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...a widely known yacht designer with a far-ranging imagination and great versatility, unbound by prejudices on materials or...construction." -- WoodenBoat Magazine
We could not believe it, a firm devoted almost exclusively to boats so salty that they made our eyes rust. -- Volume 6, The Mariner's Catalog
traditional...with contemporary elements, imaginative... unfettered by allegiance to rating rules or fashion, anachronistic, eclectic, eccentric...always effective... user-friendly." -- Pacific Yachting
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Cruising Designs is a catalog of plans for great cruising boats, sail and power, for living aboard. First published in 1975 and since become a classic of its kind, Cruising Designs is a collection of basic boat plans of a variety of Benford designs, ranging in size from 7 to 131 feet in length, selected from the custom designs created over the past three decades. It is designed as the spark to fire one's ideas about the sort of boat one really wants or to suggest an idea for a new boat. The fourth edition includes a number of designs new since the third edition. Heavily illustrated with photographs and plan drawings, Cruising Designs is a classic wish book.
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...a widely known yacht designer with a far-ranging imagination and great versatility, unbound by prejudices on materials or...construction." -- WoodenBoat Magazine
We could not believe it, a firm devoted almost exclusively to boats so salty that they made our eyes rust. -- Volume 6, The Mariner's Catalog
traditional...with contemporary elements, imaginative... unfettered by allegiance to rating rules or fashion, anachronistic, eclectic, eccentric...always effective... user-friendly." -- Pacific Yachting
Product Description
Cruising Designs is a catalog of plans for great cruising boats, sail and power, for living aboard. First published in 1975 and since become a classic of its kind, Cruising Designs is a collection of basic boat plans of a variety of Benford designs, ranging in size from 7 to 131 feet in length, selected from the custom designs created over the past three decades. It is designed as the spark to fire one's ideas about the sort of boat one really wants or to suggest an idea for a new boat. The fourth edition includes a number of designs new since the third edition. Heavily illustrated with photographs and plan drawings, Cruising Designs is a classic wish book.
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power boat designs, pilothouse version, water tankage, inch immersion, cruising trim, prismatic coefficient, keel version, gaff ketch, head with shower, fuel tankage, designed waterline, trawler yacht, gaff cutter, double berth, enclosed head, sail area, hull form, cabin layout, fin keel, master stateroom, yacht designer, steering station, cruising boats, large galley, yacht designs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This handsome tabloid cruiser accommodates two, either in a V-berth/double or singles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
power boat designs, pilothouse version, water tankage, inch immersion, cruising trim, prismatic coefficient, keel version, gaff ketch, head with shower, fuel tankage, designed waterline, trawler yacht, gaff cutter, double berth, enclosed head, sail area, hull form, cabin layout, fin keel, master stateroom, yacht designer, steering station, cruising boats, large galley, yacht designs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cruising Designs, Gaff Sloop, Pilothouse Cutter, Benford Design Group, Friday Harbor Ferry, Tug Yacht, Fantail Yacht, Cape Scott, Cascade Classic, Cruising Cat, Beam Draft Freeboard, Canoe Yawl, Forward Least Aft Displacement, Orphan Annie, Cat Ketch, Fishing Vessel, Change Orders, Ketch Harambee, North Channel Ferry New!
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