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The men and women of VPLP Design all share the same passion for the sea and the wind.

We innovate every day to design boats that are better, faster, safer, soberer, more comfortable and more efficient.

We listen and we discuss – a lot, channelling our experience and creativity so that we always exceed the expectations of the specifications or a need expressed.

Our job is to always go one step further and turn into reality the dreams and ambitions of mariners. Our overriding concern: the sustainability of our projects.

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For us, an elegant boat is the faithful synthesis of our customers’ wishes, and their satisfaction is the goal to which we strive. At VPLP Design we are convinced that a successful boat is often the result of a remarkable human adventure.

We are passionate about performance, in the widest sense of the word. Performance is, of course, about speed but it’s also about energy-efficient propulsion.

Designing “zero emission” boats is the fruit of all our skills combined. When it comes to ensuring continuous innovation, our default position is clear: curiosity.

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Designing boats requires a multi-skilled team which leverages the talents of naval architects, engineers and designers. This allows us to deal with every aspect of the design process, while assuring the quality of our projects.

VPLP Design operates in three distinct areas, through a Racing Division, Yachting Division and Maritime Division. Each division operates under the responsibility of a coordinator, although the entire team works cross-functionally on the firm’s projects.

The continual transfer of our skills between divisions is the key to our ability to innovate with creativity, diligence, rigour and humility. We are always attentive and respectful listeners.

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“12 years ago, I founded my Naval Architecture agency , willing to bring an innovative and ambitious look to my designs. At VLYD, we pay particular attention to Aesthetics , Ergonomics and Innovation.

Each design is unique. It responds to a demand, an expectation, a hope.

We design with a constant search for originality and audacity, but also with a concern for the realism and soundness of our technical choices.

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You will discover below some of the most beautiful achievements of our yacht design agency. You will discover many others in the “Custom made sailboats”, “Production boats” and “Living on the water” sections.

GARCIA 64cc

This is the very first realisation of our design office. One and a half world tours later: this is one of our proudest achievements!

An old Norman tallship from 1923 which we have restored for the pleasure of the Normans

Our largest sloop ever and one of our proudest achievements. Superb aluminium monohull with lifting keel !

The famous Wrighton Bi-Loup brand asked us to design its flagship boat! Happiness in cruising mode!

Amphibious RIB for launching without a trailer

PAROA 34′

Customization is not reserved to big yachts. And this small luxury unit, fully satisfies its owners, !

Our aluminium maxi catamaran built at Yachts Industries

NEAC is an autonomous maritime and river transport solution, initiated around Caen La Mer, the NEAC-INDUSTRY company and our yacht design agency

ADELAIDE 50′

A high-performance cruising catamaran with innovativ designs and ergonomics

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Nous concevons des structures en acier, en aluminium, en composite et en bois. Nous réalisons des analyses éléments finis afin d’optimiser les échantillonnages de nos structures.

A partir du devis de masses, nous étudions les caractéristiques hydrostatiques de nos structures. Nous réalisons des dossiers de stabilité règlementaires par simulation numérique & expériences.

Nous concevons et calculons des systèmes d’ancrage et et des moyens d’accès aux structures flottantes résilients aux vents, courants, batillages et aux crues.

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C’est l’association de deux amis et professionnels aux profils complémentaires, la convergence d’expériences dans le fluvial, le nautisme et l’industrie.

Ce rapprochement offre aujourd’hui à YG Marine Design une forte polyvalence dans l’architecture maritime et un socle de compétences solides de design, d’ingénierie navale, de gestion de projets et fournisseurs, au service de projets allant d’ouvrages prototypes à des séries industrielles.

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Welcome to the distinguished France Yacht Design section within the NAVIS Superyacht Design Directory, a specialized showcase highlighting the crème de la crème of yacht designers and yacht interior designers from the enchanting land of France.

