Where to find building plans for large Schooners ?

[CaptainPaul]

I am interested in aquiring building / study plans for large Schooners. 100'LOD minimum "Any suggestions ? It seems most resources are geared to smaller vessels.

[paladin]

Just for looking or are you considering building? Such items do exist, but a set of study plans for such a boat would easily cost as much as a set of plans for a small homebuilt boat. You need to check with some N.A.'s and designedrs involved in that sort of work as I believe such plans may be rare as not too many folks would design such a craft for the homebuilt market with the expectation of keeping the plans around as stock plans.

[kc8pql]

Buehler has some big schooner designs. The largest on his website is 63' but I know he was working on a 100 footer called Oceans a while back. http://www.georgebuehler.com/

60' Big Mel

http://www.georgebuehler.com/georgeimages/JHvoorklein.jpg

63' ALCA i
http://www.georgebuehler.com/georgeimages/Alcai%20sailing.jpg

[S/V Laura Ellen]

I am interested in aquiring building / study plans for large Schooners. 100'LOD minimum "Any suggestions ? It seems most resources are geared to smaller vessels.

My favourite designer is W.J. Roue, designer of the Schooner Bluenose and BluenoseII and many other schooners. The plans are still available through his great ganddaughter Joan Roue. She can be reached at www.schoonerbluenose.ca/ (http://www.schoonerbluenose.ca/) Please note that Joan can be hard to get hold of and religiously protects the copyright of the plans.
Since W.J. Roue is deceased, there won't be any support for the designs, but I understand that the designs are relatively comprehensive.

[Thad]

Smiothsonian, the HAMMS project and others.
Herreshoff, the Hart Nautical Collection at the MIT Museum.
For example.

[Bruce Hooke]

If you are looking for historic designs you should also check with Mystic Seaport. If you are engaged in some sort of research project then I'd think a visit to the places like Mystic that have large collections of historic plans would be very productive. (I am using the term historic to mean plans by designers who are no longer active, which could mean anything from 100 year old designs for working schooners to 30 year old designs for more "modern" schooners designed for cruising, carrying paying guests, etc.)