Pond Boat plans

Design 2025 Palmer Johnson 40

We have already discussed the Swan 40 which bears the same design number #2025. So what is this boat versus the Swan (hint: its the very same boat)? Heres how it came to be: In the late 1960s the boatbuilder, Palmer Johnson of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, established a brokerage division with representatives around the Unites States: New York, Chicago and Newport Beach, California, and a representative in Hants, England. Their strategy was to market a number of fiberglass sailboats under their name but built by various builders, primarily in Europe.

The PJ40 is just such a boat. The boats were in fact built by Nautor Swan and sold by PJ under their name. Eventually Nautor decided that it was no longer in their best interest to have their yachts sold through Palmer Johnson, and returned to the practice of exclusively selling the boats under their own name.

The material shown above is an advertisement form the period. The images below are from their sales literature.


Heres the general arrangement plan, identical to the Swan 40 but with the PJ name in the title block.