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Go-anywhere high performance cruiser
Here’s a compelling concept: ice class hull strength and ultimate reliability combinedwith planing performance and obsessive attention to detail
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a new aluminiumboatbuilding company based in Kiel, Germany. The other shareholders are Pure Yachts’ founder Matthias Schernikau and performance optimisation specialist Urs Kohler. Linbergs continues: ‘I had to combine
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cold, rugged aluminium with refined, crafted foam-cored veneers and end up with a product that is lightweight and beautiful. An aluminium yacht that’s just an aluminium yacht is boring. This boat needs to be everything, a rugged, strong exploration yacht, that’s Matthias’ side, it has to have a warm, welcoming interior, which is my side, and it has to be a high- performing cruising yacht, and Urs takes care of that. Combine the three of us and the result should be an exceptional cruising boat. And indeed, the yard’s motto is “think exceptional”, which also means to always go for the best possible solution.’ ‘I don’t like frills,’ says Schernikau with
his customary grin. ‘I want to go one step back and build cruising boats made for
he main challenge was to create a light boat,’ says Ivars Linbergs, a Latvian master boatbuilder and one of three shareholders in Pure Yachts,
the sea rather than harbours or moorings. If you want to be alone with the elements on your boat, you need a reliable machine for sailing. ‘Watermakers, pumps, filters, you have
to be able to maintain them easily,’ he adds. ‘That’s pure sailing. Ask yourself: do I need this for sailing? If you don’t have an answer in three seconds, you don’t need it. Heated floors, espresso machines, you can have it but you don’t need it - and what you really need must be perfect. That, in essence, is Pure Yachts. The
‘To save weight there is nothing that isn’t absolutely necessary’
yard’s first serial yacht, the Pure 42, is a pure sailing machine. Like all the best machines, it’s reliable, robust, well designed, built from quality materials, easy to maintain, and to save weight there’s nothing there that isn’t absolutely necessary. The final criteria of any successful machine is that it performs well, and that is Pure Yachts’ niche in the aluminium market. ‘If you enjoy fast sailing and safe, comfortable cruising, Pure Yachts
gives you both,’ says Schernikau. ‘If a client wants a boat to sail through
the ice, one that’s safe, stable and strong, well built, but not somuch about sailing performance, you don’t need a Pure yacht,’
says Kohler, who spent 25 years at Sirius Yachts, another yacht builder known for its obsession with detail. ‘If you want a boat that does all of that but gives you feedback and is fun to sail, you choose Pure Yachts.’ The Pure 42 features a chined aluminium hull designed by Menzner/ Berckemeyer, hydraulic lifting keel and twin rudders built at the Volmer factory in Holland and trucked to the Pure Yachts yard in Kiel for fitting out. Aluminium was chosen for strength and light weight, because performance is an obsession for Pure Yachts. ‘Performance also gives you safety,
not just fun sailing,’ Kohler continues. ‘You can sail away from leeshores in any conditions, you don’t get waves breaking into the cockpit because the yacht can plane down waves. That’s the difference Pure Yachts brings to the whole aluminium cruising yacht market.’ Let’s look at that data. This is a
13.8m yacht that displaces 9.8 tonnes with 3.3 tonnes of lifting bulb keel ballast at 3m draught (1.2m with the keel lifted for taking the ground). The performance package, which this first hull will have, features a Solent-rigged carbon fibre mast by Marechal with a genoa, self-tacking jib and a square-top main adding up to 108m² of upwind sail area (99m² with a
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