France, renowned for its elegance, romance, and exceptional artistry, has been a trailblazer in the world of yacht design. From the tranquil waters of the French Riviera to the bustling marinas of Paris, this nation has bred an impressive lineage of yacht designers whose work personifies luxury, innovation, and timeless elegance. NAVIS has conscientiously curated this directory to present a comprehensive panorama of French yacht design, featuring the visionaries who have sculpted the landscape of luxury yacht design on a global scale.

Here, you will find intricate profiles and a high-resolution gallery exhibiting the exquisite work of these French designers. Admire the innovative exterior designs that harmonize style and performance, and the interior designs that skillfully merge opulence with comfort, reflecting France's unique take on the yacht lifestyle.

However, the narrative of France yacht design continues to evolve, with fresh talents and visionary studios reshaping the paradigms of luxury yacht design. NAVIS warmly invites its readers to join us in this captivating journey. If you are aware of an emerging designer, a groundbreaking design studio, or an artist poised to redefine the yacht design sphere, we encourage you to reach out to NAVIS.  Contact NAVIS.

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The Excel­lence hosts events with all the eleg­ance you’d expect from a luxury yacht in Paris, taking events to the next level. Its majestic decks, adorned with copper and mahogany, will provide guests with a wonder­ful escape from every­day life they will never forget. 

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The Excel­lence is a yacht that’s flooded with light, where the atmo­sphere is the perfect balance of tradi­tional luxury and a more modern approach to interior design. Its main deck is also the perfect setting for an informal company seminar or a lively private event – it is down to you as the host to set the tone!

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All of our venues can work along­side one another as part of a combin­a­tion pack­age, so that you can offer your guests a unique exper­i­ence. Why not invite them for pre-dinner drinks or a confer­ence at one of our quay­side lounges before surpris­ing them with a busi­ness meal or even­ing event onboard the Excel­lence? It’s bound to be a hit with every­body! If the Excel­lence is not avail­able on your chosen day, any of our other yachts can be hired in the same way to create an unfor­get­table even­ing for your guests.

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Notes on sailing-yacht hullforms, part 2.

By Jay Paris , Mar 22, 2022

In “Notes on Sailing-Yacht Hullforms” ( Professional BoatBuilder No. 196, page 32) naval architect Jay Paris, citing drawings and photographs of his own designs as well as the lines of other designers, detailed some characteristics, attributes, and design methods used to develop monohull sailboat hullforms. Because of space constraints in the print magazine, we are publishing Paris’s additional notes and reference material on Proboat.com. In addition to his sections on fin-keel variants and parent hullforms, Paris includes a reference list of hullforms worthy of note for a number of reasons—aesthetics, excellence as examples of their type, historic significance, or design methodology. All but one of the hullforms in this Part 2 are round bottomed, and all the yachts cited, which were built during the past century, are wooden boat designs. The lengths for the hullforms in this article are length of hull (LOH) since length overall (LOA) includes extensions to the hull such as bowsprits and boomkins and length on deck (LOD) is often less than the hull due to bulwarks and reverse transoms. —Ed.

Twin-Keel and Retracting-Foil Variants

A variant of the fin-keel design is the twin-keel. Most common on coastal cruisers intended to take the ground when the tide is out, they reflect an empirical approach to their design. A few are serious offshore passagemakers, including the noteworthy Bluebird of Thorne .

This design is the combination of Robb’s talent and tank testing along with Lord Riverdale’s experience with his previous Bluebirds when he was R.A, Balfour. Bluebird of Thorne ’s keels canted outboard at 20°, and normal to her near circular midsection, were low aspect ratio, highly swept back asymmetrical foils that Robb implied were towed inboard and certainly were more sophisticated than those of almost all other twin keelers. Robb’s strong favorable opinions about this design concept have been frequently quoted in detail.

A more current fin-keel variation is the use of canting keels, with or without lift-generating sections, employed on offshore racers to shift the ballast bulb to weather to increase their righting moments.

