The all-new 23-foot speedboat is currently taking shape at Reuben Smith’s Tumblehome Boatshop in the USA. Beautifully penned by Stephens Waring Yacht Design, the boat would also make for a head-turning luxurious superyacht tender.
New 23ft superyacht tender concept by Stephens Waring Yacht Design
Located in Gold Cup country near Lake George, Tumblehome has a reputation for thoughtful and rigorous restorations of antique raceboats and runabouts in gleaming varnish and polished brass.
Reuben brought Stephens Waring in to develop a custom design to fit his client’s boathouse—a classy design to combine the feel and style of a classic raceboat but modern handling and performance. The studio’s concept development process ran through several iterations that each considered the fusion of modern with traditional. Ultimately, the process returned to this small yacht exuding the flavor of the 20’s era wrapped around a modern bottom and power plant.
Stephens Waring-designed yacht tender concept
Crisp classic joinerwork in varnished mahogany runs throughout and forms the cockpit, where hand-crafted leather bucket seats cradle pilot and copilot at an antique-style dashboard that is situated behind a cast-bronze and glass windshield.
The brief: deliver a flexible and versatile arrangement for a family-oriented approach — a departure from the two-seater racers of the ‘20’s lies in the aft cockpit, where settees allow more folks to enjoy the ride—up to six can be accommodated for sunset cocktail cruising. Concealed beneath gull-wing hatches in the afterdeck is a boarding platform and swimming ladder for easy access to the water or dock.
New 23ft luxury yacht tender by Stephens Waring from above
LOA : 23ft 10in (7.26m)
LWL : 23ft 5in (7.14m)
Beam : 7ft 2in (2.19m)
Draft : 24in (0.61m)
DISP : 4100lb (1,860kg)
Under the hood is where we get to the heart of the boat. Hunkered down on full-length Douglas fir stringers is a modern PleasureCraft six-liter fuel-injected V-8 – all the rumble and power of an antique engine with minimal mechanical headaches. Careful soundproofing and muffling ensures an enjoyable experience—for those on board as well as on the lakeshore!
Wide open, the V-8 will push her modern constant-deadrise hull to 60 mph; chine flats deliver lift and knock down unwanted spray, while her carefully-engineered construction of epoxy-bonded mahogany keeps her far more rigid and smooth-riding than her plank-on-frame ancestors.
