Chuck Paine has had a long and fascinating career. He thought you might want to know more about it and the wonderful series of yachts his studio designed. So he’s writing his memoirs which will be released in early 2010.
Our newest launch is the aluminum Kanter 48 VELA for a Colorado customer. She is highly customized to suit her owners who plan world cruising. She is beautifully balanced so as to be steerable using a simple Hydrovane self steerer.
Here’s her deck plan. The hard dodger has a forward facing nav table and room enough for the watchstander to stretch out and rest while the autopilot does the steering.
All Cabot Lyman needed to do was sail NEW MORNING a couple of times before he knew that this was a world class sailing machine. We at Paine Yacht Design knew that, of course, and by working together with Cabot and J.B., we have tweaked her into a mid-fifties offshore cruiser with immense appeal to knowledgeable sailors. Together we are developing an interior that will serve four to six crew in open ocean conditions. The Lyman Morse 54 is destined to become the ultimate aft cockpit sailing yacht of the decade. She’s fast, she’s stiff, and her fixed dodger provides a sheltered place from which to pilot her and watch the waters of the world slip rapidly astern.
And here she is where she fits, just, with her keel removed and safely in its deck box, on the boat deck of ADAGIO.
She’s built to the highest yacht standards, which you can see from the photo.
Here’s our REDWING DINGHY, a scaled down Herreshoff 12 1/2 with a removable keel so she fits on the deck of her mothership.
What more can you say? It’s why folks build beautiful custom yachts.
Here’s ADAGIO with her builders on board, during her sea trials in New Zealand, resting in a quiet cove.
I just realized I promised you a photo of the Lyman-Morse 54 New Morning’s interior, which then slipped my mind. Here it is. Its a stunning example of a minimalist style, with the blond wood beautifully set off by the varnished teak cabin soles and soft tan leather. The unique interior design is the result of a collaboration between owner Fay Mark and interior designer Jane Plachter of Florida. For this sort of interior to succeed the joinerwork must be absolutely perfect. Less perfect in this photo is the artwork… the owners have not selected theirs yet so I took the liberty of photoshopping in one of my own humble efforts. Still, with that imperfection, it’s a beautiful space to be in.