Parent Sailing-Yacht Hullforms and Evolution

Historically, designers have used specific earlier boats as the basis for follow-on designs, in some cases very closely but with changes in the overall size and proportions. For example, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff had noticeable success using his 26 ’ (7.92m) Alerion III NGH 718 of 1912 as the parent for designs as large as the 33.42 ’ (10.19m) Newport 29 of 1914 and the 43.25 ’ (13.18m) Fishers Island 31, designed by his son Sidney using NGH’s offsets.

The lines shown incorporate the cutaway deadwood aft with a balance portion of the rudder forward of the rudderstock as found in the Alerion copies by the Sanford Boat Company. Eliminating these features would restore the lines to the original NGH configuration.

Maynard Bray, in his book Aida , includes a photograph of Herreshoff’s offset booklet pages used in the mathematical expansion to create the 33.67 ’ (10.26m) Aida of 1926. The Buzzards Bay 25 of 1914 looks perhaps to be the least likely of being an Alerion derivative.

L.F. Herreshoff said the Buzzard’s Bay 25 was his favorite of his father’s designs.

Another famous parent hullform is the Pilot S&S 539, 32.92 ’ (10.03m) wooden stock class sloop of 1945. Olin Stephens wrote in Lines 2002 that the Pilot was “drawn in the Boston office by K. Aage Nielsen, who was, in theory, working under my supervision.” The later S&S 1727 fiberglass version from the New York office was lengthened to 36.07 ’ (10.99m).

Since there are not lines available in my references for the 1962 Pilot, this rendering by Al Mason gives a good sense of her hullform. Mason drew perspectives for many S&S designs.

The beautiful Anitra S&S 1358 48.42 ‘ (14.76m) yawl of 1958, the largest of the Pilot family, was the overall winner of the 1959 Fastnet Race.

In my own practice, The Paris Design P-32 (9.75m) Petrel is the parent of the later P-37, G-37, and OCC-47 designs.

While the P-32 hullform had many atypical features, a number of them were optimized for her longitudinally framed wood-foam-wood composite construction.

The P-32’s longitudinals are shown fitted into the molds setup at her stations. The clamps and longitudinals are laminated mahogany with the latter located on her waterlines ready for the double-diagonal planking to be glued and fastened. The temporary pine longitudinals in the underbody will be protected from any glue by duct tape prior to the first layer of planks being installed. The staples into the longitudinals are pulled as the second layer of planking is glued and stapled to the first. All permanent staples are Monel. The uppermost pine longitudinals are just above the tops of the bulwarks.

Those using state-of-the-art yacht design software often morph parents to the extent that their design “DNA” is no longer apparent.

Hullform evolution is similar but less slavishly derivative than the use of parent hullforms. The Viking ships of a thousand years ago are candidates for the most elegant hullforms of all time. The Scandinavian preference for double-enders has followed this fashion in some degree to modern times. Colin Archer’s Redningsskoite (rescue boats), which evolved from them, have inspired designers to this day. William Atkin’s 38 ’ (11.58m) ketch Ingrid , his highly refined granddaughter of this type, is considered to be one of his best designs.

Ingrid ’s fine lines with a wineglass midsection and 6 tons of outside and internal ballast contribute to the design’s good performance.

Knud Reimers’s Cohoe is a 1932, 32 ’ enlargement of his famous and beautiful 27 ’ (8.23m) Tumlare of 1927. These designs introduced lighter displacement and finer lines than earlier Scandinavian double-enders. Many consider the Tumlares to have the most beautiful hullforms of all time.

Knud Reimers, well-known for his Square-Meter boats, applied the same design philosophy to this double-ended cruiser. Reimers and I discussed his diagonals and contracted fairing approach during a week of sailing in the early 1970s.

A small Danish fishing boat type with very full sterns typical of the sound north of Copenhagen was the parent of the Spidsgatter classes of sailing yachts. Aage Nielsen, a Dane, was familiar with the type. Some of his smaller designs from 15 ’ to 26 ’ (4.57m to 7.92m) were referred to as Nielsenized Spidsgatters. Their full sterns were models for that of Holger Danske , his 42.5’ (12.95m) cruising ketch that won the 1980 Newport-to-Bermuda Race by a large margin.

