Racing Yachts

Reindeer   Morris 45

Paine 45   Erica

Firefly   Firefly with spinnaker

In recent years the racing fraternity have discovered the Paine office for the design of light but durable speedsters competitive in point to point racing.  Chuck would never contend to be in the same league as Bruce Farr or Jouvert- Nivelt-- famous light structure specialists whose marvelous creations crash and bang their way rapidly to windward marks with a football team of live ballast on the rail.  He prefers to dial back his racers one notch so that they will last far longer than the stripped out machines and be absolutely competitive as soon as the course becomes a reach or a run.  With their more modest draft they carry the advantage of handicap ratings that their deeper drafted brethren curse mightily as soon as the wind fairs.

Racing Yachts

Firefly

 

Paine designed sailing designs range from small high-performance day boats to huge sailing palaces. Briefly they are:

Megayachts

Investment-grade yachts for highly committed yachtsmen.

Performance Cruisers

Yachts with full accommodations capable of extensive worldwide cruising.

Bermuda Series

Paine’s famous series of light-displacement, long-waterline, ocean-voyaging yachts.

Spirit of Tradition Class

A class of racing yachts for racers who value beauty as well as competition.

Highly Specialized Custom Projects

Intriguing designs that didn’t fit the other categories.

Day Sailors

Designs with compromised headroom but stimulating performance.

Authentic Replicas

A specialty of the Paine office, styled after the work of designers gone before.

Legacy Yachts

Some of the fine older designs that made the office famous.

Special Editions

Each of these is available for someone to carry forward to completion.