26' Nielsen Double-Ended Sloop (1966) - LUCY

“Aage Nielsen got everything just right when he designed LUCY. He made the deckhouse (under which you can stand upright) narrow and tipped in its sides and end to make it less of a presence, then helped lower it visually by bringing the roofline and its edge trim downward. The curved booby hatch forward of the mast adds light and space to the fo’c’s’le yet harnonizes with the boat’s silhouette. Nielsen swept up the sheer at each end to compensate for the hull’s full bow and stern. And what a stern! No one has bettered Aage when it comes to that. Drawing on his Danish heritage and refining the double-ended sterns of the fishing boats he knew as a youth, he created on of his most admired signatures”. –Maynard Bray