Golden
Wave 38
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Specs
Length
Overall................................. 38.33'
Waterline Length............................ 30.83'
Beam.................................................. 11.79'
Draft.................................................... 6'
Displacement................................... 19,025 Lbs
Ballast (lead)..................................... 6,700 Lbs
Height Above Waterline................. 55.25'
Fuel..................................................... 47 US
Gal
Water.................................................. 138 US Gal
Engine: Universal 40
V Drive, 2:1 reduction gear |
Click above for 38 Line
Drawings, below for pics and
page from original brochure
 
Golden
Wave 42
Designed by Robert
Perry
2/08 We finally have a copy of the brochure submitted by Dan
Williams aboard "Deseado"
click here for copy in PDF format
Click Here for PDF file with line drawing submitted by Bruce
Morris
Above pic borrowed from ad on YachtWorlds Web
Page
Below pics submitted by Chris Ditzen also from YachtWorlds Ad
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Golden
Wave 48
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Specs
Length
Overall.............. 48.83'
Waterline Length.......... 40.63'
Beam............................... 15.91'
Draft................................. 6.5'
Displacement................ 34,000Lbs
Ballast (lead).................. 6,700 Lbs
Fuel.................................. 80 US Gal
Water............................... 210 US Gal
Available in a shoal draft model (6'6") or centerboard
model (4'7" up, 11'6" down) |
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Click above for 48 Line
Drawings, below for pics and
page from original brochure
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More
info on the Golden Waves...
Hi, Just saw your website...nice!
Indeed there is such a beast as the Cheoy Lee Golden Wave 42 designed
by Bob Perry. Mine dates from 1981; I've owned her for
just over 11 years and love her to death. She looks very much like a Nautor Swan above the water. Below
the water, she's a knock-off of Perry's classic Valiant 40
design....moderate fin keel and spade rudder with a big skeg.
She sails marvelously. On ocean passages I've come to count on
160 NM per day. Her favorite point of sail is close reaching;
not unusual to see the knotmeter hit 8-9 knots in 15-20 knot winds!
A very comfortable sea boat.
Cheoy Lee shipyards (which I've personally visited a number of times)
are known for their excellent solid fiberglass hulls. The GW42
carries this tradition wonderfully. Cheoy Lee (sometimes dubbed
"Cheoy Leaky") is also known for some pretty shoddy
hardware; often, it seems, cooked up from home-grown pot
metal. Most of this is avoided in the GW42, at least on
mine. Almost all the hardware is English or American or French.
A couple of exceptions are the chainplates (which I've replaced), the
stem plate (which I replaced), and a few others which I've also
replaced. The GW42's came rigged as cutters, with a tall rig and Navtek rod
rigging. They are very much sought after on the used market but are
rarely found; most of the owners seem to know what they've got and
want to stick with it.
Bill Trayfors
Your web page
makes mention of a "Golden Wave 42" which someone had bought and made inquiries
about. It turns out that "Golden Wave Shipyards" is a name Cheoy Lee used
to build boats in the Midnight Lace series of power boats. The operation and the
models are described on
http://www.lucaslace.com/hist.htm
and there is a magazine article available describing some of the theory
behind the design of these boats-- by designer Tom Fexas and cited on that webpage.
Now here's the rub-- Apparently they produced a line of sailboats meant to compete with
the Nautor Swans as well, under the Golden Wave Shipyards" rubric!
Wayne
Here
is excerpt from page that Wayne spoke of...
"There
are twenty 44' Midnight Laces, thirteen 52s, and one 65 footer. The first two prototypes
were built in Florida and the 65' was built in Brazil. All of the rest were built by Cheoy
Lee Shipyards of Hong Kong, one of the largest if not the largest builder in the world.
Cheoy Lee builds both ships and yachts and has an extensive yacht line of their own. The
Midnight Lace was the only boat Cheoy Lee built for someone else and they did so by
forming a separate company called "Golden Wave Shipyards." Under the same name
they produced a number of sailboats intended to compete with Nautor Swan without
association with the normal Cheoy Lee line. The Lace shared consecutive "hull
numbers" with these sailboats and accounts for why the Laces go as far as Hull #062
while only thirty-one were built by Cheoy Lee." |
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Boat-
"Benedikte" - 1981 Golden Wave 48" by Britton
Chance
