After 30 years of designing boats it is gratifying to see the large
number of builders who come back to us for plans to build their
second or third Bruce Roberts boat. With thousands of boats built
to his designs, Bruce Roberts has accumulated a great amount of
practical knowledge. All these things and his lifetime of experience
has assembled in designs and books to benefit those who are in search
of their ideal boat.
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Centennial
Spray 36
As there are over 1,000 Bruce Roberts’ SPRAYS being built
worldwide, we have been willing to listen to every combination of
ideas about this wonderful boat and several layouts have been
drawn with many features interchangeable between the versions.
The Centennial Spray 36 is designed to be built in Round bilge Steel
or either all Strip planking or using a combination of strip plank
covered with one or more layers of veneer.Custom sail plans and
accommodation layouts may be drawn to suit your requirements.
Most of the layouts and sail plans used for the regular Spray 36
may also be used with this design.
| LOD ( HULL) 36'-4" 11.05
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LWL 32'-4" 9.85 M BEAM 13'-0" 3.96 M DRAFT 4'-3" 1.30 M DISPL 28,000 LB 12,700 KG |
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THE
ROBERTS 39
This design is available only in multi-chine hull form, rigged as
a sloop, but we recently designed a companion radius chine
Roberts 392 with similar layouts.
The Roberts 39 offers luxury cruising for a couple at a reasonable
cost, and can be built with either a short keel giving 5' 9" draft or
a long keel with 5' 3" draft.
DIMENSIONS:
| L.O.D 39'-4" ... 11.98 M
L.W.L 32' 5" ... 9.88 M Beam 12' 9" ... 3.89 M Draft. 5' 9" ... 1.75 M - short keel Draft. 5' 3" ... 1.60 M - long keel Displ 24,800 LBS. ...11,249 KG Ballast 7,800 LBS. ...3,538
KG
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ROBERTS
64
This design was originally based on the very successful Roberts 53
and is assured of acceptance by those builders who require a larger
boat either for charter work or for extended cruising with a large
party of guests. To date over 200 of these boats have been completed
in Steel and Fiberglass.
"Wandering Star" was built in Canada by a person who had
previously built a Roberts 53, he writes "We cruised at 10 knots +
and first I thought the Sumlog was out but on checking against
shore sights I discovered that the Sumlog was actually a 10th knot
SLOW. I have a very fast boat, even faster than my Roberts 53...
congratulations to you as the designer.
Several layouts are given including a small pilot house option, and
it can be rigged as either ketch or cutter .
Build in either MULTI CHINE or RADIUS CHINE
STEEL/ALUMINUM or FIBERGLASS - materials lists are included
with the SUPER STUDY PLAN PACKAGE which also shows
the layouts to scale.
| LOD ..........................64'
0" ..19.50 m
LWL ..........................52' 6" ..16.00 m BEAM .......................16' 2" ... 4.93 m DRAFT ...................... 7' 6" ... 2.29 m Displacement (Steel).... 79,150 lbs ...35,901 Kg Displacement (Alum)....65,850 lbs ... 29,869 Kg Headroom ..................
6' 6" .... 1.98 m
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Radius
Chine Steel
ALUMINIUM & Copper-Nickel
It is possible to build a round bilge steel or aluminium hull without
the great time and effort, not to mention specialized experience,
required using traditional steel outbuilding methods. There are several
reasons for building a radius chine hull. Your boat will enjoy all
of the benefits of a round bilge hull including superior appearance,
strength, lighter weight and much higher resale value; all of this while
maintaining the advantages of steel or aluminium construction.
Frameless
Powerboats
The webs in frameless powerboats can have lightening holes as
shown and these are useful for leading cables and plumbing etc.,
throughout the hull. Note the stringers, chine flat and other items
that go to providing sufficient strength to allow the transverse
frames to be omitted in this hull.
See Bruce's book "METAL BOATS" for additional information
on this and other subjects covered here.
Bruce Roberts Yacht Design
(A division of Heron House Inc)
P.O. Box 1086 Dept. E
Severna Park MD 21146 U.S.A.