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Newbridge Pioneer Pilot 26 |
Brief details |
Builder |
NB Yachts, Chard, Somerset |
The Pioneer Pilot
is one of the smallest pilothouse sailing cruisers around, being
based on the Pioneer hull, but with an enclosed wheelhouse, with
alternative tiller steering in the cockpit. She offers a quite roomy
modern 26 foot hull with a smallish double berth aft cabin, and
2-4 more berths forward in an open plan layout. As you would expect
from a Bill Dixon production boat design, The Pioneer and Pioneer
Pilot have a good reputation as sensible family cruisers with good
accommodation for their size and respectable sailing performance. |
LOA |
25' 10" |
Sail area |
348 sq ft main and genoa |
LWL |
20' 6" |
Rig |
Sloop |
Beam |
9' 0" |
Cabins |
2 |
Draught |
3' 0" bilge keel, 4' 0" fin, or 3' 2" to 5' 3"
c/b |
Berths |
4-6 |
Displacement |
5,875 lbs |
Engine |
Volvo or Bukh diesels |
Ballast |
2,650 lbs |
BHP |
18 |
Keel type |
Twin iron bilge keels with skeg-hung rudder, alternative
fin keel or stub keel with centreboard options also built. |
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Newbridge Boats started life building a GRP
version of the pretty little Robert Tucker designed 21 foot
Corribee in the very early 1970s. They later also built the
23 foot Virgo, with a distinctive wrap-round painted stripe
to help disguise the quite substantial coachroof.
In the early 1980s they dropped the Corribee, as despite
taking it through three versions, with progressive tiny increases
in interior volume, it could never be regarded as spacious
for its length. They thus introduced a range of more 'modern'
designs, including the Navigator, Venturer and Pioneer, all
sharing the distinctive style of a dark-painted band around
the coachroof, although the hulls were not all by the same
designers.
The Newbridge Pioneer was designed by Bill Dixon (well known
for Moody designs) in 1985/86 as the largest of the range,
and was built in two versions, the Pioneer Pilot having an
added pilothouse moulding to give an interior steering position.
Most boats sold were bilge-keelers, but fin-keel and centreboard
versions were also built.
About 80 were built in total. In 1990 Newbridge, by then having
changed their name to NB Yachts, went into liquidation, as
the proliferation of mass-produced small French yachts was
hitting all small British boatbuilders.
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