Jay R. Benford
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The designs
| Design | LOA | Construction | Logs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 ft 4 in Sunrise Dinghy | 11′ 4″ (3.45 m) | plywood | — |
| 11 ft Night Sailing Dinghy | 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) | plywood | — |
| 11 ft Oregon Peapod Sailing Dinghy | 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake | — |
| 11 ft Sailing Dinghy with Transom Stern | 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake | — |
| 12 ft Keelboat | 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) | — | — |
| 131 ft Ketch Antonia | 131′ 0″ (39.93 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 14 ft Sloop Happy | 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 14 ft Tug Bullhead , Trawler Yacht & Grivit | 14′ 0″ (4.27 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded | — |
| 16 ft Conch Ad Libitum Sailing Tender | 16′ 0″ (4.88 m) | plywood bottom with lapstrake sides | — |
| 17 ft Catboat Puffin & Cruising Cat Liberty | 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or strip planked | — |
| 17 ft Cruiser | 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) | C-Flex fibreglass | — |
| 17 ft Cruising Sloop or Yawl or Gaff Sloop | 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or strip planked | — |
| 17 ft Fantail Steam Launch Myf | 17′ 0″ (5.18 m) | carvel planked | — |
| 18 ft Canoe Yawl Iota , Catboat or Gaff Sloop | 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 18 ft Cat Ketch | 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) | plywood | — |
| 18 ft Texas Skiff | 18′ 0″ (5.49 m) | plywood bottom with batten seam topsides | — |
| 19 ft Cr. Cat, Slp, Lug Slp, Yawl Scrimshaw | 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked | — |
| 19 ft Gunkholer Catspaw | 19′ 0″ (5.79 m) | plywood | — |
| 20 ft Cat Joy or Tug Yacht | 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded | — |
| 20 ft False Creek Ferry or Friday Harbor Ferry | 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) | plywood | — |
| 20 ft Gaff Sloop Ragnar or Marconi Sloop | 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 20 ft Supply Boat Båten or Lake Union Cruiser | 20′ 0″ (6.1 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked | — |
| 21 ft Gaff Sloop | 21′ 0″ (6.4 m) | C-Flex fibreglass | — |
| 22 ft Cruising Cat or Topsail Cutter | 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) | cold moulded or Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 22 ft Gunkholer | 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) | carvel planked or plywood | — |
| 22 ft Knockabout or Lug Sloop | 22′ 0″ (6.71 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 23 ft Canoe Yawl | 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded | — |
| 23 ft Knockabout, Lug Slp., Mtrs'lr. Sourdough | 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) | plywood | — |
| 23 ft Utility Boat | 23′ 0″ (7.01 m) | plywood bottom with cold moulded topsides | — |
| 24 ft Barge/Shop | 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) | — | — |
| 24 ft Friday Harbor Ferry | 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) | plywood | — |
| 24 ft Motorsailer | 24′ 0″ (7.32 m) | — | — |
| 25 ft (7.62m) Tug Yacht | 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) | steel chine | — |
| 25 ft Cruiser | 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) | plywood bottom with cold moulded topsides | — |
| 25 ft Fantail Steam Launch Beverley | 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) | cold moulded or strip planked | — |
| 25 ft Gaff Ketch | 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) | carvel planked | — |
| 25 ft Gaff Sloop or Marconi Cutter | 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 25 ft Planing Trawler | 25′ 0″ (7.62 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 26 ft 3 in Cruising Cutter | 26′ 3″ (8 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 26 ft Day Boat | 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) | plywood | — |
| 26 ft Deadrise Boat or Trawler Yacht | 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) | carvel planked or plywood | — |
| 26 ft Gaff Sloop or Marconi Cutter | 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) | C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded | — |
| 26 ft Raised Deck Twin Keel Cutter | 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) | plywood | — |
| 26 ft V-Bottom Ketch | 26′ 0″ (7.93 m) | plywood | — |
| 27 ft 6 in Trawler Yacht | 27′ 6″ (8.38 m) | — | — |
| 27 ft Cutter or Pilothouse Sloop or Motorsailer | 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 27 ft Deadrise Boat | 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) | carvel planked | — |
| 27 ft Flattie | 27′ 0″ (8.23 m) | plywood | — |
