Showing posts with label FandS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FandS. Show all posts

June 12, 2023

New Launch: F&S 58 Hull 32

FandS has launched its hull number 32, a sportfish yacht titled m/y Dona Lucy for a repeat customer.  Designed by Applied Concepts FandS hull number 32 returns to the size of the first build of Jim Floyd which was also a 58 he delivered in 1996.  FandS 58 hull 32 offers an interior with three double cabins, with owners stateroom to midships starboard, and two guest cabins with bunks; one forward and another to port side.  The living and galley with dinette is all located on the main deck.  FandS 58 hull 32 is powered by twin Cats 1150hp engines.
Technical Data:
LOA - 17.67 m (58ft)
Beam - 5.48 m
Displacement - 24947 kg dry
Fuel Capacity - 4542 l
Water Capacity - 757 l
Accommodation - six berths in three cabins
Engines - 2 x Cats C18 1150hp
Propulsion - line shaft
Project - Applied Concepts

June 29, 2022

Project: F&S 68 Flybridge Hull 35

FandS present the project for a new 68 Flybridge Hull number 35 sportfishing machine with full tower.  Commissioned by an FandS repeat customer, this 68 Flybridge is said to be a replacement for the owner current Soul Candy, FandS hull #30 61 Hardtop Express custom model launched in 2020. Including this hull number 35, currently FandS has three other custom builds, with this new project at 68 feet being the smallest.

April 17, 2022

Web: F&S New Web Site

Delaware's custom Sportfish Yacht builder F&S presents a new virtual Internet showroom. Jim Floyd founded F&S around the late eighties, building hull number one a 58 foot Sportfish Yacht which today is called Triple-Net. But the founding pillars of F&S start in reality earlier to this, when Jim entered the woodwork trade in his early twenties, and later on founded his own construction company practicing as master carpenter and cabinet maker. United with an outdoor passion, Jim hunts and fishes most of the East Coast on his 23 foot Seacraft, which leads him to Carolina in the late seventies where the first custom builders shops start refining and pioneering the works for custom cold molded construction sportfish boats. At first Jim Floyd works and collaborates with Ricky Scarborough of North Carolina.  This collaboration and the studying of the Carolina builders, with the addition of experimenting with resins and hull shapes leads Jim to launch his first boat, hull number one a 58 feet launched in 1996 and built in the unlikely location of Middletown chicken house. The first F&S featured what have become trademark touches of the models coming from Delaware; having Carolina lines with bow flair and shear line included, and a variable deadrise hull. F&S are built in cold moulded glass fibre with resin over wood in jig method, and feature a unique variable deadrise, longitudinal stepped Vee hull. This gives benefits as stability at roll, track ability in following waters, and soft head sea entry. F&S has so far delivered delivered just under thirty boats from 1996 till today, although there was a twelve year break period till the second built went in the water. The smallest of the constructions has been a 36 feet Express with outboards hull 21 delivered in 2012, and the largest to date is the 2019 delivered hull 27 at 78 feet. Today F&S is managed by Jim Floyd, wife Maria, children Tim and Christina all in the business, with Joe Bonvetti and a select group of craftsman building each Sportfish Yacht to owner specifications. Currently F&S has three constructions in progress all in a new large 82 feet hull size. F&S new website takes you around with the following buttons: About FandS, Why FandS, Fleet, Careers, and Gear.  F&S is also on social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram with links at the bottom of the page. 

