The Pacific Seacraft 34, also called the \"Crealock 34\", was Bill Crealock's design for a slightly smaller and updated version of his classic cruising sailboat, the Pacific Seacraft 37. Pacific Seacraft Corporation's sales brochure called her a \"refined sibling\", a \"slightly smaller sister\". Dave Mancini reports that in a conversation he was privileged to have with Bill Crealock, Crealock discussed what he had learned from the 37 design that he used to refine the 34 design.
Crealock described his goals for these cruising designs as \"an easy motion, dryness, strength, windward ability, a comfortable deep cockpit, a safe interior and, above all, ease of handling and balance with or without steering aids\".