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Pisces 21 is a 20 ′ 8 ″ / 6.3 m monohull sailboat designed by C. W. (Chuck) Paine and built by Classic Boat Shop starting in 1999.

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The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

• SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
• D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
• LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
• LOA: Length overall in feet
• Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

Available as gaffhead or marconi sloop.

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Mist hung in the air like a curtain of gauze. Ashore, an American flag hugged its flagpole like a desperate child clinging to his mother’s leg. Everywhere we looked, only the to-ing and fro-ing of a few tenders disturbed the harbor’s surface. As we prepared to set sail, a zephyr occasionally chased capillary waves across our bow, but the puffs were barely strong enough to deflect a column of punk smoke- for centuries used by mariners to determine the wind’s direction in extremely light air.

Still, we hoisted sail, hopeful as children at Christmas. Designer Chuck Paine, builder Jean Beaulieu and I had converged on Southwest Harbor, Maine, to sail the Pisces 21, and by God, we’d let nothing stand in our way. Our bullheadedness came from knowing this elegant little daysailer, the daughter of Aeolus, is a master at making her own wind. So, up with the mainsail, up with the jib and let go the mooring pennant. The beautifully cut sails rustled, and we began to make way. None of our crew felt the driving force on his face.

We left the mooring buoy in our wake and steered toward shore on a close reach, making a couple of knots. Steering any boat in light air requires gentle, thoughtful input at the tiller, but some boats don’t respond quickly or accurately. A great light-air boat does, and the Pisces is among them. I was able to weave among the moored boats with nary a worry about misjudging our speed or the boat’s willingness to hang onto my course. I did not have a GPS, so I can’t say exactly how fast the Pisces was sailing, but I am sure she was faster than the wind. We tacked and reached for the mouth of the harbor, chasing the stronger winds that tantalized us, always several boatlengths away. When we fell off to a run, again tempted by cat’s paws, the Pisces sighed and threatened to stop, unable to make her own wind. Before she gave up entirely, we rounded up and caught a beam reach back to the mooring.

Paine designed Pisces for Beaulieu to build in series at his Classic Boat Shop in Bernard, Maine. She’s a modern interpretation of N.G. Herreshoff’s Fish Class, a 16-foot LWL one-design from the early 1900s. The word “interpretation” is important because the Pisces is not a copy. To reduce the weather helm Fish Class boats exhibited, Paine moved the center of lateral resistance aft and the sail plan’s center of effort forward. The Pisces also is more stable than her antecedent because Paine spread the ballast over a greater length and girth. This modification lowered the center of gravity and reduced the draft by 2 inches. Widening the water plane added a touch of form stability. “In combination, Paine said, “these minor tweaks give the hull just enough more righting moment to stand up to the stronger and less porous sailcloth materials used today- a change I am sure Captain Nat would have made himself had he lived to see the advent of Dacron sailcloth.

Beaulieu builds the Pisces from clear cedar and Douglas fir set in epoxy resin and vacuum-bagged. A layer of fiberglass on the outside adds stiffness and resistance to abrasion. The transom, sheer strake and seats are mahogany. Spars are painted aluminum, but he’ll make them of Sitka spruce in a gaff or Marconi rig. Prices start at $52,700 for the basic boat, but you could easily run that up to about $70,000 if you select the diesel auxiliary and other options. The number of admiring glances and words of praise you’ll have to endure are worth the price of admission.

The Classic Boat Shop, (207) 244-3374; fax (207) 244-9488; www.classicboatshop.com .

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The Pisces 21 is a 20.75ft gaffhead sloop designed by C. W. Paine and built in wood or fiberglass by Classic Boat Shop since 1999.

The Pisces 21 is a heavy sailboat which is a good performer. It is very stable / stiff and has a good righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a coastal cruiser.

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Finding a niche with the Pisces 21

Jean Beaulieu and his team at Classic Boat Shop in the fishing village of Bernard, on Mount Desert Island, passed a milestone in 2016, when they splashed hull No. 50 of the yard’s signature small sailboat, the Pisces 21.

The Pisces was designed in 1999 by naval architect Chuck Paine, with input from Beaulieu, as a takeoff on the Fish class sloop designed and built by Nathanael Herreshoff in the early 20th century. The Pisces has similarly classic lines but incorporates features that make it more seakindly and stable for boaters of all abilities. Praised as a wonderful family boat and great for singlehanding, the Pisces gets attention from boaters aiming to downsize from large yachts but still yearning for traditional styling and top-quality workmanship, albeit in a smaller package.

Beaulieu and his wife, Margaret, started Classic Boat in 1996. In addition to being the exclusive builder of the Pisces 21, the full-service yard also offers boat repairs, storage, and yacht brokerage services. Beaulieu got his start in the business by way of nearby high-end boatbuilder Morris Yachts. In the 1970s, while living in southern Maine, he bought a bare Morris hull, spent time with his wife finishing it, and sailed up the coast to Southwest Harbor, where he showed his handiwork to the late Tom Morris, then the owner of Morris Yachts.

