Samoa 34 Luthier at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2025
This post comes from our clients and friends, Catarina and Dorival, proud owners of The Luthier, a stunning Samoa 34 sailboat they built themselves. Their journey aboard has taken them to some of the world’s most mesmerizing destinations, eventually bringing them to Australia: “Tasmania: a faraway place. We go to Hobart, a Tasmania city located […]
Explorer 39 Caroll
Round the world voyage of the Explorer 39 Carol. Translated statement from the article about the journey of the Caroll, an Explorer 39. “The boat was very well designed and built, the hull is cold molded sandwich up to the waterline and CoreCell sandwich for the remaining hull, deck [and even the furniture!]. The Caroll […]
Pantanal 25 – Day Sailing
Pantanal 25 – Sail anywhere: lakes, dams, rivers and along the coast The Pantanal 25 is a 25-foot sailboat designed for good performance sailing. The retractable keel allows the boat to be transported by land, which makes this design ideal for navigating in lakes, rivers, and inlets. We have customers for the Pantanal 25 plans […]
Samoa 34 Luthier in Fatu Hiva
We’ve received these beautiful photos of the Samoa 34 Luthier. They are sailing around the world and spending some time in Fatu Hiva. Click here to see more information about the Samoa 34.
The Cabo Horn 40 Class
The Cabo Horn 40 has beautiful lines and is a comfortable and robust cruising sailboat. Here are a some of the boats built to this design. Aya was built in Cabo Frio, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the first boat of the class to be launched. After a very active life participating […]
Bicho Grillo – Green Flash 33
Bicho Grilo was designed by our office and built by her owner, João de Deus Assis, and attracted worldwide interest when she was launched. A couple of articles were published on the ORC website (http://www.orc.org) One reproduced below. Joao has shared some thoughts with us on his new boat: Q: What are the specifications of […]
Corruira 42
The design Corruira 42 is a case of success among our stock plans. When we decided to design a mid-sized displacement trawler within the reach of the home builder to accomplish its construction, we couldn’t imagine we had hit the nail on the head in touching the heart of so many yachties. Now that we […]
PopStar 21
Designing the PopStar 21 Every so often, when strolling along the Swan River margins, in Perth, Western Australia, where I live, I keep wandering what type of craft would suit best for gunkholing those placid waters. In my way of thinking this boat had to be versatile, capable of exploring the many havens along the […]
Polar 65 sails through Nortwest Passage
One of our most ilustrious customers, the renowned Aleixo Belov, born in Ucrania and immigrated to Brazil when he was 6 years old, is currently sailing through the Northwest passage on his Polar 65, one of our most exciting designs for Polar exploration and sailing. At the moment of writing, Fraternidade, the 65 foot expedition […]
Polar 44 – The boat to go anywhere!
The Polar 44 is a good option in our line of high latitudes capable cruisers, not so big as the Polar 65 and 50, that carried famous explorers to Antarctica and the Arctic, but with a size that already affords serious long range expedition capability. The hull has good sailing performance, with modern lines and […]