The Goderich 35, also known as the Huromic 35, is a Canadian
sailboat
A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship. Distinctions in what constitutes a sailing boat and ship vary by region and maritime culture.
Types
Although sailboat terminology ...
that was designed by
Ted Brewer of
Brewer, Walstrom and Associates, as a
cruiser and first built in 1977.
[Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 284-285. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. ]
Production
The design was built by
Huromic Metal Industries Limited in
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tota ...
, but it is now out of production.
Design
The Goderich 35 is a recreational
keelboat
A keelboat is a riverine cargo-capable working boat, or a small- to mid-sized recreational sailing yacht. The boats in the first category have shallow structural keels, and are nearly flat-bottomed and often used leeboards if forced in open w ...
, built predominantly of
steel, with wood trim. It has a
cutter rig sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular ...
rig, a spooned
raked stem
The stem is the most forward part of a boat or ship's bow and is an extension of the keel itself. It is often found on wooden boats or ships, but not exclusively.
Description
The stem is the curved edge stretching from the keel below, up to ...
, a plumb
transom, a keel-mounted
rudder
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controlled by a
tiller
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and a fixed modified long
keel
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, with a cutaway forefoot. It displaces and carries of ballast. The hull is made from steel, painted with
urethane paint.
Some of the boats were built with 37 foot LOAs, using an extended stern overhang and some were built with
ketch
A ketch is a two- masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch fro ...
rigs.
The boat has a draft of with the standard keel fitted.
The cutter
staysail
A staysail ("stays'l") is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit, or to another mast.
Description
Most staysails are t ...
is mounted on a
boom and the design uses no
bowsprit
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.
The boat is fitted with a Swedish
Volvo
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diesel engine
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of for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .
Below decks sleeping accommodation includes a bow "V"-berth, two main cabin settee berths and a pilot berth aft on the starboard side. The
galley is located on the port side, at the foot of the
companionway
In the architecture of a ship, a companion or companionway is a raised and windowed hatchway in the ship's deck (ship), deck, with a ladder leading below and the hooded entrance-hatch to the main cabins. A companionway may be secured by doors or, ...
steps. It includes a three-burner stove and
icebox
An icebox (also called a cold closet) is a compact non-mechanical refrigerator which was a common early-twentieth-century kitchen appliance before the development of safely powered refrigeration devices. Before the development of electric refri ...
. The
head
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is located forward and has a door for access from the main cabin and one from the forward cabin.
Ventilation is provided by five opening ports and five portlights, plus a main cabin hatch.
The steel hull is constructed from welded radius-rolled sheet steel used in the bilge area, in between flatter sheet steel in the sides and hull bottom.
Operational history
Reviewer Richard Sherwood wrote in 1994, "this steel cutter is built in Canada. Stiffness comes from the beam, as the ballast is moderate. The ballast/displacement ratio is 37 percent. To minimize sweating, the hull is insulated with urethane foam."
Marvin Creamer, a geography professor from New Jersey did a
circumnavigation
Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon). This article focuses on the circumnavigation of Earth.
The first recorded circumnavigation of the Earth was the Magel ...
in a Goderich 35, ''Globe Star'', starting 21 December 1982 from
Cape May, New Jersey
Cape May is a city located at the southern tip of Cape May Peninsula in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the country's oldest vacation resort destinations, and part of ...
, completing the voyage with use of any instruments, save an hourglass to determine watch lengths. The trip was completed on 17 May 1984, after 18 months, including 11 months at sea.
Another Goderich 35, ''Nomad'', was built with
aluminum
Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. It h ...
construction for Ed Arnold in
Washington state
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. It was shipped by road to the US east coast and he sailed it to Europe. On the return voyage Arnold sailed it around
Cape Horn
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and on to
Sitka, Alaska
russian: Ситка
, native_name_lang = tli
, settlement_type = Consolidated city-borough
, image_skyline = File:Sitka 84 Elev 135.jpg
, image_caption = Downtown Sitka in 1984
, image_size ...
. He later used the boat to do a solo circumnavigation, intended to be non-stop. He completed it between 1 October 2001 and 6 September 2002, including a month for repairs at the
Royal Cape Yacht Club in
Cape Town
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second larges ...
after hitting an
iceberg
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and a stop in
Adelaide, Australia
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, to have his radar repaired.
See also
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List of sailing boat types
The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies and multihull ( catamarans and trimarans).
Olympic classes
World Sailing Classes
Historically known as the IYRU (International Yacht Racing ...
Similar sailboats
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C&C 34/36
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C&C 35
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C&C 36R
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Cal 35
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Cal 35 Cruise
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Express 35
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Hughes 36
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Hughes-Columbia 36
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Island Packet 35
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Landfall 35
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Mirage 35
The Mirage 35 is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by American Robert Perry and first built in 1983.
The Mirage 35 design was developed from the Mirage 33 of 1982.
Production
The boat was built by Mirage Yachts in Canada, starting in 19 ...
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Niagara 35
The Niagara 35 is a Canadian sailboat that was designed by Mark Ellis as a cruiser and first built in 1978.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 272-273. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994.
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Pilot 35
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Southern Cross 35
References
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Keelboats
1970s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Edward S. Brewer
Sailboat types built by Huromic Metal Industries Limited