January 19, 2022

New Launch: F&S 61 Hardtop Express Hull #30

FandS present the 61 hardtop express, hull number 30 and called Soul Candy by its owner.  FandS hull thirty was designed as a family-friendly express sportfish yacht with space for entertaining, with a host of custom options that allow the owner-operator to communicate and interact with the crew on fishing trips to the Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamas. One of the primary challenges with FandS hull #30 was to add a tall owner, and superior interior headroom. Keeping the sweeping lines FandS is known for, while accommodating someone of height, would require some out-of-the-gate thinking. The design team created a two meters plus character named Fred within the CAD program, who would be moved around the virtual boat to be sure proper clearance of areas such as the companionway, staterooms and showers. Cad-Fred was also integral to helm line-of-sight, both while running and to the angler in the fighting chair, and because the interior space is directly connected to all the exterior dimensions, it was necessary to consider every detail. FandS 61 Hardtop Express features an eleven squared meters cockpit deck which easily fits the large fighting chair with an offset pedestal and on-deck tuna tubes, essential when you plan on fighting some of the monsters living near the rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. The classic straight lines of the teak cockpit boards tame the curvy, signature FandS radial mezzanine and transom live-well. A giant lazarette is accessible by way of a Freeman Marine deck hatch located under the chair’s footrest and ensures safe, dry storage below for the multitude of systems located there. The bright interior of the helm deck is striking. The hardtop express design allows for a view of the world around her, and FandS takes the view to new levels by incorporating one giant piece of custom curved glass on each side. By doing so, there is little to break that uninterrupted sightline, providing a true, 360-degree perspective. FandS 61 Hardtop Express runs smooth and quiet at all speeds, thanks to the twin MTU 1600hp engines giving a solid cruising speed of 35 knots and a top end of 42 knots. 
Technical Data:
LOA - 18.59 m (60.9ft)
Beam - 5.48 m
Draft - 1.47 m
Displacement - 27215 kg
Fuel Capacity - 5488 l
Water Capacity - 794 l
Accommodation - four berths in two cabins
Engines - 2 x MTU 10v M96L 1600hp
Propulsion - line shaft 
Speed - 35 knots cruise 42 knots max
Construction - cold moulded in jig, Okume plywood with biaxial fiberglass, Awlcraft 2000 paint job
Certification - NMEA, ABYC

June 5, 2017

New Launch: F&S 40 Hull 25

FandS of Jim Floyd has build a solid reputation in building custom sportfish cruisers and yachts. For hull number 25 the Delaware builder has delivered a fully custom forty feet express sport fish cruiser.  This build is FandS second smallest to date, with only the outboard powered 36 feet hull number 21 being smaller.  FandS new hull 25 was completed in the second half of 2016 and features a center console type pilot station covered by a hard top and a tower on top.  F and S Hull 25 is powered by twin Cummins 715hp coupled to ZF Zeus aft looking dual propeller pod drive propulsion.
Technical Data:
LOA - 12.19 m (40ft)
Beam - 4.11 m
Draft - 1.21 m
Displacement -
Fuel Capacity 2271 l
Water Capacity - 189 l
Engines - 2 x Cummins QSM11 715hp
Propulsion - ZF Zeus aft looking pod drives
Speed - 38 knots max 32 knots cruise
Hull Shape - variable deadrise Vee shaped
Construction - cold moulded wood covered with fiberglass and Awlcraft 2000 paint

November 6, 2014

Project: F&S 75 Converitble Hull 23

Custom sportfish boat builder FandS is currently building its largest yacht to date.  Numbered hull 23, this is the 75 Convertible, and as all FandS is to be built in jig method, cold molded wood and epoxy plus fiberglass construction.  So far Jim Floyd and his team are very sparse about the details of the new FandS flagship, but we can be sure that it will be fast, have a sea worthy variable Vee shape hull, and be as its other smaller sister of high finishing standard.

