Above: ClubSwan 28 under construction in partnership with SRG, combining cutting-edge design with advanced build expertise


based in Pensacola. The ClubSwan 28 will race outside of Pensacola but the centre of operations will be Pensacola. It’s where we will keep the boats, where most of the racing will be. It’s a place that’s becoming more and more a key town for the sailing community. ‘We will be building boats in America, in


partnership with American Magic and the factory will be in Pensacola,’ Pomati says. ‘Then another pillar of our partnership is technological collaboration. As a leading America’s Cup team they have a very strong engineering team behind them, and leveraging their technical expertise will be an important aspect our partnership. And of course their engineering team is based in Pensacola.’ ‘Our role at American Magic is to be a partner for Nautor Swan in promoting the sport of sailing,’ Hutchinson says. ‘There are so many great entities and yacht clubs inside the US that can help build the sport of sailing and bring it to a wider audience. The events, the venues are designed to be fun with good


competitive racing. You really want to strike that balance. When people invest in the sport, invest their time and take time away from their families you want to make sure that they’re getting something for that.


‘I’m confident that the CS28 is going


to deliver a different experience from what we currently have, to make sailing more fun, to do it with your friends and also go out and develop new friendships with competitors alike, which is probably the best part of our sport.’ The first season of ClubSwan racing in


‘The ClubSwan 28 is going to deliver a different experience from what we currently have in the United States’


the US will be a series of eight regattas: six in Florida and two in Rhode Island. The circuit gets under way with monthly regattas in Pensacola –


in February, March and April – before moving north to Newport for regattas in June and July. The racing then migrates south again for autumn, back to Pensacola with regattas in October and early November leading up to the ClubSwan 28 World Championship,


from 10 to 14 November. Establishing the ClubSwan racing


circuit, the new Swan manufacturing facility and evolving the partnership with American Magic is going to be a prime focus for Nautor in the next few years but Pomati also has some other ambitious plans in the pipeline. ‘Our experience so far with our racing


yachts, for example with the ClubSwan 36, is that there is a widespread desire to have an easy boat in terms of logistics,’ he says. ‘That’s the reason we went down the size range when developing the ClubSwan 28 to a point where it’s easy to transport the boats around, to open new venues for regattas and to launch in different parts of the world. The ClubSwan 28 American circuit is the first of these new initiatives but it will be not the only one. ‘Another one that we’ve already started


is to go to the lakes,’ Pomati says. ‘Up until now it’s been very seldom that you see a Swan on a lake. But the ClubSwan 28 is the smallest boat we’ve ever produced, it’s ideal for lake sailing and there are a lot of sailors on the lakes. And also, a point we will focus on for the future is to open the Asian market.’ www.nautorswan.com


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