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Bayfield 40
The Bayfield 40 is a Canadian sailboat that was designed by Ted Gozzard for Cruising (maritime), cruising and first built in 1982.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 378. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Production The design was built by Bayfield Boat Yard in Clinton, Ontario, Canada, starting in 1984, but the company went out of business in 1988 after a factory fire and production ended then. Design The Bayfield 40 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of balsa-cored fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a staysail ketch rig, with aluminum spars, a clipper bow with a bowsprit and trailboards, a raised counter Transom (nautical), transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a Ship's wheel, wheel and a fixed long keel. It displaces and carries of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel. The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar 4JHE diesel engine of or a Westerbeke diesel for docking and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Gozzard
Hedley (Ted) Gozzard (13 June 1933 – 15 May 2014) was a British yacht designer and builder. Gozzard was raised in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, where he apprenticed as a carpenter-joiner and gradually earned his journeyman’s papers in boat building, masonry and carpentry. Gozzard served in the Royal Air Force for a number of years as an airframe mechanic. On leaving the RAF in 1959 Gozzard came to Ontario and worked in the construction business in London, Ontario, where he designed and supervised the construction of homes and subdivisions. In his spare time he built and sailed a much modified Thunderbird. Giving in to an urge to sail full time, Gozzard and his wife, Jan, and their two young sons made the Caribbean their home for two full years. 45' Trimaran ''Manta'' In the Caribbean the Gozzard and family experienced multihull sailing for the first time, enjoying the speed combined with space and shoal draft. When the family moved back to Canada, Gozzar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
