" Seraffyn " …. The 24-1/2 foot sloop, designed by Lyle Hess and built
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" Seraffyn " …. The 24-1/2 foot sloop, designed by Lyle Hess and built
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Seraffyn of Victoria
Seraffyn was built between 1965 and 1968 in Newport, CA - the home port of Renegade of Newport, the Lyle C Hess designed boat that inspired Larry to build his own. Larry approached the owner Hale Field who famously responded 'not for sale' but did give Larry the tip off that Lyle Hess was the man to chat to. Upon contacting Lyle, Larry struck ...
Lin and Larry Pardey
Lin Pardey (born 1944) and Larry Pardey (1939-2020) are sailors and writers, known for their small boat sailing. [1] They coined the phrase, "Go Small, Go Simple, but Go Now", and have been called the "Enablers" as their example encouraged many others to set sail despite limited incomes. The Pardeys sailed over 200,000 miles together ...
Bristol Channel Cutter
This boat became Seraffyn which launched in 1968. Through the magic of books and articles written by the Pardeys, an interest in small boat voyaging emerged with the famous Pardey tagline "go small, go simple, go now". It drew attention to Hess' work and Hess answered this interest by designing the 28 foot Bristol Channel Cutter, for ...
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Seraffyn of Victoria. Easily the most famous of all Bristol Channel Cutters, this diminutive 24' boat has a serious large pedigree, with 100,000's of miles under her keel. Built by Larry and Lin Pardey, this BCC was the star of the couple's 4 sailing books. 24 foot. 30 foot.
SERAFFYN OF VICTORIA
construction, and repair for more than 40 years. 1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION (6 ISSUES) PRINT $39.95. DIGITAL $28.00. PRINT+DIGITAL $42.95. Subscribe.
Seraffyn
Seraffyn. Styled on lines of Falmouth Working Boats. Original hull (Renegade) designed in 1954 for Hale Field of Newport Beach as gaff-cutter.
Seraffyn in Mattapoisett
Location: Long Island Sound. Boat: Bristol 30. Posts: 296. Seraffyn in Mattapoisett. Avid sailors already know that Seraffyn, a 24 1/2' Lyle Hess-designed sloop patterned after an English channel cutter, was home-built by Lin and Larry Pardey in the late 1960s. The Pardeys sailed her around the world, and later published a series of popular ...
The Real Deal
While building a wooden boat and sailing engineless around the world was beyond the abilities of most, the book Cruising in Seraffyn conveyed a 'keep it simple' ethos that helped many sailors see cruising as an achievable goal. Few modern sailors have seen more adventures or inspired more dreams than Larry Pardey.
Sailing on "Seraffyn"
Sailing on "Seraffyn". Yesterday I had the pleasure of going for a sail on "Seraffyn" a 24 1/2' Lyle Hess-designed sloop patterned after an English channel cutter. She was built by Lin and Larry Pardey in the late 1960s and is currently owned by George Dow. Seraffyn moved well in the light winds of Situate Harbor as we made our way ...
A Giant Felled: Two-time Circumnavigator Larry Pardey (1939-2020)
With his wife, sailing partner and longtime co-author Lin (the couple penned nearly a dozen books, along with countless magazine articles and a long series of videos), Pardey completed two long and rambling circumnavigations on a pair of engineless wooden boats he built with his own hands: the 24′ 6″ Seraffyn and the 29′ 6″ Taleisin ...
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24 foot. Seraffyn of Victoria. Easily the most famous of all Bristol Channel Cutters, this diminutive 24' boat has a serious large pedigree, with 100,000's of miles under her keel. Built by Larry and Lin Pardey, this BCC was the star of the couple's 4 sailing books. 24 foot.
One tough tender
Dow, 75, had offered to buy Seraffyn of Victoria, the 24-foot Lyle Hess-designed cutter made famous by its builders and first owners, Lin and Larry Pardey, well-known among sailors for their cruising adventures and books. A real fan of the Hess cutters, Dow had been looking for a boat like Seraffyn for some time.
Cruising In Seraffyn: Tribute Edition
Let Cruising in Seraffyn introduce you to a special world. The first of a four-book series, it is full of the sights, sounds and people of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the islands of the Atlantic Ocean. ... This impressive book shows the process of constructing a boat hull with extensive photographs and drawings and includes ample ...
WoodenBoat
SERAFFYN, the Lyle-Hess designed cutter built by world cruisers Lin & Larry Pardey, has been owned by George Dow of Massachusetts for some years now. The...