One of Aage Nielsen’s favorite designs, Holger Danske , had a slippery hull, a low rating, and sailed like fury on a reach.

Over time, many working craft have served as models for sailing yachts. The danger, at times, has been designers ignoring the original function, loading, and the wind and sea conditions for which working craft were developed.

Design evolution can also be seen amongst ocean racers. Olin Stephens’s Stormy Weather came seven years after the famous Dorade of 1929, which had introduced the forms of his earlier inshore Six-Meter designs to the offshore world. These two sisters established a trend for blended-body ocean racers for some four decades.

Stormy Weather , slightly longer than Dorade , of similar displacement but with 22% more beam, was a favorite of her designer.

Sources From My Library

Starting before high school with the original five Uffa Fox books of 1934/1938, my office library has grown to almost a thousand books on sailing and sailing yachts with most containing technical material as well as numerous technical reports. I also have some 100 volumes addressing hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, and aerospace design containing material applicable to sailing yachts not addressed in yachting publications.

Lines drawings from my library that I consider worthy of note and reference but not embedded in the text are shown below with captions and sources. Note: Lines in the early five Uffa Fox books were redrawn by Fox.

Starling Burgess. Nina , 59’ Staysail Schooner, 1928.

Just one of Starling Burgess’s many beautiful sets of lines from the multi-talented aviation pioneer and yacht designer. Nina ’s blended body hullform was a very early example of the long waterline with short overhangs concept currently (2022) in vogue.

Howard I. Chapelle. Clipper-Bowed Centerboarder, 1936

Howard I. Chapelle was an eminent yacht designer and a historian who chronicled the designs of American working sailing craft. He chose a traditional clipper-bowed centerboarder to illustrate the steps in developing a lines drawing in his classic text on design of 1936.

Frederick A. Fenger. Diablesse , 38’ Wishbone Ketch, 1935

Frederick Fenger was an advocate of the dhow hullform with its unusual maximum draft near the bow. Diablesse ’s maximum draft was 23% of the waterline abaft the bow. Her forebody had V-shaped sections, hollow waterlines, and easy diagonals.

William Garden. Oceanus , 60’ Narrow Doubled-Ended Sloop, 1954

An example of a designer’s atypical boat for himself. An elegant, narrow sixty-footer (18.29m) intended for a crew of two, Garden and his wife. Interestingly, to quote an article in the January 1961 issue of Motor Boating : “ Oceanus was launched bottom up; there were considerable advantages in building her hull that way, and she was run into the water, parbuckled, and pumped out at insignificant cost and no risk compared with the tricky job of turning a hull of that size on shore.”

N.G. Herreshoff. Aida , 33.67’ Keel/Centerboard Yawl, 1926

Lines drawn by Doug Hylan from Original HMC 1002 Offsets. For the subtitle of his book, Maynard Bray wrote, “N.G. Herreshoff’s finest shallow-draft yawl.” Adding to the praise is the quote in the Preface that L. Francis Herreshoff called her “probably the finest boat of her size in the world.” In his book, Bray documents the evolution of Aida from Alerion through Pleasure NGH 907, the second of his shallow keel/centerboarders with low-aspect-ratio triangular foils.

L. Francis Herreshoff. Rozinante , 24’ Canoe Yawl (Ketch Rig), 1956

LFH’s graceful and leaner interpretation of the English canoe yawl was the only example of its type to be widely seen on American waters. Roger Taylor quoted LFH: “A canoe yawl can be about the safest that can be had since her design is based on those most seaworthy open boats ever known—whaleboats.”

George Holmes. Trent , 25’ Canoe Yawl, 1910

George Holmes, a designer and artist, was in the forefront of the English canoe yawl world. The term canoe yawl deserves explanation. It has nothing to do with the rig but rather with size, it being the same size or smaller than a ship’s yawl boat. The term canoe relates to it being either a day boat or coastal cruiser.

