cruising boat that you do with a Volvo or America’s Cup boat. I think that yachting is going through


a transition. This doesn’t apply only to style and looks. It’s about materials; it’s about how long a boat should last; it’s about safety issues. I’m happy to be a part of a moment in yachting when I believe the sport is reinventing itself, particularly monohull yachting, and to do that with such a legendary company like Beneteau is a great opportunity.


What do you think a contemporary


racer/cruiser will look like in the future? We’re clearly facing a Catch-22


situation, in that, for production builders need to expand their market, but they are hitting a wall — they can’t find more places to moor, dock or sell the boats they produce. The answer is that there will clearly be an expansion towards emerging markets like China, Brazil, South America, which is happening at a slower pace than some people might have thought. But that’s still not enough. So we need to figure out how to deal with boats that spend 95% of their time in the harbor, taking up space, very much like we do with cars. In the future, I wouldn’t be surprised if boats do not last as long. They have always been considered something that part of your patrimony, like owning a house. But in the future I don’t think we’ll look at boats in this way—I think that they will be seen as objects that you use and that give you pleasure for a certain amount of time, much like cars. Now there is an ecological side to


this, which is if you’re going to circulate or replace things, you need to be really careful of what you do with the waste. I think that we will be paying a lot of attention to the materials that we use and their recyclability, because a lot of the materials that we use to build boats are not very ecologically friendly, to be honest.


Do you think you’ll do more production boats? I would hope so! I feel comfortable


with Beneteau and I share many of their views and philosophies.


For the next Volvo you’re working


up the designs for several teams. How different will each boat really be? They will be as different as their


crews want them to be. For us, working with more than one team has been a difficult thing, it’s not something that we’ve done in the past and certainly it’s not something that I will do again in the future. The relationships with the teams aren’t the same because there is an intrinsic issue of trust. What I wanted to avoid was a “pay more, get more” or a “build later, get more” type of thing, which isn’t fair. Instead, we created an R&D program that’s common to the


three teams, and teams choose their options based on what they want to focus on, and then there are other areas that are specifically customized to them. Each team has their own dedicated group of engineers, and then there are also some shared or common designers and engineers, but we make sure they don’t talk to each other. In essence, all three boats will look different from each other. But the basic things like hull lines—that’s the best design we had to offer at that particular time. www.juanyachtdesign.com


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