She's beautiful in the same way the Le Mans-winning Audi R8 race car is beautiful, but Zaraffa is wonderfully usable for so much more than racing. If Nathanael Herreshoff were alive today, he would love the ambience belowdecks. She has a simple fully equipped interior, some of which can be removed to lighten the boat for racing. If you like simplicity, you'll find her accommodations inviting. She doesn't have a liner, but New England Boatworks faired and painted the back side of the laminate to a satiny off-white.
Cedar ceilings in the saloon add a touch of warmth.
The high-gloss table at the dinette almost seems out of place. The living and sleeping spaces occupy about the same volume as the accommodations of a 55-foot dedicated cruising yacht. Concentrating the mass over or near the center of buoyancy limits the pitching motion to an acceptable level. Pitching robs the sail plan of its drive, which slows any boat, but is especially pronounced in very lightweight boats, such as Zaraffa . I like having the galley so close to the center of the boat's pitching axis because motion there will be minimal, allowing the cook to work fairly comfortably at sea.