Stephens Waring is thrilled to again sponsor this year’s Camden Classics Cup.  With the regatta just around the corner (July 28-30), we’re highlighting a few boats we’ve had a hand in designing that are participating this year. Zemphira Designed in 2004 as Goshawk, during our tenure at Brooklin Boat Yard as in-house design team. The 76-foot hull was built by Rockport Marine, then launched and towed to Brooklin where she was hauled out and completed. She features a wood-composite hull and deck construction—laminated wood with foam core and limited carbon reinforcement. In 2020 she began a refit under our direction […]

Stephens Waring is thrilled to share a new series called, Behind the Boat, which takes you behind the scenes and sheds light on the design magic for some of our most innovative concepts.  In this episode, design principle, Paul Waring, explores what it takes to design a true ocean-crossing-capable, Bluewater sailing yacht: The BLUEWATER 56.     Further Reading: Learn more about Bluewater 56 Story: 5 Innovations That Transformed Long-distance, Bluewater Yachting     

  It’s not every day you get to put your full imagination, creativity, and problem solving skills into a single project.  The renovation of 25M the Powercat BONEFISH requires all three in spades.   HISTORY OF THE YACHT The yacht was originally designed by notable New Zealand designer named Derek Kelsall who made a name for himself with multihull designs in the 90’s The original design called for an around the world, blue-water sailing catamaran, sloop-style rig. The drawings show a design for a sailing cat with the mast stepped forward of a superstructure and the headstay was made to […]

We’re thrilled to introduce our newest project: BONEFISH. Stephens Waring is embarking on a top-to-bottom renovation and reimagination of this colossal 82′ power cat. Design principle Paul Waring walks us through the highlights of this very exciting and creative project.     Read More About Renovations and Restorations Boat Renovations and Restorations 101 The Renovation of Marilee The Renovation of Zingara

It’s been a while since we had a good stir-of-the-pot to get us fired up about something other than politics and the news for a minute.  So we figured why not throw our paw in the familiar beehive of that argument for a full re-imagining of a dear, beloved classic: the Cal 40. This isn’t our first soiree into the merits of putting new life into a design released the same year that JFK was assassinated, and the Sabin oral Polio Vaccine was first distributed with a lump of sugar to kids across the US.  In fact, we’ve jumped into […]