May 28, 2013

New Launch: F&S 50 Convertible Hull 19

Another important launch for custom sportfish boat yacht builder FandS who this time put into the the water a 50 Convertible model, the Hull number nineteen for this Delaware builder.  FandS has been one of the custom Sportfish builder who push the boundaries of there designs to new heights.  This 50 Convertible is designed by Matthews Yachts to what is a very sleek looking and a softer to the usual curved Carolina shear line.  Inside the 50 Convertible features three double cabins, with an owners room to fore, a guest double cabin to midships, and bunk third cabin to starboard.  A single large shower head serves all the three cabins.  The living is located on the main deck this featuring a galley L-shaped saloon, and a two person sofa.  Power is twin Volvo 700hp engines with IPS pod drives propulsion.   
Technical Data:
LOA - 15.3 m (50.4ft)
Beam - 4.82 m
Draft - 1.21 m
Displacement - 20865 kg
Fuel Capacity - 3266 l
Water Capacity - 567 l
Accommodation - 6 berths in 3 cabins
Engines - 2 x Volvo D11 700hp
Propulsion - Volvo forward looking dual propeller IPS 900 pods
Speed - 36 knots max, 32 knots cruise
Project - Matthews Yachts Design

April 18, 2012

Project: F&S 50 Hull 19

In recent years FandS from Denver has been one of the most busy custom Sportfisherman builders.  The reasons of this are many; but the variable Vee shaped hull, fast performances, and a bit of a modern take on the Carolina hull stand out.  Hull number nineteen for FandS will be a 50 footer to be named Triple F.  This new FandS 50 first presented as a 48 plan, is designed by Matthews Yacht Design who presented a three double cabins lower deck plan with owners room to fore, a single shower head, and the third cabin being a bunk double to port side. The engines although Volvo pods will still be positioned to midships.  FandS has still not given any numbers but most of its models have always been in the forty knots max speed range.  Can we imagine the same here? 

November 2, 2011

Project: F&S 40 Hull 17

FandS a custom sportfish boat builder from Delaware, presents its smallest ever project with this hull 17, which stands at forty feet length.  Jim Floyd and Joe Bonvetti in this Sportfish cruiser presents a centre console layout, with a free pure sportfish aft deck, and open plan cabin layout below.  The exterior split level deck is also innovative as it features the helm located central to the length of the area, having two L-shaped lounge settees to forward and to port side.  This makes the helmsman more in contact with the fishing action happening on the aft deck.  Down below the layout is for a galley, separate head, C-shape settee to aft, and double bed to fore.  Power is from twin Cats 525hp with ZF Zeus pods propulsion.

October 18, 2010

New Launch: F&S 54 Hull 15

F&S from Delaware presents this new 54 feet Hull number 15. Designed by Applied Concepts this cold molded custom built Sportfish Yacht is for a repeated customer who with this launch is now on his third F&S following 62 Hull 8 from 2006, and the 2007 built 45 Hull 10. Applied Concepts and Jim Flloyd's F&S presented a Sportfish Yacht which certainly is coming from the future with innovative super structures being testimony to the revolution this 54 feet classic Carolina lined hull wants to show. F&S hull number fifteen breaks the mold indeed with its all-weather bridge and unique composite tower. The main deck area is also a living closed-open cross over, having comforts associated with a flybridge but being a light filled area. The revolutionary tower built of composite sits on the hard top which covers the main deck, and indeed it does offer the comfort of a flybridge, although space is limited to two persons. The main deck welcomes you on its two step raised area with the mezzanine and full entertainment relax zone under the hard top which has an L-shaped settee, a central pompano style helm station with bolster style seat, and two co-pilot seats. Down below the interior has been made simple with a spacious C-shaped sofa, two open bunk berths, galley, shower head, and an owners stateroom to fore. Power to this 54 Hull 15 is for not so big twin Cats 1015hp.
Technical Data:
LOA - 16.54 m (54ft)
Fuel Capacity - 3785 l
Accommodation - 4 berths in 2 cabins
Engines - 2 x Cats C18 1015hp
Propulsion - line shaft
Construction - cold molded wood with epoxy resin, glassed and AWL Grip painted
Project -Applied Concepts
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June 22, 2009

