This drawing was sent by Steve Bryant, the owner of Cascade 36 Puff. It seems to have a sailmaker’s notes on the dimensions of the sail added to it. Steve says “on my copy from previous owner it says to top of mast 46.5′ + 1.5′”. He says that he has about 30 old documents and will try to put them on the web. This one and a number of great photos are at the above address. This is similar to the exact sail plan of Nolwandle. I suppose this sloop rig was first developed before the cutter rig with the bowsprit?
This is a cutter rigged version of the Cascade 36 – it has a bow sprit, jib and staysail. “Nolwandle”, like many Cascade 36’s is sloop rigged – that means she does not have a bowsprit and only has a genoa overlapping jib. This picture is from the Cascade website, but the shape of the stern is wrong – compare it to the plan below, which is what “Nolwandle” looks like. I wonder how they got their own boats so wrong?
Mariah III plan – again Nolwandle has a different layout. However the keel, especially the trailing edge looks wrong to me in this diagram. I think the diagram above from the Cascade site has the correct keel shape – see for instance the photos of Nolwandle’s keel in an earlier post.
Cascade 29 Plans
The full plans of the Cascade 29 are here.
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17 September 2008 at 17:43
skookumlady
My Cascade 36, Skookumlady, hull # 30, has the basic hull and keel configuration as shown, however, the sail plan with the bowsprit, cutter rig, are not the same. Wade had told me some many years ago that they had redesigned the sail plan. They moved the mast aft 12 inches, added a 12 inch bowsprit, and increased the mast height, forgot how much,. They then offered several different lead keels, deep fin, and shoal fin.
Fred
26 September 2008 at 15:38
Bob Steadman
I would like to send you some pictures of our Cascade 36, “Bettie”. Email address? Sorry, we don’t have a website.
Bob Steadman
26 September 2008 at 16:29
skookumlady
Sorry in my note I thought that my wordpress blog would be referenced, http://skookumlady.wordpress.com/
my email is
26 September 2008 at 16:30
skookumlady
try that again skookumlady@netscape.com
2 October 2009 at 23:56
Steve Bryant
The reason that they show the stern with a different look is that the changed the stern and have designed a stern addition
That you see on on Raindrop sailing into Hawaii for the finish of the shtp race in 2008.
25 November 2009 at 20:08
Steve Bryant
The diagram that I sent you was sent to the previous owner of Puff hull #21 by Yacht Constructors while she was under construction. At the time they had not come out with the “racing keel which appears to be on you hull but were using the older Keel. The scoop stern came much later but still can be added by Chinook Composites who was the original owner of Cascade Yachts.