The LEVANT 15 fits neatly amid Chuck Paine’s growing fleet of elegant, hand-built in America, keel sailboats for the no-longer athletic sailor. Like his recent larger and smaller designs (the PAINE 14 and YORK 18 ) she is styled to honor her famous and gorgeous predecessor, the Herreshoff 12½.

The Levant 15 daysailer is designed by Chuck Paine from the lines of the Herreshoff 12 1/2. With many unique features for safety and performance, the Paine 1...

The LEVANT 15 is intended to be the highest quality, high performance, brand new sailboat available anywhere in the world. Quite a claim!

Originally called the Paine 15.

The Levant 15 is a trailerable, fixed-keel sailboat; a recent Chuck Paine design that is now being built and offered at French & Webb in Belfast. The second model was launched last summer. With a trailerable sailboat, performance includes how easy it is to tow and launch.

he Chuck Paine–designed Levant 15 is styled after the 1914 Herreshoff 121⁄2, but updated with a modern underbody, appendages, rig, and construction.

Designer Chuck Paine describes his latest creation, the Levant 15. The boat is derived from the legendary Herreshoff 12 1/2, which it resembles above the waterline. But the new boat has some decidedly modern attributes: a fin keel, semi-balanced rudder, and unstayed carbon-fiber rig.

Perhaps the single finest sailboat in the world—the LEVANT 15. If you love sailing and want, and deserve, and can afford, the finest sailboat ever designed and built anywhere in the world, read on. First a few pictures to tantalize …

Levant 15 is a 4.6 m sailboat designed by C. W. (Chuck) Paine starting in 2021. The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement.

The Levant 15 daysailer is designed by Chuck Paine from the lines of the Herreshoff 12 1/2. With many unique features for safety and performance, the Paine 1...