New Boats Table
in association with the Spinlock Special Projects Team ‘Half Ton’ days are here again
With 30ft pocket-racers springing up all over the world, Mark Mills’ take on the genre is typically no-compromise but still stylishly contemporary… the market seems receptive
The Cape 31 was defined as a simple clean high-performance One Design without constraint, conceived and brought to fruition by Cape Town resident Lord Irvine Laidlaw – best known in racing circles for his long string of Highland Flings. Designed for one of the world’s great sailing locations, we could optimise the Cape 31 for a combination of upwind and offwind performance in a breeze while retaining light-air capabilities. Freed from the commercial pressures that usually require a project of this nature to be widely advertised and often compromised before the first boat is ready, we were able to focus on delivering a fast modern speedster. Building on our experience developing fast light hullforms, with the assistance of our regular R&D partners KND/Sailing Performance, we produced a low-freeboard aggressively chined hull shape that maximises form stability in a breeze but enjoys low wetted surface when upright. The chine running forward to the bow helps produce a bow-up moment at speed in the often windy swells of Cape Town. The challenge with this hull shape for an all-round design is always to balance the beam, fullness in the bow and the chine height aft to produce the most powerful possible design offwind, without removing its upwind capabilities. The latest CFD provided by KND helps us visualise how the boat will behave and push those variables further than we could before.
Engineering from Steve Koopman at composite engineering specialists SDK has resulted in an aggressive but production-friendly
Custom builds BOAT
SuperFoiler Plume
Six Metre Suhailis
Trentadue Biscay 36 Class40 Class40 Fast40+
Aquatich 40 Simonis 42 AC50 Pac52
Teasing 2 Knierim FC53
9.4m 9.4m 9.7m 9.8m
10.9m Alan Hill
12.13m Owen-Clarke/Clay Oliver 12.13m Owen-Clarke/Clay Oliver 12.2m Carkeek Design Partners 12.2m Humphreys Yacht Design 12.8m Simonis Voogd
LOA DESIGNER 9m
BUILDER
Morrelli & Melvin Charles Bertrand Juan Kouyoumdjian William Atkins Carlini Design
SoCal & Australia Tocatec, Montpelier Spain
Various Piermarine Yachts
Falmouth Boat Company Carbon Ocean Yachts Cape Racing Yachtss Premier Composites Oceantech, Slovenia VMG Yachtbuilders
15.15m Hulls by Morelli & Melvin/Oracle Various+Core Composites 16.1m Judel-Vrolijk 16.37m Bernard Nivelt
Cookson Boats King Marine
16.12m Finot Conq
www.knierim-yachtbau.de
Vismara 62 Vismara 67
Brenta 80SRD WallyCento 4
18.8m Mills Design/Vismara 20.4m Mills Design/Vismara 24.2m Luca Brenta
Banque Populaire IX 30.4m VPLP
www.persicomarine.com
Gitana XVII Wally 110 J9
Tiger Jay Baltic 175
33m Guillaume Verdier 33.51m Frers
41.5m Hoek Design 43.6m Hoek Design 53.9m Judel-Vrolijk
Multiplast
Performance Boats, Italy Holland Jachtbouw Bloemsma Shipyard Baltic Yachts
August 2017 2018
Summer 2017 Summer 2017 2017/18
Vismara Marine Vismara Marine
Michael Schmidt Yachtbau CDK, Green Marine, Gepeto
30.34m Mills Design/Pininfarina Persico Marine
2016/17 Dec 2017 Jan 2018
August 2017 July 2017 Knierim Yachtbau
structure that accommodates a ‘socketed’ deep carbon keel fin and a powerful sail plan, developed with North Sails South Africa and set on a Southern Spars Cape Town carbon rig. With the focus purely on performance, we drew a clean ramp deck for easy operation developed from our Maxi 72 world champion design Alegre. The theme of simplicity is carried throughout the deck layout, developed with project manager Mike Giles, including neat details such as the under-deck jib sheet control system. Designed to be the tightest possible fit for a High Cube container to allow easy shipping worldwide, orders for this Uwe Jasperson- built Cape 31 are already up at double digits. This confirms Irvine Laidlaw’s vision for a fleet of yachts to support youth sailing in Cape Town, with boatbuilding in South Africa, and shows good prospects of developing into a successful One Design class. Mark Mills
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LAUNCH COMMENTS 2017
Soon…
May 2017 2017
Jan 2016 onward May 2017
This prototype all-foils foiler (really) is steadily ‘getting there’
Light carbon DSS design with canting keel and single, central daggerboard Much talk that Juan also has two very much bigger designs in the pipeline… Two replicas of the original Suhailiare building for the 2018 Golden Globe
Very much an IRC champion – series build winner with an interior to die for – 10+ boats sold Two of these sturdy 1973 designs are also being refitted for the booming Golden Globe Race
March 2016 onward The female tooling is polished and ready for a sistership to light-air flyer Longbow March 2017 March 2017 June 2017 April 2017
31 Jan 2017 onward OK, you can all come out of the naughty corner now 2017
April 2017 July 2017 Two new IRC52s prompted by the success of Beau Geste Bernard Nivelt’s big new IRC flyer will be worth the wait – we guarantee it
Based on Finot-Conq’s Imoca 60 work, this carbon/Nomex 53-footer looks more like a racer but has been created for long-range cruising with a double-handed crew. The keel lifts hydraulically for easier access to shore
A cruiser-racer plus a racer-racer, both good looking and both nicely built by Vismara Building on the success of the Vismara 62 – very similar style-led theme but even faster There is also a 96 and a 70 on the drawing board. MSY’s roll continues to gather pace Well done! A new solo Ultim trimaran for Vendée Globe winner Armel Le Cléac’h
Looking forward to this… the next WallyCento takes the genre ever closer to the Maxi racer. With styling by Pininfarina, this one is going to raise the Cento bar even higher. Expect a rush of resting AC crew when she goes afloat
And another for Séb Josse. This time Guillaume goes it alone (expect a cracker – ed) Latest Wally features novel interior styling with WallyCento performance Original 1936 Frank Paine design Original 1937 Thore Holm design
Superyacht trophies, shiny watches and babes all beckon (enough – ed)
Brand new fifth-generation high-RM production Class40 from the boys. Two boats building A fully ‘maximised’ Carkeek Mk IV that is a very different beast from the all-conquering Mk 3.5 New ORC-optimised performance racer-cruiser; boat no2 is already in the pipeline A new fast-looking racer-cruiser from an expanding Dutch boatyard
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