New Boats Table
in association with the Spinlock Special Projects Team
Flying Nikka Driving with an intense focus at high speed at night in foul weather comes naturally to Roberto Lacorte, when he races his 220mph Dallara at the Le Mans 24 Hours. Racing cars is his other passion beside sailing, managing to compete at the highest level in both sports simultaneously. After four Maxi titles with our 62ft SuperNikka design he decided to explore foils with two Persico 69Fs, winning the inaugural season title and discovering a love for high-speed flying… Excited by the possibility of an offshore-capable flying boat he
tasked us with investigating a pathway to big boat foiling for 2022. As vice-president of the International Maxi Association it clearly had to be able to compete one day in IMA events, so minimum size was set at 18.3m; beyond this it was a clean sheet of paper. The primary goals were an early take-off for racing in the predominantly light winds of the Mediterranean, all-round foiling capability, rather than just at reaching angles, some capacity to continue racing beneath foiling windspeed, and the ability to meet all the Cat 3 criteria for events including the popular 151 Miglia race… created by Lacorte himself. Having been heavily involved in the design and development of the
Imoca scow L’Occitane our usual development partners KND Perfor- mance had plenty of insight into the strengths and limitations of this type of foil geometry. We soon agreed that retractable Imoca-style foils even with a rudder elevator would be too limiting, and that the more versatile AC75 configuration would be required. This would clearly be significantly more challenging for the design team and the crew, opening up a new level of performance where in optimal conditions a 150nm race like the 151 Miglia could be completed in under five hours. The comparison with the AC75 in some ways ends there. If the
AC75 is the F1 of today’s sailing landscape, then the boat needed to race in coastal and offshore races must be closer to Roberto’s Le Mans car: capable of running at consistent averages for extended
Custom builds BOAT
Mini 6.50 Proto Mini 6.50 Proto Mini 6.50 Proto Mini 6.50 Proto Flax 27 SK30
5.5 Metre 5.5 Metre RF 38
VPLP 40 Lift40-V4
Mach 40.4 MaX 40
Pogo 40S4 Abottino 42 M&M 47 TF35
CF520 IRC 52
Omertà 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 MD62
Flying Ahead
LOA DESIGNER 6.5m Finot-Conq
6.5m Guillaume Verdier 6.5m Romaric Neyhousser 6.5m Etienne Bertrand
BUILDER Maxime Sallé
Chantier Structures Lalou Multi
8.2m Robin Zinkmann/Judel Vrolijk Greenboats 9m Kevin Dibley 9.5ish Dave Hollom 9.5ish Steve Quigley 11.6m Felci Yachts 12.18m VPLP
12.18m Marc Lombard 12.18m Sam Manuard 12.18m David Raison
12.18m Guillaume Verdier 13m
Abottino Design 14.33m Morrelli & Melvin
Yacht Service (Poland) Owner-built
Composite Craft David Heritage RF Yachts Multiplast
Brittany and Australia JPS Productions JPS Productions
Structures Shipyard ML Boats
15m Redondo/Kramers/May/Dubois Heol/Multiplast/Lorima/Decision August 2019 onwards 15m by 11m, massive foils and rig and weighs in at 1,250kg. Tie that puppy down 15.76m Carkeek Design Partners 15.8m Carkeek Design Partners 18.28m Mills Design
Schooner Creek Boat Works Fibre Mechanics
Spain Persico
18.28m Guillaume Verdier 18.28m Guillaume Verdier 18.8m Alejandro Bottino
Baltic 68 Café Racer 21.18m Javier Jaudenes Ice 70
21.2m Felci Yachts 24m
Chaves & Bottino
Banque Populaire XI 30.3m VPLP/Banque Pop An Ultim (ex-Macif) 30.3m VPLP Swan 125
Baltic 146 Custom 44.6m Judel/Vrolijk
Baltic 117 Custom 39.6m Dykstra Naval Architects Wally 145
37.9m Juan Kouyoumdjian 44.2m Frers
CDK/MerConcept Carrington Boats Maxi Dolphin Baltic yachts Ice Yachts
MCP Yachts Brazil Multiplast/CDK
Spring 2021 Feb 2021 2022 2021
On hold Early 2021
Summer 2021 Early 2021 2021 2021
Multiplast/CDK/Fibre Mechanics 2021 Nautor’s Swan Baltic Yachts Persico, Italy Baltic Yachts
2021 2021 2021 2021
