The View from the Helm

Paul and Chuck aboard Redwing

Paul Tingey (left) was happy to show off his recently finished Redwing in Auckland this February. The quality was beautiful, the ergonomics just as expected, the shape as close to perfect as anyone short of a reincarnated Nat Herreshoff could devise. And (whew) the two keelbolts that hold the keel on didn’t leak a drop. I think everyone who owns a motoryacht should have one of these on his boat deck. And everyone who doesn’t own a motoryacht though these will use a fixed, not removable, keel.

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.

You may have heard, Chuck Paine is retiring.  So what’s he going to do with all that time?  After he and Debby have gotten some traveling out of their systems, Chuck is going to become a BOATBUILDER!  He thinks his final design, the PAINE 26, is the best thing that will ever happen to sailing.  It’s beautiful, it’s fast, and it has a unique feature that makes it possible for a person overboard to get back aboard without assistance.  And it’s small enough to actually get used a lot, not left to rot in a marina like so many larger yachts.  What do you think?

And here she is where she fits, just, with her keel removed and safely in its deck box, on the boat deck of ADAGIO.

REDWING is designed to be hoistable onto deck of your motoryacht

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.