Benn Gunn is 25 feet, 8 inches over all; 25 feet, 6 inches on the water line; 7 feet, 4 inches in breadth, and 2 feet 10 1/2 inches draft. The freeboard forward is 3 feet, 9 inches, freeboard at the stern, 2 feet, 10 inches. The little boat carries 810 pounds of lead on the keel, and there must be stowed in the bilge 1,200 pounds of inside ballast. It is a well known fact that a considerable amount of inside ballast properly distributed fore and aft assures a very comfortable boat in any kind of weather. And that a lot of ballast concentrated in one place produces a quick acting hull in any kind of sea. However if speed and quickness in stays is the first consideration, all ballast outside is best.

The sail plan shows 263 square feet of area; 61.6 square feet being in the staysail, 201.5 square feet in the mainsail. Halyards and staysail sheets are led aft to convenient cleats on the cabin top. The entire rig is as simple and efficient as it can be and has been tried out repeatedly in many existing boats of my design. No need to have jumper strut, spreaders, additional shrouds, topmast stay and permanent back stay. Benn Gunn is not a racing boat and it is very bad taste to rig a cruiser or motor sailer after the manner of a cup defender; and ineffectual as well.

The deck plan shows a flush deck with a well for a cockpit and a small deck house. It will be especially noticed that the height of the deck house is designed so that it can be conveniently looked over from a sitting position in the cockpit. The value of being able to see ahead is often unappreciated by designers and builders, the temptation being to get full headroom under the deck house at the expense of full vision ahead. As it is, Benn Gunn has 5 feet, 8 inches headroom under the cabin house beams, and 5 feet, 11 inches headroom under the companion slide, excellent, they tell me, for a 25 foot water line boat having moderate freeboard. The cockpit well is 2 feet wide by 5 feet, 3 inches long and the cockpit from deck house and aft, 6 feet, 8 inches long by 4 feet, 6 inches wide. There is unusual deck room in the waist and forward.

The cabin is laid out for two. The galley is 4 feet, 4 inches long, the built in table therein being amply large for a two burner galley stove, sink and wash tray. The ice box is beneath the wash tray end of the table with lockers under the sink and stove end. A separate toilet room is opposite the galley. Two berths are built in, 6 feet, 4 inches long, and full width, and forward of these open storage for supplies. The fresh water tank is in the bow. There is 5 feet, 8 inches headroom under the cabin house beams, and 4 feet under the forward deck. With the large hatch in the fore deck it is easy to stand through this reaching all ground tackle and halyards without walking over the forward deck, and this is how it should be with a small boat in rough water.