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Sabre 426

Other JTYD/Sabre designs: Overview | 362 | 402 | 452 | 426 | 386 | Spirit

We are often asked, “which is your favorite Sabre design?” which is a lot like asking a parent which is his favorite child. The Sabre’s are all great all-around boats, and owner, builder, and designer can all take justifiable pride in every one of them. We have a soft spot for the S-362 because she got Sabre rolling again. We like the S-402 for her wide open, innovative interior and her well-recognized performance. The S-452 is notable for her extensive cruising amenities and offshore capability. The Sabre 426 builds on all the positives of her older siblings, and tops it off with an extra dash of styling sophistication and elegance, both inside and out. Proportionately she is a little longer and leaner, and sports a slightly lower and sexier profile. All of Jim’s design work since the S-362 has been in CAD, but the S-426 deck is the first that he computer modeled for Sabre in 3-d. The ability to render the hull and deck as ‘solid’ surfaces on screen and then view them in perspective from any angle allows the designer to fine-tune all the complex surfaces, intersections and angles that make up a Sabre deck and cockpit until everything looks just right. The Sabre engineering staff did their usual expert ‘tweaking’ and detailing of Jim’s interior layout, and raised its ‘functional elegance’ to an even higher level. In a similar way, Jim refined both his standard and his shoal ‘bulb/wing’ keel shapes still further in the S-426. With all her design, specification and construction details evolved so carefully and completely, it is no wonder that the Sabre 426 is such a uniquely elegant and sophisticated yacht. Launched in late 2002, she was recognized as such by Sail Magazine as one of the Ten Best Boats of 2003, and is still in production.

More Information:

• Sabre 426 Homepage
• Cruising World: Sabre 426 The Stuff of Sweet Dreams
• YBW Sabre 426
• Sail: Sabre 426

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