Design
A very new world!
Forget what you thought you knew about performance cruisers, this rather aggressive-looking beast is anything but average…
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n a world where nearly all new products follow a defined trend, it feels reassuring to know that someone out there has invented a boat that is like nothing else. Shogun 43 is a raised
middle finger to the established mass market. And she is the most ambitious, ambiguous boat imaginable. Have you also spent long evenings
making sketches of your perfect boat? Just to see how it would look, if you could decide all for yourself? And have you also dreamed of how amazing it would be to have someone build this boat – exactly the way you wanted it? That is basically what Shogun Yachts from Sweden has done. At first, the result was a 50-footer by the name of Shogun 50, launched in 2019 and flying a bit under the radar due to the pandemic. Now a smaller sister is born. Its name is Shogun 43. Shortly after the ice released its grip on the freezing Baltic waters northeast of
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Stockholm, the test sail of build no.1 took place. The crew at the yard had to wait for weeks for the ice to finally melt, everyone growing more and more anxious to try out this aggressive looking beast that took a staggering 7,000 hours to build. The owner of Shogun,Mats Bergryd, has
been fortunate to sail a lot of fine vessels through his life, a lot of it happening in the Swedish archipelago. One of the later was a 50ft performance cruiser for racing. He found the performance stunning, but the constant need to provide enough crew quickly became tiring. Also, with a 3.5- metre draught and a very ascetic interior, this was not a perfectmatch for the kind of sailing Bergryd was into: archipelago cruising and some racing,mostly shorthanded. At the same time he didn’t want to lose the extremely satisfying sailing experience that he had become accustomed to and really appreciated. Also, he wanted a beautiful boat.
Something that would turn heads in any harbour. If you want to build a really nice
customised sailing boat, Sweden is not the worst place to start. Ever since GRP leisure boats became a thing in the late sixties, Sweden has been one of the leading nations in the industry. Today the country has a strong, established culture and know-how, and boats built in Sweden are generally considered some of the best boats in the world. Bergryd got in touch with the legendary designer Håkan Södergren, today working with his son Oscar, and asked them if they wanted to be a part of his adventure. Södergren is famous for narrow, fast
coastal cruiser/racers such as SwedeStar, Tarac 33, the Helmsman-series – and also several 5.5 Metre Rule boats. The paralympic 2.4mR is also a Södergren design. The answer was yes. Södergren, father and son, were on the team.
THOMS ENQVIST
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