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Spain, Bob Johnson designed Island Packet 465 with a smart dark blue livery and offered in gleaming good shape. We developed honeycomb core surfboards, in those days, people were very anxious to use high tech materials in recreational products, and we felt we could increase performance by making surfboards lighter and more durable. RKJ: There were some one-off boats that no one would know about, followed by the Stamas 44 and then the Endeavour 40. There is still some cosmetics to take care of..... but the perceptive mariner will se, Palmetto, Alden in the ’30s started designing these cat sloops, and Irwin did the 10-4 in the mid 70s. Island Packets are well renowned for producin *This price is based on today's currency conversion rate. Their last boat before they went out of business was the Bombay Express, they built 16 or 17, and some were sold as unfinished boats because they were winding down. Some builders will build the same boat for 20 years. United States, Mary Owen's careful owners have lavished Love and Care on this magnificent machine with an open check book. to. The architecture is the art aspect of it. View Demo. There was a surfer who worked there with me and I had surfed, so he asked me what could a naval architect do to improve surfboards. So a used boat may end up costing more than you think. Island Packet Yachts have long been known for their excellence and value. Alert for new Listings. But in your more conservative cruising boats with a large capacity for stores and fuel, the price you pay for stowage, accommodations and so forth will impact performance but still in a pretty minor way. This interview was conducted in his office at the Island Packet facility in Largo, Florida, October 15, 2004. You don’t want a cruising boat to get easily knocked off course or broach and roll over. All Island Packets Yachts are built with an unwavering focus on the demands of sailing offshore in s, Southampton, Chris Petty convinced Ted to build this boat because he initially didn’t want to do it. Type. We have a dealer network that goes from Seattle to San Diego, Maine to Florida, Great Lakes to Gulf Coast, 20 in the U.S., and we have dealers in Europe and Australia. Compared with entry-level, 35-foot production cruisers, the Island Packet 35 tends to be a bit pricy. Cruising sailors like the wind over their shoulders, and that’s when you have quartering or following seas. A lot of it is hydrodynamics and fluid flow. You don’t have to have access to keel bolts so tankage can be placed under the sole, below the waterline in the middle of the boat, adding to stability. We have a great dealer there, and their economy is doing well. If you buy a 15-year old Island Packet, you will not have that core material rot. GOB: Bob, we’ve been talking for two hours now and I’ve collected an enormous amount of material, and I know you have other commitments. Sure, but we factor in the effect of the used boats on the market, and in five years we learn a lot about what the customer wants and about what we can do. Bob Cottrell, owner of Arjay Industries, was not your basic glass business owner, he was a Harvard MBA and a chemical engineer, and he took a very methodical approach to fiberglass construction. RKJ: That’s true, but most buyers would realize that there is a quite a distinct difference between those yachts besides their size. It’s much like the early days of aviation: build it, fly it, fix it, and hopefully survive. I wound up buying the assets of that company, it was right across the street, and I brought it all over, people, equipment, everything . But he had the vision to see that some people would learn how and he opened up a new market. It was essentialy intact; you could have sailed it away. The ballast fits inside the keel, and keel and hull are molded in one piece with the ballast ingots — lead or iron in past boats — but mostly lead now, secured in place with cement and resin. RKJ: In a word, cruising. I bought the molds for the Bombay Express which Walt Scott had designed for them as a beamy cat sloop. It was a lot of fun, I wouldn’t take it offshore , but it was trailerable and a good bay boat. We built 16 boats over a year and a half; we were able to estimate the pricing fairly well and sold the boats with classified ads in magazines. People keep in touch with us and help us evolve the boat. Naval Reserve on the USS Dewey) and of the recreational variety (a San Francisco Pelican and a MacGregor 22) for most of his life. From tooling to shipping, I can do everything that we do here, maybe I haven’t done it in a long time, but I can do it; it helps create a bond with our workforce and I hope, create better boats. USA Sailing Yachts > Cruising