Krusty
Well-Known Member
For Owners of PIONIER 10\'s
Has any owner or surveyor of a Pionier 10 knowledge of any strain or failure of the beam/bulkhead below the mast step?
The one I have (built 1972 by Southern Ocean Shipyard) has doubler panels glued on both faces of the bulkhead above the arch of the through-bulkhead access, added by one of the two previous owners. The second was based in Portugal and evidently used her for single-handed ocean passages.
This is a van de Stadt design with a fine reputation for seaworthiness and performance as a 'go-anywhere' yacht, and in that era S.O.S. had a good reputation for quality of build: it has certainly impressed three surveyors who have examined mine over the past twenty years, and I have driven her hard for over 60K NM in some quite wild waters without any sign of strain. But of course that could be vindication of the decision to add reinforcement!
I have been below deck in three other Pionier 10's and I did not notice a similar 'beef-up' on any of them.
Perhaps the previous owner did not trust a designer's calculations, (or builders?) or was just adopting a belt-and-braces strategy before ocean passage-making?
I am curious!
Has any owner or surveyor of a Pionier 10 knowledge of any strain or failure of the beam/bulkhead below the mast step?
The one I have (built 1972 by Southern Ocean Shipyard) has doubler panels glued on both faces of the bulkhead above the arch of the through-bulkhead access, added by one of the two previous owners. The second was based in Portugal and evidently used her for single-handed ocean passages.
This is a van de Stadt design with a fine reputation for seaworthiness and performance as a 'go-anywhere' yacht, and in that era S.O.S. had a good reputation for quality of build: it has certainly impressed three surveyors who have examined mine over the past twenty years, and I have driven her hard for over 60K NM in some quite wild waters without any sign of strain. But of course that could be vindication of the decision to add reinforcement!
I have been below deck in three other Pionier 10's and I did not notice a similar 'beef-up' on any of them.
Perhaps the previous owner did not trust a designer's calculations, (or builders?) or was just adopting a belt-and-braces strategy before ocean passage-making?
I am curious!
