We bought her in 2007 from her second owners who owned her since 1971. In 2007 we started a refit that would last for 4.5 years.
In this time, we replaced almost everything. We started by taking out the engine and then the interior. At that point a complete refit of the interior, deck and rigging started.
We loved sailing her and spending time on her as a family with 2 children. Every holiday and many weekends were passed on her, during spring, summer and late fall. But children grow bigger and tend to use more space, especially when sailing dinghies themselves. That's why we decided to put her on the market, looking for an owner with a love for special, exceptionally well maintained, classic yachts.

The S&S34 is a famous and fast design by Olin Stephens. Sister ships have won races all over the world, circumnavigated and are even now being built in Australia. We too have raced her occasionally – and won. The modern rig makes her even easier to handle than before: longer mast, bigger mainsail and smaller headsails make for less wear and tear and easier handling. But we took care to maintain the good sailing capacities she had and still has.

The ship has been completely overhauled and refitted. Everything has been renewed or replaced, while taking care to choose quality parts: LED lighting, including navigation lights, refrigerator, Nexus instruments, Harken winches, the list goes on and on. Pictures of the entire refit process are available here.

In 2016-2017 the hull was completely repainted in ‘flag blue’ color in 2-component ‘De IJssel’ system.

Below the waterline, multiple layers of epoxy tar and epoxy coating have been applied before adding the award winning finsulate anti fouling wrap.

We loved her as a family ship and she has been raced incidentally.

The official design specifications can be found here.

S&S 34 Joe Cool was sold in September 2020.

Photographs of the refit process, documentation, manuals and drawings and lists of nearly everything are available.