Yacht For Sale . We’re known as “America’s cruising yacht leader,” and our boats have nicely complied with those standards. It’s one of the reasons we’ve gotten two Best Value awards from Cruising World because when you go to resell it’s going to sell for about what you paid for it. I realized an opportunity was before me and it was a boat I related to, a centerboarder with a barndoor rudder, looking like a Cape Cod catboat with 5-foot 9-inch headroom. We have a big commitment to tooling, we have a fiberglass liner on the deck, nothing to rot, no fabrics or plywood. On the other hand, your literature lists many different production lines, now discontinued, all with an average build cycle of about five years. It was an international work group and the numbers that came up already correlated with boats of known good performance. GOB: What parts of your boats do you sub out to contractors? GOB: I imagine that one of the factors you consider in design is accessibility, that is, how easy is it to get to critical points for maintenance and inspection, providing room to maneuver tools and for replacing parts and moving things around. That’s architecture, not naval engineering. Follow the Hilton Head Island Packet newspaper for the latest headlines on Lowcountry news. MIN to MAX Price. The tanks are heavy when they’re full. Endeavour was just beginning in 1975 and they bought the old abandoned Irwin 32 molds to get started. I’d never sailed before in my life. It’s hard to quantify or reduce to a sentence, but they all have an identical philosophy. Model. That’s the art. There’s a steady evolution, but new ideas too. A formal drawing can be pretty intimidating and it sometimes helps to have a simpler preview done from the perspective of the man who is going to do the work to help him get oriented. I did a lot of small work: rigs, new keel and interior and deck for Watkins, two complete boats for ComPac, and other odd jobs. ft. Year. GOB: In spite of this excellent background, I gather than your earliest job was working in missiles. It’s like comparing a Corvette to a Chevy Surburban. I paraphrase, of course, that’s not exactly what he said. They’re pretty much the same. But it was a great boat, lots of fun. That’s why our boats hold their value so well, you can find a 1991 35 for $120,000 or so and that’s what it cost brand-new. We put platforms on the stern, we made changes inside that people had expressed an interest in and construction technology changed: we’ve gone from woven rovings to knitted fabrics, amongst other things. It’s like any other consumer product. And a cruising boat wants to be able to sail itself without a lot of work. AURA has been well loved and used by just two owners over the past 25 years and has created hundreds of lifetime memories for her owners. after 12 years of getting our foot in the door in the UK through boat shows and so on. Island Packet‘s literature clearly indicates the published sail area includes the staysail, which should not be included when calculating SA/D ratio. Full Foil keel, cutter rig, geared steering system, laminates, chain plate installations, and spar geometries that are suitable for the same uses. We don’t go overboard with this, but we try to keep it in mind. Having said that, we’ve had a number of owners who have gone racing. Second-hand ISLAND PACKET 26 with sail engine, 9.00 m in length, and m beam length. A good turn of speed but not built with that focus. They were building the Sandpiper 32 and the Beachcomber 25, but they also were a tooling company and they had made the plugs and molds for the Bombay Express so they were familiar with it. I was also consulting, doing odd designs, but I really wanted to be an independent designer and builder. I designed the Lightfoot 21 for my own use, and it got written up and received a lot of attention. You get the Oreo cookie concept of glass, lightweight filler and more glass. Used. Perrysburg, Ohio. The world is full of products which are beautifully conceived but poorly executed. Condition. People want the latest improvements, and we see the need for hidden changes in construction materials and techniques. But our 29 made it just fine, 150-mile days under bare poles, they took the northern route. FL, But I wanted to go back into boating and to my family back east. I built the boat first and figured I’d learn how to sail once I did. Island Packet (159) 2726 more makes... 