LDL 130

Sailing yachts are almost always designed with a single accommodation deck, and yet their powered counterparts often appear overburdened with as many decks as possible. In designing boats with Low Displacement/length ratios we are clearly motivated to 'spread out' the accommodation over a longer waterline and so tend to  follow the sailboat model. We take blocks of accommodation and lay them out 'in series' in the hull and not 'in parallel' by stacking them up vertically.

In the LDL 130 we have taken this parallel to sailboat thinking its logical conclusion by building the sort of open cockpit that one might expect to see on a sailboat. The overhead structure, designed to provide shade, is supported by a pair of curved cantilevered beams.

As on the LDL 147 The aft sun-deck or 'beach' can be set down low to the water as the engine room is much further forward than on a planing hulled boat.