Matt Layden's Amazing Designs 

From microcruising.com   Matt Layden Designs Cruising the Bahamas

Matt Layden designed a series of micro-cruisers...each successive one capitalizing on things learned from the previous. Oddly, he has bucked the norm and instead of each successive boat being larger and larger....Matt went the other way...with each boat being smaller and smaller. The capabilities of these boats are amazing and in the right hands his designs have done amazing things. Dave and Mindy Bolduc have owned almost every Layden design, many times purchasing the original from Matt himself. Both Matt and the Bolducs have made numerous trips from Florida to the Bahamas in the boats, crossing the Gulf Stream and spending months cruising the islands. The Bolducs "average" trip to the Bahamas has covered more than 800 miles. Recently Dave did a solo trip in "Enigma" the design that superseded Paradox and is even smaller yet. He did it engine-less and covered tremendous mileage from Florida,  through the Bahamas, all the way to Georgetown in the Exumas and then up South Bight to the west coast of Andros and back. What an incredible trip and display of seamanship! It's all on Dave and Mindy's website at http://www.microcruising.com/





Here is a link to an interview Dave did with Small Craft Advisor way back in 2002 about their travels to that point in their Layden Designed  "Little Cruiser", Paradox's big sister.

 http://www.microcruising.com/sca1.htm 


This kind of demonstration of the ability of the design is what initially attracted me to the Paradox.  Very few people can comprehend what this little craft is capable of unless they really research what it has already done. It truly is a proven camp cruiser beyond and capable of way more adventure than many boats twice it's size ...all while drafting less than a foot of water!