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Deerfoot 61
Steve dashew's and ulf rogeberg's world cruiser is fast, efficient, innovative and very, very expensive..
There is no doubt about the Deerfoot 61’s purpose in life. This boat is made for longdistance cruising. “We’d sailed thousands of miles on a 50′ foot CCA-designed ketch and like most liveaboards we dreamed of the perfect yacht,” says Steve Dashew, author of the Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia . “We never realized this dream would end in a boatbuilding business.”
Dashew built the first Deerfoot, a 68-footer, in New Zealand in 1980. Subsequently, several more Deerfoots, including one for himself, were built in New Zealand and South Africa. “We soon found there was a void in the sailboat market for efficient sailing vessels designed not by the illogical biases of a racing rule, or by concepts thought up by marketing experts,” said Dashew.
Since 1980, 16 Deerfoots, ranging in size from 58 to 74 feet have been built. “Four of our fiberglass boats have been built at Scandi Yachts in Finland because they do the best fiberglass work,” says naval architect Ulf Rogeberg who worked with the Dashews to create the Deerfoot designs. “The aluminum boats have been built at Walsted’s in Denmark.”
In 1986, the Dashews, overwhelmed by the size of the Deerfoot project, sold the business to Jim Jackson and Christine Jurzykowski, owners of the 74′ aluminum Deerfoot ketch, Maya. Jackson, president and executive director of Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, a 2,900-acre wildlife reserve in Glen Rose, Texas, continues to build Deerfoots in the Dashew tradition. Building headquarters have recently moved from New Zealand to Able Marine Inc. in Trenton, Maine.
The Concept
The Deerfoot concept is based on three principles: efficiency, safety, and comfort. “The key is to have a hull which allows you a nice interior while carrying the weight of the boat in the most efficient manner,” says Dashew.
Ulf Rogeberg, who previously worked with Paul Elvstrom in Denmark designing 12-meters, explains: “We have tried to create a canoe-shaped hull that is easily driven, a hull with a fine entry angle, narrow waterlines and easy bilges. We have further tried to distribute volume so that the longitudinal center of buoyancy does not move aft when the boat heels. If a boat heels over symmetrically, if its stern doesn’t kick up and the bow doesn’t bury itself, you’ll have better stability, steering control, and performance downwind.”
A fine entry angle and a long, narrow hull also reduce drag and provide comfort and efficiency upwind and reaching. With an easily-driven hull, the Deerfoot’s rig can be substantially shorter than is needed on a beamy boat with a short waterline. A smaller rig means more stability, less sail changing, less work for a shorthanded crew, and a more comfortable ride.
How does the long, narrow hull affect the interior? While short, fat boats have their beam concentrated amidships, the Deerfoot’s relatively narrow beam is carried further forward and aft. This means there’s a lot of storage space in the bow and stern. Amidships, the Deerfoot appears spacious because there are few bulkheads, and ceilings are kept void of bookshelves or lockers.
Construction
The Deerfoot’s hull, deck and bulkheads are a fiberglass laminate cored with one inch Baltek end-grain balsa. The laminate schedule is unidirectional roving and mat laid up with vinylester resin to resist osmotic blistering. Although balsa is a strong, light core material, a completely water-resistant composite core like Airex seems preferable.
Reinforced with two longitudinal stringers and 13 athwartships stringers made of fiberglass, the hull is strong. There’s also extra fiberglass around the mast, and at the turn of the bilge and bow area in case of a collision. The hull-to-deck joint is an inward-turning hull flange overlapped by the bulwark flange. The joint is through-bolted, coated with fiberglass and topped with a teak toerail.
The Deerfoot 61 keel, a NAACA foil fin, is a steel weldment with lead ballast encapsulated at the base. Above the ballast compartment, the keel is divided into three tanks—two for water (140 gallons) and one for fuel (160 gallons). A sump (with bilge pump) divides the water and fuel tanks. Both fuel and water tanks are fitted with Tank Tender pressure gauges for sounding the tanks. The water tanks have an inspection plate on the outside of the keel.
Storing fuel and water in the keel has a number of advantages. First, it gives the Deerfoot 61 a moderately high ballast ratio (about a third of the Deerfoot’s weight is in the keel). This lowers the center of gravity and improves stability and windward performance. It also means you have more storage space under seats and bunks. On the down side, there is no way to inspect the tanks from inside the hull, and the water and fuel supply could be jeopardized if your keel is damaged.
Made of aluminum with a six-inch diameter aluminum rudder stock, the Deerfoot’s oversized spade rudder improves steering efficiency and windward performance. However, hanging an aluminum rudder behind a steel keel could result in electrolysis. A fiberglass rudder with stainless steel shaft might be a better choice. You also cannot apply copper bottom paints to aluminum and the proximity of the aluminum rudder and stock to a copper painted bottom could cause corrosion problems.
The mast is stepped on two aluminum plates that are bolted to a fiberglass mount. The steel keel further supports the mast step.
Stainless steel straps form the chainplates, which extend through the deck and bolt to fiberglass knees. In the photos we looked at, the chainplate installation looked strong. However, with the help of two boatbuilders at Able Marine, we unsuccessfully tried to uncover the chainplates by dismantling the interior. Ulf Rogeberg admits getting to the chainplates is “tricky.” It might be less so if Deerfoot shortened the valances or bookshelf fiddles running behind the settees.
Seacocks are Marelon. Some people prefer bronze seacocks with bolted flanges (we have had reports of handles breaking off Marelon seacocks), but on a boat with a steel keel and aluminum rudder, Marelon is probably a good idea.
You’ll be hard pressed to sink a Deerfoot. The 61 has three watertight bulkheads. One separates the forepeak from the living area, and one separates the living area from the engine room. Each watertight area has its own bilge pump. The bilge pump in the forepeak doubles as a deck wash down pump. There’s also a large Edson manual bilge pump mounted in the bilge near the mast.
The 14-foot forepeak, a huge storage area, is a cruising sailor’s dream. It has sail bins, anchor bins, and pipes for tying dock lines and sheets. There’s also room for fenders and the other paraphenalia that usually collects on deck.
There’s a “garage” aft (behind the engine room) for storing propane tanks, outboard motors, and diving tanks. It’s also a good place to keep the liferaft where it can be deployed easily if the need arises. The “back porch”, a small “sugar scoop” behind the “garage,” has a fresh water deck shower, and a stern ladder to make climbing aboard easy. On a boat with such high freeboard, this arrangement could be a real lifesaver if a crewmember were to fall overboard. For everyday use, the fold-up ladder is a bit lethal, however, since the bottom half hinges up but doesn’t lock in place. The unwary visitor may reach for a rung and end up in the drink.
