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Last year’s 29th edition was man-aged for the first time by the StormTrysail Club, who introduced somenew features to help attract a grow-ing audience of participants amongboth the serious and the casualhandicap racers. These included aNavigator’s class for cruisers andmultihulls who wished to race onlyonce a day, and two new clubclasses to replace PHRF. Those features will return in January 2017,along with racing on three courseareas for ORC, IRC and the numerous one-design classes whoform the majority of entries.

Of these, the Melges 24s will bea showcase class in 2017, sincethey are coming off their worldchampionship held several weeks

earlier in Miami, with many expectedto return to Florida to compete inKey West. And having attracted 54entries from 11 countries this pastyear, the J70s are expected to offeranother impressive turnout for 2017as well. And as new emergent one-design classes like the C&C 30salso grow and mature, they too areexpected to appear in strength.

‘The new year’s season of racingabsolutely starts for our class withKey West,’ said Dan Cheresh,owner-driver of his C&C 30Extreme2 and the president of theC&C 30 class. ‘I’m from Michigan,and I have to tell you there is nothing better than getting on theplane to escape to Key West in Jan-uary. We have several days to trainand race in the warm weather, a fantastic race committee laying goodcourses, and the winner of the classis always whoever has sailed thebest in our group. We also have agreat time on shore so we are reallylooking forward to 2017.’

But Key West has never been justabout top-end racing. The first entryfor 2017 was JD Hill’s J122 SecondStar, of Seabrook, Texas. ‘We’venever raced there before but theregatta’s been on our bucket list fora while,’ said Hill. ‘We went downand checked out the 25th anniver-sary Race Week and said we’ll dothis one day. It’s got warm water,which my wife wants, and it’s got

good competition,which my crew andI want…’

Further up the sizeand performance scale,the next event will be a featuredstop on the 52 SuperSeries tour,bringing not only the latest high-techdesigns to Key West in the TP52class, but all their assembled talentthat makes this today’s most competitive grand prix class. Thestandards of race and event management required by this classare among the most demanding inthe world, so it’s a nice endorse-ment to have Key West as a regularstop on their world tour.

TP52 class manager Rob Weilandis also a fan: ‘This is the perfectplace for our group. There is a longweek to have a wide variety of conditions, the owners and thecrews really like the ambience here.Plus everyone has fun being part ofa larger event with the other boatsand their teams.’

In a quest to further improve theshoreside experience at the 30thanniversary event, event managerswith the Storm Trysail Club havedecided to move the race village toa large interior space at the Water-front Brewery. This is not only closerto where most of the boats aremoored in the Key West HistoricSeaport and Bight, but the newlocation will give more control duringpoor weather than the previous out-door space. This site will also offerother features for delivering betterentertainment for the sailors andsponsors, such as a large openstage for awards, multiple screensfor photo and video entertainment,dedicated areas for sponsorlounges, and several bars set up tohelp quench post-race thirsts.

‘We learned a lot in our first yearof managing Quantum Key West,’said event chairman John Fisherfrom Storm Trysail, ‘and the feed-back from our entries was both positive and constructive on how toimprove. We’re pleased to act onthese ideas, and are also pleasedabout the ongoing support from ourmost important sponsors, likeQuantum and the Florida Keys, whocontinue to share our vision of deliv-ering the best possible racing onthe water and shoreside fun off it.’keywestraceweek.com �

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Thirty years of fast fun – Quantum Key West 2017

Great boatand gloriousKey Westcolours…2016 saw thefirst classstart for thenew C&C 30,with Bobsledwinning theprize for thebest-lookingpaint scheme.The C&C 30sdo seem to beedging aheadin the battleof the modern30-footersthat haveappearedover the pastthree years.We look forward tohearing thereports aftertheir firstproper offshore contest…

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For the performance-conscious racing sailor there are now realadvantages to be gained by lettingan electric motor take care of boththe driving and recharging require-ments of your yacht. Time wasted atthe filling station becomes a thing ofthe past and, of course, there arethe fiscal benefits of virtually zerorunning costs.

At its base in Vantaa, Oceanvolthas spent over 10 years developingthe latest generation of electricmotors and accompanying shaft andsaildrive units – patented, customgear, specifically designed and builtfor the marine environment.

One of the new features ofOceanvolt’s set-up is the engine andits propeller being used not only todrive the vessel, but for batterycharging too. Compared with transomhydrogenerators, seen on the Imoca60s in the last Vendée Globe, usingthe engine propeller for chargingoffers significant advantages;unfolded, the main propeller is sub-stantially larger and so can generatemore power in less time. It is alsomore likely to remain immersed.

According to Oceanvolt’s AnssiSallinen, another reason this tech -nology has become practical is thefalling price of lithium ion batteries.Among marine batteries there are twofundamental types: engine starter,typically lead-acid which provideshort, high-current bursts, but can bepermanently damaged if discharged

too much, and Deep Cycle batteries,designed to be run down beforebeing recharged. Lithium ion batteriesare the ultimate for deep cycling andcan be discharged down to just 5-10% (as opposed to around 50%,at best, for a lead-acid start battery).