1. Look at high-speed powerboats: Dick Bertram’s and Ray Hunt’s entry in the Miami-Nassau race in the late ’50s — there was no second place. There are those who love it and those who don’t . They didn’t go bankrupt, but they had sold out to an investor who passed away, and the business was liquidated. Then you specialize. Basically, I told them they weren’t going to make it, they just weren’t very analytical about running a business; as a chartering outfit they knew what they wanted, but it was too late for them. We build them both, and we don’t care which you prefer, we have one of each. Think of high-speed sailing catamarans, guys are building these 30-knot offshore cats, breaking them, and reverse-engineering them to correct the problem. This doubled our market interest with keel and centerboard options although our business was 90% keel, the rest shoal draft. Chris and Ross left Irwin to start Bombay Yachts, they did a 31-foot Bombay Clipper designed by Walt Scott from scratch then bought a Canadian mold and converted a 44-footer. Information and features of Island Packet 26 MKI. The 31 was the “do or die boat,” I bet everything on it, financially and emotionally, and it was a completely new boat, from the ground up, not an evolution of an earlier design. I redesigned the interior and rig, left the rudder as is, put in a different centerboard, and introduced it as the Island Packet. $17,950 . I love building things, the candy for me is the designing. RKJ: I did a very thorough brochure, talked to them a lot on the phone, and I knew the boat backward and forward so I could answer their questions. It’s not a hammer-the-factory session, they’re out having fun. We won’t use it on the hull because it reduces puncture and impact resistance, but it makes for a very stiff, lightweight deck. When the SORC was in town at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club for the Boca Grande race, I had my Lightfoot with me and we went to see the start of the race. Originally called simply ISLAND PACKET and built by Traditional Watercraft, a company founded by Bob Johnson. They weren’t designed as rigorously as they are today, but nothing was done casually: scantlings, laminates, stability calculations – what constitutes a safe stability range – they were as good as anything in the industry at the time. GOB: What boats have you built other than for Island Packet? George Hahn at Prairie Boat Works was one of my old surfboard dealers and promoters at Wave. POP Yachts 5717 Bessie Drive . Find out more. The design got modified, Ted’s idea. Anyway, the whole pre-race huddle aboard Kialoa, that year’s SORC scratch boat, stops, comes over to the rail and starts asking us questions about the Lightfoot. His motto could have been, “If it won’t break it’s too heavy.” So I got to work on this boat and I like to make models so we sent one to Stevens Tech for tank testing. Year 1981 . I eventually left Irwin, on good terms, and I went to Endeavour so I could design boats with my name on them and run the plant. I have an idea for one powerboat that really deserves to be built, but I just haven’t gotten around to it. Alden in the ’30s started designing these cat sloops, and Irwin did the 10-4 in the mid 70s. Terrorist was a beautifully built aluminum boat that came from California and was fitted with twin bilge boards and internal ballast. A keel Centerboard version also produced. All Island Packet. It’s thick because it’s so long, but water doesn’t care; it’s going around a relatively slim blade. Length. Their payments financed the construction. Everybody liked beamy boats, they’re roomy below, have lots of initial stability, are easy to sail, and to some eyes they look right. Johnson had purchased the original tooling for the BOMBAY EXPRESS 26. It’s been in my genes since I was born. Those are the division points. I think they’ve improved a lot now, but I still am a bit of an activist in this area. Still with her original owner, she was built to MCA Category 2, as the original intention was t, Major $20k price reduction as the sellers are willing to look at all reasonable offers. Ted was very creative. Selection of boats that may be of interest from the list of boats available for sale above. I worked on modifying an Irwin one-ton racer inspired by Terrorist (not a name anyone would pick today!). The Latest News. RKJ: In a phrase, safe cruising boats. RKJ: No. And how do the different models differ within that mission design? CANVAS WITH SIDE CURTAINS! At that point, the Beachcomber 25 was becoming a pretty popular boat for them, and they couldn’t produce enough of them. I came on the scene and made an offer to buy the molds, and they sold them. If you are in the market for a cruiser, look no further than this 1985 Island Packet 26 MK ll, just reduced to $29,900 (offers encouraged). The British have embraced our boats . You can’t make incorrect, flip comments like that without consequences. Every designer has to balance these extremes as best he can. The two firms were sort of joined at the knee, Endeavour buying materials from Irwin and so on, until