With a 65 foot mast and a working sail area of just 1,150 square feet, the Deerfoot 61 has an efficient, easily-handled cutter rig. Double swept-back spreaders and oversized Navtec 316 stainless steel wire rigging with Norseman terminals provide support for the tapered aluminum spar which has a fair amount of induced bend.
Hydraulics control the permanent double backstays, the boom vang and the inner forestay. The backstays work in tandem to keep the headstay tight for best upwind performance. The hydraulic inner forestay when tightened bends the mast moderately to flatten the mainsail. It can also be removed to facilitate tacking the jib.
Performance Under Sail
The Deerfoot 61, with its narrow, easily-driven canoe shape, fin keel/spade rudder and moderatesized rig, is a fast passagemaker. Deerfoot claims that one of their 61s averaged 209 miles a day from New Zealand to the Panama Canal. They also claim another averaged 11 knots in 25-knot winds on a broad reach from Marblehead to the Cape Cod Canal. Even if you subtract a few knots (or miles) from these averages, that’s still fair sailing.
We sailed the Deerfoot 61 from Newport to the boat show in Annapolis in October, but our story was different. It was a beat to windward the entire way. In light to moderate winds the boat still averaged seven to eight knots. In 35-knot winds encountered off Delaware Bay, the boat handled well, but pounded in steep, short confused seas.
In most conditions, the 61 is so well balanced that you can steer it with two fingers. There’s no weather or lee helm, and you have the feeling you’re sailing a racing boat rather than a cruising boat designed for safe, comfortable passagemaking.
In keeping with the philosophy that a cruising boat should be easily handled by two people, the Deerfoot 61’s working sails are small. Upwind, the Deerfoot is designed to sail with a jib that just overlaps the shrouds. For light air, there’s a reacher that’s set on its own stay four feet forward of the headstay and a 1.5 ounce 85% spinnaker for downwind.
Performance Under Power
“Probably 99 percent of maintenance is accessibility,” says Steve Dashew. With this in mind, the Deerfoot’s large engine room has been designed with attention to detail.
Located aft behind its own watertight bulkhead and entered through either of two cockpit lockers, it houses a four-cylinder 77 hp turbo-charged Yanmar with a 3.2/1 Hurth transmission. There’s also an auxiliary two-cylinder, 18 hp Yanmar power plant mounted just starboard of the main engine.
Two 135-amp alternators (one on the larger Yanmar, one on the auxiliary) charge a 600-amp 24-volt Sonnenschein Prevailer Dryfit battery system. A 55-amp alternator (main engine) and a 35-amp alternator (auxiliary engine) charge a second 12-volt system. The 12-volt system is used to start the engines and power some of the navigation equipment. Everything else runs off 24-volt. (The 110-volt AC loads run off an inverter system.)
While 24 volts is good for handling big current draws like an electric windlass or power winches, it’s a nuisance when it’s necessary to replace equipment in countries where most everything is 12 volt. (For example, 24-volt equipment is quite common in Europe, but usually must be custom ordered in the U.S. or Caribbean.)
All 24/12 volt DC and AC cabling is laid down in PVC conduits. Wiring is marine grade and tagged with numbers at each end, but the color coding is predominantly be a vast improvement.
Belted onto the engine is a damage control pump (100 gpm) plumbed into the three watertight areas of the boat, and a Sea Recovery watermaker that desalinates 25 gallons of water per hour. The engine room also contains a large hot water heater, two toolboxes, a work bench with sink, and racks for pressure pumps and compressors. There’s plenty of work space around the engines, but the watertight bulkhead makes getting to the front of the engine to tighten belts difficult.
At 3,000 RPM the Deerfoot goes eight knots in flat seas. However, the Yanmar runs more efficiently at 2,300 RPM, driving the boat at seven knots in smooth water. Cruising range under power is about 1,100 miles.
Due to hull shape, a 26″ three-bladed Max prop, and an extra large rudder, the Deerfoot 61 is extremely handy under power—so handy that it can almost turn (180°) within its own length. The boat handles particularly well in reverse so you’re apt to feel smug when docking stern to.
The cockpit is in keeping with the Deerfoot philosophy—comfortable for two, a bit cozy for four, but efficient and safe for shorthanded passagemaking. The cockpit drains are huge, four-inch in diameter, and there are two smaller deck drains all the way aft.
The dodger is well made with two opening windows forward for ventilation in warm weather. With forward and side windows closed, it provides a snug, dry place in inclement weather. The trade-off is it hampers visibility for the helmsman.
Two cockpit chairs, one port and one starboard, sit in wells behind the wheel. If you are tall, you can sit comfortably in either with feet planted firmly on the cockpit sole; a shorter person’s feet dangle unless you pivot sideways. (In a knockdown the helmsman may go flying since the chairs are not pinned into their sockets.)
The mainsail halyard, main traveler controls and mainsail reefing lines are lead aft to the forward end of the cockpit. However, you must still walk forward to hook the cringle to the reefing hook on the gooseneck. Headsail halyards are located on the main mast along with spinnaker pole controls.
Harken roller furling comes standard on the headstay, although you can opt for jib hanks if you prefer. The cutter stay is left bare for hank-on storm sails.
The Deerfoot 61’s long, sleek flush deck provides a stable sailing platform. There are inboard sheeting tracks for the staysail or working jib, and an outboard “T” track bolted to the top of the toe rail from the mast all the way aft for sheeting reachers, spinnakers, and genoas.
Lifeline stanchions, 1 1/4 inch in diameter and 30 inches tall, provide the extra security one needs in an offshore passagemaker. Double lifelines become triple lifelines forward of the mast to help keep crew and sails on board. The stainless steel pushpit extends around the cockpit as far as the second stanchion for extra safety aft.
The 61 comes standard with a Lewmar windlass, and the anchor chain self stows neatly into a large anchor chain bin located directly beneath the winch. Because the forestay is located four feet aft of the bow, there’s a lot of room to handle the anchor.
Seven Bomar hatches and eight dorades provide ventilation below. Stainless steel guards around the dorades prevent jib sheets from fouling and furnish handholds for crewmembers moving forward or aft.
