The View from the Helm

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LIGHT AIRS

Monday, November 18th, 2019

Experienced sailors will be able to see that there is only maybe 7 to 8 knots of wind blowing here. But the boat is going at hull speed! It takes a very special design to achieve performance like this.

I launched my new Paine 15 earlier this week. She is a spectacular performer- stiff and fast and perfectly balanced and super safe. You can find out more about her, and see more photos, on this website. Just click on PAINE 15.

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ChuckPaine.com LLC is a new company which will focus upon putting small, very seaworthy sailboats into the hands of the next generation of nautical adventurers. We will emphasize small to midsize yachts because they enable aspiring voyagers to get out there before their geriatric years. Unlike my old company, now closed, we will leave motoryacht design to others—the world does not need more ways to use up its precious one-off gift of liquid energy. Corporations are not all faceless automatons running on autopilot. At least the small ones are steered, influenced, perhaps inspired by their leaders. Hence this Blog, in which Chuck Paine blurts out his personal take on subjects as varied as his yacht designs as works of art, his clients, his other life as an oil painter, and the state of the world in general. Don’t forget this is a blog, and it’s a lot more fun for others to read when people who read it (THIS MEANS YOU!) post your comments- positive or scathing- for all the world to see.

Archive for November, 2019

LIGHT AIRS

CHUCK’S PAINE 15 launched

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