Line Honours 1400

Home-built from plans or kit

Brand:: Schionning

Designed by:: Schionning Designs

Description:

The Line Honours series of cruiser-racers are ocean capable catamarans, exhilerating to sail and with the potential to win races. They are fast and look it. The two over-riding design objectives were maximising power-to-weight ratio and creating an efficient, uncluttered work platform. So, uncompomisingly, performance takes priority over living space. The hulls are very slim to reduce drag, the bridgedeck cabin is low to reduce weight, windage and to allow a clear view for steering. As much of the weight as is practicable is placed towards the centre of the boat.

The bridgedeck cabin has a dinette in the centre and the galley is 'up' and aft facing against the cabin rear bulkhead which is a handy position for the cockpit table. The main berths are on each side of the bridgedeck cabin behind the dinette seatback. This layout centralises weight. To achieve good visibility from the helms, the bridgedeck cabin is not the usual width found on cruising cats. This means that there is very little headroom at the entrance to the hulls, so one has to stoop low to descend. Once in the hull there is standing headroom.

The Line Honours cats have a full width cockpit to give the crew easy access to the boat sides and ample view of the sails. The mainsail traveller track runs in an arc along the cockpit seatback. This system allows the traveller to be depowered without affecting the mainsheet tension.

Type:: Sports cruiser

Multihull type:: Catamaran

Construction:

Strip planked in balsa cored Durakore
Balsa or honeycomb cored panels for bulkheads and furniture
Sealed with epoxy resin and glass
Composite forward beam which generates hydrodynamic lift if submerged
Unsinkable with many sealed buoyancy tanks
Composite chainplates and stanchion bases
Strong points on the forward beam for attaching a parashute anchor

Sails and rigging:

Fractional sloop rig
Rotating wing mast
Square topped main
Lazy jacks
Self-tacking jib on a boom
Screacher and spinnaker flown from the fixed bowsprit

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Deck layout and gear:

Targa bar carries solar panels and aerials, and lifts and carries a dinghy
Twin wheel steering
Optional aft anchoring setup
Radial main sheet traveller track on the cockpit seatback
Anchor stored at the cabin front and fixed bowsprit - hence no forward catwalk
Very good all round visibility from the helm
Wrap around cockpit seating

Keels, boards and rudders:

Kick-up rudders
Daggerboards

Accommodation:: Port hull: Single berth aft; double cabin midships, with head and shower Bridgedeck cabin: Saloon with dinette; galley; navigation station
Starboard hull: Single berth aft; double cabin midships, with head and shower

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Systems - Power, Navigation:: Single 40 HP outboard in a central nacelle

Performance and handling:

Very fast, exciting cruiser or ocean racer with winning potential
Low payload for the length - 1 ton
Easily driven hulls with 15:1 length:beam ratio
High bridgedeck clearance for speed, comfort and safety
Large reserve buoyancy in the bows at tramp level from the asymmetric hull form above the waterline
7 kts cruise, 11 kts top speed with the motor
14 kts cruise, 20+ kts top speed under sail