The Deerfoot we sailed was missing some mooring cleats aft and amidships. Also, cleats and winches, though mounted with through bolts and washers into a thick section of fiberglass, have no backing plates to distribute the load.
Despite its comparatively narrow beam (14 1/2 feet), the Deerfoot’s interior is well designed for living aboard in port or offshore. Emphasis is on having an airy, open saloon. Large hull portholes and lightcolored, vinyl-covered bulkheads and ceilings create a feeling of light and space. Plush leather settees and a horizontal teak veneer enhance this feeling and give the boat a Scandinavian flair.
Stepping below from the cockpit, there are two guest cabins—one with bunk beds to port and one with a small double to starboard. When cruising, either cabin provides a good place for children or guests. The port cabin, within earshot of the person on deck, is preferable offshore.
The owner’s double stateroom forward is designed for sleeping in harbor. You can hear the anchor chain if it drags, and there’s good ventilation. This stateroom has oodles of storage and a spacious head forward with sit-down shower, large mirror, and sink.
Aft is another head with shower, stacked washer and dryer, and large linen closet. The shower compartment has big hooks inside for hanging wet towels and foul weather gear. Both heads, sprayed glossy white, are bright and easy to clean.
The long secure passageway between the companionway ladder and saloon is a good place to don your harness or foul weather gear. It also leads you to the galley to port and nav section starboard.
The nav section/office is C-shaped with plenty of room for charts, instruments and electronics. There are two tables and a rotating chair so you can sit forward or aft. (However, there’s no space for knees when swiveling the chair outboard.)
Nav lockers along the hull with roll-top lids furnish a nifty way to store books, cassettes, or extra electronics. There’s more room for a computer and other equipment on the desk mounted aft.
Across from the nav section, the galley is a typical U-shape with the stove mounted on the aft bulkhead. Counter tops are Corian which can be lightly sanded if scuffed or scraped. There is handsome stowage for dishes and dry goods in lockers above the stove and along the hull.
Two nine-inch deep stainless steel sinks sit outboard and drain via an electric pump to a thru-hull in the aft head. They would drain more efficiently if they were installed near the centerline and plumbed directly overboard.
Hot and cold pressure water are standard, but surprisingly there are no manual salt water pumps, and only one manual fresh water foot pump underneath the galley sink.
There’s an eight-cubic-foot fridge and and a fivecubic-foot freezer across from the stove. The fridge stays cold, but its “side opening” door could be better insulated. There’s a microwave and more food lockers along the companionway starboard.
The galley and nav section look out over the saloon. There’s a large L-shaped dinette to port and a straight settee to starboard. Fiddles for bookshelves mounted behind the settees are inadequately designed for sailing offshore.
To minimize weight above the waterline, the cabin sole and furniture are constructed of teak plywood on a foam core. A good latch-down system secures the sole. However, on the boat we sailed, the cabin sole was divided into five and seven foot lengths which were much too cumbersome.
Lighting on the Deerfoot 61 is excellent. Overhead lights are round recessed halogens and large rectangular flourescents. The saloon has strip lights behind the valances and in the kickspace along the cabin sole. Small reading lights are mounted above bunks and settees.
Large hatches, which provide plenty of light, are fitted with storm cover tracks so they can be left cracked in inclement weather. They also come with an innovative system of bug and sun screens which conveniently slide in and out of the deck.
The Deerfoot 61 is a luxurious boat. It’s also a sensible, liveaboard boat that offers outstanding accommodations, superb craftsmanship, and unparalleled performance. It’s obvious that Dashew and Rogeberg put a lifetime of ocean voyaging and boatbuilding experience into the Deerfoot design.
All this comes at a price, of course. New, a coastal cruising version of the Deerfoot 61 runs $680,000, add another $120,000 for the offshore package, which comes with sails, two autopilots, watermaker, refrigerator-freezer, ground tackle, and electronics.
This is a lot to pay for any boat, but you’ll get top quality for your dollar.
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Several years ago I saw one of these boats in Wellington New Zealand. If I had just won Lotto I would have made the owner an offer he could not refuse!! Great review.
You gave a thorough and thoughtful review but you incorrectly used the term ‘electrolysis’ instead of the proper term electrolytic corrosion. Btw, electrolysis is a process of removing hair, so I don’t think you meant that.
I have sailed aboard the Deerfoot 72, Locura. It’s a fabulously fast boat and the quality is evident the moment you step aboard. It’s for sale now and sure wish I could make an offer on it.
Excellent Write up
A very informative review. I do find a few of your criticisms both valid and surprising at this level, however. Balsa core may have been the go-to core 40-50 years ago, but as any C&C owner can tell you, leaves much to be desired in any environment where freeze-thaw cycles may occur. I also did not read, or may have missed, the partial solution in which encapsulated plywood or fibreglassed in pads isolate the balsa in areas where through-bolted gear is found on deck. Related is the mention of the absence of backing plates and the possibility that flexing might unbed or otherwise allow water into that balsa core. Also concerning are the dissimilar metals in the rudder; I agree with you that a different approach would be preferable.
Other than these cavils, Deerfoots sound very well thought out and it was nice to have an “under the hatches” walkthrough. I always learn something I can use on our less pretty ocean cruiser
Good thorough review. I enjoy Nicholson’s approach and his comments. I am looking forward to more thorough analyses of cruising sailboats.
Good review of the Dashew philosophy and the 61 and have been a follower since the late 1980s. I only wish we could see some of it applied to more boats in the 40-50ft range.
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KAILANI was designed by the people who literally wrote the book on Offshore Cruising, Steve and Linda Dashew. Deerfoots are considered by many to be the finest shorthanded cruising yachts afloat. The Dashew concept of a long range cruiser that is fast, comfortable and easily sailed by a couple is perfectly embodied in the Deerfoot 63, KAILANI. She was built by Salthouse Brothers in New Zealand to the highest standards, and she will impress all who step aboard. She has safely carried her owners and family nearly twice around the world in comfort. The owners are moving to power for a couple of years with their new boat on the way and KAILANI is seriously for sale. Highly Recommended.
