Construction

Buzzards Bay 42 Construction

The Buzzards Bay 42 shares a common Engineered Platform with the Buzzards Bay 34, and so is built with similar materials and methods.  Likwise, the vessels share the same structural design concepts that have proven themselves on our 34, a vessel that displays unyielding structural stiffness, as our owners often talk about.  In some ways, the Buzzards Bay 42 has been a little less challenging to engineer.  Differences in the interior layout of the 42 allow for more frequent placement of structural bulkheads and frames, reducing the concentrated stresses each member has to endure.  As strong and stiff as the 34 is, the new 42 is more so, which is only fitting, considering her larger size and longer range will allow owners to travel farther offshore.  A tour of the entire Carribean, the Canadian Maritimes, or the Inside Passage to Alaska is certainly within her means.  

Her hull and deck parts are built with a vinyl-ester (modified epoxy) resin, wetting out multi-axial, uni-direction fiberglass skins, all laminated with a minimum of matt and print blockers, which do nothing for strength and only add weight.  Hulls and decks are entirely cored with Core-cell SAN foam core, with varying densities depending on location.  All flat panels are either resin infused foam panels made in-house or Nidacore light-weight plastic honey comb infused stock panels, as per our usual practice.   These cored structures as built, create a vessel with an amazing feeling of stiffness, strength,and sound reduction.  In combination with our signature displacement hull shape and ultra tall tunnel design, you will feel as if you are traveling on a vessel with twice the displacement at half the speed, instead of a lightweight fuel efficient yet fast cruiser with a hull draft less than 3 feet.