Inside Fred Hibberd's Cruising Yawl 'caprice'

With an engineer's sharp eye for detail and a yachtsman's feeling for comfort on board, Hibberd packed two full cabins and a hefty diesel engine into a 39-foot eight-inch hull

1 Stowage—light sails, anchor lines2�-inch plywood frame and partial bulkhead
3 Forward head
4 Deep locker and clothes hamper
5 Mast stepped into stainless-steel frame
6 Hanging locker
7 Portside berths in main cabin
8 Stainless-steel water tanks
9 Cast-steel forward fin
10 Keel cooler for engine water
11 V-drive gear
12 6,000-pound cast-iron ballast keel
13 Stainless-steel reinforced after fin
14 Three-bladed wheel
15 19-gallon starboard fuel tank
16 45-hp Red Wing diesel
17 Motor generator
18 Two pairs of six-volt batteries
19 Refrigerator compressor
20 After cabin portside berth
21 Pullman-type folding washbasin
22 After head
23 After stowage-lines, life jackets, etc.
24 Stainless-steel vertical boomkin
25 Eight-foot molded dinghy
26 Stainless-steel mainsheet horse
27 Hollow aluminum mizzen (24 feet)
28 Tiller
29 Combination ratchet winch
30 Switch panel
31 Main hatch, chart holder on top
32 Two-way hatch, Lucite top
33 Stainless-steel frames
34 Kicking strap
35 Outboard canted vent
36 Aluminum rollers on main shrouds
37 Hollow aluminum mainmast (44 feet)
38 Forward hatch with Sudbury Sky-Vent
39 Diagonal planking of inner skin
40 Folding table