A 42’ (12.8 m) LOA daysailer. She is to be a test-bed and showcase for environmentally-responsible technology and, where possible, materials.
HINTS OF THE PAST BUT NOT RETRO
The exterior design is inspired by
American & European workboats and early yachts. Influences come from pilot boats, English cutters and the vertical-sided curved houses of early 19th century American workboats and yachts. There is also a bulwark forward of the mast, and retractable bowsprit for asymmetric spinnaker. None of these compromises the boat's primary use as a daysailer, designed to appeal to the visual and tactile senses.
HYBRID PROPULSION, LIFTING KEEL, KALEIDESCOPE GLASS SHOWER
The propulsion system is unique and brand new technology - a parallel-hybrid drive allowing the boat to be motored, either under electric power with a 10 kw (13.4 bhp) electric motor or with a 30 bhp (22.4 kw) diesel. Power is delivered through a fixed-3-blade propeller on a retractable shaft.
The boat is intended to sail in remote and interesting parts of the world, so her draft is reducible from 8’ (2.44 m) to 6’ (1.83 m) while underway, with the keel lifting mechanism contained within the saloon table base.
Though primarily to be used as a daysailer, there are two cabins below, a small galley and head and a comfortable saloon. Also a shower: a 3’ diameter glass tube that runs right through the boat from its glass deck hatch to the glass bottom conforming to the hull. This is not only a shower but a ‘light refractor.’ It will reflect and refract light from above and below all around the interior of the boat’s light wood interior sourced from North & South American woods, and with soft, cool fabrics on cushions and pillows.
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