Endeavour finally became a competitor to Irwin. RKJ: There was a battle in the early years: are these or are they not bluewater boats? My dad had a small powerboat in Connecticut that we rebuilt in the garage before we moved to Florida when I was 14, but I always wanted to get into sailing. NICELY OUTFITTED ISLAND PACKET 485 READY NOW TO TAKE YOU CRUISING AROUND THE WORLD! Most of our owners are not avid racers, they’re eminently qualified to take their boats anywhere they want to go, but they’re not looking for that last 2 percent of performance you need to race successfully or the two-tenths of a percent you need to win consistently. If you have a clogged fuel filter it has to be readily accessible. December 26, 2020 09:00 AM ... Editor’s note: Longtime columnist David Lauderdale retired on July 31, just a few weeks after The Island Packet celebrated its 50th birthday. I’m not an avid racer, like Ted. It can’t. What’s the price you pay for these cruising virtues? It is a Cutter-rigged sloop, with a spooned raked stem, a vertical transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed long keel or optional long keel and centerboard. We sold a lot of 31s right off the bat, it must have hit a nerve in the market. It’s like buying a house, it’s a good investment because you can enjoy it everyday, as long as you’re not house-poor and can’t afford a pair of socks. If Mark Ellis (Nonsuch) were sitting here he might feel differently, and his 26, particularly with the wishbone boom, seemed to work OK, but the 30, in my estimation, was pushing the limits for a variety of reasons. I wanted a pram, but we lived 50 miles inland in Connecticut and it just wasn’t going to happen when I was 12 or 13 years old. I never took a business course, but there’s no such thing as perpetual motion or perpetual money, you have to account for everything. SOLAR!!! Germany, Island Packet 485 FOR SALE, WELL MAINTAINED, VIEWING IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED   Besegelung & RiggRollfockeinrichtung, Rollgroß, Selbstwendefock, Slooptakelung, Spibaum, Spinnak, Seabrook, Take the Hobie Cat; it can be hard to sail, and one of our dealers likes to tell the story of how he passed up on a chance to sell it because he didn’t think he could give them away. First you learn the body and how it works, from scalp to toe. and I made it a gaff rig to shorten the mast so I could get under bridges. RKJ: I wanted to start off with a strong foundation in fundamental engineering principles. Quality, safe, dependable cruising. Some of my exams and courses were related to aircraft, submarines, you name it. We gave it a lot of thought and told our spar manufacturer that if there were any problems he would have to replace them, but we’re still doing business with him. United States, Aventura is a well maintained, cared for, one owner Island Packet 465. It was founded by two guys who left Irwin: Ross James and Chris Petty. One of the vessels which made Island Packet Yachts famous was the classic Island Packet 26, where it all began. If you really want to understand something as complex and multifaceted as our company, you really need to talk to Island Packet owners. USD. It was so unfounded and misinformed, I sued them. All of my boats now rate as Category A, certified for ocean use. You need to have some weight aloft for resistance to capsize, galleons used to hoist cannon into the rigging in bad weather and beam seas, so light-weight rigs aren’t necessarily a good thing for cruising although they’re certainly useful for racing. That concept (a little history here), in ’74 or ’75 generated the Irwin 10-4 while Chris was Sales Manager at Irwin. Were you always interested in boat design or is it something you picked up along the way? In the event of a hard grounding you don’t have to worry about all the shock being absorbed by a handful of steel bolts, leading to leaks or even structural failure. That’s the engineering part. United States, The Island Packet flagship, 525, provides enormous living space, enough storage to hold gear for a circumnavigation, enough sail to speed you comfortably to your destination and the convenience of man, Ouddorp, The 445, which has just been introduced, is similar, but it’s a mid-cockpit boat which alters the entire interior layout. RKJ: It’s like getting a medical degree. You can’t buy a new Island Packet for under $250,000-$300,000, and there’s a lot of good used ones out there more reasonably priced. Johnson had purchased the original tooling for the Bombay Express 26. I built up to about hull 30 then came out with the Mark II, with more headroom, the first Full Foil keel (the original 26 was centerboard and only drafted 2 feet 4 inches with an outboard rudder). But sometimes making it real easy