Cheoy Lee 41"Astraea"

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Magazine Ad for the 1981 Cheoy Lee 41

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Below is a reply from Ray Richards that I have copied from the Cheoy Lee Association website. 

An old adage may fit, to wit: Different ships : Different long splices.  I am not particularly familiar with it, but your e.mail jogged my memory that  indeed, Cheoy Lee had Pedrick design a 41, "borrowing" from mine but with the, by then, contemporary style of underbody and flatter sheer. I also recall  that Pedrick was or had been in the Sparkman & Stevens office, a factor that  Cheoy Lee probably and understandably would have figured as good for sales. Journalism has its place. It is said that bad publicity is better than no  publicity at all. There were more than a few misquotes and errors. For  example, I turned out 4, not 10 designs for Cheoy Lee. The first was a 39, a  larger and heavier version of an aluminum one tonner that had received some  good press, but it was totally away from the type and style of CL's market  niche. It was flush decked and had a plumb transom from which a dirty big  outboard rudder was hung. Tad Woodhull, Lyon Yachts, Essex, Connecticut, had  one and did well racing it in Long Island Sound. It was he who stimulated  Cheoy Lee toward replacing Phil Rhodes' very handsome RELIANT, which came to  be sold as their OFFSHORE 40. Thus came my 41, which was originally  designated OFFSHORE 40. Maybe that, in CL's mind, was much like replacing a  Richards with a Pedrick. The 32 came next. It was followed by the 38, very  similar in features to the 41. Incidentally, I first used the round settee in the cuddy of the RANGER 20.  ......
Ray Richards