| 30 ft 5 in & 31'-8" Sailing Dory Baby Badger | 30′ 5″ (9.27 m) | plywood | — |
| 30 ft Beaching Cruiser | 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) | aluminium | — |
| 30 ft Deadrise Boat Petrel | 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) | carvel planked or plywood or steel chine | — |
| 30 ft Double Ended Cutter | 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded | — |
| 30 ft Friday Harbor Ferry & Waterbed 30 | 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) | plywood | — |
| 30 ft Sailing Dory | 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) | plywood | — |
| 30 ft Seagoing Powerboat or Ship | 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) | — | — |
| 30 ft Twin Screw Cruiser | 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) | carvel planked | — |
| 31 ft Auxiliary Ketch | 31′ 0″ (9.45 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine | — |
| 32 ft Cruiser | 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) | cold moulded or strip planked | — |
| 32 ft Cutter | 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) | — | — |
| 32 ft Double Ended Ketch or Cutter | 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) | cold moulded or strip planked | — |
| 32 ft Pinky Ketch Dawn | 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) | carvel planked | — |
| 32 ft Sailing Dory Shoestring | 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) | plywood | — |
| 32 ft St. Pierre Dory Proctor | 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) | plywood | — |
| 32 ft Trawler Yacht Ladybug | 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) | cold moulded or strip planked | — |
| 32 ft Tug Yacht | 32′ 0″ (9.75 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or steel chine | — |
| 33 ft Auxiliary Cutter | 33′ 0″ (10.06 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 34 ft 6 in Schooner or Cutter | 34′ 6″ (10.52 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 34 ft Fantail Cruiser Memory & Solarium 34 | 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 34 ft Friday Harbor Ferry | 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or plywood | — |
| 34 ft Pinky Ketch Sunrise | 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) | carvel planked | — |
| 34 ft Sailing Dory Badger | 34′ 0″ (10.36 m) | plywood | — |
| 35 ft C. B. "Presto" Type Ketch | 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 35 ft Double Ended Cutter or Ketch Mercedes | 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded or steel chine or round bilge steel | — |
| 35 ft Double Ended Schooner | 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 35 ft Motorsailer | 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) | carvel planked | — |
| 35 ft Packet/Coaster or Tramp | 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) | plywood or steel chine | — |
| 35 ft Trawler Yacht Strumpet | 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) | carvel planked | — |
| 35 ft Tug Yacht | 35′ 0″ (10.67 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded | — |
| 36 ft C. B. "Presto" Type Ketch | 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 36 ft Cruiser | 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) | plywood | — |
| 36 ft D.E. or Pilothouse Cutter Cape Scott 36 | 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) | cold moulded or solid fibreglass | — |
| 36 ft Power Dory | 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) | steel chine | — |
| 36 ft Sailing Dory Donna | 36′ 0″ (10.97 m) | aluminium or Airex cored fibreglass or plywood | — |
| 37 ft 6 in Sailing Dory | 37′ 6″ (11.43 m) | aluminium or Airex cored fibreglass or plywood | — |
| 37 ft Pilothouse Cutter or Ketch Corcovado | 37′ 0″ (11.28 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine | — |
| 37 ft Tug Yacht | 37′ 0″ (11.28 m) | steel chine | — |
| 38 ft 6 in Coaster Investigator | 38′ 6″ (11.74 m) | aluminium | — |
| 38 ft Fantail Cruiser | 38′ 0″ (11.58 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 38 ft Ketch | 38′ 0″ (11.58 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 38 ft Packet | 38′ 0″ (11.58 m) | plywood | — |
| 38 ft Tug Yacht | 38′ 0″ (11.58 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 39 ft Cruiser | 39′ 0″ (11.89 m) | plywood | — |
| 39 ft D.E. Cutter Antares or Ketch Oracle | 39′ 0″ (11.89 m) | — | — |
| 39 ft D.E. Cutter Prometheus | 39′ 0″ (11.89 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 39 ft Yawl | 39′ 0″ (11.89 m) | — | — |
| 40 ft Brigantine | 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) | steel chine | — |
| 40 ft Double Ended Cutter or Pilothouse Cutter | 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded | — |
| 40 ft Landing Ramp Fuel Barge | 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) | aluminium | — |
