New Boats Table Splash! For that this new 70-footer surely will… yacht design is getting exhaustingly interesting
‘Seventy feet has been deliberately chosen as the starting size in the mid-range most able to provide an optimal all-round solution for this brief. It keeps crew numbers low and offers genuine dual-purpose use while keeping an eye on cost and the bigger picture…’ So said designer Shaun Carkeek at the launch of his latest ‘high’-performance project, working with the exceptional Italian boatbuilders at Persico Marine. The designers and builders involved in this spectacular project
can be forgiven a little hyperbole, though suggesting a fully flying 70-footer sailed by four to five people is a suitable tool for slipping some casual daysailing in between breaking course records suggests a level of casual daysailing we have yet to experience. But this is a formidable partnership. Persico have a fine record
of successfully delivering immaculately finished high performance and highly technical yachts, ranging from 60 to 145ft in length, not least including the two Luna Rossa AC75s of Luna Rossa which were universally admired for the quality of their engineering and finish – as well as their excellent reliability on the race course. Carkeek, meanwhile, has given us some of today’s most inno-
vative mid-range racers, to the extent that his final Fast40, Rán VII, was so far ahead of its rivals that the Rán team later tried to slow her down by reducing RM in an effort to keep the others interested. (A laudable gesture but Rán VIIwas too much better in every area.) Bearing that Fast40 approach in mind, when the F70 flying mono-
hull is described as Carkeek’s response to a dual-purpose foiling yacht, then, as with Rán VII, this big foiler was always going to be quite unlike anything that has gone before. The F70’s (big) main foils combined with the rudder T-foils are designed to fly the yacht at 10 TWS, while a unique foil solution
Custom builds BOAT
Mini Proto Mini Proto Mini Proto Mini Proto Flax 27 SK30
5.5 Metre 5.5 Metre RF 38
VPLP 40 Lift40-V4
Mach 40.4 MaX 40
Pogo 40S4 Abottino 42 M&M 47 TF35
CF520 IRC 52
Omertà 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60
Flying Ahead
6.5m 6.5m 6.5m 8.2m 9m
9.5ish 9.5ish 11.6m
that allows the appendages to be tucked away means that even with its huge foils the boat can be berthed in the normal way. Meanwhile, for that ‘dual-purpose use’, the target displacement of 10,000kg still allows for a galley, shower and toilet. Persico now know all the numbers for a big foiling design like
this, having supplied the foil arms to all of the current-generation AC75s; after some early issues and an engineering rethink their final AC75 product proved flawless in Auckland. Yes, there were some control issues in New Zealand, but these were usually down to the management of electrons and not the complex Persico foil arms that were keeping those six-tonne Cup boats in the air. As you’d expect, the F70 will feature many of those same control
systems refined on the AC75s, something that should at least partially reassure potential buyers (boat one is already sold to a well-known Italian yachtsman). The windscreen sticker for this one reads: ‘A stylish, simple,
strong, safe and highly competitive foiling yacht, offering a seamless transition between day sailing and racing modes’. If it does what it says on the tin, then keelboat world is about to change yet again. Hard to keep up… even for the Seahorse crew.
