No Sense Waiting
The PAINE 26
Now’s the time to clean out the barn and start building. In every century there’s one boat that makes sense for the times. In the last, it was the Herreshoff 12 1/2. In this one, it’s her big sister. Let me know- I can help.
January 7th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Not really. Spinnakers are for racing and look good in the renderings!
January 7th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Yeah, of course YOU would think so!
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:31 am
Very pretty girl. Just how ocean-going do you consider her to be? Do the cutaway forefoot and the balanced rudder also add to in-harbor manoeuvrability?
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Dear Paco,
Well, not oceangoing. The cockpit is too big for that, though unlike her prototype (Pentimento, which you can have a look at on my website) it is self-bailing. I would happily cross the gulf of Maine in her, having checked the (excellent in this part of the world) weather reports before leaving. But she’s too small, I think, to consider taking to Bermuda.
I think this sort of rudder and keel, which my office sort of pioneered, will make her entirely predictable and maneuverable (not sure of the spelling). In a thousand years I truly believe this will be the keel/rudder configuration of choice for a coastal cruiser, though by then the ballast ratio will be 90 percent!
February 5th, 2010 at 7:32 am
Sure. I hadn’t noticed the proportions of the cockpit in the rendering above, which show very well in the pictures on your website. At first sight she seemed a scaled down Annie. And maybe I also had in mind all the adventurous tales of Franceses sailing all over the place. Very pretty girl nontheless, I insist.
I don’t quite get it. Will the 90 percent ballast ratio owe to the lighter hulls in a thousand years or to the amount of lead and uranium in the crews’ organisms by then?
February 26th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
Fortune teller part of my brain says – winner ! Swift sailing, shallow drafting, minimalist interior – all sadly unique in the new boat market currently. Please announce more concrete plans to partner with a builder !!!
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Hi Chuck,
Any plans to put the bigger Annie, expannannie(did i spell that right?) into production? if so, would you consider it capable of offshore( Caribbean, central America, Hawaii)?
JC
March 24th, 2010 at 10:25 am
Hi JC,
I would like nothing more than to see it in production. But the times being the way they are I’ll bet it will be a decade before this happens. Production means being able to sell twenty boats or more, given the startup costs. My designs are/were always twice as good as “production” yachts. Meaning twice as big a price tag. So for now it’s in the realm of so much of what I used to do– one of a kind gems for multi-millionaires who couldn’t wait two lifetimes to have what they wanted.
April 5th, 2010 at 9:38 am
You could always draw up building plans for plank on frame, glued lapstrake, etc and sell them to the public. That would get her built, fer sure!
JT