Compared to a lead-acid equivalent, Lithium ion batteries arearound one-quarter the weight, lastthree to four times longer and,importantly, charge substantiallyfaster. As Sallinen points out: ‘If youdrive a Tesla you can recharge yourcar completely in 15 minutes.’

Oceanvolt offer two standard set-ups. Around 60% of sales are ‘pureelectric’, ie with battery charging pro-vided purely by the main propeller-engine. The remainder are ‘hybrids’,with a back-up DC generator.

‘With a full charge the range of apurely electric boat is typicallyaround 40 nautical miles,’ says Sallinen. With the hybrid it dependson the amount of fuel carried. Heoutlines a typical day with the former

set-up: ‘You mightmotor for an hourout of harbour, thenyou sail for the dayand motor back in for anhour. If you use the regenerationfunction (charging from the main pro-peller) while sailing, then you have afull battery when it’s time to returnhome.’ Four to five hours of sailingwith the propeller deployed isenough to recharge the batteries.

As to the performance of theelectric engine compared to adiesel, there are no exhaust fumes,substantially less vibration, it’s quieter and has much more regulartorque across the RPM range. ‘Adiesel engine will only provide hightorque at high RPM and the torquewon’t be constant – it will drop asthe resistance grows, which doesn’thappen with an electric engine,’says Sallinen.

Oceanvolt offers a completerange of shaft and saildrives suit-able for new installations or retro-fitting. According to Sallinen, theOceanvolt saildrives have been pur-pose-designed for electric powerand are smaller with one-third thedrag of an equivalent diesel drive.However, due to the high torque ofelectric engines, Oceanvolt recom-mends a propeller one size biggerthan standard. Typically Oceanvoltpackages come with a three-bladeGori or Flexofold folding propeller.

A public test of Oceanvolt’s gearwill be in this winter’s VendéeGlobe, forming the heart of Kiwi-American Conrad Colman’s systemaboard his Natural Energy Imoca60. Colman will carry fossil fuels forhis generator, to comply with racerules, but intends not to use them,relying instead on Oceanvolt gearplus solar panels for extra charging.

In terms of weight, the electricengine is lighter, but Oceanvolt’sset-up requires a larger, heavier battery bank. As a result it typicallyweighs the same as an equivalentdiesel engine but without the fuel.On a Vendée Globe this representsa massive saving, as much as600kg, or around 8% of the boat’sdisplacement. However, an addedbenefit for raceboats is flexibility inweight distribution; for example, thebattery bank in the Oceanvolt set-up, its heaviest component, can befitted as close to the top of the keelas you wish... rather more flexiblethan a typical diesel installation.www.oceanvolt.com �

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You no longer need to be a sandal-wearing eco-warrior to run your sailboat free of fossil fuels

Very cleanand tidy bothabove andbelow thewater. In thetop image thepropulsionbattery packis in green,the batterycharger andinverter unitis at upperleft in paleblue, the battery managementunit is at thetop right witha clear coverand theOceanvolt SDmotor and avery neatsaildrive unitare bottomleft in blue

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Our policy is never to stand still and we have an ongoing programmeof testing and evaluation of new materials, components andmanufacturing technology. We work very closely with technologypartners, keeping us at the forefront of new developments. As boatsare becoming faster and lighter so we too are taking advantageof developments in material and design technology.

Product, fabric and component testing and quality assuranceare at the core of all our product development programmes. Webelieve that no other marine brand invests as much time andresource into testing, with over 25% of our company employed inproduct design and development. We have our own in-house testingfacility as well as working with leading laboratories around the world.

We are able to innovate through understanding the challengesfacing our customers. We spend time working with, and often sailingwith, those same customers. This challenges our developmentteam to come up with creative and sometimes experimental productideas. A great example of a proactive product development strategyis the Gill Race Collection.

Inspired by the highest-level match racing and day racing regattasin the best sailing venues around the world, our research anddevelopment programme resulted in the aspirational and bold RaceCollection. Access to teams in events such as the 52 Super Series,the Extreme Sailing Series and others was a key component ofthe process, with our product development team being invitedbehind the scenes in terms of attending briefing sessions,helping with boat maintenance, on-the-water race training and evencompeting with teams.

Getting so close to today’s top crews allowed us to understandthe priorities and requirements of the individual team members,from bowman to helmsman through to the shore crew, for whomwe carefully established what they liked and what they didn’t like

about their current kit bag. It also allowedteams to challenge us to find design solutionsthat addressed the rigours of racing at the top of the sport. The end result was a no-compromise, performance Race Collectionof co-ordinated team kit. Every design feature had to earn itsplace and those not deemed necessary were stripped out.

