Paceship Yachts Limited was a

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, and later

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originally based in

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. The company was founded in 1962 and specialized in the design and manufacture of

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History

The company's predecessor was the Mahone Bay Plycraft Company Ltd, which sold

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boats as

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for amateur construction, as well as completed boats. These were marketed under various brand names. Paceship Chance 32-28 Petrel in the Cabot Strait

Paceship Chance 32-28 Petrel in the Cabot Strait

The Industrial Shipping Company Limited of Nova Scotia (ISC) produced plywood boats for Mahone Bay Plycraft in its Mahone Bay factory, until the building burned down in 1956. The factory was rebuilt and plywood boat construction restarted, but it quickly shifted to building boats from a then-new material,

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, becoming one of the earliest builders of fibreglass small

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s and sailboats. By 1962 the sailboats were produced under the Paceship name and it became a division of ISC. The Paceship division was bought out in 1965 by the Atlantic Bridge Company Limited of Nova Scotia (ABCO), a company that also built powerboats. In 1975 Paceship Yachts and its tooling were sold to

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(AMF Corp), a large American conglomerate. They relocated Paceship production to

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in the United States, including the Paceship PY23 and PY26 sailboats. Paceship Yachts operated as a division of AMF from 1975 until 1981. The

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impacted sailboat sales and, as a result, AMF sold the PY26 design and tooling to

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in 1981. Tanzer changed the design to a deck-stepped mast and sold it as the

Tanzer 27 The Tanzer 27 is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by C. Raymond Hunt and first built in 1982. The design is out of production. The Tanzer 27 is a development of the Paceship PY 26, which was produced by Paceship Yachts in Mahone Bay, ...

. Tanzer Industries itself went out of business in May 1986. Atlantic Bridge's fibreglass operations were moved into the former Paceship building and the company was renamed ABCO Plastics Limited, while yacht building ceased. ABCO Plastics was sold in 1988 and renamed ABCO Industries Limited. The former factory location is now owned by Reinforced Plastics Systems Inc.

Boats

Summary of sailboats built by Paceship (year first built by any manufacturer): *

Tech Dinghy The Tech Dinghy is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by George Owen, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as a one-design racer and for sail training. It was first built in 1935.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Fiel ...

- 1934 * Falcon 16 - 1954 *

International FJ The International FJ is a Dutch sailboat that was designed by Uus Van Essen and Conrad Gülcher as a trainer and one design racer, first built in 1956. The boat was initially called the Flying Dutchman Junior (after the Flying Dutchman o ...

- 1956 * East Wind 24 - 1962 * East Wind 25 - 1962 * Paceship P2-20 - 1962 * Cruisette 20 - 1963 * Paceship P 12 - 1963 * Peregrine 16 - 1963 * Acadian 30 - 1964 * Mouette 19 - 1964 * Paceship 2-16 - 1964 * Paceship 29 - 1964 * Paceship 17 - 1966 * Westwind 24 - 1966 * Bluejacket 23 - 1967 * Acadian 30 Yawl - 1968 * Paceship 32 - 1968 *

Northwind 29 The Northwind 29 is a Canadian sailboat that was designed by C&C Design and first built in 1969. Production The design was built by Paceship Yachts in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, who completed 104 examples between 1969 and 1972, but it is ...

- 1969 *

Paceship 23 The Paceship 23 is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by Cuthbertson & Cassian and first built in 1969. Production The boat was built by Paceship Yachts in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada between 1969 and 1978, but it is now out of produ ...

- 1969 * Paceship P 14 - 1969 * Paceship 20 - 1970 * Chance 32 - 1972 *

Chance 32/28 The Chance 32/28 (also called the Chance 32) is a Canadian and French sailboat, that was designed by naval architect Britton Chance Jr. and first built in 1972. Production The boat was built by Paceship Yachts in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Can ...

- 1972 * Paceship PY26 - 1972 * Chance 29/25 - 1973 * Paceship PY23 - 1973 * Seidelmann 24-1 - 1981

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* {{Paceship Yachts Paceship Yachts

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