{"id":23604,"date":"2012-01-03T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=23604"},"modified":"2017-10-31T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:13:10","slug":"deerfoot-68-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/deerfoot-68-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Deerfoot 68 & 72"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deerfoot<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is the first of our Deerfoot line. She’s 68′ LOA with a 14.5′ beam. That lovely light-colored timber is New Zealand Kauri.<\/p>\n

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Deerfoot has her Owner’s suite aft – the only one of our yachts to have this layout.<\/p>\n

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The combination of timber and light surfaces was pretty radical in 1978 – but commonplace these days.<\/p>\n

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The nav station, with its suite of electronics and large work station.<\/p>\n

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Wakaroa<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 72-foot Wakaroa (same beam as Deerfoot) came next. This is the entertainment center opposite the saloon seating area.<\/p>\n

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The saloon and galley form one large room, 20 feet long. This approach works well at sea and in port, creating a really pleasant sense of visual space (although it is tough to photograph).<\/p>\n

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The heart of any serious cruising vessel – the galley. Huge fridge and freezer volumes and lots of easily accessed storage.<\/p>\n

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This is the first time we designed the Owner’s suite forward. It worked so well that all subsequent boats have been done this way.<\/p>\n

A chest of drawers at the foot of the bunk. Note the quality of the teak timber!<\/p>\n

Opposite the bunk are a pair of hanging lockers and a seat optimized for a comfortable read.<\/p>\n

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The Owners raised their two boys aboard. These little guys are now each 6’6″ (2m). The netting, with double bars, acted to keep the babies in place at sea.<\/p>\n

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If you want to know what the work of the best carpenters in the world looks like, check out these photos.<\/p>\n

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Book cases are better designed facing fore-and-aft where practical – this keeps the books in place offshore when heeled.<\/p>\n

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Our preference in nav stations is to design them so it is easy to change gear as time goes on.<\/p>\n

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We’ve used this same approach to nonskid on our teak soles since the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n

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It was tough to find timber that looks like this in the olden days. Now it is almost impossible.<\/p>\n

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Freezer detail. The insulated lid sits below a hinged section of counter. Both lid and hinged section have gaskets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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