Melody 34

The Melody 34 is a French sailboat that was designed by Andre Mauric and Gilles Vaton of the design firm Bureau Mauric, as a cruiser and first built in 1974.

Production
The design was built by Jeanneau in France, from 1974 until 1982, with 607 boats built.

Design
The Melody 34 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, with a deck-stepped mast, one set of straight spreaders and aluminum spars with stainless steel wire rigging. The hull has a raked stem, a reverse transom a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed swept fin keel. It displaces 13330 lb and carries 6393 lb of cast iron ballast.

The boat has a draft of 6.23 ft with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with an inboard diesel engine of 18 or for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds 24 u.s.gal and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 48 u.s.gal.

The design has sleeping accommodation for eight people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, an L-shaped settee and a straight settee in the main cabin and an aft cabin with a double berth on the starboard side. The galley is located on the port side at the companionway ladder. The galley is U-shaped and is equipped with a three-burner stove, ice box and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the starboard side. Cabin headroom is 74 in.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of 1076 sqft.

The design has a hull speed of 7.16 kn.

Operational history
Melody 34s have been sailed on extensive cruising voyages, including in the Caribbean.