Equipment: The Deerfoot 63 was the last design in the Deerfoot series and incorporates the best of its forebears. Details like her plumb bow, long waterline, watertight bulkheads, integrated water tank in the keel, sea chest, and balanced rudder were radical departures from the idea of what a cruising boat should be. Those details have proven to be winners and many builders have adapted those concepts into their designs with plumb bows and sugar scoops the norm thanks to the success of the Deerfoot concept. The Dashews also recognized that repairs and preventative maintenance are an integral part of the cruising life and intentionally designed the Deerfoot to segregate the machinery in a purpose-designed space aft behind a watertight bulkhead. Here you will find the main, the generator, most of the pumps and the refrigerator and HVAC compressors, all arranged with easy access. The design puts a premium on safety with subtle features such as a sturdy stainless steel pulpit completely surrounding the cockpit, three lifelines forward of the mast, slightly canted outboard decks so that the high side is level on a heel in a sea way, an unencumbered run for the jacklines from the cockpit to the bow pulpit and decks painted in reflective material. The deep spade rudder has a lower sacrificial break away section that leaves sufficient rudder area to continue to steer following a collision.
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Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.
The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
Sail Area / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3
- SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
- D : Displacement in pounds.
Ballast / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Ballast / Displacement * 100
Displacement / Length Ratio
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
- LWL: Waterline length in feet
Comfort Ratio
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
- LOA: Length overall in feet
- Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet
Capsize Screening Formula
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
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SUNDEER 60: An Ideal Bluewater Cruising Boat
This innovative bluewater performance cruiser was one of a series of designs developed by offshore sailing guru Steve Dashew starting in 1978. Dashew’s basic concept of a long, narrow, fast boat designed to be sailed long distances by a couple first saw fruition in his Deerfoot line, which he built in fiberglass and in aluminum on a sporadic basis at several locations. The Sundeer line was more refined and focused and consisted of three boats–the Sundeer 64, 60, and 56. These were the only Dashew designs ever built on a true production basis.
The ketch-rigged Sundeer 64 boasted three double staterooms and was arguably larger than a couple would ever need. The cutter-rigged 60 and 56, which were absolutely identical but for an extra four feet of lazarette space tacked on to the transom of the 60, were probably truer expressions of Dashew’s original vision. In all there were 27 Sundeers built at TPI Composites from 1994-99, nine of which were Sundeer 60s. I helped deliver the last one built from Rhode Island to Florida through two February gales (including one right off Cape Hatteras) and to this day I remember it as perhaps the most impressive bluewater cruiser I’ve ever sailed.
Glancing at this boat’s numbers you should immediately note its low D/L ratio , just 80, which effectively qualifies it as an ultra-light racing machine. This is not achieved through radical construction, though the Sundeer’s hull lay-up is thoroughly modern. Both the deck and hull, above and below the waterline, consist of quadraxial and biaxial glass cloth set in vinylester resin vacuum-bagged over a balsa core using TPI’s proprietary SCRIMP resin-infusion process. Much of the weight saving is simply a result of the boat’s hull form, which maximizes waterline length and minimizes beam. The long, light hull is easily driven, as is reflected in its high nominal hull speed , but is powered by a short inboard sail plan (air draft is just 64 feet) that yields only a modest SA/D ratio .
Because the long, narrow hull has good directional stability and doesn’t need a tall rig to drive it, the keel can be kept short and shallow. This reduces wetted surface area and enhances structural integrity. For cruisers it has added benefits: the 6-foot draft allows reasonable access to shoal-water cruising grounds, and the mast just fits under most U.S. highway bridges.
Under sail the Sundeer certainly doesn’t feel like a 60-foot boat. The loads involved in hoisting, trimming, and reefing the sails are moderate enough that they can be handled without power winches. From behind the wheel, the impression is of a fast, easily managed 45-footer. The boat also has a surprisingly comfortable motion. Though the bilges are shallow, the bottom of the hull is round, and this, combined with the narrow beam, helps cushion the blows when pounding into a head sea, reduces pitching, and allows for a smoother motion generally.
The Sundeer is not as comfortable as a heavy displacement full-keel boat, but it is considerably more comfortable than most modern shallow-bilged boats. It tracks better than most other modern boats and like more full-keeled boats can be trimmed out to steer itself for a while. A Sundeer rarely sails up to its hull speed, thanks to the short rig, but much of the time it lopes along quite comfortably at 9 to 11 knots, which is fast enough to cover 200 miles a day.
The interior layout is very functional. The living space is segregated from the mechanical systems, which are all situated in an enormous aft lazarette/engine space, and from the major storage area for sails and deck gear, which is a large forepeak with lots of big canvas storage bins framed by sturdy stainless steel rails. The three areas are separated by watertight collision bulkheads.
The master stateroom is an enormous forward cabin with scads of storage and hanging space, perfect for a couple lying to a hook in a tropical anchorage. The only other stateroom is a small quarter cabin aft with two single bunk berths–perfect for a couple on passage, for a pair of children, or for putting up guests while in port. There is just one large, well-appointed head, situated aft, where it can be used comfortably at sea, plus a large, well laid out galley.
The deck plan likewise is superb. There are no less than 10 tall dorade vents to shovel fresh air below, each with sturdy granny bars that provide lots of handholds for working crew. The cockpit is laid out so the helmsman can easily reach most of the working lines and winches. Also, most Sundeers were built with functional solid doghouses to protect crew on watch. These feature full-length settees that are great for on-deck snoozing.
The basic systems layout emphasizes simplicity over complexity. You can load up on gadgets if you want, but it’s possible to live very comfortably on this boat without them. There is room for a 1,000-amp-hour DC battery bank down low in the middle of the boat where the weight helps stability, so a generator is not necessary. Also, the fresh-water tanks are enormous and the deck is configured to route all rainfall to the tank fills, so a watermaker is superfluous. The tanks are outboard on either side of the boat, with a cross-linked gravity-fed plumbing system that allows water to be transferred from one side to the other to help reduce heeling. The fuel tanks have large accessible sumps underneath and the vents are positioned as high as possible on deck, cleverly concealed inside the tops of the aft stanchion posts.
The Sundeer is filled with thoughtful little touches like this, all of them designed to make a bluewater cruiser’s life simpler and safer. Very few bluewater boats are so carefully conceived. It is a shame so few of these boats were built and that it is no longer in production.
Specifications
LOA: 59’11”
LWL: 59’0″
Beam: 13’6″
Draft: 6’0″
Ballast: 11,500 lbs.
Displacement: 36,500 lbs.
Sail area: 1,205 sq. ft.
Fuel: 220 gal.
Water: 400 gal.
D/L ratio: 80
SA/D ratio: 17.5
Comfort ratio: 29.49
Capsize screening: 1.62
Nominal hull speed: 16.2 knots
Typical asking prices $400K – $575K
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Very appealing. Can you tell me where I can see a list of the 27 built and where they would be currently? Poppa G
@Poppa: I don’t know where you can get such a list, but there are a few for sale on Yachtworld. I suggest you look there. charlie
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Designed by steve dashew and built in by walsteds in denmark.