Robert Perry. Amati , 40’ High-Aspect-Ratio Fin-Keel, Spade-Rudder, Wood-Foam-Wood Composite, Fast Cruising Sloop, 1999

A significant departure from Perry’s early double-enders, this is one of his light-displacement sleds, for a couple with the emphasis on off-the-wind speed. His early designs were often double enders including the iconic Valiant with its full-ended cruiser stern. The term cruiser stern refers to the sterns on the cruiser class of warships prior to World War II.

Knud Riemers. Moose , 43.0’ 30-Square-Meter Sloop, 1934

Moose was the 1935 US 30-Square-Meter champion. Uffa Fox stated in 1936 that she was “probably the finest example of a 30-Square-Meter in the world.”

Sparkman & Stephens. Babe , 30.5’ Fractional Sloop, 1935

Babe , a favorite of Olin Stephens, was one of the 49 designs he illustrated and commented on in his book Lines. The modern S&S 30, purported to be an update of Babe and assigned a “1935” based design number 97-c2, has nothing in common with the original’s hullform.

Sparkman & Stephens. 1834 Intrepid , 64.25’ 12-Meter Sloop, 1967

Although conventional thinking states that deep draft is required for optimal windward performance, the heavily ballasted 12-Meters with minimal salient keel prove the exception. While articles about S&S designs often stated new from the board of OJS, it was not so during my time at the Madison Ave. office. Olin’s board did not have any room for drawings, so he would come into the main portion of the office to review a designer’s work and suggest changes, for example, to Mario Tarabocchia’s 12-Meter lines. I had the privilege of being involved in this process with the preliminary design of S&S 1770 Ta Aroa a New Zealand A Class racer. Olin had me start with a 5.5 meter’s lines, doubling their size, and proceeding under his guidance.

E.G. van de Stadt. Zeevalk , 41’ V-Bottom Plywood, Fin-Keel, Spade-Rudder, Fractional Sloop, 1949

This second design of E.G. van de Stadt’s and the first for Bruynzeel established his reputation as an innovative designer with a preference for fin-keel, spade-rudder configurations. This perspective or isometric illustrates Zeevalk ’s V-bottom hullform and the short-chord trim tab on the trailing edge of her fin keel.

Joel White. Dragonera , JW Design 49 74’ Fin-Keel Ketch, 1993

Joel White’s designs varied from traditional hullforms and construction in the fashion of Herreshoff and Nielsen to cold-molded fin keel types.

Jay Paris Designs:

No. 10 Aeromarine 50, 50 ’ Tall Mizzen Ketch 1968

No. 24 Lone Star, 54 ’ LOH Clipper Bow Ketch 1976

No. 27 Freedom 33, 33 ’ Cat Ketch for Gary Hoyt 1977

No. 33 P-32, 32 ’ Keel/Centerboard Sloop 1982

No. 40 P-45/Y-45, 45 ’ Ketch for YW/CW Contests 1988

No. 43 OCC/Sail, 43 ’ Sloop for Sail Article 1992 (An Ocean Cruising Club member survey design)

No. 48 P-37, Yawl for IBEX and METS Lectures 2007

No. 51 G-37, Keel/CB Yawl for a CCA Lecture 2014

No. 53 OCC-47, Keel/Centerboard Ketch 2018 (A rethink of the 1992 OCC member survey requirements)

Lines Drawings Reading List

In the following books, design examples illustrate the step-by-step creation of the lines reflecting the hullforms in fashion when the texts were written:

Chapelle, Howard I. Yacht Designing and Planning , 1936.

Clipper Bow 33.33 ’ DWL Shoal-Draft Centerboarder.

Kinney, Francis. Skene’s Elements of Yacht Design , 8th Ed., 1973.

Pipe Dream 25.42 ’ DWL Cruising Yacht.