to replace the water pump means you can’t have a nice nav station next to the engine because it’s in the way. THE ISLAND PACKET THE BEAUFORT GAZETTE TUESDAY 2021 THE DAY VICTORIA DIED ARIEL ON FOOD NETWORK Obituaries Daniel Fuchs October 24, 1934 - January 21, 2021 Obituaries OBITUARY INDEX View and place obituaries at islandpack­et.com Contact our obituary staff at 843-706-8180 or … I did my ninth grade “My Career” report on Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and wrote letters to Chris-Craft and other companies to find out about careers in the field. My mother still has the folder of my report to the class. View Seller Inventory Call Now 941-914-9217 Send Email Request Information. We built and fixed stuff around the house, and I got a hands-on perspective on building and maintaining things. You’re not specializing in a specific performance market, for example, one isn’t a cruiser/racer while another is an Arctic explorer? The 27 was right on the cusp between Category A (the most seaworthy) and B and today only a few tweaks would be necessary to make it Category A. Our Island Packet 35 was introduced in ’88 or ’89, and I remember being asked back then what would I change on it. With a jib you get rid of some of the difficulties of a big cat. In the ’90s I wound up working on an international stability standard for sailboats when the European Union decided on CE standards for all products, cars, film, cigarettes, everything. They created an International Standards Organization (ISO) effort and the National Marine Manufacturers Association asked me to participate. A keel Centerboard version also produced. ISLAND PACKET, CUTTER RIG 26 MK I 26' Cruising Sailboat with tons of space. Also, being a guy who’s over 6 feet tall, I design around my own stature. All the ballast is in the bottom of the keel — very low and elongated and internal with a low center of gravity. A Nimble Take on a Rock Solid Cruiser . Netherlands, This Island Packet 440 is in a very good condition, provides enormous living space, plenty storage to hold gear for a circumnavigation, enough sail to speed you comfortably to your destination and the, This Island Packet is a beautiful spacious centre cockpit yacht offering luxury and safety. Island Packet used sailboats for sale by owner. Petty left Irwin for Bombay, and they built the Bombay Express. In the second we took first in class and second overall. It didn’t dominate the circuit, but it had its moments, it was clear that it had its advantages. RKJ: No, I’ve had the bug ever since I’ve was a boy. A significantly modified version, the ISLAND PACKET MKII, (later ISLAND PACKET 26 MKII) was introduced in 1982 when Bob Johnson and partners formed Island Packet Yachts. Grenada, Island Packet 465 for sale in Grenada! Then came the 40 which became the 42, both of which were of “Miami Vice” TV fame. She is also equipped with a Yanmar engine that has 400 hours. I was going to call the 31 the Bermuda Packet or something similar, the company name being Traditional Watercraft, but we went with the name Island Packet 31 because of the name recognition we had achieved. Jan 30, 2016 - * This is the 26" half hull model of the Island Packet 45. I’ve raced, but I don’t cut the handle off a toothbrush to save weight, but he might. Island Packet 26 Mk 1. I marketed the boat and priced it with a dealer in mind but no dealer wanted it, it was too unusual. All boats are compromises, and that’s what we favor. And whether they’re full or empty it doesn’t change the trim much. I planned on getting a master’s, and between mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, and naval architecture three quarters of the principles are identical. . I’ve got my entire blood, soul, and financial future wrapped up in this business. I would do it the same all over again. I guess they were comfortable with who I was although they had no reason to be, God love ’em, I couldn’t have gotten started without them and their confidence in me. The kids who bought them just didn’t care. Those are choices you have to make on every boat, but we do try in every case to make everything as accessible as possible. Our industry is full of wonderfully creative people who went out and did the wrong thing. Our 27’s performance and history is well documented and was one of the validations of this assessment. RKJ: That’s ancient history now and has long since been resolved. It’s powered by a little 7-horsepower electric motor. Sailing Yachts: For Sale: 1985 Island Packet 26 MK ll Wrightsville Beach North Carolina We start to get impacted by our own success when we find a used Island Packet current model on the market. Five years is a good run for a boat, could we go 10? To me, sailing has always been a wonderful escape