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in association with the Spinlock Special Projects Team
LOA DESIGNER 6.5m
Finot-Conq
Guillaume Verdier Romaric Neyhousser Etienne Bertrand
Robin Zinkmann/Judel Vrolijk Kevin Dibley Dave Hollom Steve Quigley Felci Yachts
12.18m VPLP
12.18m Marc Lombard 12.18m Sam Manuard 12.18m David Raison
12.18m Guillaume Verdier 13m
Abottino Design
14.33m Morrelli & Melvin 15m
15.76m Carkeek Design Partners 15.8m
Carkeek Design Partners
18.28m Mills Design 18.28m Sam Manuard 18.28m Guillaume Verdier 18.28m Guillaume Verdier
Baltic 68 Café Racer 21.18m Javier Jaudenes F70 F50
Banque Populaire XI 30.3m AM101 (ex-Macif) Swan 125
30.3m 37.9m
Baltic 146 Custom 44.6m
21.6m Morrelli & Melvin and friends Core Composites 24m
21.4m Carkeek Design Partners Chaves & Bottino
VPLP/Team Banque Pop VPLP
Juan Kouyoumdjian
Baltic 117 Custom 39.6m Dykstra Naval Architects Wally 145
44.2m Frers Judel/Vrolijk
BUILDER Maxime Sallé
Chantier Structures Lalou Multi
Yacht Service (Poland) Greenboats Owner-built
Composite Craft David Heritage RF Yachts Multiplast
Brittany and Australia JPS Productions JPS Productions
Structures Shipyard ML Boats
Schooner Creek Boat Works Persico
Black Pepper Yachts CDK/MerConcept Carrington Boats Baltic yachts Persico
MCP Yachts Brazil Multiplast/CDK
LAUNCH May 2021
May 2021 May 2021 May 2021
Feb 2020 onwards June 2021 May 2021 May 2021 End 2020 July 2021 July 2021
COMMENTS
Finot are back. Scow hull, foils, telescoping canting keel, rudder T-foils and, and, and… There was no way Verdier were going to miss out on some more Mini foilers It’s the full pile-on now that the Minis have officially gone foiling (reliably)
Less well known than some rivals but Bertrand has designed some of the fastest Mini ‘skiffs’ The things you can do with plants, cork and recyclable Sicomin GreenPoxy resin An interesting new take on a small offshore racer. Canting keel plus twin daggerboards Healthy 5.5 revival going on with Wilke also turning out their fast turnkey Séb Schmidt design A second new UK 5.5 (in cedar core too) brings the modern Cowes fleet up to three A nice-looking new IRC/ORC design from a new Brazilian yard – one to watch VPLP enter the Class40 fray. Boat 2 is sold and tooling is ready for a full production run The new Lift40 is much more scow. Two boats building on opposite sides of the globe
August 2019 onwards A class 24-hour record in its first race… three sailing with two more sold June 2021
March 2021 onwards Boat no1 is for pole vault Olympic gold medallist Jean Galfione. With more to follow… June 2021 Late 2021
A one-off development of Crédit Mutuel. Sponsored by Volvo Belgium Sleek and rapid-looking fast-cruising cat. They just keep a-coming
Redondo/Kramers/May/Dubois Heol/Multiplast/Lorima/Decision August 2019 onwards 15m by 11m, massive foils and rig and weighs in at 1,250kg. Tie that puppy down Fibre Mechanics Spain
June 2021 June 2021 2022
May 2021 onwards! Aug 2021 Late 2021
Summer 2021 Early 2022 May 2021 2021
Multiplast/CDK/Fibre Mechanics Sep 2021 Nautor’s Swan Baltic Yachts Persico, Italy Baltic Yachts
2021 2021 2021
July 2021 2021
Interesting commercial charter catamaran from a design team who know how it’s done The first of the relatively affordable Rán-styled IRC52s includes the water ballast option
IRC racer-racer-cruiser also with influence from Carkeek’s eye-catching Fast40s Not an easy craft to pigeon hole in early 2021… but certainly one for the measurers So here we go. L’Occitane is plain bloody fast – is every other Imoca about to be obsolete? The first Ocean Race Imoca 60 special is (indeed) for 11th Hour Racing The former Switchback is underway again – with tooling ready for a follow-up We know it looks stunning… and incorporates flax and wicker in the build Just another typical fully foiling 70ft day racer (and daysailer!?!) for 3-5 crew (sic) The new F50 for Burling and Tuke should be ready for that first SailGP event of 2021… Interesting performance cruiser with foil-assist for righting moment and pitch-damping Three blue hulls and their beams have now all met in person
Gabart’s hulls are also in Lorient with Macif ensuring that the boat is completed (to sell) The first one-off custom Superyacht from Swan. One to look forward to
Gorgeous. Classic pilot cutter looks allied with modern design and heavy eco focus The biggest yet from Persico. Very light at 171 tonnes. Hybrid power for silent running Big, fast and fruity-looking new cruiser-racer from Rolf. Should launch regatta ready
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