New Boats Table Honey, I’m home Fabrice Cahierc built a new Ocean Fifty then straight away sold it. Now he’s back for another…
For Fabrice Cahierc it will have been an unusual journey when his second new Ocean Fifty is launched at CDK this spring. Cahierc took delivery of a new VPLP 50 back in 2020, almost immediately selling it to Erwan Le Roux who used the boat – in the colours of digital services company Koesio – to win class in the 2022 Route du Rhum. Meanwhile, Cahierc has been passing time crewing on a mixture of other ocean trimarans, including the Ocean Fifties… the same class he previously left so abruptly. All this time the French skipper has also been treating his
‘trimaran experiences’ as something of a science programme, keeping copious notes and hoovering up knowledge and ideas onboard boats owned by his future potential rivals… Because Cahierc had quietly made a decision to re-enter the class. The newest VPLP 50 looks outwardly similar to its predecessor,
with some external refinements around improving aerodynamics as well as improving protection for the crew. The bigger changes concern how this boat has been engineered and constructed. The 2020 Ocean Fifty that is now Koesio was designed from the
outset as a downwind flyer. The lightest 50 ever built, the boat was configured for offwind courses such as the Transat Jacques Vabre – in the last edition of which Koesio eventually finished as runner-up in the hands of Erwan Le Roux and Class40 expert Xavier Macaire. However, the new boat is no lighter than its skeletal predecessor,
rather the significant build weight that could have been saved with the benefit of three more years of technical development has been reinvested in creating a stiffer, stronger platform that will be better upwind as well as in heavy airs. As mentioned, there is new added focus on the quality of life onboard these fast and exciting but also violent and wet multihulls.
Custom builds BOAT
Flax 27
Riptide 30 Chase Zero 5.5 Metre TF35 Fly40 AC40
Raison 40 VPLP 40 Lift40-V4 Mach40.5 MaX 40 V2 Pogo 40S4 IRC46
Taking more account of the skipper/crew has been a key priority in the Imoca and Ultim fleets for many years now, less so in the Ocean Fifty because the highest-profile class event is the annual series of inshore grand prix. On arrival in Guadeloupe this time the Ocean Fifty skippers were
unanimous that with better protection they could have sailed their boats faster and for longer. A history that includes far too many capsizes in oceanic events also does the class no favours; whether or not that was in part down to sailor fatigue, protecting the crews has certainly now moved up the list of design priorities. With growing confidence the Ocean Fifty is coming of age and
eight good boats started the 2022 Rhum. Interest is boosted with a sensible set of cost controls including a limit of one new set of sails every two years, a ban on carbon construction for new boats and the successful introduction two years ago of one-design foils. Cahierc’s boat came out of the tooling of its predecessor – which
is now carefully stored at CDK for a third boat. An idle thought… Simone Clodelle, Lorient
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LOA DESIGNER
10m Team New Zealand 10.1m Dave Hollom
8.2m Robin Zinkmann/Judel Vrolijk Greenboats 9m Bieker Boats
BUILDER Betts Boats
TNZ/Toyota/Hexagon Purus Composite Craft
12.18m Marc Lombard 12.18m Sam Manuard 12.18m David Raison
12.18m Guillaume Verdier 13.7m Carkeek Design Partners
Lyman Morse 46 13.95m Kevin Dibley Ocean Fifty CF520 RP 52 IRC 52
15.15m VPLP
M&M 55 Wylie 60
Daytime 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60
15.76m Carkeek Design Partners 15.85m Reichel/Pugh 15.85m Botín Partners 16.7m Morrelli & Melvin 18.28m Tom Wylie 18.28m Judel-Vrolijk 18.28m David Raison 18.28m VPLP
18.28m Sam Manuard 18.28m Farr/Bertrand/Dupont
Baltic 111 Custom 34m Wally 145 Project 405 Project 404
McConaghy, China Gepeto Composites Multiplast Brittany
LAUNCH COMMENTS
Feb 2020 onwards Plants, cork and recyclable Sicomin GreenPoxy resin Sea trials
2022 onwards 2023
2023
2022-2023 March 2023
Owner Peter Heppel found designing a new airport for Chicago to be unexpectedly distracting They say you’ve all ‘got to’ buy one… sure you do. Boat 1 looks fine The first Jean Genie follow-up is likely to head to Norway
10.6m Redondo/Kramers/May/Dubois Heol/Multiplast/Lorima/Decision August 2019 onwards 15m by 11m, massive foils and rig and just 1,250kg. And complex systems working a treat 11.8m Caponnetto Hueber/Pure Design Persico 12.12m Team New Zealand 12.18m David Raison 12.18m VPLP
Autumn 2021 onwards After being put on a diet this dramatic Class40 is going better. Four sold Autumn 2021 onwards Well, Yoann Richomme can certainly make one fly…
Charlie Capelle/JPS JPS Productions
Structures Shipyard Carrington Boats Lyman Morse CDK
Fibre Mechanics
Sail GP Technologies Sail GP Technologies
Schooner Creek Boat Works Betts Boats Multiplast Persico
Airbus and friends Black Pepper Yachts Alva Yachts
44.2m Frers
46.8m Reichel/Pugh/Nauta 59.7m Malcolm McKeon
18.28m Antoine Koch/Finot-Conq Multiplast 18.28m Antoine Koch/Finot-Conq Multiplast Botín Partners/Jarkko Jamsén Baltic Yachts Persico, Italy Royal Huisman Royal Huisman
June 2022 onwards Lots of new thinking on Manuard’s second Class40 scow – taking time to learn 2022
Mr Scow is steadily catching up in terms of Class40s built
2021 onwards March 2023 2022 onwards 2023
2021 onwards 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023
Very fast VMG sailing. Figaristes snapped up boats 9, 10 and 11 straight after the Rhum They squeezed everything possible out of an HH42; now a water-ballasted Ino XXXI A sailor’s yacht. Cold-moulded Douglas fir/Western red cedar. In one word: beautiful A development of Route du Rhum winner Koesio. Slowly this class is finally happening Rán is winning muchly. Turnkey IRC flyer and offshore winner. 2023 Fastnet favourite All-carbon high-performance push-button racer-cruiser from the former Core Composites team Full-on no-compromise IRC racer. Looks like a TP52 with the sharp edges rounded out. Cool Large-capacity commercial charter catamaran for Maui… 149-person large capacity! Wishbone una-rigged canoe. Best thing we’ve seen for a while He’s at it again… a new super-slim 60ft dayboat for Jacky Setton Two left-field non-foiling VG Imocas for Eric Bellion and Jean Le Cam Armel Tripon builds his new Imoca using ‘carbon offcuts’ from Airbus Black Pepper still have this one for sale on spec (⇔5million)
Jörg Riechers puts a project together with a German luxury electric yacht brand Arkéa Paprec have a new boat – Yoann Richomme the team’s new VG skipper Perfectly timed Rhum victory – now Thomas Ruyant waits for his new LinkedOut Following on from Baltic’s pretty Café Racer… very contemporary package
The biggest yet from Persico. Very light at 171 tonnes. Hybrid power means silent running The confidence and appetite for giant new sloops are reaching new heights (happy days) Aluminium hull, carbon superstructure… and a sloop. A new benchmark?
One-design mini AC75… For those for whom the RC44 became, well, just a bit of a yawn Still only one sailing and structural revisions have now pushed deliveries back another month New one-off Class40 for ridiculously talented Crédit Mutuel skipper Ian Lipinski
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