuel tank from OEM (not installed, installed tank has no known issues)

2-blade fixed prop

Oil change vacuum pump

Wheel steering

Monitor windvane with 2 air vanes and attachment for tiller pilot

Garmin GPSMap 441s at helm (2009)

Standard Horizon Handheld VHF Radio (2014)

Garhauer lifting davit (2015)

Teak cockpit table and binocular/glass rack.

Dodger with sun cover (2014)

Rainfly covers cockpit and has full sun shades

Deep swim ladder

5 self-tailing winches

Depth sounder

Compass at helm

All sail-control lines lead to rope-clutches in cockpit

Deep storage on port lazarette

Shallow storage starboard lazarette

Solid stainless tube life-lines around cockpit (2014)

Spray cloths and lifeline netting

Full screen enclosure

Emergency tiller steering

Manual bilge pump

6 large bronze cleats (2 aft, 2 mid ship, 2 forward)

Bronze hawsepipes

Simpson-Lawrence Seatiger 555 windlass

150' ACCO â...œ BBB chain (2014) with 150' â... Samson super-strong double brain (2014)

50' â...-- BBB with 200' â... Yale Octoplait (2014)

Divided anchor locker

45 lb Manson Supreme anchor

15 lb Danforth Stern anchor

15' ¼ chain with 150' ½' plait in stern anchor locker

Deck level running lights

Masthead Aqua Signal Series 34 LED Tri-Color / Anchor Navigation Light (2014)

Steaming light

4 Jerry Cans with custom cover

Fender board

Storm Staysail (Excellent condition)

Asymmetric Spinnaker with ATN sock (Excellent condition)

Main with 2 reefs

Most running rigging replaced in last 5 years

New upper chainplates and stern chainplate from Pacific Seacraft (not installed)

Complete set of spare mast fittings from LeFiell (2014)

Full rigging inspection Nov 2014

Standing Rigging replaced 2009

Safety Equipment

Viking Rescyou Coastal 6 person liferaft (2014)

2 Fire Extinguishers

4 x Life Jackets

All required coast guard items

Brand new 40 gallon fuel tank custom made by OEM

Chainplates and bolts (Uppers and Aft chainplates) from Pacific Seacraft (2014)

All mast tangs and fittings purchased from LeFiell. (2014)

Lots of diesel spares

Spare alternator

Spare manual water pump and rebuild kit (2014)

Spare pressure water pump (2014)

Spare bilge pumps (2014)

Monitor Wind Vane Spares Kit

Crealock 34's have classic proportions and lines, with a modern fin keel and tough skeg hung rudder. Her double-ender designs lends itself to a very comfortable ride in heavy seas. 

Rain Dog's present owners have enjoyed cruising her throughout most of the Bahamas and coastal Florida for the past two years.  Unfortunately, health issues now require them to move in a different direction. 

The Pacific Seacraft 34 offers fast performance under sail, seakindliness, ease of handling, comfort and timeless beauty. All the advantages of the Crealock-designed canoe stern with its ample overhang, well-proven in other Pacific Seacraft, are incorporated in the Pacific Seacraft 34.

The Pacific Seacraft 34's moderate displacement contributes to both comfort and speed. She is light enough to make her swift, heavy enough to make her comfortable, and spacious enough to hold ample stores for a long passage.

Belowdecks, she's light, airy and exceptionally commodious with 6-foot 3-inch headroom; a spacious, versatile salon; U-shaped gourmet galley; and bunk space for six. Her quality is evident in solid bronze fittings, teak joinery, a hand laid-up hull and molded fiberglass interior.

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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

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CHUCKPAINE.COM LLC Tenants Harbor, Maine 04860-0114

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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.

39′ Double-Ender

Heyman Yachts

Nothing ordinary

Why a double-ender? – Traditions behind the 39’ Pavane

This double-ender stems from a type of coastal fishing boats which were common in Scandinavian waters during the past centuries. It would be much too far-fetched to claim that they are all descendants to the long-boats of the Vikings, but in fact I guess this is where they have their roots. However, over the centuries, they have developed in different directions.

On the Swedish west coast and in Norway, the double-enders, called ‘koster’, had a dramatically full bow and a rather slender stern. The smaller boats were clinker built, had outboard rudders and were used as coastal fishing boats, later equipped with engines. The larger ones were often carvel built. A somewhat refined variety of the west coast koster are the ones later developed by Colin Archer into his hefty rescue boats, ‘redningsskøyte’.

In Denmark and the southermost parts of Sweden, the double-enders had very different proportions, with full-bodied sections aft, making them more buoyant. With their more balanced shape forward and aft, the spidsgatters balanced well when heeled and were able to take a storm on their quarters without being pooped. The lines of spidsgatters were a little more ‘yachty’ in appearance, they were most often carvel built and usually a little quicker as well.