Cruising in Seraffyn: Book Review
This new edition of a book first published in 1976 reminds us that cruising has not changed significantly in 25 years. All you need is an affordable seaworthy boat and an adventurous spirit. With this, and the other books and articles that followed, Lin and Larry are said to have inspired 50,000 sailing dreams. A good book, even if there had ...
Tribute to Larry Pardey
After three-and-a-half years of working together we finally set off on our first ocean passage on the boat we'd built, the 24-foot Seraffyn. The second day out, a hundred miles south of San Diego, I became horridly seasick. I was laying on the cabin sole, bucket nearby, feeling sure I'd ruined both our dreams. He set the windvane, came down ...
Toured a very special sailboat in Scituate: Lin and Larry Pardey's Seraffyn
42 votes, 13 comments. 193K subscribers in the sailing community. /r/Sailing is a place to ask about, share, show, and enjoy all about sailing, sail…
Falmouth Cutter 22
The boat caught the interest of one Larry Pardey who had Hess design his marconi rigged version named Seraffyn which was launched in 1968. Fifty thousand copies of the book Cruising in Seraffyn later, Larry and his new wife Lin had made Hess' designs famous, spurring strong demand for a production boat of that ilk.
Taleisin of Victoria
Seraffyn of Victoria. Easily the most famous of all Bristol Channel Cutters, this diminutive 24' boat has a serious large pedigree, with 100,000's of miles under her keel. Built by Larry and Lin Pardey, this BCC was the star of the couple's 4 sailing books. 24 foot. 32 foot.
Cruising in Seraffyn
Books. Cruising in Seraffyn. Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey. Sheridan House, Inc., 1992 - Sports & Recreation - 192 pages. "Go small, go simple, go now." This message by the Pardeys has inspired three generations of sailors and kept Cruising in SERAFFYN consistently near the top of nautical best seller lists for over two decades.
Sailing America's Great Loop on a Small Boat
The boat was designed by Lyle Hess, who created Seraffyn and Taleisin for Lin and Larry Pardey, a little bit of pocket-cruiser royalty. And the boat is trailerable, which was a necessity considering where we found it. The Nor'Sea 27 is also bluewater-capable, a quality that would let us choose big water anytime we had the chance.
Great Voyages in Small Boats
Along the way and after their return, they wrote the now classic cruising books Cruising in Seraffyn, Seraffyn's European Adventure, Seraffyn's Mediterranean Adventure and Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure. Taleisin. After all those years living cheek to jowl aboard their 24-footer, the Pardey's needed a bigger boat.
Zach's Trip: Cruising in Seraffyn
George wanted to bring his boat back to Scituate Harbor so Mike and I were going to sail down there with him. We got to the marina in Salem and looked ate some of the old wooden boats for a little while and then got on Seraffyn and cast off. As we were cruising out of the harbor, Mike called in to a radio program called Captain Lou's Nautical ...
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Seraffyn was built between 1965 and 1968 in Newport, CA - the home port of Renegade of Newport, the Lyle C Hess designed boat that inspired Larry to build his own. Larry approached the owner Hale Field who famously responded 'not for sale' but did give Larry the tip off that Lyle Hess was the man to chat to. Upon contacting Lyle, Larry struck ...
Lin Pardey (born 1944) and Larry Pardey (1939-2020) are sailors and writers, known for their small boat sailing. [1] They coined the phrase, "Go Small, Go Simple, but Go Now", and have been called the "Enablers" as their example encouraged many others to set sail despite limited incomes. The Pardeys sailed over 200,000 miles together ...
This boat became Seraffyn which launched in 1968. Through the magic of books and articles written by the Pardeys, an interest in small boat voyaging emerged with the famous Pardey tagline "go small, go simple, go now". It drew attention to Hess' work and Hess answered this interest by designing the 28 foot Bristol Channel Cutter, for ...
Seraffyn of Victoria. Easily the most famous of all Bristol Channel Cutters, this diminutive 24' boat has a serious large pedigree, with 100,000's of miles under her keel. Built by Larry and Lin Pardey, this BCC was the star of the couple's 4 sailing books. 24 foot. 30 foot.
construction, and repair for more than 40 years. 1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION (6 ISSUES) PRINT $39.95. DIGITAL $28.00. PRINT+DIGITAL $42.95. Subscribe.
Seraffyn. Styled on lines of Falmouth Working Boats. Original hull (Renegade) designed in 1954 for Hale Field of Newport Beach as gaff-cutter.
Location: Long Island Sound. Boat: Bristol 30. Posts: 296. Seraffyn in Mattapoisett. Avid sailors already know that Seraffyn, a 24 1/2' Lyle Hess-designed sloop patterned after an English channel cutter, was home-built by Lin and Larry Pardey in the late 1960s. The Pardeys sailed her around the world, and later published a series of popular ...
