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Beauty
Restoration, Southport, NC 2005 |
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Derived from JMK’s love of sailing came the refurbishing and structurally
upgrading of Beauty, a classic Bristol 32 blue-water sailing yacht by
America's Cup Designer,
Ted Hood. Hood won both the America’s Cup and
Newport to Bermuda Race, and is one of only two sailors to ever do so.
The sloop was originally launched in Bristol, Rhode Island in 1976.
The work was based on refurbishing the yacht back to its original features
and a complete engineering overhaul and updating of the services. Restoring
the original rig and installing additional elements, which were in line
with the original design brought the sloop back to sea worthiness. Many feel that the Bristol 32 is one of the most beautiful boats
designed with its long overhangs. This boat is built more heavily than most
current production sailboats. The Bristol 32's proportions are typical of the
cruising/racing sailboats built between the 1930's when the Cruising Club of
America rule was conceived to 1970 until the International Offshore Rule
replaced it. Hood designed the boat with a narrow beam,
short waterline, long keel, spoon bow and gently flaring end sections that
provide a calm feel as she comes downward into a sea. The stern is so
slender, that she is practically a double ender. One of the strong points of
the narrow stern is it lacks the rounding up tendency of the modern
full-width stern design. The interior is beautifully detailed mahogany and
teak. I = 38.50 ISP = 38.50 J = 12.58 SPL = 12.58 P = 33.05 (Luff) E = 13.48 (Boom) Py = 0.00 Ey = 0.00 Draft = 4.61 Beam = 9.5 Disp = 10800 LWL = 22.00 UP S/D = 15.2 DW S/D = 31.6 D/L = 453 Based on specs for year 1965 Beauty now serves as the architect’s offshore studio to serve clients
on the Atlantic Coast and British Isles. The sloop is presently in port
at Charleston, SC.
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Joseph Michael Kelly, Architect, Technologist and Construction Manager |
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contractors |
SeaLane’s Marine Service |
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