There were two different kinds of sterns, characterised by their rudder arrangements. The most common was the outboard rudder which was always used for the smaller boats. The more unusual ‘kanothäck’ or canoe stern had the rudder post pass through the hull. This arrangement was used for some of the bigger double-ended workboats but even then it was rare, until a hundred or so years ago, when canoe sterns started to appear in two vastly different types of double-enders: In bigger fishing boats and trawlers, and in yachts. Canoe stern yachts of a similar kind were also somewhat popular in Britain and, to some extent, in Germany but – dare I say so – they were never as lovely as the Danish ones.

The inspiration for the 39’ Pavane stems from these lovely, wholesome spidsgatters and Øresundskosters of the southern Baltic, with a side look to early/mid-1900s yachts by the likes of Berg, Reimers and Aage Nielsen. Personally, I think her traditional lines above the waterline go together extremely well with her modern hull shape under the surface – a happy marriage of styles and shapes, separated by a century.

39′ hull #2

A modern, slippery cruising yacht

This design should be equally at home on a mooring on the Clyde, in Newport or in Cannes. She is intended to be a manageable boat, able to sneak in almost anywhere. Under sail, she will provide fast passages, averaging between 7 and 8 knots on all points of sailing but at the same time, will be seaworthy and well behaved.

Cruising life is changing. I guess most people think of cruising as heading for another shore, exploring new anchorages. But cruising could just as well mean day sailing to a familiar port, visiting a nice restaurant, meeting friends. And while many crews consist of a couple, most will also want to invite friends or children to join them for a week or two. And, even with only two on board, most people will want some basic comfort, and stay in contact with the world beyond.

Therefore, I believe a proper cruising boat will be one that her owners will never find too cramped, too slow, too cranky or too limited. She will have to offer much more than just being a good sailing boat for two.

Still, at below 40 ft., and being of moderate proportions, this design will be easily handled. But this is not about size only. It is perhaps more about clever use of space, a long water line, an efficient hull shape, and about avoiding unnecessary weight or complication.

There is another aspect to the matter of size and cost:

The earlier 36′ design

The cost of a boat will be a function of its weight. But the cost of building a one-off will also be a function of its surface areas, as all surfaces are finished by hand. Comparing, for example, a 30 ft one-off with a 39 ft., the bigger boat will have 70 % more surface to finish but she will offer 110% more space. For a one-off, the slightly bigger boat, not too heavy, is more cost-efficient.

Provided, again, that she is designed to make efficient use of her size.

The design for this 39′ yawl was finished in 2012 and was developed from a 36′ sloop, designed some 12 years earlier. This lovely yacht is a one-off build, made from strip planking and sheathed in multi-directional glass and epoxy.

Under water

A full keel was avoided for simplicity, cost, and speed. But it should be noted that this does not make her inferior in terms of safety, or steering. In addition, the fin keel makes manouvering easier.

OK, but why a yawl rig?

39′ Yawl Rig

By definition, this rig would probably be called a ketch but the sail plan is that of a yawl. The distinction between yawl and ketch is based on the mast position in relation to the rudder stock; this is the formal definition. But considering the sail plan proportions of this particular design, with its smallish mizzen set far aft, I have chosen to call her a yawl.

The mizzen mast is unstayed, the mizzen is tiny and contributes nothing on the wind. On the other hand, it is not really in the way either. On a reach, it gives a little extra push, especially with the staysail set. When anchoring or approaching a mooring, it keeps the bow into the wind, even at zero speed. And in a sudden blow, one can romp along under a deep-reefed jib + mizzen.

36′ earlier design

The helmsman sits aft and the forward part of the cockpit, if you like, is for enjoying the day, eating, reading – or sleeping. The starboard seat is extended a little further forward, leading to the entrance.

Inside, there is a big hanging locker and a navigation table. Rounding the central island, one enters the galley. There is good contact with the cockpit through the entrance hatch and the opening portlight on the port side. The engine is accessible from all sides, under the galley sink, and the fridge is opposite, under the navigation table.

The aft cabin is unusual for a boat with an aft cockpit and is intended as the owner’s cabin, laid out for a couple. There is standing headroom, one can sit down on the berth and move about in a dignified manner.

There is stowage for two folding bicycles behind the backrests in the main cabin.

The forward cabin will accommodate guests without disturbing the owners. But, during periods when the yacht is used by its owners only, this area can be used for other purposes, for stowage, or as an office.

Construction

36′ previous design

A strip planked red cedar hull is encapsulated in multidirectional glass and epoxy, making for a light, strong and durable structure. Alternatively, a Divinycell foam-cored construction has its merits.

