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These designs tend toward the heavy displacement bracket, which gives you a robust and seaworthy hull with a sea kindly motion. It also gives you plenty of volume for the interior. Large tanks can often be fitted without interfering with the layout.

These are big projects. Most people will expect to spend a couple of years building and fitting out. A good compromise is to have the hull professionally built, then do the fit out yourself.

If this is where you intend to sail, then a steel boat is an obvious choice. However, regardless of your cruising grounds, a strong steel hull is still an advantage with a big margin of safety inherent in the structure.

The 20m takes shape.

The 12.40 m cruising design was developed from an idea featured in an article entitled "The Millennium Boat" published in Cruising Helmsman, January 2000. The article discussed the concept of a modern heavy displacement design for cruising. Evolving from this is a new set of stock plans, just completed. The hull is to be built in 3 strakes, the keel in two, with chine bars and transverse floors as supporting structure. Heavy plating thicknesses, up to 6mm on the hull are specified for strength, and the hull has plenty of volume. A swept spreader cutter rig has been drawn up to give versatility in sail choices. This should be a capable and excellent long distance cruiser.

Plans include lines, offsets, construction plan, profile and sections, rudder, ballast, shroud plate and other details, arrangement and sailplan.

Perspective of the 12.40m design

The 14m cruising yacht is currently under construction in Hobart. The client wanted a particular profile, that of the Dutch Leemsterak, combined with a heavy displacement yacht hull shape, and a centreboard to reduce draft. 5mm topsides plating increases in steps to 8 mm plating on the keel sides for an extremely strong hull. The cutter rig has a short bowsprit to fit the character of the design. A separate gaff cutter rig plan is also available, using a wooden spar. There is enormous space in this hull - a family could live aboard this yacht for many years, gradually cruising the world.

A montage panorama picture of the 14m design under construction.

This large 20m motor sailer is a custom design for a client who had built many steel and alloy boats professionally. He came to the office with his ideas sketched out and the job was to style the yacht, determine its proportions and prepare the necessary drawings. This large project has been ongoing for a couple of years in a shed on the south shores of Botany Bay, NSW, with just two people working on the construction, but the launching date is now not far off. The arrangement suits a long term cruising plan, with many places on the list of destinations.

20m arrangement