Welcome to the website of the sailing yacht New Morning, now home for Russ and Fay!

If you've visited before and just want an update, see the blog at What's New?

This web site is for friends and family who wonder what we're doing, for those like us who dream of sailing to exotic lands (and islands) and those who are out sailing today and want to know who's coming along behind them!

After three years, New Morning was launched this spring and now the web site can be about more than her constructions. But in the course of developing the design and the continuing search for the best solution to every design problem, we've benefitted from a number of web sites which document yacht design, equipment, experiences, etc. We corresponded with a number of cruisers who generously shared their time and experiences, many writing while underway. This site is our attempt to share what we've learned in hope that it will benefit others as well. In many cases we're writing for the benefit of friends and family who aren't immersed in yacht design and cruising so feel free to skip past those parts and get to the technical details if that's what you came to read.

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Within this site you'll find the story of how we came to be building a custom boat designed by Chuck Paine, and a description of the design process with many of the design documents. There are also a number of photos of the boat under construction, the mockups that have been created along the way, and a basic description of the build process at each step. Clicking on a smaller photo will usually lead you to a larger photo or the full document.

Now that we’re underway we’ve added some pages to let you see where we are, where we’ve been, and soon, what we’re eating!

And finally, we would not have gotten even this far without the help and input of a number of people.


Thanks for visiting!