New Boats Table
The Longtail 30 Our pandemic project was the design and construction of a 30ft daysailer that we call the Longtail. We designed the boat for a Seattle client who has spent much of his life sailing high-perfor- mance boats such as 5o5s and Melges 24s. He is now in his 70s and is looking for a boat that is easy to sail with one or two people but still fast and fun to sail. As a person who is well into the process of ageing out of the International 14 fleet this was a design brief that hit close to home. The formula that we came up with was a narrow, easily driven
hull with a deep high-aspect bulb keel for stability. For light weight, simplicity and reduced waste we used CNC-cut okoume plywood for the hull and internal framing. To minimise the weight of higher VCG items we used resin-infused carbon-skinned foam core lam- inates for the transom, cockpit, deck and house. In the interest of minimising weight aloft we invested in a hybrid high- modulus/ standard modulus carbon rig from C-Tech in New Zealand. All up the lightship weight of the boat is 1,500kg with 850kg of that in the keel. The fabrication of the boat was split between a wooden boatbuilding shop (Emerald Marine), a composite boatbuilding shop (James Betts Enterprises) and myself. We spent a lot of time optimising the deck layout for shorthanded sailing. The boat has a fixed sprit asymmetrical spinnaker with a two-patch takedown line and below-deck takedown chute (à la Int 14), a roller furling self-tacking jib and a narrow headed mainsail with lazy jacks and a centreline permanent backstay. The major sail controls are led back to a central sheet-handling post in the cockpit (which I built from a broken Int 14 sprit I had in my shop). The mainsail coarse and fine-tune are on flip-flop blocks on the aft side of the post and the jib sheet comes up on the forward side.
Custom builds BOAT
Mini Proto Mini Proto Mini Proto Mini Proto Flax 27
Tetley 28 Riptide 30 SK30
5.5 Metre VPLP 40 Lift40-V4
Mach 40.4 MaX 40
Pogo 40S4 M&M 47 TF35
CF520 IRC 52
Wylie 60
Omertà 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 F70
6.5m 6.5m 6.5m 8.2m
LOA DESIGNER 6.5m
Finot-Conq
Guillaume Verdier Romaric Neyhousser Etienne Bertrand
8.48m Richards & Stevenson 9m Bieker Boats 9m Kevin Dibley 9.5ish
Dave Hollom 12.18m VPLP
12.18m Marc Lombard 12.18m Sam Manuard 12.18m David Raison
12.18m Guillaume Verdier 14.33m Morrelli & Melvin 15m
15.76m Carkeek Design Partners 15.8m Carkeek Design Partners 18.28m Tom Wylie 18.28m Mills Design 18.28m Sam Manuard 18.28m Sam Manuard 18.28m VPLP
18.28m Guillaume Verdier 18.28m Guillaume Verdier 18.28m Guillaume Verdier 18.28m Guillaume Verdier 18.28m Juan K (we expect)
Baltic 117 Custom 39.6m Dykstra Naval Architects Wally 145 Y721
127.2m Lenard/Oceanco/Dykstra
21.4m Carkeek Design Partners 44.2m Frers
BUILDER Maxime Sallé
Chantier Structures Lalou Multi
Robin Zinkmann/Judel Vrolijk Greenboats Betts Boats
Yacht Service (Poland) Gold Roman Holdings Owner-built
Composite Craft Multiplast
Brittany and Australia JPS Productions JPS Productions
Structures Shipyard Schooner Creek Boat Works
Out of the paint shop and expected to be sailing in mid-September
Upwind the jib sheet is on the winch mounted to the top of the post. Downwind the 2:1 jib sheet shifts to a cam cleat and the spinnaker sheet takes over the winch. All sail handling can be done without leaving the cockpit. For auxiliary power we are installing a Torqeedo Cruise 4.0 electric
pod drive with a 5,000Wh battery and high-capacity charger. I am particularly excited to use a boat of this size without the hassle and noise of an outboard motor! Paul Bieker, Seattle
LAUNCH COMMENTS Summer 2021
Summer 2021 Summer 2021 Summer 2021
Feb 2020 onwards End 2021 onwards End 2021 Late 2021
Summer 2021 Autumn 2021 Autumn 2021
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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
This sophisticated bilge-keel IRC bandit will soon be available with epoxy/wool/tea construction New Riptide iteration for Peter Heppel. Very slippery, simple water ballast. More on this soon 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 Four sold (quickly) as VPLP enter the Class40 fray. Full-on 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 and at least two more sold Summer 2021 Summer 2021 2021
A one-off development of Crédit Mutuel. Sponsored by Volvo Belgium Boat no1 is now afloat... with five (sic) more boats already on order
Interesting commercial charter catamaran from a design team who know how it’s done
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 Fibre Mechanics Composite Builders Betts Boats Persico
Black Pepper Yachts CDK
Multiplast MerConcept
CDK/MerConcept CDK
Carrington Boats TBC
Persico
Baltic Yachts Persico, Italy Oceanco
June 2021 onwards First boat now racing – fast and glorious. Boat no2 well advanced. A winning IRC yacht 2021 2021 2022 2022 2022 2022 2022
IRC racer-racer-cruiser also with influence from Carkeek’s eye-catching Fast40s Glorious-looking wishbone una-rigged canoe. Best thing we’ve seen for quite a while Not an easy craft to pigeon hole in 2021… and the measurers just can’t wait
Here we go. L’Occitane (now Bureau Vallée 3) was bloody fast and is very easy on the skipper As we said, here we go. And tooling for the new Charal 2 is almost complete Still going… a new Imoca scow for Boris Herrmann and the first from VPLP
Autumn 2021 2022
End 2021 2022 2022
Late 2021 Late 2021 Mid-2022
Maxime Sorel’s new Imoca (Monbana Chocolates/V&B) will be a tweaked Apivia sistership The first Ocean Race Imoca is for 11th Hour Racing – but now also Vendée Globe-proofed Yannick Bestaven’s new boat will be built in France using those same 11th Hour moulds Project now taken over by PRB for Kevin Escoffier’s VG 2024 programme
Arkea Paprec will have a new boat – but have dispensed with the services of Sébastien Simon Just another typical fully foiling 70ft day racer (and daysailer!?!) for three to five crew (sic) 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 Buy yours online… with Prime for a faster, more reliable delivery
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