Phillips-Birt, Douglas. Sailing Yacht Design , 3rd Ed., 1966 and 1976.

Full Keel 30 ’ DWL Fast Cruiser Including design using Diagonals.

Larsson, Lars and Rolf Eliasson. Principals of Yacht Design . 3rd/4th Eds., 2007 and 2014.

YD-40 39.5 ’ 2007 and YD-41 41 ’ 2014 Fin Keel Fast Cruising Yachts.

These books discuss various technical design details and parameters used by yacht designers:

Brewer, Ted. Ted Brewer Explains Sailboat Design , 1985.

Killing, Steve. Yacht Design Explained , 1998.

Perry, Robert H. Yacht Design According to Perry , 2008.

For a more theoretical explanation of the factors influencing sailing yacht design, I recommend:

Marchaj, C.A. Sailing Theory and Practice , 2nd Ed., 1982.

Marchaj, C.A. Seaworthiness: The Forgotten Factor , 1996.

Fossati, Fabio. Aero-Hydrodynamics and the Performance of Sailing Yachts , 2007.

Slooff, J.W. The Aero- and Hydrodynamics of Keel Yachts , 2015.

Bruce, Peter. Heavy Weather Sailing , 7th Ed., 2016.

About the Author: While attending Webb Institute Jay Paris worked two winters and one summer at Sparkman & Stephens. His graduate studies at MIT focused mostly on oceanography and research-vessel design. He also managed the MIT towing tank and operations of the yacht-testing program and participated in the international investigations into the 1979 Fastnet Race disaster. After MIT he was involved in the design of winches for the America’s Cup and high-end racing yachts, the design and construction of various sailboats, and the writing and editing of articles on sailing yachts for a number of different journals.

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Design de cette maison flottante entièrement réalisé pour un particulier. Dotée de 3 chambres, elle est prévue pour accueillir une famille de 4 personnes.

Son salon spacieux est affleurant à une grande terrasse extérieure, maximisant la sensation d’espace et donnant l’opportunité de profiter pleinement de la vie sur l’eau.

Client: Particulier Année: 2019 Emplacement: Paris (France) Status: Réalisé

Designs by L Francis Herreshoff and Jay E Paris Jr Commentary by Joel White

Although Bounty and Lone Star bear a superficial likeness to each other, they are very different vessels. Designed for widely different purposes, they vary in concept, construction, and character. Bounty was designed and built in the early 1930s, Lone Star was launched in 1982 after a four-year building period. Although 50 years separate their conception, both are products of an evolving tradition that is centuries old.

Bounty was designed by L. Francis Herreshoff as a full-keeled version of the centerboard ketch Tioga. She is an immediate ancestor of Tioga II, which later became Ticonderoga. In horse racing circles, this distinguished position would be equivalent to being the dam of Secretariat.

Lone Star was designed by Jay Paris for a Texas company as an offshore cruising boat of traditional looks, but with superior accommodations and more lasting construction techniques than were found in the Herreshoff ketches. Every advantage was to be taken of the past half-century of experience with wooden boat construction techniques — the past 50 years of development in materials, sealants, and adhesives. I believe Herreshoff would have approved.

Let us look first at the two designs in a general way. Bounty is 57 feet 6 inches on deck, and 50 feet on the waterline. Lone Star is 54 feet on deck and 45 feet on the waterline. Each has a similar underwater profile, with a shallow forefoot descending to a deep ballast keel amidships. The after deadwood is cut away to a rudderpost mounted far aft. Both boats are ketch rigged, but Lone Star has rig proportions more like a yawl — with a large main and a small mizzen.

A comparison of the two hulls shows that Lone Star is deeper in proportion to her length than Bounty, and that her hull sections are faired right down to her ballast keel. This filling out of the garboard area naturally increases the midship section, producing more room below. She also has a higher displacement/length ratio than Bounty — 241 versus 179 — and thus more volume for her length. Both hulls have lovely, easy lines and the potential for excellent speed under sail. Bounty, I believe, would be the faster of the two, not only because of her longer waterline, but also because her buttocks are flatter aft, and she looks to me to have less wetted surface for her length.