New Launch: F&S Boatworks 72 Hull 12

Custom Delaware Sportfish Yacht builder F&S Boatworks delivered its biggest built to date, the 72 hull 12 which goes two feet further to the previous bigger model. While many would think this is an extension to the seventy footer hull eleven, technical indications as the wider beam of three inches, and a shallower draft of seven inches say this is a completely new hull studied on purpose. The new Jim Floyd creation is also about massive speeds with prediction for a 44 knots max, although the first sea trial with near to full load did do a whisker above 42, but also gave an economic 30 knots cruise. Along the variable-Vee stepped hull shape the new 72 flagship also gives another novelty with the use of Sea Torque shaft system, which also adds about 10% of more performance along with added safety. FandS where so much impressed by the innovative shaft system by Sea Torque fully enclosed oil bathed with the big universal joint that Floyd said he will never built a boat without them after this. Hull number twelve was eighteen months in the making and a sister 72 hull fourteen, to what similar a fully custom built may be is already in the making and predicted for launching in 2010.
Technical Data:
LOA - 21.94 m (72ft)
Beam - 6.01 m
Draft - 1.65 m
Displacement - 42184 kg
Fuel Capacity - 10523 l
Water Capacity - 1514 l
Accommodation - ten berths
Engines - 2 x MTU 16v2000 2000hp
Speed - 44 knots max, 35 knots cruising

March 13, 2009

Projects: F&S 54 XPW, F&S 54 XWS

Delaware custom Sportfish Yacht builder F and S Boatworks presents two interesting 54 feet express boat projects titled 54 XPW and 54 XWS. Pictured above is the 54 XPW and the first thinking that comes to sportfish custom build followers is that this project seems to break the usual traditional rules thanks to an usual innovative modern looking upper deck design by Applied Concepts. It would be interesting to know if this wheelhouse is closed or not and what sort of propulsion and engines will the 54 XPW offer. The 54 XWS is the second project and is based on the same lines as the 54 XPW, but carrying a stylish raised upper helm tower for big game fishers. Now many towers don't look stylish but here seems that the Delaware custom builder, and again Applied Concepts are on a roll, and if for real this will look good as the picture above it really can put some steam to some creativity in the express sportfish market. Good news is that one of these 54 Express has been sold with scheduled delivery for later on this year. She will be hull no.15 and will be the third to be named True Grit, which seems to be a hard following owner to F&S and Jim Floyd custom cold molded builds.

February 13, 2009

New Launch: F&S Boatworks 70 Hull 11

This is the first new model review from a US Custom Sportfish yacht builder. While the word custom in Europe is usually associated with 24 metres plus yachts, in the US this goes from sizes around 10 metres and up to whatever you like really, with over a handful of companies offering mostly high performing sportfish boats under the super 80 feet size. Most of these builds are built with the cold molding technique, that is framing in composite wood and then covering all with fiberglass resin. This gives a lighter boat, but also a superior strength construction. F&S Boatworks is one of the over a dozen builders, mostly of which are family run businesses, and its first hull was launched in 1988 what was a 58 feet Sportfish Yacht. This hull no.11 represents its latest, launched in 2008 and is the first enclosed bridge from the Delaware builder and the biggest build too, although hull. no.12 in construction has a say for this being 2 feet longer and a bit wider. F&S Boatworks is also innovative in its hull design offering a convex variable deep hull shape, that is of a deeper-Vee in the center and flatter sections on the side. Not really a new hull shape but not much used! The interior of the 70ft Hull 11 has ten berths four head accommodation, with a galley on the main deck, and features a luxury appointed enclosed bridge with internal stair case. F&S Boatworks also managed a nice Enclosed Bridge design, what is always a hard take for any builder. Power is from the latest ultra light performing twin MTU 2400hp each, which give a 43 knots top speed and a cruising of 38 knots.
Technical Data:
Length - 21.33 m (70ft)
Beam - 5.94 m
Draft - 1.52 m
Weight - 38636 kg
Fuel Capacity - 10599 l
Water Capacity - 1514 l
Accommodation - 10 berths
Engines - 2 x MTU M-93 2400hp
Speed - 43 knots max, 38 knots cruising