While building a wooden boat and sailing engineless around the world was beyond the abilities of most, the book Cruising in Seraffyn conveyed a 'keep it simple' ethos that helped many sailors see cruising as an achievable goal. Few modern sailors have seen more adventures or inspired more dreams than Larry Pardey.
Sailing on "Seraffyn". Yesterday I had the pleasure of going for a sail on "Seraffyn" a 24 1/2' Lyle Hess-designed sloop patterned after an English channel cutter. She was built by Lin and Larry Pardey in the late 1960s and is currently owned by George Dow. Seraffyn moved well in the light winds of Situate Harbor as we made our way ...
With his wife, sailing partner and longtime co-author Lin (the couple penned nearly a dozen books, along with countless magazine articles and a long series of videos), Pardey completed two long and rambling circumnavigations on a pair of engineless wooden boats he built with his own hands: the 24′ 6″ Seraffyn and the 29′ 6″ Taleisin ...
24 foot. Seraffyn of Victoria. Easily the most famous of all Bristol Channel Cutters, this diminutive 24' boat has a serious large pedigree, with 100,000's of miles under her keel. Built by Larry and Lin Pardey, this BCC was the star of the couple's 4 sailing books. 24 foot.
Dow, 75, had offered to buy Seraffyn of Victoria, the 24-foot Lyle Hess-designed cutter made famous by its builders and first owners, Lin and Larry Pardey, well-known among sailors for their cruising adventures and books. A real fan of the Hess cutters, Dow had been looking for a boat like Seraffyn for some time.
Let Cruising in Seraffyn introduce you to a special world. The first of a four-book series, it is full of the sights, sounds and people of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the islands of the Atlantic Ocean. ... This impressive book shows the process of constructing a boat hull with extensive photographs and drawings and includes ample ...
SERAFFYN, the Lyle-Hess designed cutter built by world cruisers Lin & Larry Pardey, has been owned by George Dow of Massachusetts for some years now. The...
This new edition of a book first published in 1976 reminds us that cruising has not changed significantly in 25 years. All you need is an affordable seaworthy boat and an adventurous spirit. With this, and the other books and articles that followed, Lin and Larry are said to have inspired 50,000 sailing dreams. A good book, even if there had ...
After three-and-a-half years of working together we finally set off on our first ocean passage on the boat we'd built, the 24-foot Seraffyn. The second day out, a hundred miles south of San Diego, I became horridly seasick. I was laying on the cabin sole, bucket nearby, feeling sure I'd ruined both our dreams. He set the windvane, came down ...
42 votes, 13 comments. 193K subscribers in the sailing community. /r/Sailing is a place to ask about, share, show, and enjoy all about sailing, sail…
The boat caught the interest of one Larry Pardey who had Hess design his marconi rigged version named Seraffyn which was launched in 1968. Fifty thousand copies of the book Cruising in Seraffyn later, Larry and his new wife Lin had made Hess' designs famous, spurring strong demand for a production boat of that ilk.
Seraffyn of Victoria. Easily the most famous of all Bristol Channel Cutters, this diminutive 24' boat has a serious large pedigree, with 100,000's of miles under her keel. Built by Larry and Lin Pardey, this BCC was the star of the couple's 4 sailing books. 24 foot. 32 foot.
Books. Cruising in Seraffyn. Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey. Sheridan House, Inc., 1992 - Sports & Recreation - 192 pages. "Go small, go simple, go now." This message by the Pardeys has inspired three generations of sailors and kept Cruising in SERAFFYN consistently near the top of nautical best seller lists for over two decades.
The boat was designed by Lyle Hess, who created Seraffyn and Taleisin for Lin and Larry Pardey, a little bit of pocket-cruiser royalty. And the boat is trailerable, which was a necessity considering where we found it. The Nor'Sea 27 is also bluewater-capable, a quality that would let us choose big water anytime we had the chance.
Along the way and after their return, they wrote the now classic cruising books Cruising in Seraffyn, Seraffyn's European Adventure, Seraffyn's Mediterranean Adventure and Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure. Taleisin. After all those years living cheek to jowl aboard their 24-footer, the Pardey's needed a bigger boat.
George wanted to bring his boat back to Scituate Harbor so Mike and I were going to sail down there with him. We got to the marina in Salem and looked ate some of the old wooden boats for a little while and then got on Seraffyn and cast off. As we were cruising out of the harbor, Mike called in to a radio program called Captain Lou's Nautical ...