We are often anchored off St. Thomas in the USVI these days, but we have a car and storage on Tortola.  When we make the half day sail up to Tortola...

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Working around rain showers I've been installing engine room vents.  The scare of carbon monoxide leaking from the engine room into the living space...

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Almost two years for the start of the big one, the more extreme of all sailing races, and there are already 4 pré entries:-) and as you can see, also...

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Update on the wet corner.  Parts finally arrives to hook up the faucet and spray attachment so Sasha put it all together for me.  Very excited...

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Tank testing can also be used to test the yacht in various sea states, under power and even at rest. We will normally test appendages such as skegs,...

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I snapped this image of this nice looking Burger today at the Palm Beach Boat Show. The boat was originally launched as Tigertayl, in 1975. She is...

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I confess that I have mixed feelings about Comanche, the new Maxi designed by Van Peteghem Lauriot Prévost (VPLP) and Guillaume Verdier: It...

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For months I've been scratching my head on how to make the saloon as multi functional as possible.  We want it to feel big and open, but we also...

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After many week of work and mess I'm on the home stretch.  I'm onto fairing the corners and smoothing the seams.  I want things smooth and easy...

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If you recall, back in 2001-2002 we designed the floating clubhouse for the Manhattan Sailing Club, the Honorable William Wall, The dinghy dock was to...

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Cheers to them that won nice and cleanly the Abu Dhabi in Port race. On the weak wind wins they showed that they are incredibly good sailors. My take...

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Well, not much, only images but as they say "images are worth more than a thousand words" and through them we can see a very modern sailboat, kind of...

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We don't have any small scale study plans on hand for this yacht but we're posting an article nonetheless. It's an interesting design. The boat was...

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This is the largest of the S&S Palawans designed for Here are the plans.Principal DimensionsLOA 67'-6"LWL 50'-6"Beam 17'-6"Draft 6'-8" (board up)...

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Sasha snapped this picture just before we took off for the summer. Notice the full laundry lines?  Yeah.  Not how I pictured leaving the boat...

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Yes, this one is about Nostalgia. I saw on the net an old movie about boat building in England 70 years ago, a movie that contrary to the usual had a...

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Click here to access a new video by Billy Black about Aileen, the 48' spirit of tradition slo...

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Sasha and I have been going back and forth on what to do with the brow of the pilot house.  Usually on work boats, the brow is painted something...

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Here's a preliminary design of a 112' performance sloop, that was prepared in 2006. It was based on utilizing the basic engineering of s/y Zingaro, design...

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The Xc45 was the 2009 European boat of the year. I liked the boat as soon I saw it except for two small details, the interior that even high quality looked...

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We are still in the rough phase of building, but the cabinets are pretty much in place.  I am back in business with a new camera body so I snapped...

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Yep.  Having fifty friends from the mainland in our backyard for a long weekend was pretty great. Only wish it could have lasted a few more...

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Probably not what you expected, but yes.  The head is the heart of our living quarters right now.   Things left to do in this room…....

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