DESIGN & Build Table in association with the Spinlock Special Projects Team Moving (swiftly) on Foil innovator and Glide Free foil inventor Dr Ian Ward has been at it again…
Somewhere, partway between a skiff and a catamaran, there is another type of sailing craft altogether. Almost forgotten in the hype of today’s foiling America’s Cup cats and Moths, the humble scow is being given an upgrade and for good reason. There are not only one, but two quite separate developments happening right now, that provide a very different way of looking at small boats offering comfortable yet very high performance.
In Europe Hugh Welbourn and Quant Yachts have begun trials with the Quant 23 (see next month). This is the latest foiling development and the first fully foiling keelboat. With more righting moment than most catamarans, combined with a small, easily handled low-drag aerodynamic hull, the Quant 23 powers up easily in any breeze, with a manageable transition from fast planing to full foiling.
Lake scows
Meanwhile, the lake scows of America are steeped in tradition and have a fearsome reputation. Surprisingly for such large boats, they handle and behave like dinghies. These original sportsboats provide tight racing and plane readily. Unlike catamarans they are easy to right after capsizing and are no wider than a modern sportsboat, so easy to store and transport. There has been little serious development over the past 50 years due to strict one-design rules.
Scow Moths
In the antipodes there is a long history of scow sailing. The International Moth Class was, for much of its life since 1932, dominated by scow designs. It was not until the mid-1980s when skiff designs finally proved superior to planing scow designs and not until 1999 when life was breathed into foils, which lifted the skiffs clear of the water.
Custom builds BOAT
C-Class MC34 Custom LOA DESIGNER
7.62m Joncas/Chaussée/ETS 10.3m Marc Lombard
BUILDER
Mystery Composites/ETS Marsaudon Composites
OCD Class 40 12.13m Owen-Clarke/Clay Oliver Carbon Ocean Yachts
www.carbonoceanyachts.com
Class40 IRC 45 Code 2
Hugo Boss
12.13m Nivelt/Mabire 13.64m Marc Lombard 17.6m Marc Lombard 18.28m Verdier-VPLP
Banque Populaire 18.28m Verdier-VPLP Gitana XVI
Virbac-St Michel 18.28m Verdier-VPLP Imoca 60 Chessie
18.28m Verdier-VPLP 18.28m Verdier-VPLP
Super Nikka High Spirit Cafe Racer
WallyCento 4 Gitana XVII Macif
Tiger Jay
18.79m Tripp Design 18.79m Mills Design 20m
Botín Partners 26.36m Humphreys Yacht Design
Banque Populaire IX 30.5m TBC J9 J8
Shoreteam, Caen TBA
Black Pepper Green Marine
CDK & associates Multiplast Multiplast Persico
New England Boatworks Vismara Marine King Marine Delayed
30.34m Confidential (but well deserved) Confidential 30.5m Verdier/ETNZ 30.5m VPLP
Multiplast
Multiplast-CDK TBA
41.5m Hoek Design 42.64m Hoek Design 43.6m Hoek Design
WallyCento 3 30.34m Reichel-Pugh
www.greenmarine.co.uk
Holland Jachtbouw Holland Jachtbouw Bloemsma Shipyard
Green Marine
The Skeeta offers a more manageable way into Moth foiling. The production version
features an unstayed carbon rig
Jim French of Melbourne remembers the scows well and the fun of learning to sail on a lightweight, stable dinghy with excellent performance, planing upwind and down. He has built over 80 scows and 60 skiff Moths and has recently been determined to bring scow Moths into the foiling age. But rather than following the developments of the skiffs with centreline foils, Jim sought to utilise the leverage offered by the scow hull and introduce twin lifting foils.
Putting it all together
The Skeeta Moth is a new production scow Moth from Jim French and his son David. Jim has developed a new hull design to suit the foiling set-up and produced foils based on the Glide Free design used on our foiling Laser. With a lightweight carbon hull and an over-rotating freestanding rig without prodders or spreaders, the Skeeta presents a low-windage profile.
This development is in its early stages but Skeeta can already outpace a conventional A Class cat; most notably it is also stable and easy to sail.
The future for smaller scows just got a little brighter.
LAUNCH COMMENTS June 2015
July 2015 May 2015
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A brand new C-Class out of Canada. Admirable university technology project Customised IRC version of the MC34
Open 60 engineering and build quality in a Class40. Designed by Owen-Clarke Design with engineering by Pure of New Zealand. Built in Rhode Island for a new US-based Class 40 team
Sep 2015 Oct 2015 Oct 2015 Feb 2016 Aug 2015 July 2015 Oct 2015 Aug 2015 May 2016 July 2015 Aug 2015 2016
July 2016 July 2017 Oct 2015 April 2017 End 2015 2016 2016
June 2015
A new Campagne de Francefor the great man Custom full-on and relatively light IRC racer All-carbon high-performance cruiser-racer
Alex Thomson will start his next Vendée Globe on a brand new design A new Imoca 60 to go with the team’s promised 100ft solo trimaran Séb Josse’s hard work with Gitana pays off with the build of a new Imoca 60 (Yet) another new Imoca 60 for the flying vet Jean-Pierre Dick
Italian skipper Andrea Mura is the lucky customer for the latest VPLP-Verdier creation Highly refined café racer from the builders of Rambler 88and Bella Mente Fast lift-keel all-carbon cruiser-racer for the Med circuit Powerful-looking all-carbon racer-cruiser with canting keel
This all-carbon/Nomex day racer will feature a deep lifting keel and twin rudders Now underway but we have been NDA’d… It’s definitely happening, though Séb Josse will get a new singlehanded multihull to follow the Vendée Globe François Gabart also gets a new solo trimaran (soon) to keep the boy fit … As does 2012/13 Vendée Globe runner-up Armel Le Cléac’h Original 1936 Frank Paine design Original 1935 Frank Paine design Original 1937 Tore Holm design
The third WallyCento will be (much) more Magic Carpetthan Hamilton. Currently approaching completion for a USA owner, big news will hopefully come soon with confirmation of the 4th WallyCento
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