New Boats Table First of many? A purpose-designed IRC scow is up and running (in France of course)
Working in La Rochelle in partnership with foil specialist Kevin Arnaud, Antoine Mainfray is slowly making a name for himself as an innovative designer and builder of small performance boats. In the past known best for working with other builders and race
programmes, contributing to Volvo Ocean Race winner Groupama 4 and to Imocas including the previous Hugo Boss, Mainfray also previously worked at Marsaudon Composites in Lorient and with Class40 designer-du-jour Sam Manuard. Currently he has in build a Mini 6.50 that makes extensive use
of bamboo fibres, while Mainfray is also designer and builder at his Interface factory of several environmentally sensitive dinghies and mini-keelboats of between 18 to 25ft. All hand-crafted in plywood-epoxy, with carbon reinforcement, but similarly employing bamboo bio-composite elements wherever possible. In late 2021 Mainfray was approached by a former Mini 6.50
client looking to build a slightly larger boat with good seakeeping characteristics and competitive under IRC… but also with a sensible fit-out for some local cruising. The commission tied in nicely with the increasing attention the
La Rochelle designer had been paying to the evolution of the dual- purpose designs used for the many Transquadra events, for skippers over the age of 40. With the scow influence creeping into this fleet too – which competes under IRC – the time felt right to push harder in this direction with an experimental new IRC 30-footer. ‘The lines of our prototype were strongly influenced by the Imoca
scows and even more so by the latest generation of Class40s,’ says Mainfray. ‘However, for this recently launched Ace 30 I could
Custom builds BOAT
Mini Madness Flax 27
Riptide 30 Mauri Rocket
ETNZ Hydrogen Fly40 AC40
VPLP 40 Lift40-V4 Mach40.4 Mach40.5 MaX 40
Pogo 40S4 TF35
CF520
Infiniti 52 M&M 55 Wylie 60
Flying Nikka Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60
not use bamboo fibres as well; there is so much else that is new about the design that we needed to limit experimentation with the first boat if we were to learn as much as possible about employing the scow genre in the IRC system.’ Instead the hull and main structure are primarily in plywood-
epoxy, but with a composite coachroof used to lower the CoG. Similarly Mainfray’s Ace 30 is fitted with an IRC-favourable straight keel with no bulb. Dry displacement is light at 2,700kg, and with that reasonable seagoing interior. As requested. ‘Initial sailing trials have been encouraging,’ says the designer.
‘She is certainly very stiff, in terms of both mechanical stability and dynamic stability once moving at any speed. ‘The boat’s lightness plus the spatulated bow allows it to maintain
good average speeds downwind in waves, without jolting or violent decelerations. And like her bigger Class40 sisters she also stays pretty dry on deck – for most of the time…’
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LOA DESIGNER 6.5m David Raison
9.2m Team New Zealand 10m Team New Zealand
12.18m Marc Lombard 12.18m Sam Manuard 12.18m Sam Manuard 12.18m David Raison
12.18m Guillaume Verdier
BUILDER Various
8.2m Robin Zinkmann/Judel Vrolijk Greenboats 9m Bieker Boats
Betts Boats TNZ
11.8m Caponnetto Hueber/Pure Design Persico 12.12m Team New Zealand 12.18m VPLP
15m 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 15.76m Carkeek Design Partners
TNZ/Toyota/Hexagon Purus McConaghy, China Australia/Britanny Charlie Capelle/JPS Structures Shipyard Fibre Mechanics
Multiplast
JPS Productions JPS Productions
15.8m Hugh Welbourn-Infiniti Yachts Composite Builders/Persico 16.7m Morrelli & Melvin 18.28m Tom Wylie 18.28m Mills Design 18.28m David Raison 18.28m Sam Manuard 18.28m VPLP 18.28m VPLP
Multiplast
18.28m Sam Manuard 18.28m Sam Manuard
18.28m Farr/Bertrand/Dupont 18.28m Guillaume Verdier 18.28m Guillaume Verdier 18.28m Guillaume Verdier
Baltic 111 Custom 34m Wally 145 Project 405 Project 404 Y721
Airbus and friends Black Pepper Yachts Black Pepper Yachts Alva Yachts MerConcept CDK
Persico 44.2m Frers
46.8m Reichel/Pugh/Nauta 59.7m Malcolm McKeon
127.2m Lenard/Oceanco/Dykstra
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 Oceanco
Schooner Creek Boat Works Betts Boats King Marine CDK CDK
2021 onwards 2021 onwards 2023 2022 2022 2023 2022 2022 2023 2022 2023 2022 2022 2022 2022 2023 2023 2023 2022 2022 2022 2022
Boat no2 (Rán) is sailing. The absolute donkey’s. Turnkey IRC flyer. Offshore too Confidence: boat 1 sinks following a collision… a replacement is ordered within 10 days Large-capacity commercial charter catamaran for Maui… 149-person large capacity! Glorious-looking wishbone una-rigged canoe. Best thing we’ve seen for a while The flying creature is flying and on ‘sea trials’. Unbelievably fast build
Jean Le Cam is working on a new non-foiling VG Imoca… allegedly with twin-leeboards The floodgates opened immediately – Charal 2 set to be next out of the trap Pouring through… a new Imoca scow for Boris Herrmann and the first from VPLP The real deal… Armel Tripon will build his new Imoca using carbon ‘offcuts’ from Airbus The current boat is long sold and Sam Davies has a new Imoca for 2024 And Black Pepper are building another on spec (yours at ⇔5million)
Jörg Riechers has put a new project together with this German luxury electric yacht brand Maxime Sorel’s new Imoca (Monbana Chocolates/V&B) will be a tweaked Apivia sistership Yannick Bestaven’s new boat is being built using the 11th Hour moulds
A massively deserving Paul Meilhat gets a new Imoca from tweaked LinkedOut tooling Arkéa Paprec have a new boat – Yoann Richomme replaces Sébastien Simon as skipper A perfectly timed TJV victory – Thomas Ruyant gets a new LinkedOut (Arkéa design-sister) After Baltic’s Café Racer this might be even more beautiful… a 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! The new superyacht benchmark Getting there… the Amazon Prime of superyachts is now well into rigging and fit-out
LAUNCH COMMENTS 2022
Feb 2020 onwards The things you can do with plants, cork and recyclable Sicomin GreenPoxy resin 2022 2022 2022 2022 2022
Autumn 2021 onwards Four bought (then a pause to knock out some more Imocas) Autumn 2021 onwards Lombard’s latest Lift40 is grunty and much more scow. Going fast too August 2019 onwards A class 24-hour record in its first race… but soon to give way to the… June 2022
Autumn 2021 2021 onwards
The original ScowMan is working hard to protect his position with several new designs New Riptide iteration for Peter Heppel. Very slippery, simple water ballast. More on this soon
Glenn Ashby persuades TNZ to have a go at Richard Jenkins’ record (35:65 – ed) They say you’ve all ‘got to’ buy one… we doubt that. First one is, however, up and running One-design mini AC75… which we think will fly in every sense of the word
Eight on order (allegedly) and boat 1 goes afloat in June. Being marketed outside the Cup too
As JPS pump out the 40.4s Luke Berry gets his richly deserved first new Class40 Another development of Crédit Mutuel. A reliably fast series-built performer Excellent TJV debut for boat 1… Next available delivery slot is now 2024
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