“He said, ‘If you’re ever looking for a job, come on in,’” Beaulieu recalled. Ten years later, he took up the offer. At that time Morris was building smaller boats in the 30-foot range. Beaulieu loved the work. But when the yard moved toward bigger yachts, the Beaulieus saw an opportunity to focus on daysailers and left to start Classic Boat.

They started with storage and maintenance in the new yard, then rebuilds of Bullseyes, also designed by Herreshoff. Beaulieu finished a Morris 34, which was designed by Chuck Paine, for Tom Morris and the boat won best boat in show at the Annapolis Boat Show. He then connected with Paine to design a new boat, one like the 12.5-foot Bullseye, but larger.

“In 1914, people loved the Bullseye. Adults bought them for the kids, then realized they were a lot of fun. But the major complaint was that it was too small and too wet for an adult. So Herreshoff rescaled the boat and designed the Fish,” Beaulieu said.

Paine and Beaulieu went with the same rescaling concept, studying the Fish lines and old Fish boats. 

First launched in 1999, the Pisces 21 draws 2 inches less than the Fish. “The bilge is fuller, and that translated into more initial stability,” Beaulieu said. “We tweaked the sail plan and the keel to take some of the weather helm off, making the boat easier to drive. The rig looks traditional, but it’s modern and efficient.”

Beaulieu initially offered a diesel motor option, and in 2001 became an early adopter of the electric motor as an alternative. 

“It’s helpful that it’s been mainstreamed in the auto industry,” he said. “Talking with customers about electric drives, it used to be, ‘Nooo.’ Now it’s, ‘Oh, you have electric!’ So it’s turned around.”

Initially, the Pisces was offered in cold-molded wood; in 2004, Beaulieu began to offer it in fiberglass, as well. Both versions feature meticulously crafted varnished mahogany woodwork.

“When you step back and look at a fiberglass boat and you look at a wood boat, they look the same,” Beaulieu said on a spring day when the crew was busy commissioning storage boats for launching, and readying a brokerage Pisces for shipment. “I think it shows that, aesthetically, you can have either one, and it will look like a wooden boat.”

Beaulieu has sold Pisces 21s across the nation, one to Bermuda, and two to Japan, thanks to a Japanese group that happened upon Classic Boat. Lately, the yard has come full circle as older Pisces 21s come into the brokerage—and quickly sell to new owners.

Beaulieu credits his wife and their employees for playing an essential role in the yard’s success.

“I consider our employees to be just as important as our customers,” he said. “Most have been with us for 10 years on average. We try to keep a steady workforce busy during all four seasons. Thanks to our large capacity of indoor heated storage, our employees are able to accomplish all that’s needed during the less-busy colder months so that, come spring and summer, we can focus on launching all our boats on time.”

As much as he’s passionate about small, classic boats, Beaulieu is also an adherent to clean and safe boatyard practices. The yard is one of approximately a dozen in Maine certified under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Safety Health Achievement Recognition Program, which recognizes small employers who achieve exemplary injury and illness prevention through measures like safe handling and storage of tools, equipment, and materials, and proper protective gear.

The yard is also a designated facility of the Maine Clean Boatyards & Marinas Program, a partnership among industry, state and federal agencies, and environmental organizations promoting best management practices in areas like fueling activities and petroleum control, as well as waste recycling, disposal, and storage.

“It’s a higher standard for the way we handle waste,” Beaulieu said. “We educate our employees on how to achieve zero spills of hazardous material. We hire recycling companies to haul hazardous substances. All of our bottom wash water is collected over a concrete sealed pad and goes through a polishing system—like a mini sewer treatment plant—that takes out the impurities and metals.”

This year, the yard is taking another step toward environmental stewardship, with the addition of solar panels, expected to produce 85 percent of the operation’s energy.

After 23 years, Beaulieu still loves his job.

“I once heard the saying, ‘Do what you love and don’t let it feel like work,’” he said. “I think that keeps you young at heart.”      

MBH&H Contributing Editor Laurie Schreiber is also a Mainebiz staff writer and has covered topics in Maine for more than 25 years.

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207-244-3374; www.classicboatshop.com

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Specializing in the sale of small classic day sailers and weekenders.

Pisces 21 Daysailer

This 2006 Pisces daysailer has been lightly used and recently refurbished with professional stripping and varnishing of all the exterior woodwork as well as repainting the boot stripe and bottom. She is ready to launch and offered below replacement cost.

Built with a fiberglass hull with teak and mahogany accents, she is 20′ 9″ overall and displaces 3,250 lbs. Marconi rig, Carbon mast, all spars painted with beige Awlgrip™ finish, Schaefer roller furling jib system, bronze winch for halyards mounted on cabin top. Jiffy reef system.

Located in Bernard, ME. Should you have questions or wish to arrange to see her, feel free to contact me at

Call Tim at 413-335-6402        e-mail      [email protected]

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