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Design Insight The best yet?


Dripping with custom features and with wireless control throughout the yacht the latest Morrelli & Melvin-designed HH66 cat from Hudson Yacht Group was created with one particular emphasis in mind... performance


For a few years now, Hudson Yacht Group has been the genre-leader in performance luxury offshore catamarans by combining innovative design from Morrelli & Melvin with outstanding raceboat build quality driven by veteran boat builder Paul Hakes and his team at the Hudson Yacht Group facility in Xiamen, China. Even with a brief interruption due to the virus precautions, this massive operation is still in gear to deliver on its years-long order book of the full range of HH models: the HH50, HH55, HH66 and largest model to date, the HH88.


With some customisation details found in each, all these models nonetheless still consistently deliver on the basic Hudson Yacht Group promise of high-tech design, practical utility and performance in sailing, comfort for the owner, crew and guests, and high construction quality and aesthetics appropriate for this elevated class of yachts.


The latest model to exit the shop doors in Xiamen is possibly the most exciting built to date: HH 66 hull number five (which is technically hull number four), built for a US-based client who has a particular focus on performance but not so much to sacrifice core values in non-racing leisure use.


The day-racing circuit in the performance catamaran sector


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has been growing steadily, with many entries in several races and regattas held throughout the Caribbean in the winter and numerous events in the Mediterranean in the summer. These are turning out to be more than just sunny holidays: the scene is now sprinkled with new designs, pro sailors and owners, all hungry to win. The scene has evolved to now be quite competitive, so much so that even as a veteran of more than a few America’s Cup cycles, Hudson Yacht Group designer Gino Morrelli remarked, ‘sometimes I wish we could slow down the arms race!’ Nonetheless, some big cat owners love sailing their boats enough to stretch their racing interests from day races to longer contests, such as the offshore 600-mile classics like the Newport-Bermuda, the Fastnet, and the Caribbean 600 races, in addition to much longer adventures like the ARC transatlantic race, the Cape to Rio race, the Transpac race to Hawaii and the revived LA-Tahiti Race – at 3570 miles, this race will test the endurance of any boat and team, and what better platform than a luxury performance cat? The genesis of this latest HH66 project may have its roots in sibling rivalry: the owner’s brother has been an active and successful monohull racer for many years, both inshore and offshore, and recently had


Above: HH66 hull number five leaves the paint booth in


Xiamen, China. Itʼs the lightest example yet, and by a wide margin after 1,500 kilos were shaved off the boatʼs displacement by careful attention to detail in all aspects of the build process. Right: it is also the first HH66 fitted with T-foil rudders as well as C-foil daggerboards which further reduce the boatʼs effective displacement under sail


designed and built a custom 53ft carbon multihull that he’s been racing for the last few seasons in the Caribbean. Both brothers have an appreciation and admiration of high technology, which is an important feature in the HH66, but not just for the sake of technology: choices were made to optimise function whilst minimising weight and avoiding any excessive hassle of installation and maintenance.


For example, Paul Hakes explains that the use of wireless technology for the control systems throughout the boat has saved many hours in installation and many kilos in wire and harness weights, yet still remains reliably functional. ‘We worked closely with Wayne Meretsky at Kinetic Scientific for the


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