| 40 ft Motorsailer K'AN | 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) | C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded or strip planked | — |
| 40 ft Skipjack | 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) | plywood or steel chine | — |
| 40 ft Trawler Yacht | 40′ 0″ (12.19 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 41 ft DE Cutter Quiet Bird or P.H. Cutter Clayton | 41′ 0″ (12.5 m) | cold moulded or solid fibreglass | — |
| 42 ft Florida Bay Coaster or Tug/Coaster | 42′ 0″ (12.8 m) | steel chine | — |
| 42 ft Topsail Schooner or Ketch or Motorsailer | 42′ 0″ (12.8 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine | — |
| 43 ft Motorsailer | 43′ 0″ (13.11 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine | — |
| 44 ft Cat Ketch Boundary Bay 44 | 44′ 0″ (13.41 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded | — |
| 44 ft Trawler Yacht | 44′ 0″ (13.41 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 45 ft 6 in Cutter or Ketch Orphan Annie | 45′ 6″ (13.87 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 45 ft Cat Ketch | 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) | steel chine | — |
| 45 ft Dory Motorsailer | 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) | plywood | — |
| 45 ft Double Ended Ketch or Topsail Ketch | 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) | cold moulded or glass over strip planking or round bilge steel | — |
| 45 ft Fantail Cutter Argonauta | 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) | cold moulded or steel chine | — |
| 45 ft Fantail Yacht Tiffany | 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 45 ft Florida Bay Coaster Sails | 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) | steel chine | — |
| 45 ft Friday Harbor Ferry | 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) | plywood | — |
| 45 ft Lug Schooner Inscrutable or Cutter | 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) | steel chine | — |
| 45 ft Motor Yacht Little Sindbad | 45′ 0″ (13.72 m) | round bilge steel | — |
| 46 ft Ketch Toketee , Motorsailer or Brigantine | 46′ 0″ (14.02 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded | — |
| 48 ft 10 in Ketch Apache West | 48′ 10″ (14.88 m) | — | — |
| 50 ft C. B. Ketch Chanty or Motorsailer | 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) | — | — |
| 50 ft Coasters FL Bay, Seaclusion, & Rubicon | 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) | steel chine | — |
| 50 ft Double Ended Ketch or Brigantine/Trader | 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or C-Flex fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or round bilge steel | — |
| 50 ft FL Bay Coasters (1999 version) | 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) | steel chine | — |
| 52 ft 6 in /55' Florida Bay Coaster North Star | 52′ 6″ (16 m) | steel chine | — |
| 54 ft 6 in Pilothouse Cutter Ramblin' Rose | 54′ 6″ (16.61 m) | round bilge steel | — |
| 55 ft Coaster Teddi Bear | 55′ 0″ (16.76 m) | steel chine | — |
| 55 ft Trawler Yacht Lady K | 55′ 0″ (16.76 m) | — | — |
| 56 ft Trawler Yacht | 56′ 0″ (17.07 m) | steel chine | — |
| 60 ft Double Ended Cutter Wild Hare | 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) | Airex cored fibreglass | — |
| 60 ft Florida Bay Coasters (Freighter Yachts) | 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) | steel chine | — |
| 60 ft Ketch Harambee | 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) | — | — |
| 60 ft Motor Yacht | 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) | steel chine | — |
| 60 ft Topsail Schooner | 60′ 0″ (18.29 m) | cold moulded | — |
| 62 ft Trawler Yacht Indenture | 62′ 0″ (18.9 m) | — | — |
| 65 ft FL Bay Coaster Key Largo & Variations | 65′ 0″ (19.81 m) | steel chine | — |
| 65 ft Pilothouse Cutter Canvasback | 65′ 0″ (19.81 m) | aluminium | — |
| 67 ft 6 in Pilothouse Ketch Saline | 67′ 6″ (20.57 m) | aluminium | — |
| 67 ft Pilothouse Ketch Thumper | 67′ 0″ (20.42 m) | aluminium | — |
| 7 ft 3 in Dinghy | 7′ 3″ (2.21 m) | plywood | — |
| 7 ft 6 in Dinghy | 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) | plywood | — |
| 8 ft 6 in Dinghy | 8′ 6″ (2.59 m) | cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake | — |
| 8 ft Double Ended Dinghy | 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) | solid fibreglass | — |
| 8 ft Portland Yawlboat Sailing Dinghy | 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) | cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake | — |
| 9 ft 6 in Dinghy | 9′ 6″ (2.9 m) | lapstrake | — |
| 9 ft Double Ended Dinghy | 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) | cold moulded | — |
| Benford 30 | 30′ 0″ (9.14 m) | Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or carvel planked or steel chine | — |
| Solarium 44 Fantail Yacht Duchess | 44′ 0″ (13.41 m) | cold moulded | — |
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