OCEANUS. Bill Garden.
- Regularly or not, I will introduce boats that have been very influential in my life. Having studied 65 years of yacht designs since a very young age, as you can imagine, I have been all over the place and like to these days to R& D's the source and for sure coming with my own, very own interpretation and hopefully improvements that I have learnt, it seems forever as a Professional Yacht Designer. The first one is Oceanus.
- If you do not know this sailboat, you have not dug out one of the Masters, William Garden, who passed away a few years ago. A long life, a multitude of projects built in all kinds of shapes and forms,
in all forms of material and with a flair attained over a lifetime.
Garden designed Oceanus for his own use, designed on the floor of a house he was building on his private island. The drawings developed into a sailboat 60' long x 12' in the beam x 6'-8" draft and with a sail area of 1000 sq/ft.
- Below is what I believe is the first write-up about the boat inside the 1955 Yachting Magazine, with well-defined intention, method, and execution.
- The changes I made are in line with a more modern approach: longer waterline, an increase in the beam, and flatter sections all the way fore and aft. Oceanus had a lovely stern, but was made silly by hollowing the shape, and therefore, with loss in performance and bearing. I kept the draft at the same depth.
- I did not modify the cockpit, nor the pilothouse; I like the old-fashioned look of the latter. The cockpit is large for landing and open to maneuver. The stern has enough length to accept a hard-bottom tender.
Garden designed Oceanus for his own use, designed on the floor of a house he was building on his private island. The drawings developed into a sailboat 60' long x 12' in the beam x 6'-8" draft and with a sail area of 1000 sq/ft.
- Below is what I believe is the first write-up about the boat inside the 1955 Yachting Magazine, with well-defined intention, method, and execution.
- Immediately, you can see that she is a very personal sailboat. The accommodation is limited to a couple, and in an essay by Garden about a later redesign sent to Wooden Boat Magazine, there were a few changes. So it must have worked well. Bill kept the boat for twelve years, and after a long period of neglect, she was destroyed.
- She would be a beautiful concept to revive, so I endeavour the design Gardenia, a modern, up-to-date version of the steps of William Garden, with all due respect. A while back, I introduced Gardena, a steel version of the same boat with a transom stern. This time, I went back to the original Oceanus, with double ends, and it was destined to be built with wood.
TYD#362. GARDENIA.
- The changes I made are in line with a more modern approach: longer waterline, an increase in the beam, and flatter sections all the way fore and aft. Oceanus had a lovely stern, but was made silly by hollowing the shape, and therefore, with loss in performance and bearing. I kept the draft at the same depth.
- I did not modify the cockpit, nor the pilothouse; I like the old-fashioned look of the latter. The cockpit is large for landing and open to maneuver. The stern has enough length to accept a hard-bottom tender.
- The rig is of a cutter with a high clew jib for driving, and a staysail to carry the work well beyond moderate breeze. Taking reefs appropriately in between the change in wind velocity.
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