I recently published my latest book on the subject of yacht design: THE BOATS I’VE LOVED- 20 Classic Sailboat Designs, by Chuck Paine. This 108-page book features my selection of the finest small sailboat designs from my forty-year career as a designer, plus three other “boats I’ve loved” from the hands of Olin Stephens and Nat Herreshoff. Packed with beautiful photographs and a lifetime’s worth of advice about my most popular sailboat designs, most of which can be bought on the used boat market for a modest price, spruced up a bit and taken sailing for years to come. I never designed anything but the best quality yachts- read all about them here and if you’ve got any sense, buy one and sail away!

 

For those who own or have owned a Chuck Paine design, and those who aspire to owning one someday, here is a fun Facebook Group where you can meet and greet others with similar interests.

I have (with some help) created a Facebook group where people who like the boats I’ve designed over the years can meet and discuss. Take a look and consider joining and/or sharing with your boating friends. Just click the blue t3ext and join.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/424532172574012/  “

I’ll be in the background serving as “moderator”. I’m hoping that many of the well- over- 1000 owners of a Paine design will enjoy belonging to this group.

Chuck Paine

INTRODUCING CHUCK PAINE’S FIRST INVENTION- THE PAINE DVT!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The PAINE DVT (stands for Dang Vang Thangs) are a series of fiberglass battens extending all the way from the leech to the foot of a jib. They have the following characteristics:

1. They are parallel to the luff of the jib, thereby permitting it to be roller- furled.

2. They extend from the leech to the foot of the sail, thereby preventing the foot of the sail rising up as the jib sheet is paid out.

3. They are both cheap to install and effective. They cost perhaps one- twentieth the price of other means of preventing the jib-boom from rising, are visually unobtrusive, and do not present a clumsy and sometimes dangerous impediment to the use of the foredeck as is the case with other systems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note that when sailing wing and wing, the entire jib remains perpendicular to the wind. A conventional jib would be overtrimmed and stalled at the bottom, while the top would be out too far and ineffective.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French and Webb are the first licensed users of the PAINE DVT. York Marine will follow in the Spring, fitting this marvelous invention to their new Paine Design, the York 18.