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Comentarios del diseñador Chuck Payne sobre el victoria 26 diseñado en 1974 (en los EEUU se comercializan bajo el nombre de Frances y en el RU, bajo el nombre de Victoria):

"I designed Frances for my own use. She was to embody everything I knew about the design of efficient cruising vessels of GRP construction, to be capable of yearly cruises to and among the Caribbean Islands, to be small enough to fit my limited budget yet large enough to survive a gale at sea. She is small enough for me to handle the little maintenance required with GRP construction, capable of being laid up alongside a local lobsterman's wharf on an outgoing tide for periodic attention to the bottom, or even towed behind a good Maine Peapod if the engine and wind should choose to die simultaneously.
Frances is a small boat. She does not have full headroom, although there is now a coachroof deck plan giving 1.8m headroom, but she does have lots of sitting room. A great deal of attention has been paid to stowage space, but any experienced cruising sailor knows that space is no good if the displacement and freeboard of the yacht are such that, should that space be occupied by useable supplies, she would float halfway up her sides. Load Frances with your cruising gear and she won't show it, in appearance or performance. Many an ocean passage has been made in smaller boats.
She's a double-ender. Not as fast as a transom or counter stern, but not much slower either, and the sea keeping qualities are so well known as not to require repeating here. Many long hours were devoted to developing the hull shape, including the carving and gradual perfection of a half model. The entry is modelled quite sharply and the keel extension is carried right up to the canoe body of the hull with a very tight fairing radius. This allows the entire keel to act as a vertical wing and thus prevent leeway. The rig is tall and narrow, increasing the leading edge of the sails. These three factors make Frances a weatherly boat. She has quite high freeboard, with bulwarks around the forward and aft decks. They have gone out of fashion on racing boats, but once you sail with decent bulwarks as well as lifelines betwixt yourself and the hereafter, you won't want to go to sea again on a boat that is not so equipped. Amidships, the high freeboard combined with a flush deck are responsible for all that lovely room below decks.
I wanted a boat which could carry her sail well. On the other hand, I wanted the desirable wave performance of a tender boat. That is, one which is an easy roller. There was only one solution to this conflict. I got the sail carrying ability from the moderately heavy displacement and achieved an easy motion by shaping the hull sections with a high angle of deadrise and very easy bilges. The result is a hull which is easily driven and has relatively less wetted surface for her length than many yachts in her size range.
Frances sports a rather tall, 7/8 or cutter rig. This gives a great proportional area to the mainsail, which is only proper on a pure cruising yacht which does not attempt to cheat a rule which favours foretriangle area. It's easier to reef a main on a blustery night than go forward and change down to a smaller jib. For the fellow who intends to spend his time making long open water passages, the cutter rig offers a lower sail plan and more choice to achieve a balanced and more manageable spread of sail."


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