The Paceship 20 is a Canadian
sailing dinghy
Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using five essential controls:
* the sails
* the foils (i.e. the daggerboard or centreboard and rudder and sometimes lifting foils as found on the Moth)
* the trim (forward/rear angle of ...
, that was designed by
Cuthbertson & Cassian
C&C Yachts was a builder of high-performance fiberglass monohull sailboats with production facilities in Canada, Germany, and the United States. C&C designed and constructed a full range of production line cruiser-racer boats, as well as custom ...
and first built in 1970.
Production
The boat was built by
Paceship Yachts
Paceship Yachts Limited was a Canada, Canadian, and later United States, American, boat builder originally based in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. The company was founded in 1962 and specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats.
...
in
Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
Mahone Bay is a town on the northwest shore of Mahone Bay along the South Shore of Nova Scotia in Lunenburg County. A long-standing picturesque tourism destination, the town has recently enjoyed a growing reputation as a haven for entrepreneur ...
,
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
, but it is now out of production.
Design
The Paceship 20 is a small recreational
dinghy
A dinghy is a type of small boat, often carried or towed by a larger vessel for use as a tender. Utility dinghies are usually rowboats or have an outboard motor. Some are rigged for sailing but they differ from sailing dinghies, which ...
, built predominantly of
fiberglass
Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth ...
, with wood trim. It has a
fractional sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
rig, a transom-hung
rudder
A rudder is a primary control surface used to steer a ship, boat, submarine, hovercraft, aircraft, or other vehicle that moves through a fluid medium (generally aircraft, air or watercraft, water). On an aircraft the rudder is used primarily to ...
and a folding
centreboard
A centreboard or centerboard (US) is a retractable hull appendage which pivots out of a slot in the hull of a sailboat, known as a ''centreboard trunk'' (UK) or ''centerboard case'' (US). The retractability allows the centreboard to be raised t ...
keel
The keel is the bottom-most longitudinal structural element on a vessel. On some sailboats, it may have a hydrodynamic and counterbalancing purpose, as well. As the laying down of the keel is the initial step in the construction of a ship, in Br ...
. It displaces .
The boat has a draft of with the centreboard extended and with it retracted, allowing
beaching or ground transportation on a
trailer.
The boat may be fitted with a small
outboard motor
An outboard motor is a propulsion system for boats, consisting of a self-contained unit that includes engine, gearbox and propeller or jet drive, designed to be affixed to the outside of the transom. They are the most common motorised method ...
for docking and maneuvering.
Operational history
The boat was at one time supported by an active class club, ''The Paceship'', but the club is currently inactive.
See also
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List of sailing boat types
The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies and multihull ( catamarans and trimarans).
Olympic classes
World Sailing Classes
Historically known as the IYRU (International Yacht Racing ...
Similar sailboats
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Buccaneer 200
The Buccaneer 200 is an American trailerable sailboat, that was designed by Alan Payne and first built in 1974.
The Buccaneer 200 is a development of the Columbia T-23 design, using the same tooling to build the hull.
Production
The boat wa ...
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Cal 20
The Cal 20 is an American sailboat, that was designed by C. William Lapworth and first built in 1961.
Production
The boat was built by Cal Yachts in the United States from 1961 to 1975, but it is now out of production.
The Cal 20 was seen by ...
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Core Sound 20 Mark 3
The Core Sound 20 Mark 3 is an American sailboat that was designed by B&B Yacht Designs for Cruising (maritime), cruising and first built in 2014. The boat is supplied as a series of kits and plans for Homebuilt machines, amateur construction.
...
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Halman 20
The Halman 20 is a Canadian trailerable sailboat, that was first built in 1977.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 100. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010.
The design is thought to be a development of t ...
*Hunter 18.5
*Hunter 19-1
*Hunter 19 (Europa)
*Hunter 20
*Mistral T-21
*Sandpiper 565
*San Juan 21
*Santana 20
*Sirius 22
*Typhoon 18
References
External links
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Sailboat types built by Paceship Yachts