BEING A JOURNAL

of the building of the Belhaven 19 sail boat Hull Number 30 from B & B Yacht Designs.

So it was decided that a more capable boat is needed to cross over to the other islands. The Belhaven, a cat ketch designed by Graham Byrnes, was chosen for ease of handling (fewer strings to pull because of the unstayed masts and the sprit booms) and for simplicity of construction (hard-chined stitch-and-glue).