Paceship Yachts Limited was a

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, and later

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, boat builder originally based 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 entrepreneu ...

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

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sailboat A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship. Distinctions in what constitutes a sailing boat and ship vary by region and maritime culture. Types Although sailboat terminology ...

History

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

plywood Plywood is a composite material manufactured from thin layers, or "plies", of wood veneer that have been stacked and glued together. It is an engineered wood from the family of manufactured boards, which include plywood, medium-density fibreboa ...

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,

fibreglass 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 c ...

, becoming one of the earliest builders of fibreglass small

powerboat A motorboat or powerboat is a boat that is exclusively powered by an engine; faster examples may be called "speedboats". Some motorboats are fitted with inboard engines, others have an outboard motor installed on the rear, containing the inter ...

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

American Machine and Foundry American Machine and Foundry (known after 1970 as AMF, Inc.) was one of the United States' largest recreational equipment companies, with diversified products as disparate as garden equipment, atomic reactors, and yachts. History The company wa ...

(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

Tanzer Industries Tanzer Industries Limited was a Canadian boat manufacturer based in Dorion, Quebec. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fibreglass sailboats. History The company was founded by Johann Tanzer in 1966 and went bankrupt in M ...

in 1981. Tanzer changed the design to a deck-stepped mast and sold it as the Tanzer 27. 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 Fie ...

- 1934 *

Falcon 16 Falcons () are birds of prey in the genus ''Falco'', which includes about 40 species. Some small species of falcons with long, narrow wings are called hobbies, and some that hover while hunting are called kestrels. Falcons are widely distribut ...

- 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 one ...

- 1956 *

East Wind 24 East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that eas ...

- 1962 * East Wind 25 - 1962 * Paceship P2-20 - 1962 * Cruisette 20 - 1963 * Paceship P 12 - 1963 * Peregrine 16 - 1963 * Acadian 30 - 1964 *

Mouette 19 Mouette is a French word for seagull (cognate to mew). It can refer to: * La Mouette, French aircraft manufacturer * , French automobile company in the 1920s * Operation Mouette, 1953 French military operation in Vietnam * The name given to the Sta ...

- 1964 * Paceship 2-16 - 1964 * Paceship 29 - 1964 * Paceship 17 - 1966 *

Westwind 24 The Westwind 24, also called the Paceship P 24, is a Canadian trailerable sailboat that was designed by Ted Hood as a cruiser and first built in 1966.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 302. International Mar ...

- 1966 * Bluejacket 23 - 1967 * Acadian 30 Yawl - 1968 * Paceship 32 - 1968 * Northwind 29 - 1969 * Paceship 23 - 1969 * Paceship P 14 - 1969 * Paceship 20 - 1970 * Chance 32 - 1972 * Chance 32/28 - 1972 * Paceship PY26 - 1972 * Chance 29/25 - 1973 * Paceship PY23 - 1973 * Seidelmann 24-1 - 1981

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