Dimensions LOA: 74 ft 0 in Beam: 15 ft 4 in LWL: 68 ft 0 in Minimum Draft: 7 ft 2 in Displacement: 70000 lbs
Power Engine Brand: Mercedes-Benz Year Built: 1987 Engine Model: 6.570 Engine Type: Inboard Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel Propeller: 3 blade propeller Engine Power: 130 HP
Tanks Fresh Water Tanks: (177 Gallons) Fuel Tanks: (680 Gallons)
Accommodations
Sleeps six in three staterooms. Sliding pocket doors are used throughout to conserve space. Starting forward, the entire forepeak is devoted to a chain locker, sail, line and gear stowage and a washer/dryer. Access is through a large deck hatch and through a watertight door into the forward head compartment. Next aft from the storage fore-peak is a head and stall shower/mini tub to port and a vanity and sink to starboard. Immediately aft is the master stateroom with a queen sized bed to port and hanging lockers and dresser to starboard. All mattresses are designed in such a way as to allow two lee cloths to be installed while at sea. The bulkhead separating the forward cabin from the salon contains a 24-inch internally lit etched glass port with privacy and blackout screens. Next aft is the main cabin with dinette to port and two built-in seats and entertainment center to starboard. Next aft to starboard is a large navigation/communication station with built-in instrumentation and an aircraft style double pole circuit breaker panel with breakers and switches in the overhead, within easy reach yet not dominating the living area. Immediately behind the navigation station is a walk-in, stand-up engine room with a full work bench. To port, opposite the navigation station, is the linear galley with over 20 feet of Corian counter surface. Refrigerator and freezer are under the counter with both top- and side-loading doors to the refrigerator. Outboard is a four-burner propane stove, fan-cooled vegetable storage, built-in microwave/toaster oven and eye-level propane oven/broiler. Double sinks and counters run along the inboard side, with coffee maker in a closed and well-lit wall compartment and built-in knife rack and bread boards. Aft of the galley are port- and starboard double berth staterooms and a head and stall shower/mini tub forward of the starboard stateroom with connecting mirror/door. A sliding wall opens the two aft cabins into a single large stateroom with en-suite head access. The main companionway from the salon is amidships into the all-weather pilothouse. The pilothouse has settees port and starboard. It houses navigation and communications equipment, autopilot primary controls for internal steering and emergency equipment. Aft of the pilothouse is the bridge deck, the second cockpit and two chairs. The full-beam lazarette behind the helm is accessed by a large hatch to starboard and separated from the rest of the boat by a watertight bulkhead. A matching port hatch provides access to a separate propane and gas locker with outboard storage that vents to the swim step. Aft of the lazarette is a large swim step with boarding ladder and life raft storage in the transom. Davits, powered by the primary hydraulic winches, are mounted over the swim step and provide storage for the tender and engine, as well as lighting for the swim step area and antenna mounting.
- SMEV stove/oven/rotisserie (2009)
- GE combination microwave/toaster oven
- Raritan icemaker
- Groco Paragon Senior fresh water system
- Jabsco galley sink macerator
Electronics and Navigation Equipment
- Furuno Navnet radar plotter (2009)
- Icom SSB (2009)
- Will Ham autopilot (2009)
- Standard Horizon chart plotter (2009)
- Battery monitors (2009)
- Furuno Navtx fax (2009)
- Second SSB (2009)
- EPIRB (2009)
- Computer system for chart systems, Maptech, Maxsea and e-mail
- B&G Hercules 390 instrumentation with sonic speed, dual depth sounders, heading and heel inputs
- Multi-function displays are located in the nav station, forward cabin, pilothouse, sailing cockpit, port- and starboard coaming and aft cockpit
- (2) W-H hydraulic drive autopilots (P3A and P20 remotes)
- Autopilot steering via (2) independent 1/2 hp 24-volt hydraulic pump sets
- 6″ Shunto primary compass
- KVH electronic compass w/ two repeaters in aft coamings
- Furuno 48-mile color radar w/ guard zone and dual range and bearing lines
- Meteostar 2000 electronic baragraph
- NRA Mini M world phone, data and fax
- Cellular phone
- Skanti 250 watt SSB radio
- Icom IC 800 SSB radio
- Raytheon Ray 40 loud hailer/fog hailer
- Skanti VHF radios; one at nav station, one in pilothouse
- (4) Pioneer CD players
- Pioneer tape player
- Flat screen TVs and independent stereos in each stateroom (2009)
Electrical System
- 24V-12V converter/charger
- (2) Primary house banks of 680 AH each of 24V, Prevailer gel cell batteries (total capacity 1,360 AH at 24V)
- Added (3) emergency batteries in engine room (new 2009)
- 12-volt electronic bank at 170 AH
- 24-volt primary engine starting battery bank plus ability to use either house bank
- 12-volt secondary engine starting bank plus ability to use 12-volt electronics bank
- 300 amp 24V alternator on main engine (new 2009)
- (2) 300-amp 24-volt Electrodyne hydraulic alternators
- (2) Heart interface 2500 W FET inverters (also 60 amp chargers) with remotes
- (7) Digital battery monitors with amp hour/amperage/voltage functions
- Shore power polarity test and isolator
- Isolation transformer that provides complete isolation from shore power and ground problems and wired for 220V or 110V
- Aquasignal custom fluorescent lighting in each cabin
- Red night lights in kick space in all cabins
- Reading lights
- Spreader lights on each mast
- Fore and aft deck floods and swim step flood
- Automatic battery powered emergency lighting in salon
Engine/ Mechanical Equipment
Sails and Rigging
“Flag Blue” Awlgrip 25mm solid aluminum keel bottom plate All thru-deck fittings blind fastened to welded receivers All dissimilar metals separated by plastic or neoprene gaskets and stainless bolts coated to help prevent electrolysis Dual pole breakers to negate any stray currents Full foam insulation above water line (14) Large Lexan hull windows Bomar hatches with welded frames (2) Opening hatches into the pilothouse Opening ports from bridge deck/cockpit to galley, aft head, and two in each of the aft cabins (16) Large custom aluminum dorades Dual station electrically controlled pneumatic system operates the forward head, forward cabin, salon and galley hatches form the forward bunk or the nav station All close function to allow rapid closing of hatches Main hatches with built-in bug and separate privacy screens Screen inserts for other hatches
Hydraulic windlass Custom ferryboat-style chain stopper CQR 240 lb anchor (new 2009) Bruce 150 lb primary anchor S/S bow roller S/S chain rode retainer pins and clamps Bruce 120 lb anchor w/chain rode Paul Luke 100 lb, Danforth 65 lb and Fortress anchors in forepeak Givens Buoy 6-man life raft mounted in transom (2) Survival Technology MOM (2) 406 EPIRBs (2) Cockpit mounted Survival Technology throwable life rings Pacer hydraulic emergency bilge pump Primary awning set for aft cockpit and bridge deck, pilothouse and forward pilothouse window Secondary awning set from main mast aft Teak bridge deck and sole for aft cockpit Teak cockpit table seats six
It will be evident upon inspection that MAYA is not an ordinary yacht. She was custom built for the knowledgeable owners of Deerfoot International by Walsteds, one of the finest yards in Europe. She was designed, engineered and built to exact specifications to be a true, independent offshore cruiser, easily handled by two people. The dependable, easily maintained systems were engineered into an exceptionally strong, yet aesthetically pleasing hull. The resulting yacht is a head turner wherever she goes and is a joy to sail.
