Meryl Grandy

This design is a result of a client who wanted to design and build a custom motoryacht of around 90'. After completing a preliminary design package the boat was bid at a number of shipyards. When the resultant pricing came in the client decided that the cost of the new build was beyond his budget. Here is a profile rendering of that design.

We then focused on finding, obtaining and modifying an existing Burger motoryacht. The result is motoryacht Keldi. The boat was widened aft by cutting the frames and associated plating at the chine and by shimming the frames out. The boat was also lengthened and repowered. Modifications were made to the general arrangement and a couple of transom garages were added for jet skis. Here's an image that shows the transom garages. If you look carefully you can see the widened hull. Note the side decks growing from about amidships outside of the bulwarks.


Here's the general arrangement plan.

This beauty was the fifth yacht designed by Sparkman & Stephens for, E. E. Dickenson of Essex, Connecticut. This particular boat was built by John Trumpy & Sons of Annapolis, Maryland and launched in 1949.

She is designed to carry four in owner's party and operate with a crew of two. She is powered by Hall-Scott Invader engines for a top speed of 15.75 knots.

Here are the plans.

We posted a brief blog about this design last year. We're a bit further along in the design process now. As we said then, she is a new tri-deck 40-meter motoryacht design with emphasis on hull efficiency, sea-keeping, and with a seaworthy interior design that provides safety and comfort while underway. Plus she is designed with a bit of "retro" aesthetic.

Here's the general arrangement. I think it's a great layout. I especially like the Chris Craft launch as tender that stows athwartship and comes out either side of the boat on a beam crane. We did this so the owner could still have a very nice lazarette with wet bar, day head and shower.