March 2016 ~ Boat Plans 4 U

Monday, March 7, 2016

Making a Fridge Door

7:16 PM in Boat Plans

As I was showing Sasha how nice my fridge door fit into the fared hole in the front of the fridge box he said to me "you know you need to add another layer of insulation to the door, right?". Uuugh. It turns out husbands are a lot like Moms when it comes to being right about things. I...

Skinning the Pilot House Part 3: Cubbies

4:32 PM in Boat Plans

Just when we thought we were done. Each cubby is about sixteen inches wide and twenty inches tall. We decided to skin the back and top sides of each cubby because those sides are insulated and we didn't want the insulation getting too beat up. &nb...

ITALIA 15.98 (movie)

1:48 PM in Boat Plans

What a beautiful boat!!! It looks better than on the drawings and it looked very well on the drawings. This is one of the boats that makes me sorry for not being rich, at least rich enough for having one LOL. The boat was tested by Toby Hodges for Yachtingworld magazine on a good breeze and I don't...

ARC ON THE FAST LANE

11:04 AM in Boat Plans

And as subtitle: the expensive and the "cheap" options LOL. The ARC is almost starting and this year we have some very interesting performance cruisers doing the passage, among them two Outremer 51 (picture above), a Neel 45 "racing", a Pogo 50, two Pogos 12.50, a Knierim 49, a Marten 49, a XP44 and...

GITANA OPEN 60 ON FOILS: BEAUTIFULL

8:20 AM in Boat Plans

I am convinced: the foils do work even on very nasty weather and the Open 60's (IMOCA) continue to lead in what regards significant technological monohull advances as they have been doing for some decades. Just beautiful the movie, some of this year's best sailing foota...

SALONA 44, CRUISING WORLD BOAT OF THE YEAR

5:36 AM in Boat Plans

The ones that follow the blog knows that I don't give much importance to the Cruising Boat magazine boat of the year: the categories are too many, the boats are old news in what regards the European Market the number of testers are relatively small, not all professional and did not test a huge variety...

POGO 36 / POGO 10.50

2:52 AM in Boat Plans

Let's compare dimensions and try to understand how different will the new boat be versus the old one. First dimensions for the 10.50, all the measures in m, t, m2.LOA: 10.50/10.86. Beam: 3.90/4.00. Weight: 3.6/3.6. Draft : 2.80-1.05/2.93-1.10. SA u: 71/74So what does this tell us? It tells that it is...

New-To-Us Dinghy Engine

12:08 AM in Boat Plans

When we bought our thirteen-foot Whaler the Mercury 30 HP engine had two major problems. First, the hydraulic trim tilt pump was dead. Second, (and more importantly) it was not powerful enough to ski/ wakeboard behind. We found a solution when our friend "crazy Dave" offered...

Green Thumb

9:24 PM in Boat Plans

I have wanted a garden for the longest time. Now we have a little plot of land, and although it may be small, we hope to grow lots of herbs. I'm starting with small cuttings, but i hope in a couple of months we'll be harvesting our own basil and rosemary for use on our pizza pie.&nb...

Preliminary Design - 60' Classic Ketch

6:40 PM in Boat Plans

This boat could be built in wood, fiberglass or aluminum depending on the owner's preference (and pricing). An alternate profile was also developed. Click here to have a look.Principal DimensionsLOA 60'-0"LWL 45'-10"Beam 14'-9"Draft 6'-0' (board up) 12'-6" (board do...

EUROPEAN YACHT OF THE YEAR: THE TEST MOVIES

3:56 PM in Boat Plans

and don't miss these two, from Yacht.de: http://www.yacht.de/yacht_tv/test_technik/endspurt-ii-europas-yacht-des-jahres/a94741.htmlhttp://www.yacht.de/yacht_tv/test_technik/endspurt-europas-yachten-des-jahres-i/a94637.html So many beautiful sailboats gliding effortlessly in light wind, or...

Master List - S&S 6-Meter Designs

1:12 PM in Boat Plans

Here is a master list of S&S 6-Meters sorted by name, design number and year.Please note:+ Design #40 was a collaboration between S&S and Herman Whiton+ Design #44.2 were modifications to a Clinton Crane design (new rig)+ Design #46.2 were modifications to a Clinton Crane design (new r...

More About Iorana - Design 1891

10:28 AM in Boat Plans

A blog reader was kind enough to send us these images of the beautiful A&R built sloop...

Thanks very much for sending these.

RM 1070 first video

7:44 AM in Boat Plans

Impressive: It takes some time to be convinced that it is just a 35ft boat!!! What was already a very good sailboat in its first version, the 1050, become better with the 1060 and even better with the 1070: A great small voyage boat with a big offshore potential.The presentation movie made by Voile...

GF 42 TRIMARAN

5:00 AM in Boat Plans

One of the most improbable projects around designed by a trendy Architect Greg Lynn that normally designs anything but boats in association with Courouble Design, a California Naval design firm, without experience in multihulls and with a short experience in fast monohulls.I would not have looked...

BARCELONA WORLD RACE: GREAT NEWS

2:16 AM in Boat Plans

And the good news is that we have a race not between two boats, as I feared, but between 4 boats. Surprisingly, at least for me, besides Stamm/Le Cam, Alex/Ribes there are two more competitive boats and teams. Not only Altadill/Munõz but Corbella/Marín are among the first. Corbella/Marín are leading...

Our First Sail!

11:32 PM in Boat Plans

After launching, we motored for a few days just to get a feel for the boat and how a monohull moves compared to the large catamarans we are used to. All that motoring quickly pointed out that we had a serious leak in the transmission - we were leaking about a quart of oil per mile! We...

Lost Our Dinghy!

8:48 PM in Boat Plans

Almost a week ago we lost our dinghy! We were motor sailing from Tortola to St. Thomas when all of a sudden Sasha called to me "Oh no, the dinghy's gone!". We turned around and spent 4+ hours looking for it. We sailed back to Nanny Cay, all the while factoring the wind and current...

THE NOMINATED BOATS FOR THE 2015 EUROPEAN YACHT OF THE YEAR

6:04 PM in Boat Plans

Contrary to the magazines boat's of the year this contest is more relevant: It is not only the testers of a magazine that chose the boat but testers from 10 European leading sailing magazines (one for each country). All boats are tested on the water in two rounds, the last one after being selected the...

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