She is equally comfortable in northern climates, with her all-weather pilothouse, and in the tropics, with vast areas of opening hatches, dorades and air conditioning. MAYA cruises easily at 8.5 – 10 knots and has been known to surf at 23.5 knots. She is a “must-see” for anyone considering a 60′ – 80′ cruising sailboat.
Seller’s personal effects are excluded from the sale.
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Sundeer 56/60 review: super offshore sailing machine.
Steve and Linda Dashew started out in 1978 with the 68′ Deerfoot. This was the first design with a molded swim platform. Their goal was and still is to build the optimal offshore boat. They followed with a range of Deerfoot designs. Then they made a switch in the 1990’s to their second evolution, Sundeer. One of these designs, the 60′ Sundeer (also shortened to be the 56-footer) would become a production fiberglass yacht built by Tillotson Pearson Industrial Composites or TPI for short in Warren, Rhode Island. They produced seventeen of the 56/60 Sundeers from 1994 to 1997. The Dashews moved onto their Beowolf and Godspeed designs in the late 1990’s. Today, they are focusing a a FPB series of circumnavigable poweryachts including their test bed, Windhorse. Sundeers distinguish themselves by being narrower (4.9 length to beam ratio), very fine entries (14 degrees from centerline), and larger mainsails than other offshore yachts. These changes give them additional waterline length and increase passagemaking speeds as the Sundeer 60’s for instance regularly average over 200 nautical miles a day offshore. Dashew says that the 60 is the “most efficient 2 person cruising boat we could conceive.”
First Impressions Sundeers have an extreme masculinity and look like they ought to built out of some rough and tough material like steel or aluminum. The edges are angular like the swim platform that is cut off straight aftmost. The three portlights in the topsides are distinctively large, menacing, and squarish. Starting forward the bow is cut-off straight with hardly an overhang tough bowsprit provides anchor clearance. The plumb bow goes with the Dashew theory of a no nonsense offshore boat. The bow is fine with absolutely no flair to cut deep through waves upwind. The straight slightly uplifting sheer runs to the aft cockpit and swim platform arrangement. The beam stays wide aft. With her 4.9 length to beam ratio, the narrow hull shape allows her to surf down waves. The cabintrunk hides slanting quickly into the cockpit combings. Some 56/60’s have pilothouses or hard dodger arrangements. Her sloop rig makes room for a large mainsail and flexible foresail area. She features a 64′ raked, double spreader mast. The underbody is balanced up to 20% heeling and leads to a soft, comfortable motion. Her keel can be of different arrangements but standard is 6′ fin paired with a shorter rudder and long, skinny skeg. The prop comes out close to the skeg on a steep angle.
Construction One good part about Dashew is the plethora of information. They are prolific publishers of books including the bible of offshore sailing, the Dashew Offshore Handbook, and numerous videos. The Dashews both have strong, stable opinions. The builder was Tillotson Pearson Industrial Composites whose co-founder Clinton Pearson helped found Pearson Yachts in the 1950’s, maybe the first fiberglass production builder. The company is world renown for its innovative and advanced molding techniques and composes everything from sailboats to wind turbines. They were one of the few users of SCRIMP technology in the mid 1990’s. This technique uses a vaccum bagging and resin injection to avoid secondary bonding. TPI used vinylester resin with a mix of quadriaxial, biaxial, unidirectional fiberglass with end grain balsa coring. The gel coats for the deck are hull were white though other colors were possible. TPI gave a 10 year blister free warranty. The hull structure was built to ABS standards. Heavy scantlings including keel floors of 18″ center stiffen her. An aluminum mast step bolts on to the floors. The 56/60’s have two watertight bulkheads one each to square off the forepeek and engine room areas. These along with the main bulkhead are balsa cored. The hull deck joint is of the standard flange glued by 3M’s 5200 and bolted at 4″ centers with the aluminum toerail. The keel is an external lead piece bolted to the fiberglass keel stub. A swim platform is glassed on the transom.
On Deck and Down Below Up forward, she has a bow chock for dual anchors. The watertight anchor bin is below the electric windlass. This is a narrow foredeck with the fine bow that is meant to slice through oncoming seas. There can be a cutter stay here. There are numerous dorades molded in which the Dashews say provides enough ventilation to avoid the need for air conditioning in most climates. Their philosophy avoids generators, air conditioning, and mast furling. Aftmost is the cockit. The beefy ground tackle is by Lewmar. A lazarette aftmost provides access to the engine room behind the aft watertight bulkhead. There is only a single through-hole in the whole boat to provide hull integrity. The aft cockpit has long seating to lie down on and nice width and height. They have sailed enough to know the importance of cockpit ergonomics.
The narrowness of the hull makes this a rather distinctively different interior. Although 60-feet in length, the 56/60 was meant with a cruising couple in mind. The layout is only a two stateroom boat with the cockpit and portside cabin aft arrangement. Forwardmost is a master suite with a centerline queen that is common on Dashew designs since the Deerfoots. The open saloon and “C” shaped galley is next. Aft starboardside is the single head with shower.
