JORDAN BOATS can provide a complete set of plywood components, cut to exact shape and size, for any of my designs. Please contact me or Alec Jordan if you want to know more.

TRAILER-SAILER DESIGNS

My designs all have the following features: full size berths, full sitting headroom, galley space, large self-draining cockpit, 'inboard' well for outboard motor, ballasted centreboard fully enclosed in hull when raised, true trailerability, and last but not least - excellent sailing performance.

BLUE LIGHTNING is designed for coastal and estuary cruising, where her fully retractable centreboard is a great benefit in shallow waters. She draws only 22cm with the board up.

She is constructed using Epoxy/wood/glass composite techniques, giving a stiff, light and very low maintenance boat.

Blue Lightning is capable of speeds in excess of 20 knots (yes, we've been there!), yet has 3 comfortable berths, cooking facilities, an icebox, a toilet, electrics, and bags of stowage space. She is the culmination of over 20 years of thought into what makes the perfect trailer-sailer. There is nothing like her in production today (except BLUESTORM!).

BLUE SKIES is the smaller version. The design achieved 3rd place in the Practical Boat Owner Magazine trailer-sailer design competition. (see December 1999 PBO for 2 page description of the design).
Plans for 'BLUE SKIES' have been sold to Neil Ringe in Australia and Duncan Brown in Scotland.

BLUESTORM is a slightly larger version, at 7metres LOA. With her vertical stem, she uses her full length when sailing, and should be a match for sportsboats like the Hunter 707, even though she has only 70% of the sail area. Unlike the 707, she can be towed behind a Volkswagen Golf!
She is an exciting development of the original Blue Lightning concept. A German company will build several (or many?) boats to this design. The first boat, named 'Antje' was launched in early 2004, and performs to our expectations

BLUEEYES is a new design available in 2 sizes. I plan to build one for myself. It is small and thus manoeuverable by an 'older person' both onshore and afloat (I'm not there yet, but will be in a shorter number of years than I care to state!). The boat's performance will however be very sprightly, and a choice of rigs will be available from 'blindingly fast' to 'gentle cruising'. The hull is a very easily driven dinghy shape, with a large cockpit, but 2 comfortable berths are squeezed in too.

RACING DINGHY DESIGNS

My design career started with racing dinghies: mainly National Merlin/Rockets (about 110 of them were built), but also National Twelves, International 14s, and the Harrier single-hander. 2003 brought four new dinghy commissions: Heatwave, a 4.25m singlehander, and Highlight, a 5.5m fast dayboat. Also, amateur builders in the USA and France will see the first 21st century Merlin designs on the water. One is designed for heavier crews (190kg) and the other for lighter weights (140kg).

In 2004 I had two new commissions - the Huffler utility pram dinghy, and Haze4000, a ballasted singlehander dinghy.

2008 saw another Merlin Rocket commission: Hazardous Zero-9.

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Contact details: Address: 7 Ramsey Road, Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7 6AN, U.K. Tel +44 (0)1473 823587. Email: keith@bluelightning.co.uk


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