Though Bounty is longer than Lone Star she has considerably less in the way of accommodations. She might almost be called a giant daysailer. I rather like her simple, uncluttered arrangement plan, typical of yachts of her day, with separate quarters for the paid crew forward. The forward location of the galley and the limited storage space, however, make her unsuitable for offshore cruising. Lone Star, on the other hand, takes maximum advantage of the belowdecks volume, and has a great deal more comfort and stowage space for the long-distance cruiser.

Jay Paris has prepared an interesting sketch of the profiles of the two boats, showing the percentage of the interior of each used for accommodations. The drawing indicates how much more of Lone Star is given over to actual space for her crew. While this certainly improves her liveability, like all compromises it extracts a toll. Bounty's engine and tanks are aft in a space of their own, where maintenance and repairs can be performed without interruption of other activities on board. On Lone Star, because the engine is in a box under the main companionway ladder in the center of the cabin, the work on her engine must take place in the galley and the main passageway, making disruption of traffic and meals inevitable. But the reward is Lone Star's after cabin — a wonderful private space in the quietest part of the boat, where the motion is least. This cabin is connected to the rest of the accommodations by an ingenious tunnel under the centerline footrest that provides a passageway with full headroom. The construction section drawing through the cockpit shows how this tunnel is arranged.

The after cabin occupies the entire stern portion of the vessel and contains two large, comfortable berths, dressing room space with seats, and roomy lockers; a head and separate shower room are nearby. Moving forward through the tunnel, one emerges in the main cabin, and finds a large U-shaped galley to port, and a very complete navigator's station to starboard. Next forward comes the main saloon, with seating for the whole crew around a large table offset to port, much stowage space, and sleeping arrangements for two or four in a pinch.

Proceeding forward, through a door in the bulkhead at the mainmast, we find a head to port, hanging lockers to starboard, and two comfortable berths parallel to the centerline with lockers outboard. The forward portion of the boat is given over to stowage of those innumerable items of outfit that seem absolutely necessary to long-distance voyagers. Under the cockpit, and to port and starboard of the centerline passageway to the after cabin, are machinery spaces for tanks and the myriad systems that make this cruiser function.

Lone Star was built in England, at Mashford Brothers Ltd. in Cornwall. Because of her complexity, she proved to be a bit more of a job than Mashford's had bargained for. But they stuck to it, and after four years of work, a real dazzler emerged from the humble sheds in Cremyll, Cornwall.

Lone Star's garboard planks are rabbeted directly into the 16,000-pound lead keel. The forefoot and after keel are bolted to this lead casting. Much of the wood used in her construction is either teak or iroko; for instance, her single planking is teak 1 % inches in thickness. Most of the hull frames are laminated iroko. Extensive use of cast-bronze floors throughout the length of the boat ties the framing to the centerline structure. The hull fastenings, for the most part, are copper and silicon bronze. The maststeps are stainless steel weldments. Silicon-bronze diagonal strapping ties the heavy chainplate structures to the rest of the

Particulars

Herreshoffs

Particulars Paris's Lone Star LOD 54'0" LWL 45'0" Beam 13'6"

Schematic diagrams reveal the different use of interior space aboard Bounty and Lone Star.

Herreshoffs Bounty

Bounty carries the classic L. Francis Herreshoff ketch rig. She has less usable space below than Lone Star, but the author believes that — because of her longer waterline and flatter run — the older boat has greater speed potential. (Bounty's hull lines are superimposed on those of her near-sister, a centerboarder named TiogaJ

Paris's Lone Star

Connected only by a radio antenna, Lone Star's masts are independently stayed. In an attempt to avoid unpleasant optical illusions, Paris gave the boat a planar sheer. A relatively full run allows for standing headroom in the after cabin.

