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Custom designs Hard to believe
… but several decades before today’s superb big high-performance cruising multihulls were even thought of, back in the mid-1960s came Tornado gold medallist Reg White’s magnificent Iroquois
Right: this Mk II survived.
An immaculate Caribbean-based Mk I (below)
Iroquois was just one of the 300 or so boat tests I did. It was a great day out of Brightlingsea with a good breeze and Reg White himself onboard to show us around. Now the thing about the MK I Iroquois was that it would regularly fly a hull and was duly fitted with a masthead buoyancy device in case of a capsize – and they did capsize on the odd occasion. The Mk II was not supposed to exhibit these traits. Reg, having settled things down and assured himself that I had
some idea of how to sail, left me on the helm. He went below to stoke up a brew and organise some food. Meantime my picture man is snapping away taking arty shots over the transom, when he suddenly calls out: ‘Hey! The wake’s gone from the weather hull!’ Well, I’ve never seen someone emerge from below as fast as Reg
did, grabbing the mainsheet from my hand and de-powering the beast as fast as possible. That wasn’t supposed to happen apparently; Iroquois Mk IIs were not designed to fly a hull. Well, what did I know?!! Julian Everitt
The Iroquois Mk 1 catamaran designed by Rod Macalpine-Downie was arguably one of if not the world’s first truly high-performance ‘cruising’ multihulls. Rod was, among other successes, the designer of multiple Little America’s Cup cats in the form of C-Class’s Hellcat, Emma Hamilton and, most famously, the all-conquering Lady Helmsman. The Iroquois was a direct descendant of this racing lineage and
was quick and just ever so slightly hairy at times. In an attempt to calm things down a bit, the builders, Sailcraft – headed up by none other than multihull superstar Reg White – commissioned Rod to pen a heavier and more fitted-out Mk II version. In my days as a journalist on Yachting and Boating Weekly the
Custom builds BOAT
Flax 27
Chase Zero 5.5 Metre TF35 Fly40 AC40
Musa 40 Raison 40 Clak 40
Dibley 40 Lift40-V2/3
Mach40.5 V2 MaX 40 V2
Pogo 40S4 V2 LOA DESIGNER BUILDER
8.2m Robin Zinkmann/Judel-Vrolijk Greenboats 10m Team New Zealand 10.1m Dave Hollom
Owner view My dad bought a Mk I in late August 1966. After she was launched, during the acceptance trial sail, a leak showed up at the bottom front of the port centreboard case. The boat was hauled and the area prepped and reinforced that night, the starboard side was not reinforced. We left Brightlingsea two days later and on 5 September we survived a Force 10 storm in the Straits of Dover. Never had any issues with the boards and cases in the 11 years
we tried to bust that boat! Her second owner, Paul Smedley, circumnavigated in her. She was called Alledaand, to my knowledge, was the only Mk I to do so. Wonderful little boat. Anarchist Boardhead!
q LAUNCH COMMENTS
Sangiorgio/Persico/McConaghy 2022 onwards Composite Craft
McConaghy, China
Sangiorgio Marine, Genoa Gepeto Composites Multiplast
Carbon Developments NZ Gepeto Composites JPS Productions JPS Productions
Lyman Morse 46 13.95m Kevin Dibley Vismara V48 Vintage 14.6m Vismara/Villani TP52 TP52 RP52
Infiniti DSS 52 IRC 52 IRC 54
M&M 55 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 AC75s
Wally 145 Project 404 Ferrari V-100
Structures Shipyard Lyman Morse
15.85m Botín Partners 15.85m Judel-Vrolijk 15.85m Reichel/Pugh 15.85m Hugh Welbourn 15.85m Botín Partners
16.35m Carkeek Design Partners 16.7m Morrelli & Melvin 18.28m VPLP
18.28m Farr/Bertrand/Dupont 22.73m Various 44.2m Frers
59.7m Malcolm McKeon 30.6m Guillaume Verdier
Vismara Marine Concepts King Marine, Valencia TBC
Sail GP Technologies McConaghy Boats Sail GP Technologies Carrington Boats
Schooner Creek Boat Works Airbus and friends Alva Yachts
Persico/Soldini/Ferrari
10.6m Redondo/Kramers/May/Dubois Heol/Multiplast/Lorima/Decision August 2019 onwards 15m by 11m, massive foils and rig and just 1,250kg. But complex systems working a treat 11.8m Caponnetto Hueber/Pure Design Persico 12.12m Team New Zealand 12.18m Gianluca Guelfi 12.18m David Raison 12.18m VPLP
2023 onwards 2023 onwards
2023 onwards 2023 onwards 2024
12.18m Kevin Dibley 12.18m Marc Lombard 12.18m Sam Manuard 12.18m David Raison
12.18m Guillaume Verdier
2023 onwards 2022 onwards 2023 onwards 2023 onwards 2022 onwards Late 2024 2024 2024 2024 2024 2024 2024 2024 2024 2024
Decision, Multiplast, Persico etc 2024 Persico, Italy Royal Huisman
2024 2024
End 2024
Autumn 2021 onwards Four sailing – now just waiting for someone to order no5. This ship may have sailed? 2024
Quick (especially VMG) and keenly priced. Now into the mid-teens
A sailor’s yacht. Cold-moulded Douglas fir/Western red cedar. Yacht design is back to art Very classically modern… retro styled with the rig (almost) hanging off the back Ultim style The new Alegre and Platoon will share much of the same tooling… though definitely not all of it A new 52 for the anonymous undisclosed delightful team that surprised everyone this year All-carbon high-performance push-button racer-cruiser from the ex-Core Composites team Transpac podium put this 52-footer back on track… Now it’s over to McConaghy Full-on no-compromise IRC racer. Looks like a TP52 with the sharp edges knocked off Hmm. French owner and a blend of Ino Noir and Rán 8 for AC 2025… (the Cowes one) Large-capacity commercial charter catamaran for Maui… 149-person large capacity! Armel Tripon’s new Imoca reusing carbon offcuts from Airbus (a genuine green effort) Doomed or dormant? Jörg Riechers’ partnership with a German electric yacht brand… Woo woo. Expect to see four new AC75s carefully dissected in your next issue The biggest yet from Persico. Very light at 171 tonnes. Hybrid power means silent running Aluminium hull, carbon superstructure… and a sloop (money saver)
100ft AC75-style foiler, probably with removable bulb keel for oceanic record breaking
New Zealand joins the Class40 in earnest with a sensible but pretty futuristic new offering No199 came out with a V-section lower bow. Marc Lombard left big shoes to fill Manuard’s second Class40 scow is no beauty but still selling like hot cakes Mr Scow himself’s latest series-built offering
Feb 2020 onwards Plants, cork and recyclable Sicomin GreenPoxy resin. A good effort but more interest needed Every AC syndicate must buy or build one. A surprising number are building their own Faster in a breeze, some rig tweaks will sort the light-air pace of Hollom’s latest 5.5
One-design mini AC75… For those for whom the RC44 became, well, a bit of a yawn really Strike One! Now Luca Rizzotti is keen to hear from more bullish and well-resourced buyers Three launched, more sold… Today’s all-round Class40 of choice but supply is tight New Raison designs for Jonas Gerckens and Crédit Mutuel skipper Ian Lipinski
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