IRC racer-racer-cruiser with influence from Carkeek’s eye-catching Fast40s Not an easy ‘craft’ to pigeon hole in early 2021… but at least now you know Verdier Imoca for The Ocean Race for 11th Hour Racing For sale: half-built boat for The Ocean Race, buyer collects
Impressive-looking IRC cruiser-racer from an interesting but little-known design studio We know it looks stunning… and incorporates flax and wicker in the build Boat no1 of a series build of a new and stylish carbon lift-keel racer-cruiser Interesting performance cruiser with foil-assist for righting moment and pitch-damping All the pieces are now beginning to come together at das submarine base… The hulls are now all at HQ in Lorient while François Gabart hits the boardrooms The first one-off custom Superyacht from Swan. One to look forward to
Gorgeous. Classic pilot cutter looks allied with modern design and heavy eco focus The biggest yet from Persico. Very light at 171 tonnes. Hybrid power for silent running Big, fast and fruity-looking new cruiser-racer from Rolf. Should launch regatta ready
periods of time in a much wider range of conditions. Our job is to produce an endurance three-point foiler, able to sail in a wide range of wind speeds including sub-foiling and robust enough not to require an AC shore team working overnight to prepare it for sailing. Weight is the largest obstacle to successful foiling, requiring very
high-quality engineering and construction implemented in ways to deliver a suitable factor of safety and reasonable service life. Such a trade-off is reflected throughout this programme: highly responsive control systems need to be easy to install and maintain, a deep and powerful sailplan must become a very flat, low-drag sailplan instantly and capable of major alterations in area by a limited number of crew. We are now well into these decisions with a team including KND,
Pure Engineering, headed by Giovanni Belgrano, foil specialist Nat Shaver and aero development from North Design. We are using AC75 design tools including Team NZ’s Dan Bernasconi’s Gomboc VPP. We also follow AC75 developments closely… paying special attention to where not to go in our bid to produce an endurance foiler. Mark Mills, Ireland
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LAUNCH COMMENTS April 2021
May 2021 May 2021 May 2021
Finot are back. Scow hull, foils, telescoping canting keel, rudder T-foils and, and, and… There was no way Verdier was going to miss out on some more Mini foilers It’s the full pile-on now that the Minis have officially gone foiling (reliably)
Feb 2020 onwards The things you can do with plants, cork and recyclable Sicomin GreenPoxy resin. Nice effort June 2021 April 2021 April 2021 End 2020 July 2021 April 2021
August 2019 onwards A class 24-hour record in its first race… three launched to date with more sold March 2021
March 2021 onwards Boat no1 is for Olympic pole vault gold medallist Jean Galfione. Enquiries are flourishing! Spring 2021 2021
A one-off development of Crédit Mutuel. Sponsored by Volvo (Belgium) Sleek and rapid-looking fast-cruising cat. They just keep a-coming
Interesting commercial charter catamaran from a design team who know how it’s done The first of these more affordable Rán-styled IRC52s includes the water ballast option
Less well known than some rivals but Bertrand has designed some of the fastest Mini ‘skiffs’ An interesting new take on a small offshore racer. Canting keel plus twin daggerboards
Strong 5.5 revival going on with Mader also turning out a fast turnkey Séb Schmidt design A second new UK 5.5 doubles the size of the embryonic Cowes fleet (OK, plus an oldie or two) A nice-looking new IRC/ORC design from a new Brazilian yard – one to watch VPLP enter the Class40 market. Second boat already sold and tooling for a production run The new Lift40 is much more scow. Two boats building on opposite sides of the globe
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