and release from everyday life and racing, especially if you’re on a keenly campaigned yacht, can sometimes take the fun out of it. We have all the ballast down low and a nice sump for any bilge water to collect in. Could we build a 42-footer with three staterooms and two heads? Make. Notes First called ISLAND PACKET Mark II, an updated version of the ISLAND PACKET (ISLAND PACKET 26 MKI) which, in turn, derived from the BOMBAY EXPRESS 26. Our 370 is a two-stateroom, one-head boat. GOB: You currently offer four successful models, all with roughly the same mission. No one else can do that, balsa and plywood core decks will eventually deteriorate. Reason for selling is … I’ve got several patents of my own I’d like to try out that I just haven’t had the time to do so. With no keel bolts you don’t need to have access to them; they don’t need to be periodically tightened. Island Packet preowned sailboats for sale by owner. It had this “wrong” deep V-hull with strakes on it which everybody has nowadays that could go through heavier seas faster without breaking something or hurting anyone. It’s my understanding that you were involved in a legal controversy with Cruising World concerning some reviews of one of your boats. First of all, your local boatyard may not have access to these materials, and if they do, they probably don’t know how to work with them. I was still operating out of my house but I had two friends, Pete Pastor and Bob Folks, who owned a company called Marine Innovators. And you certainly don’t want it to broach. Close Map. The shape of a hull can’t be fully quantified. In my opinion, once you get over 22- to 23-feet catboats don’t make a lot sense. I started working in 1974 for Ted Irwin as a naval architect and did some modifications on existing hull models, the 30 and 33, hulls and rigs, keels and rudders, that sort of thing. Could you elaborate on this? Under new ownership effective January 2017, our commitment to these standards has only increased. United Kingdom, Lovely condition throughout - this IP440 (new model equivalent is the IP439) combines typical Island Packet build quality with great comfort and easy short handed sailing and great sea keeping -&, Beaulieu, And there was a tremendous amount of published information available, even before the days of computers. GOB: I’ve noticed that you currently have four models in production, all roughly the same size, in spite of the fact that your firm has had a history of manufacturing yachts of a wide range of sizes. Most people who walk around in an Island Packet are pretty comfortable no matter what compartment they go into because I’m comfortable when I go there. RKJ: Yes and no. GOB: That’s remarkable, what motivated them to take a chance and buy the boat? Five years down the road, those same models, maybe with a few evolutionary changes, start competing with our new boats for sales. I rented 4000 square feet, hired five people and started building in-house. First called ISLAND PACKET MKII, an updated version of the ISLAND PACKET (ISLAND PACKET 26 MKI) which, in turn, derived from the BOMBAY EXPRESS 26. When assessing something as complex as a motion of a yacht in a seaway you have to rely on real world experience to develop a numerical rating. On the hull we use fiberglass, one laminate after another. You evaluate the design according to the rule. This was the parent boat for the IP line, the Island Packet 26. I altered the rig, installed a folding mast, and even changed the shape of the hull while I was building it. I worked for McDonnel-Douglas in Culver City: acoustics, shock, and vibrations. Or are they driven by market conditions and reacting to them? Island Packet 26 MK ll. They are usually used for traditional, time-honored boating pursuits such as overnight cruising, sailing, watersports and day cruising. One was production manager and one was sales manager. The 27 eventually wound up with 6-foot 1-inch headroom by increasing the freeboard. A lot of these things get incorporated into the boat during its production cycle. Our glasswork was overdue to be brought in-house, from the standpoint of the type of control we wanted to exercise over it. Our motto is “First in cruising.” We improved the cutter rig, employ roller furling on all sails, a Hoyt Boom staysail, and a full keel in profile only, that is, a long fin keel, not a wineglass section. The size of the backboard is 31"(W) x 12.5"(H). It’s almost as if the sailing press has a mission to find critical comments to validate some of their reviews. I would like to thank you very much for your hospitality and your time. One of the things he developed was a spray core decking material that eliminates foam or balsa or plywood.

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