New Boats Table
in association with the Spinlock Special Projects Team Tempted?
Adrian Thompson, Nigel Irens and designer Nic Bailey, it’s nice to have some competent friends to call on when you are building a boat. Now Wiz Deas’s very special tri is for sale
My friend Nic Bailey had designed and built his MTC 40 trimaran a few years before and when I bumped into him working alongside Nigel Irens in the 1990s I was taken by a pretty little racing trimaran he’d designed for a French client, but that had not yet been built. We discussed hull shapes for a new boat and the evolution that
had gone from V sections, through to rounder sections, that although lower wetted surface, slammed horribly, and chatted about a modified form with lower volume aft in the amas (floats) to induce a ‘bow-up’ attitude when pressed, but still with 200 per cent buoyancy and a bit more volume in the main hull for a roomier interior… And I then heard nothing for months. Then one day Nic turned
up out of the blue while I was in Dartmouth with a set of sketches for the MTC 28. And I was lost. And so it was that in my mid-40s I decided to go for it, launching
just 10 years later… and after several thousand mostly enjoyable man-hours. Support from family and friends is everything. I was lucky in that respect. As well as Nic, the designer, I had access to wisdom from the brains of Nigel Irens and Adrian Thompson – both of whom I’d worked with in the 1980s and who were inspirational, to say the least. Also a wonderful mine of information on engineering and feet-on-the-ground realist in the shape of JuIian Smith (Fibre Content). I had a heated shed, enough knowledge but not a large budget and no deadline to finish. All the ingredients were there or near… The design is lightweight,
powerful, modern. I wanted it to be demountable for winter storage, but not a ‘trailer-sailor’. Fast was really what it is all about and she will go like greased lightning inshore (I don’t like being out of sight of land) without needing more than a couple of crew. The boat when finished had a secondhand aluminium Firebird rig
and it was never slow, but this year I’ve completed, with a little help from my friends at Independent Composites, possibly the stiffest high-modulus carbon mast ever seen on a boat of this type. And the transformation in terms of performance is astonishing. She’s all carbon/epoxy/Airex foam sandwich and light (827kg all up) because of my obsession with keeping it so at every step
Custom builds BOAT
Mini 6.50 Proto Mini 6.50 Proto Cape 40
Mach 40.4 Carlini 43 Tison 48 TF35
Oceantec 50 Botín 56
Lombard 57 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 MD62
Flying Ahead IRC85
Swan 125 Wally 145
6.5m
LOA DESIGNER 6.5m
Finot-Conq Thomas Tison
12.12m Owen Clarke 12.18m Sam Manuard 13.1m
Carlini Design
14.54m Thomas Tison (and Airbus) 15m
15.15m Humphreys Yacht Design 16.9m 17.1m
Botín Partners Marc Lombard
18.28m Juan Yacht Design 18.28m Sam Manuard 18.28m VPLP-Verdier
18.28m Juan Yacht Design 18.8m Alejandro Bottino 24m
Banque Populaire XI 30.3m Macif 2
37.9m Baltic 146 Custom 44.6m
25.75m Botín Partners 30.3m
VPLP 44.2m Frers
Chaves & Bottino VPLP/Banque Pop Juan Kouyoumdjian Judel/Vrolijk
BUILDER Maxime Sallé
Knierim Yachtbau Cape Racing Yachts JPS Productions
Piermarine Argentina Multiplast/Jan Bruegge
Redondo/Kramers/May/Dubois Heol/Multiplast/Lorima Ocean Tec Slovenia King Marine ‘Shortly’
CDK/Multiplast Black Pepper Kaïros
Europe... Maxi Dolphin
MCP Yachts Brazil King Marine
Multiplast-CDK Multiplast-CDK Nautor’s Swan Persico, Italy Baltic Yachts
of the way. For example, all three hull skin laminates are laid in one piece, longitudinally with no overlaps. The main hull is laminated with a super-wide 2.5m carbon Biax, taking care of the torsional loads between the beams, that allows for a nice doubling only along the keel line where it interleaves a band of unidirectional tape for fore-and aft stiffness. No other overlaps are required as it runs com- pletely in one piece to the hull/deck join. Other strategic reinforce- ments by way of beam connections and so on were all vacuum bagged, with the whole being lightly baked and then, when in primer, the primary structure placed in a giant bubble-wrap tent for a complete post-cure. This was the night I slept in the workshop. I’ve discovered the truth is that I’m more the builder than the
sailor. She has really hardly been used at all and has been molly- coddled all her life on her mooring in south Devon. Time for her, and me, to move on, I feel. Drop me a line if you are interested. Wiz Deas, Devon
LAUNCH Nov 2019
End 2019 2017 onwards COMMENTS
Scow hull, foils, daggerboards, telescoping canting keel, rudder T-foils and, and, and… Full toyshop: scow hull, big foils and a stonking-looking rig. Not ready for the Transat, though A lot of Class40 for circa 375,000 euros
August 2019 onwards Sam Manuard takes the Class40 scow battle to Monsieur Raison July 2019 onwards Now 2020...
Contemporary-looking shorthanded tool par excellence… but with a full (but light) interior (Still late). Spruce hull, carbon structure and deck all weighing just eight tonnes
August 2019 onwards 15m by 11m, massive foils and rig and weighs in at 1,250kg. Tie this puppy down May 2019 onwards March 2020 August 2020 Jan 2020
August 2019 August 2019 Early 2020 Oct 2019 Late 2019 March 2020 Jan 2021 Nov 2020 Late 2019 Late 2019 2021
Spacious and stylish performance cruiser that actually promises some real performance Another optimised IRC racer-cruiser, carefully pitched just above TP52 size Interesting free-range long-distance fast cruiser (emphasis on fast)
Two-time Figaro winner Nicolas Troussel’s Vendée project is managed by Mer Agitée Feel a bit of a scow coming on… top Class40 designer Sam Manuard’s first Imoca Maxime Sorel is now the proud owner of Thomas Ruyant’s boat from the last Vendée Globe Juan K has one more Imoca still to go… this one targeted at The Ocean Race Very sleek new IRC cruiser-racer from an interesting but little-known design studio Interesting performance cruiser with foil-assist for righting moment and pitch-damping At last a dedicated new IRC 80ft racer to take the good fight to Rambler 88 Is there a better supporter of sailing anywhere in the world?
While François Gabart perfects the foils on the current Macif the next is underway Very welcome… the first one-off custom Superyacht from Swan
The biggest yet from Persico. Very light at 171 tonnes. Hybrid power for silent running Big, fast and fruity-looking new cruiser-racer from Rolfie. Will launch regatta ready
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