Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
Two interesting designs are mentioned in dispatches today, the prime one being a sistership to ‘Galloper’ which was designed for a Durban man by FBR Brown of London for offshore racing and cruising.
As an aside, isn’t ‘Galloper’ a wonderful name for a yacht?
In the designers words she was intended as a normal, well-built yacht meant to go reasonably fast in all conditions. The recommended specification included teak planking on Rock Elm steamed frames; teak for all centerline members; mahogany coamings and cockpit; Sitka Spruce deck beams and hollow spars; Western Red Cedar decks covered with canvas or Dunlop “Trakmark”.
The second design was PLYMYT, a fast cruising sloop, which was described “as an interesting variation on the more publicized van de Stadt theme of fast, ultra-light displacement ocean racers in the style of ‘Zeeslang’, ‘Zeevalk’ and many others. To the casual observer all hard-chine hulls are much the same, but they are full of subtleties to trap the makers of snap judgments!”
READ ABOUT THEM HERE: 1959 07-08 – SA Yachting – galloper – OCR
