The cold-molded W-37 day racer continues coming together at Brooklin Boat Yard. Here all the plywood web frames and bulkheads and all the laminated frames have been hung from the longitudinal girders.
The guys in the building crew are putting the final fairing touches on the frames, planing the bevels just right to receive the first layer of planking, 7/16″ tongue-and-groove strip planking. You can see how the bigger laminated frames in the middle are notched into the heavy stringers where the fin keel will be bolted on.
Here’s a view from astern, showing the shallow sweep of the boat’s run. This spells speed, especially off the wind when the breeze is up. The broad, nearly vertical transom is quite a departure from The W-37’s more svelte sisters, the W-46 and W-76, but it’s this that will give her the power to carry a cloud of sail at planing speeds downwind. It’s made of several layers of marine plywood, vacuum-bagged together over a form to create the graceful camber that’ll distinguish it from more run-of-the-mill sportboats.
A view from the bow. She’s being built on the third floor, so this is looking across the main building bay, which last year was filled with Bequia, a 90′ cold-molded cruising yawl of SWW design. When she’s completed, a beam crane will fly her down to the ground floor, where she’ll be mated to her fin keel of fabricated steel and lead torpedo bulb. Her stem, with its graceful slight reverse, is to the right of the rightmost man’s elbow.
Stay tuned– planking begins next!
Bob Stephens
Here are some photos of the progress on the new W-37 fast daysailer as she took shape on the building floor at Brooklin Boat Yard last week. We’ll hope to get some periodic updates for you to look at on a regular basis.
She’s built in an interlocking “egg crate” construction method, where the [...]
Careful fitting of topside planking down onto chinelog.
Yachting Solutions & The Refit Construction Phases Begin
Just a little background on a rising star here in Maine, is well deserved. A reasonably new marine service company has struck new chords and sparked some interest and controversy here on the coast of Maine. Yachting Solutions has become known [...]
Paul Waring continues to write about the Corisande refit project at Yachting Solutions— 1955 vintage Huckins meets modern Volvo Propulsion
Two packages were considered and we worked on them together, and parallel to each other, until we had enough data from each representative to base a sound decision. On the ZF side of the equation, our client [...]
This lifting keel daysailer could be sailings’ version of the automotive industries’ “Crossover” concept in a Cadillac Coupe Deville. Rivolta Yachts, the well known Florida powerboat manufacturer, will commence production on the “Vintage 43” with plans to bring to market an easily managed, and well-appointed gentlemen’s day-sailer, delivering fingertip sailing and plush accommodation. The [...]
Paul Waring writes about Corisande— 1955 vintage Huckins meets modern Volvo Propulsion
When our client first came at us with the need for our help on getting this project off the ground, we were working with him on a 44 ft planing power yacht design of very light weight and minimal accommodation. This is a high [...]
Or, as we like to say– “The Cutting Edge of Tradition”
Stephens Waring and White is located in Brooklin, ME, and we are a vibrant yacht design firm solidly grounded in our commitment to the beauty of traditional and modern yacht style and proportion, and we endeavor to combine that beauty and grace with top-notch performance. [...]
Hey all,
Thought I would share this video footage from Billy Black. He did a really nice job on the day that Zogo was launched in Late November. Watch the YouTube link below to see some footage of the launch under construction and in the water.
Can’t help but admire her graceful lines and complex shaping. Unfortunately there [...]
An interesting project landed on my desk this week. We’ll be helping to recreate a 1929 Gold Cup racing hydroplane!
The project is a collaboration with Mark Mason of the famed New England Boat and Motor, who brought the client and will rig and power the boat, and Brooklin Boat Yard, who will build the hull [...]
Just a quick post about what is happening today in the world of SWW Yacht Design! It’s all fun and exciting stuff as we churn through engineering data and calculations to determine the structure needed to keep the yachts’ ballast bulb in place.
The quick screen shot allows you to see what we have decided to [...]
Here’s a view from astern, showing the shallow sweep of the boat’s run. This spells speed, especially off the wind when the breeze is up. The broad, nearly vertical transom is quite a departure from The W-37’s more svelte sisters, the W-46 and W-76, but it’s this that will give her the power to carry a cloud of sail at planing speeds downwind. It’s made of several layers of marine plywood, vacuum-bagged together over a form to create the graceful camber that’ll distinguish it from more run-of-the-mill sportboats.