SH: So what other boats do you own currently… or at least remember! JS: I own a 26ft daysailer, a Sapphire, a sort of Tofinou with a Dutch touch. She is in the Virgin Islands, and also the Sapphire 33 in St Barts. I have just sold a Dragonfly tri- maran – she was not fast enough for me. I have another Grand Soleil 58 but she is for sale as she is too big for me to sail alone, as I like to do. I also have the Grand Soleil 42 in Sardinia. Then last month I bought a sec- ondhand Baltic custom dayboat copied from my old Tomtit. She is a very light (5.8-tonne) 43-footer with no accommodation at all, which was created by Vrolijk for the owner of Baltic Yachts. I also have Paja which is the new very narrow whaleboat, my ‘mini Pioneer’ built by Multiplast, plus Roljack, my 37-footer from Vrolijk. Then there is the little cat boat Freset I already spoke about. On the motorboat side I have an incred-
ible wave-piercer, Enmer, to sell made by a friend who builds lifeboats and pilot boats in Ireland. He had made a custom weapon to cross the Atlantic in a record time. He offered me one too. I said OK. From
the bow she is a small, narrow wave- piercer that as you go aft turns into a cata- maran. With two added hydrofoils of course! We had a Force 9 wind in Ireland and she was going along very well pro- pelled by two big Caterpillar engines. If you are interested I also have for sale
right now another 4x400hp machine, based on a military deep-V (24°) hull, she is fun! Also a Finnish boat, the new Targa 46, which I sometimes cruise with my girlfriend in Greece and Turkey. SH: Is there any logical link between the names of all these boats? JS: It depends: ‘Tomtit’ (the coal-black bird, like Pen Duick in French), I created with German Frers at the yard of La Ciotat, a 15m sailboat in the spirit of the first Pen Duick I of Eric Tabarly. The Ciao Gianni
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Clockwise from top: Setton first appeared on the sailing scene when his André Mauric designed cigar Pioneer was observed cruising (fast) around the Mediterranean in the 1980s. Pioneer carried two large outboards which pushed this 25m yacht along at 17kt. After working closely with Ted Hood on a sail wardrobe suitable for two-handed sailing Setton went on to invest in the Marblehead-based sailmaker; launched last year as a modern interpretation of a whaleboat, Paja was designed by Setton’s friend Paolo Bua; the Rolf Vrolijk-designed 37-footer Roljack; still a favourite, the Frers cat-rigged Freset first went afloat in 2012; built opposite the Seahorse Lymington offices the 90ft Stealth was a genuine groundbreaking design by Frers for Setton’s good friend Gianni Agnelli
was in memory of Gianni Agnelli because we were really the only two people who liked the big daysailers. We shared the same sense of aesthetics. He was as bad as me for choosing our useless boats. This is the first boat I made that he will not have seen. In his memory I called her Ciao Gianni. The names of some of my boats are also
contractions of the architects and Jacky Setton: Freset (Frers-Setton), Paja (Paolo- Jack), the Roljack (Rolf [Vrolijk]-Jack). SH: And yet with all these fast boats you don’t compete? JS: I raced with my friend Yves Oliveaux when he was young. We raced my Carter
33 and then the 39, but I was absolutely useless. No patience, impossible to concen- trate, tired of all the crews… SH: But are you interested in sailing com- petitions? JS: I love the America’s Cup. I remember 30 years ago we made a Formula 40 foil- ing trimaran designed by Marc Lombard. She was going so fast! My problem is that I cannot use a foiler on my own. It’s too critical. Otherwise, I would already have a modern foiler. SH: So you still sail mostly solo? JS: Yes. I work a lot on the deck hardware and deck layout of my sailboats to make it
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