• L.O.A.                                          12,00 m     39,4′
• D.W.L.                                         10,73 m     35,2′
• Beam, maximum                           3,46 m       11,4′
• Beam, waterline                            2,89 m         9,5′
• Draft                                             1,64 m         5,4′
• Displacement, light                        7200 kg      15860 lbs
• Ballast                                          2600 kg        5730 lbs
• Sail area 100%                              76,8 m²      827 sq.ft.
• True sail area                                83,5 m²      899 sq.ft
• Mainsail, true area                      41,0 m²      441 sq.ft.
• Jib, true area                                 33,9 m²      365 sq.ft.
• Mizzen, true area                            8,6 m²        93 sq.ft.
• Gennaker                                          74 m²         797 sq.ft.
• Mizzen staysail                               24 m²         258 sq.ft.
• D/L                                                  165
• SA/D, upwind                              20,6
• SA/D, downwind                          48,7
• Entry angle                                     14,7 °

AVS                                                 131 °

Downflooding                               102 °

CE Category                                 A (Ocean)

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I drove by Oceanus almost daily in a local yard. A very unique and beautiful boat. Unfortunately I was witness to her destruction by an excavator. The owner could not afford the insurance, yard fees, let alone the restoration. One of the most depressing sights I have ever witnessed.

Hi Bob, Loved the directness of your comments. Great to have you "de-mythologize" the double ender while making a point that I think is really important. Aesthetics matter: you own your boat to make you happy - and having the "prettiest fanny in the anchorage", the boldest bow or most elegant sheer or whatever turns your crank may just win out over the apparent logic of some other design choice. All the best from sailboat Wabi.

Well you have a point squatting at the stern slower etc etc. The way I see it the problem is getting the water flow to cleanly cleave off the stern not sucking the boat back or clinging on and climbing up the stern causing drag. My plans are doomed or are they. I remember seeing a valiant in a yachting magazine back in the day probably 1973 and thinking oh my God that is gorgeous one day I will have a boat like that. To find out that double enders are no good or in some way deficient is like discovering Santa (Saint Nicolas)isn't real. After seeing that boat I developed a disliking for transoms I don't like the way the lines of a boat flow beutifully and come that snap finnish. Here is my defence of a rounded stern: pionted structures whatever they are create stress pionts curved structures dissipate stresses eg. an egg. one good point. A lot of these boats are heavy full keel designs deep boats make deep waves, big drag but they don't have to be deep full keel jobs, if the stern runs flatter on the bottom I believe the water flow will cleave away better and the boat will be faster eg surfboards. I would also take issue with the idead that a boat should be pointy a the bow mayby and mayby not (complaints about V berths being small). I can't find the videos but have seen a skutsji being towed at 22 knotts, level and bolt upright in the water and I have also seen a tjalk being sailed at 11 knotts these things are fast. So what is my solution yet again the lemateraak.

Thanks for article. I'm no expert but canoe butts were built long ago when wood was fashioned; enabling strength of joins. I'm about to buy a canoe stern cruising yacht, for many reasons I'm going for a slower old girl design although she's of modern build. 1. We used to race Dragons and although the same weight, length and sail area of Etchell; Dragons loved the horsepower. Our last race was a rough one. Committee 40' power launch was with fear of capsize so start finish was routed to harbour Lee water. She was rough. Although we were juniors, we asked slip master if race cancellation suggestion was because of us and our open top sinkers if swamped but we're told race committee was with more concern regarding welfare of Etchell fleet, they'd be struggling. We didn't finish race. Only race we didn't finish. Collision at sea took out our shroud yet we launched without pop and hiked in on screaming reach with all colours. In a mad hurry because collision had paralyzed my forehand; lost muscle usage for 28 hrs. People that say long keelers don't plane don't understand high rythym and reflex. They plane gorgeously, just a bit loose and ready to spin like a ballerina. Without wide aft we have gone from balancing on a spear to balance upon a ball and turn can be substituted by yaw pitch. Ironic is sailing. Other choices of vessels included nice faster vessels with more volume aft. Eg 2 extra cabins and lots of extra space. Yet to stow brings slow whilst with older style of less volume, extra weight is loved as ballast. Some of my more or less experienced friends have never balanced an old bird, some have but went back to modern skiffing yachts. Way I see it is 100+ years ago there were no rescue boats, if you were caught out you battled for knots until blow had blown over or you rode something built for offshore and danced with a smile. We cruised a vertical tapered keel with spade for years. Almost outrun a 4 day 70 knot blow, were exhausted during 3 hours of ol' ship anyone spotted entrance yet. Yet with 1950s race boat, always full sail area. 2 mast positions; high and low. High during light wind, low during moderate, high again above 20knots because unlike modern designs, older designs usually have ability to discard excess horsepower and when she's blowing there's plenty of excess discard ratio to balance vessel with. Wider arts however want horsepower which is why they're are usually a lot faster but forcing horsepower is great during lesser conditions for lessons of less ons. Mother nature well above our strengths.. nice to feel our way sometimes.

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