Two Cruising Ketches hull. All the planking butt blocks are 3/6-inch siliconbronze plates to which the plank ends are bolted.

The laid teak deck has a /a-inch mahogany plywood subdeck, all fastened to laminated iroko deckbeams. The cabin trunk is mostly teak, finished bright, with a laid teak housetop. There are multiple bilge stringers, and heavy iroko clamps and shelves at the deck edge. A great deal of time was lavished on the construction plans and specifications to ensure a strong and enduring hull structure .

There is a break in Lone Star's deck at the forward end of the cockpit, and the entire afterdeck is raised in order to provide headroom in the stern cabin without the need for a house. Many people looking at this boat do not realize until going below that there is a large cabin tucked under the afterdeck. Because of the location of this cabin, the cockpit is farther forward than normal. This has the great advantage of putting the mizzenmast and all its clutter entirely abaft the cockpit. (To my mind, the biggest drawback of the ketch rig is that the mizzenmast and its rigging are so often directly in the middle of affairs in the cockpit.) Both the jib and the staysail are roller furling — a convenient arrangement, but one that usually does not make for the most efficient headsails.

The large mainsail and small mizzen mentioned earlier will ensure better windward performance than ketch rigs of more normal proportions. Off the wind, with her fair lines and good form stability, Lone Star is capable of making very good days' runs when the breeze is up and the crew is eager. She is also designed to keep that crew happy, comfortable, and well-fed on long passages.

I have a couple of minor quibbles: for one thing, Lone Star would look better to my eye if her sheer were raised 4 or 5 inches forward. And, I strongly suspect that if Jay Paris were to sit down today to design another boat to her specifications, he would enclose her in a slightly larger envelope — perhaps increasing her waterline length to 48 or 50 feet. A complex project such as this always grows a bit along the way, and more items get added to the inventory than were originally planned. Additional weight creeps aboard, and the designed waterline disappears below the surface. But these are minor problems — the overall result is magnificent.

Lone Star shows that careful design and engineering, combined with the best of materials shaped by master craftsmen in the old tradition of wooden boat building , can produce a truly superior vessel.

Jay Paris can be reached at Designautics, P.O. Box 459, Brunswick, ME 04011.

Plans for Bounty are available from Elizabeth R. Vaughn, The Yacht Designs ofL. Francis Herreshoff 620 GallandSt., Petaluma, CA 94952.

Lone Star's centerlinefootrest provides support for the crew in the cockpit, creates effective sumps under the floorboards, and results in a full-headroom passageway below.

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PARIS is a 56.2 m Motor Yacht, built in Netherlands by Amels and delivered in 1991.

Her top speed is 16.0 kn and she boasts a maximum range of 6000.0 nm when navigating at cruising speed, with power coming from two Caterpillar diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 18 guests in 8 staterooms, with 15 crew members. She has a gross tonnage of 790.0 GT and a 10.3 m beam.

She was designed by Jack Hargrave , who has designed 154 other superyachts in the BOAT Pro database.

The naval architecture was developed by Amels , who has architected 70 other superyachts in the BOAT Pro database, and the interior of the yacht was designed by Elie Gharzouzi (3 other superyacht interiors designed) and Struik & Hamerslag (7 other superyacht interiors designed) - she is built with a Teak deck, a Steel hull, and Aluminium superstructure.

PARIS is in the top 5% by LOA in the world. She is one of 151 motor yachts in the 55-60m size range, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her cruising speed is 0.05 kn above the average.

PARIS is currently sailing under the Malta flag, the 3rd most popular flag state for superyachts with a total of 1109 yachts registered. She is known to be an active superyacht and has most recently been spotted cruising near Greece. For more information regarding PARIS's movements, find out more about BOATPro AIS .

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• Name: PARIS
• Previous Names: KATAMARINO
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• Builder: Amels
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• Exterior Designer: Jack Hargrave
• Interior Designer: Struik & Hamerslag , Elie Gharzouzi
• Refits: 1994

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