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A Contessa 32 under sail, viewed from the port quarter. The Contessa 32 was designed by David Sadler in 1970, in response to demand for a larger version of his popular Contessa 26 which had been launched by the Jeremy Rogers boatyard five years earlier. The first two hulls were moulded by Jeremy Rogers in the same year. [4]
The business was founded by Rogers in 1961, and by the early 1980s was employing 200 people in five factories in Lymington building the Contessa 26, Contessa 32 and the Doug Peterson designed Grand Prix 35s, 39s and 43s, and exporting the yachts worldwide. Although an insolvency forced production to stop, in 1995 the Contessa 32 moulds were ...
The Contessa 26 is a 7.77 meter (25.6 ft) fiberglass monohull sailboat, brought about when Jeremy Rogers, with a background in traditional wooden boatbuilding along with one of his Folkboat customers, David Sadler, created a modified version of the same boat in glass reinforced plastic (GRP). [1]
Contessa 26, Contessa 32, Sadler 25, Sadler 29, Sadler 32 David Sadler (13 February 1921 – 5 March 2014) was a British yacht designer who was responsible for a number of classic production yachts during the period from 1960 to 1980.
Contessa 26, a GRP yacht in a range of yachts built by Jeremy Rogers Ltd. and J. J. Taylor & Sons Ltd. Contessa 32, a design in a range of GRP yachts built by Jeremy Rogers Ltd. Hino Contessa, a 1960s car made by Hino Motors; Hindustan Contessa, an Indian car made by Hindustan Motors
Contessa 26 A British folkboat variant, it was drawn in 1965 by Jeremy Rodgers, who had built Folkboats for a number of years, and David Sadler. They took the classic Folkboat, modified the keel, added more sail area forward for better racing performance, changed the layout and deck structure, and built it from fiberglass instead of wood. [20 ...
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The Paceship Chance 32/28 (Chance 32) is a small recreational keelboat. It has a masthead sloop rig, a skeg-hung rudder, and a fixed fin keel. The boat has a draft of 5.75 ft (1.75 m). [1] It displaces 12,025 lb (5,454 kg) and carries 4,680 lb (2,123 kg) of lead ballast.