Engine and Underway Behind a watertight bulkhead aft is the engine room. This is a interesting and very safe idea also seen on the big MacGregor 65’s, another narrow long waterline design. The idea is to separate the danger of sinking from a failed hose or shaft leak. Access is through a lazarette, and there is posible access from the aft cabin. Common are the now discontinued 88 HP Yanmars while the earliest had a 77 HP Yanmar.
The prime focus of the Sundeers is a great circumnavigating sailboat for two people. The 56/60 is known to clip off 200 plus miles a day. This is because of an efficient hull shape, i.e. long waterline, and easy to handle sail plan. The larger main but not too much canvas can be easily managed at pretty good efficiency by one person. All lines run into the aft cockpit for this purpose. The fine bow inhibits any tendency to pound up wind, and the narrow beam increases buoyancy forward to surf downwind without plunging the bow.
Conclusion The Sundeer 56/60 line by TPI and Dashew Offshore is an strongly built, well though-out passagemaker for those who dream to sail around the world. Her masculinity, rawness, and narrow beam give her a distinctive style. Great support is available as the Dashews continue to try out innovative ideas and have produced wide array of books, pamphlets, and videos to explain their philosophy and boats that envelope it. Originally retailing at $277,000 in 1993 for sailaway, a sign of their value is the brokerage prices of around a half a million.
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On single handed passage from Balboa, CZ to Honokohau, HI on my Sundeer 60 after having crossed up into the NE trades I made about 210 miles per day for 8 days without touching the helm. The wind was on the starboard quarter, 15-18 knots gusts to 20. Sea 8-12 ft; swell NW 1-2 ft. Just good steady trades.
This kind of sailing spoils you for the rest of your sailing life.
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As a 12 year owner of a 56 there are a few mistakes here. Firstly there is no skeg and the rudders are BIG, secondly the standard anchor arrangement is for a single over-sized anchor, normally a 110llb Bruce and the windlass is a Maxwell from New Zealand. GM
G, Thanks for the corrections. You’d know far more than me about the 56, so feel free to chime in anytime. Happy 2012, R Sent from my iPad
Also noted, the price. Dashew worked hard to get a headline grabbing price for the boats but this was absolutely basic with e.g. no equipment, no cushions for berths and none of the interior woodwork varnished. It was never a sail away price. In reality they were almost double the base price. My receipt for the delivered yacht from TPI was in the mid 600s in 1996.
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Interlude Yacht | 74' Deerfoot 1986
Immaculate, proven, expedition class Deerfoot 74. Conceived by Steve Dashew, engineered by Elvstrom Yacht Design and built at the iconic Walstad Boatyard in Denmark, Interlude is a custom performance cruiser that consistently delivers over 200 miles a day under sail or power with a doublehanded crew. Actively owner operated by a couple for the past 24 years, Interlude has been immaculately maintained with all the upmarket amenities to make life at sea not only adventurous but luxurious.
In 2012, Interlude, a Deerfoot 74 motor sailor, underwent a thorough refit that has since maintained its impeccable condition, a testament to exceptional maintenance. This yacht comfortably accommodates 6 in 3 staterooms. Access into the boat is through the main deck that gains you entrance to the large, comfortable pilot house. The pilothouse has the navigation and communications equipment, autopilot and primary controls for internal steering including emergency equipment. The Pilothouse itself is fundamental to stay warm and dry in rough or cold conditions Interlude is equipped with all of the components needed for blue water cruising. One gains entrance into the salon area just down the stairs of the pilothouse. Forward of this salon is the primary stateroom with a queen size bed to port and hanging lockers and dresser to starboard. Aft of the salon is a walkthrough galley that leads to the washer and dryer, port and starboard double berth staterooms and two head with showers The aft lazarettes contain the dive compressor, diesel heater, life raft, stern anchor locker and sealed propane locker. The forepeak with dual chain locker contains a chest fridge/freezer, 14ft two person inflatable Hobie kayak and ample storage for spare anchors, sails and lines. Also included in the sale is a 10.5 ft. AB 10.5 ft w/electric start 20 hp Yamaha & wheel steering.
Interlude’s long, light, easily-driven hull allows use of a substantially smaller rig than would be needed on a shorter, beamier boat with the same amenities. This results in shorthanded comfort, safety and speed to go anywhere. Equipped for serious blue water cruising with a fuel range of 1,500 miles, 75 gallon per hour watermaker, 150 hp main engine, 12 kw and 8 kw generators, where you go with her is only limited by your imagination.
Here is a partial list of some equipment:
- 12V Audio Amplifier
- 12V MP3 player
- 19 inch LCD Television, 27 inch LCD Television
- Air conditioners
- Anchor Primary bow bruce 80 kg, Anchor secondary bow 50 kg, Stern primary, stern secondary.
- Auxiliary Genset
- AV Receiver
- Battery charger
- Blueray DVD player
- Clothes dryer, clothes washer
- Binnacle Compass (two)
- Depth Sounders: Furuno and B&G
- Bauer Dive tank air compressor
- Furuno GPS Chartplotter
- Hailer/Intercomm
- Furuno fluxgate rate gyro heading sensor
- Webasto Heater (diesel)
- Hydraulic Alternator
- Hydraulic Genset
- Inverter/Charger
- AGM Lighting Battries
- Main Engine - ISUZU - QD 150 diesel 150 hp
- Radar - Furuno
- Radar reflector
- Sailing instruments B&G (two stations)
- Voltage converter 24V-12V
- Water Maker Sea Recovery 70gal/hr
- Furuno Weather Fax
- Winches, Anderson, All stainless (3 electric)
- Windlass, Maxwell, 4000 Hydraulic with 300ft 1/2" primary anchor chain
- Starlink Flat High Performance
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Interlude HIGHLIGHTS
- Yacht Details: 74' Deerfoot 1986
- Location: opua,
- Engines: Isuzu
- Last Updated: Jul 16, 2024
- Asking Price: $740,000
- Max Draft: 7' 0''
Interlude additional information
- Beam: 15' 4''
- Hull Material: Aluminum
- Displacement: 70,000 lb
- Fuel Tank: 1 x 550|gallon
- Fresh Water: 1 x 170|gallon
- Holding: 1 x 50|gallon
Partial List:
-Bimini Top, dodger, cockpit awning, cockpit table, hatch lens, etc.
