Filling Your Needs

This came to a 24’ to 26’ heavily built little vessel with roughly a beam of 8’ 6” and a draft of 3’ 8”. Obviously a naval architect would have to work out the details for easy sailing and a stable platform with all the rest of the things needed, but this was the background of a preliminary plan.

Added to that were the people things. Regardless of what you hear, people like to stand up when they walk around the inside of a sailboat. So the boat needed full headroom, adequate ventilation when closed up, as well as a marine enclosed head, complete galley, a place to work out some navigation, and some privacy, which meant two separate areas, as well as a comfortable table for two or more to eat. We also needed three or four berths—even if some were not used much except for storage.

Incidentally, as a blue water capable boat, it had to have significant storage and a means of propulsion—in either an outboard hidden in a lazarette or an inbound diesel.

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