New Boats Table
in association with the Spinlock Special Projects Team Busy times
Foiling Imocas and flying Mini 6.5 scows are clearly good for business… four-time Vendée Globe-winning designers Finot-Conq are working flat out to get onboard
After years of success for the designs of Verdier/VPLP it is easy to forget that for the previous 10 years it was the Finot-Conq office that dominated the Imoca class. Finot-Conq, and Groupe Finot before it, were a powerful force in all the open classes, including the Minis where their innovative designs wracked up numerous big race wins. However, business is business and for Finot the past 10 years
have been more about equally innovative production designs. The office is today decorated with more prosaic silverware including 2017 European Yacht of the Year for their Class40-derived Pogo 36 cruiser- racer. Indeed, there is a pleasing continuity to this latest award since many Pogo 40s enjoyed a second life with couples who preferred to cruise fast than dine with hot and cold running wine (Patrice Carpentier cruised thousands of miles with his wife Mimi on his Mk1 Pogo 40). Now, however, Finot are getting back to the racing scene with their
first new Mini design for a long time – a no-compromise foil-assisted scow. Plus a wholesale revamp of their 2006 Imoca 60 La Fabrique, which in the hands of young Swiss sailor Alan Roura added a respectable finish in the 2017 Transat Jacques Vabre to his prize as the youngest ever Vendée Globe competitor, finished 12th out of 18 finishers on one of the oldest boats in the 2016-17 fleet. La Fabrique was launched in 2006 as Britair and was sailed to
second place in the 2008 Vendée by Armel le C’léach, the first of two successive runner-up finishes by the Breton skipper (who then got bored and flattened everyone in the 2016-17 race in record time). Foura’s ageing but reliable 60-footer will grow its first set of foils
Custom builds BOAT
Trentadue
1180 Speziale Shuttle 39 Fast40+
Cape40S 5G CF40+Mk3 NMD 43 Multi50 TP52s... TP52s... TP52s...
Cape Fling Windfall 58
Knierim FC53 11.8m
LOA DESIGNER 9.8m
Carlini Design Jacques Valer
11.95m Shuttleworth Design 12.13m Shaun Carkeek 12.13m Owen-Clarke 12.6m
Botín Partners Botín Partners Judel-Vrolijk
Carkeek Design Partners
13.03m Nivelt & Muratet Design 15.24m VPLP 15.8m 15.8m 15.8m
16.97m Botín Partners 17.62m McCollough Yachts 16.12m Finot Conq
www.knierim-yachtbau.de Charal
Hugo Boss La Fabrique Felci 65 Goetz 70 Maxi72 MD73
Brenta 80SRD Wally 93 Wally 145
18.28m VPLP 18.28m Verdier
18.28m Finot-Conq 19.7m
Felci Design
21.8m White/Koopman 22m
Botín Partners
22.2m Mills Design 24.2m Luca Brenta 28.3m Judel-Vrolijk 44.2m Frers
Quantum Racing 15.18m Botín Partners
www.compositebuilders.com
CDK Haggling
Team Fabrique Persico Marine
Goetz Composites
New England Boatworks MD Technologies
Michael Schmidt Yachtbau Wally Yachts Persico, Italy
Custom Composites
June 2018 Sep 2018 April 2018 July 2018
March 2018 End 2018 2018 2018 2018 2019
April 2018 BUILDER
Piermarine Yachts, Argentina JPK
Philippines/Andrew Fennell Jason Carrington
Cape Racing Yachtss Premier Composites Ocean Tec Slovenia ENATA Dubai See comments See comments See comments King Marine
Front Street Shipyard Knierim Yachtbau
this winter, designed in partnership with America’s Cup foil specialist Mick Kermarec. While in the shed his boat will also undergo a rebuild of the forward half of the hull, removing weight and reshaping the bow to improve performance with the new foils. There will also be changes to the keel and bulb to reflect the latest Imoca stability rules. In their pomp Finot-Conq launched no fewer than 18 Imoca 60s,
making them the most prolific designers in class history. Their boats won the Vendée Globe four times, including two wins for a single Finot design, PRB, in the hands of Mich Desjoyeaux then Vincent Riou. This year does not mark a complete switch of emphasis back to
racing for Finot-Conq’s Vannes studio but it may be remembered as a first step in that direction… It’s an attractive thought.
LAUNCH
Jan 2016 onwards Feb 2018
July 2017 onwards COMMENTS
IRC performer with a super-stylish interior – if we were looking for an IRC pot-hunter… The new Yes! is going to be a very special example of today’s must-have IRC design Swift-looking mid-sized trimaran… with real beds. Available in folding or fixed configuration
March 2018 onwards Two new Fast40s, the latest Rán and boat no3 in the Girls on Film line June 2017 onwards June 2017 onwards Sep 2017 onwards
Fifth-generation Max-RM Class40 from a new yard. Second boat well underway The Carkeek Fast40+ Mk3 followed the family tradition by winning the 2017 championship Development of Teasing Machine. Boat no1 quickly impressed in the Middle Sea Race (3rd)
For Christmas (maybe) Quite aggressive design approach. Now with OD foils, a growing fleet that deserves attention March/April 2018 March/April 2018 March/April 2018 August 2018 June 2018
Expect this new IRC56 to be giving the latest Teasing Machine some competition A possible run of yet another lightweight and fast luxury cat. Lift foils and daggerboards
2017 onwards
Based on Finot-Conq’s Imoca 60 work, very purposeful carbon/Nomex 53-footer heavily race-influenced but designed for long-range cruising with a double-handed crew. The foils are all retractable to maximise shoal access
Jérémie Beyou gets a new sponsor and (finally) his first brand new Imoca 60 Now in the Hugo Boss new boat pipeline but who will get the current boat?
Young Swiss skipper Alan Roura’s trusty 2006 Imoca is gaining foils from Mick Kermarec Whizzy IRC-targeted racer-cruiser. Looks like a mini-Cannonball Very light (17-tonne) all-carbon double una-rig cruiser-racer! The design R&D is almost finished for the new Bella Mente Contemporary performance cruiser, possible series production? There are also a 96 and a 70 on the drawing board. MSY is on a roll Smaller Wally is aggressively styled and reflects the latest Maxi72s
The biggest yet from Persico. Very light at 171 tonnes. Hybrid power for silent running…
One of no fewer than seven new TP52s from the Botín studio, the latest Quantum programme will run alongside the New York Yacht Club America’s Cup challenge – with plenty of crossover in crew and technical development
Alegre/Longitud Cero; Azzurra/King Marine; Luna Rossa/Persico; Onda/King; Phoenix/Persico Quantum/Composite Builders; Sled/Core Composites Platoon/Premier Yachts; Provezza/Persico
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