Shore Power Inlet
- 240 V, with 8kW isolation transformer
12kW Northern Lights Auxiliary Generator
8kW Hydraulic Generator
3kW Inverter
- Two depthsounder
- Wind speed and direction
- Autopilot
-Chartplotter GPS
- Distributed AudiO/Video System
- Washing Machine
- Clothes Dryer
- 4 Electric Bilge Pump
- Emergency Hydraulic Bilge Pump
- Dive Compressor
- Air Conditioning and Heating
- 3 Electric Marine Heads
- Hot Water
- Refrigeration and Freezers
- Fresh Water Maker
- Battery Charger
- Radar Reflector
-Cockpit Cushions
-Cockpit Table
- Swimming Ladder
- Dive Tanks ( two aluminum)
- Dive Hooka hoses 100ft (two)
- Spectra Sheets and Halyards
- Steering Wheel
- Panama and Miscl. Mooring Lines
- 3 Electrical Winches
- Bow and Stern Ground Tackle
- Emergency Tiller
- Fully Battened Mainsail
- Furling Staysail
- Furling Code 0 Genoa
- Furlling Genoa
- Storm Sails
- Two spinnakers
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Deerfoot 70
- By Dennis Caprio
- Updated: May 22, 2010
Ulf Rogeberg artfully blends classical and contemporary themes in this Deerfoot 70, a light-displacement cruiser currently under construction at Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding. The first in a line of Deerfoot yachts appeared on the scene in 1978, the brainchild of Steve Dashew. (I have to ask: what is the plural of Deerfoot? Deerfoots— fingernails on a slate chalkboard, and Deerfeet seems ludicrous. I’ll stay with Deerfoot yachts.) A few years later, Dashew (concept) collaborated with Rogeberg (naval architecture) on the Deerfoot 70,_ Locura_, a ketch built in Long Beach, California. A handful of yachts later—from 61 to 74 feet—and after Dashew sold the Deerfoot company, these two gentlemen parted ways. Now, Rogeberg carries on the name and tradition of relatively lightweight yachts designed for simplicity of operation and fast passages in comfort and safety. This latest Deerfoot, christened Ipanema , is the first 70-foot sloop in the line, and Rogeberg developed her from the Deerfoot 67 Deer Dancer .
Juggling the contradictory requirements of high average speeds with a comfortable motion at sea requires a carefully shaped underbody. I visited Lyman- Morse this past December and was delighted to speak with Rogeberg and to study the Deerfoot 70’s underbody. She has U-shape sections in the first few stations, giving her what I like to think of as a soft entry, rather than the knife-sharp entry of a contemporary racing boat. These sections will tame the steepest, nastiest, elements of the sea and provide enough buoyancy to lift her over the swell beneath.
Farther aft, the hull gains beam, flattens a little and becomes deeper, providing the buoyancy needed to deal with the weight of twin Volvo D3 engines, machinery, appliances, and other amenities in the galley, saloon, guest staterooms, and master stateroom. Abaft the keel, the hull flattens more and sweeps upward, giving the bottom a fair amount of rocker. This allows the water to clear the run without creating an undue amount of drag.
As fair and handsome as the Deerfoot 70 is below the waterline, she excels above it. The subtle spring of her sheerline pays homage to classical yachts of sailing’s so-called Golden Age, and does so without making a caricature of the entire design. It’s perfect. A cove stripe and four rectangular portlights in each side reduce the observer’s perception of height. When Ipanema is floating in glorious three dimensions, light and shadows playing off the flare in her topsides also will visually decrease her bulk.
Potholes pepper the path to designing an attractive raised saloon structure, but Rogeberg has avoided all of them. His take on the house resembles the roofline of a fine, grand touring coupe. The organic shape and tinted windows shown in the profile drawing give the structure a delicate look, which nicely complements the classical sheerline, beautifully curved transom and short counter. A more traditional, upright house would look like an afterthought, an excrescence that surely would spoil the entire design. I object to the presence of the arch on aesthetic grounds, but I can’t argue against its practicality as a perch for the Deerfoot’s mainsheet traveler.
Just as the roofline of a GT coupe terminates at the rear deck, or trunk, the 70’s house does likewise — but in this case, the deck is open, creating a sheltered cockpit immediately abaft the companionway hatch. This area, which is over the master stateroom, has a table and seating for guests who aren’t helping to sail the yacht. Notice how the angle at the after end of the superstructure and that of the cockpit coaming match the rake of the stem. These elements lend harmony to the design, enhancing the aesthetics far more than their size leads us to believe.
Ulf Rogeberg Marine Design, +45 3963 8354; [email protected]
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How much do Deerfoot boats cost? Deerfoot boats for sale on YachtWorld are listed for an assortment of prices from $295,000 on the relatively lower-priced models, with costs up to $740,000 for the more lavish yachts on the market today. What Deerfoot model is the best? Some of the most popular Deerfoot models presently listed include: 62.2, 63 ...
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Sundeer 60 sailboat photo by Captain Tarn Kelsey of Kelsey Marine Survey. ... Any conversation about the Sundeer series needs to review its 1980s cousin, the Deerfoot series. The first in the Deerfoot series was built in 1980, ultimately being built by several yards around the world including Europe, South Africa, and New Zealand. ...
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Send to Friend. Lovingly maintained and constantly upgraded, this Deerfoot 50 is an example of just how good these long-distance cruising boats can get. Steve Dashew designed Deerfoot. The Dashew concept was a vessel able to undertake long ocean passages at a good speed, certainly approaching the 200nm/day figures, while also being strong ...
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Sundeer 60 Brochure. Steve and Linda Dashew started out in 1978 with the 68′ Deerfoot. This was the first design with a molded swim platform. Their goal was and still is to build the optimal offshore boat. They followed with a range of Deerfoot designs. Then they made a switch in the 1990's to their second evolution, Sundeer.
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A few years later, Dashew (concept) collaborated with Rogeberg (naval architecture) on the Deerfoot 70,_ Locura_, a ketch built in Long Beach, California. A handful of yachts later—from 61 to 74 feet—and after Dashew sold the Deerfoot company, these two gentlemen parted ways. Now, Rogeberg carries on the name and tradition of relatively ...
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Used 1989 Deerfoot 61 for sale is located in Thalang ( Phuket, Thailand ). The Deerfoot shipyard designed and constructed this vessel in 1989. Key features 1989 Deerfoot 61: length 61.35 feet, beam 14.76 feet and max boat draft 6.56 feet. Hull key features 1989 Deerfoot 61: hull shape - other shape, hull material - fiberglass and keel type ...
1986 Deerfoot 74 Pilothouse. $599,000. Reno, NV 89433 | Seattle Yachts. Request Info < 1 >
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