This development process never stops. We continue to learnfrom our partners on the professional racing circuit. For 2014we are once again working with our friends at Emirates TeamNew Zealand supplying all the team requirements for the 2014Extreme Sailing Series which recently kicked off in Singapore.Working with teams likes this gives us the best-informed feedbackwith which to reassess our products constantly and identifyfuture development opportunities. �

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July in Finland is off-season.Companies closed, families gone totheir summer houses. So it is asomewhat eerie sight to come toNautor, this hallmark of aboatbuilder, with a brand new yachtmoored in front of the Pietarsaariplant, workers everywhere when infact there should be no one andnothing around.

Normally the Finnish adhere tonational holidays like they were areligious thing. They care to spendtime with their relatives and friends.Normally at Nautor they assembleboats inside, not on the dock. Andnormally, if and when they do inviteyou to a sea trial they will havechecked and fixed every little detailto a degree rarely seen.

This year, however, is anythingbut. It marks their 50th anniversary– a date few serial production yardshave passed. Nautor did not justweather this past half-century. Theymoulded it, earning a near-mythicalreputation early on when pioneeringGRP boatbuilding. UnforgottenRamon Carlin’s win in the firstWhitbread Round the World Race1973/74 on his Swan 65 Sayula.

Now at 50 and matured in manyways, Nautor are not going to sit

still. Quite the contrary. With theClubSwan 50 they present a yachtpivotal to their near future. ‘It’s notjust a new model,’ says marketingdirector Vanni Galgani. ‘It’s astatement.’

The smallest boat of the range,she is also the technologically mostadvanced, built and cured in pre-preg carbon epoxy. At 8.5 tons – 3.45 of which are attributed to her keel ballast – no other serialproduction yacht her length comeslighter, none carries more sail area.On the yard’s commissioning dockthe sound of small, choppy wavesnudging her stern is indicative ofboth her strength and nimbleness – it resembles that of a Laser or a505, so thin the layers of carboncloth, so light the panel just abovethe water.

She is carbon everywhere: rudderstock and blades with tubercledtrailing edges like on Rambler 88are, of course, carbon. The 3m keelfin: pure high-modulus carbon. Eventhe hinged backrests of her salonsofas, doubling as sea-berths, aremade of carbon – as are the teakveneered floorboards, the diningtable, the masterfully infused mastsupport, the base of the berths.

Just the frames of the hatchesbreak with this regime. As a visualquote of Nautor’s past they areartfully built from solid teak.

Why this? Well, because theClubSwan 50 is still supposed to be a Swan. She may be a one-design racer-cruiser, she maybe competitive in ORC or IRCaccording to her set-up. But neverever would Nautor’s mainshareholder Leonardo Ferragamoconceive a pure racer. Hence hervast decks covered in teak (3mmthin, though, mind you!). Hence herso artfully designed and decoratedcabin. In fact, if seasoned sailorswent down below blindfolded andhad to tell just what kind of boatthis is few would ever imagine herto be a thoroughbred.

In Pietarsaari, side by side withthe 50, lies her role model, herancestor: Tarantella. Build number1, model 1. The first and only onein 1966 when the legacy began.This legendary Sparkman &Stephens-designed Swan 36started it all. A slender, narrow hullwith timeless lines, a cockpit sotiny you wonder how she could everaccommodate more than a couple.Her benign stature makes her a

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Sleek, powerful, radically new… With her teak decks and seductive interior, you just wonder what she is all about – until sails are set and shewhisks away, in the lightest of puffs. At sea with Nautor’s ClubSwan 50

Swan no1Tarantella(inset) keepsthe newClubSwan 50honest as thelatest productfrom Nautorgoes sailingfor the firsttime. Theoriginal Swan36 is now adesign iconbut it alsoremains a formidableperformer onhandicap onwindy wind-ward-leewardcourses. A keel galleryallows a displacementrange of250kg for theClubSwan 50,to help it alsoslot into bothof today’s principal offshore rating systems

Previously, if you wanted lightweightrigging without compromising onsafety, Future Fibres’ ECsix was yourmain option. No longer – buyers of anew Southern Spars rig can now optfor ECthree, chosen as the newClubSwan 50 class rigging, bringingthe benefits of multi-strand carbonrigging to yachts that don’t requirethe ultimate performance of ECsix.

Why ECthree?Future Fibres, Southern Spars’ rigging division, has been very successful with ECsix, which hasbecome the world’s favourite carbonrigging product. The benefits of themulti-strand carbon configuration arewell documented – saving up to 70per cent of weight compared withtraditional Nitronic rod while extend-ing the longevity and durability ofcomposite standing rigging cables.But this high performance came at aprice normally not suited to smalleryachts – so Future Fibres decided totake what it knew about carbon rigging and produce a system that

better suited yachts with lower performance criteria.

Sam Watson, CEO of the Southern Spars Group, explains.‘The brief for the creation of theECthree product was clear from thestart: we wanted to make carbon rigging accessible to the sub-60ftracer-cruiser market. Previously, carbon rigging, including our ownECsix rigging, could only be suppliedat a cost that was out of line withthe budgets that these customerswere working with.

‘To find a more economic alternative that still delivers many ofthe same benefits we started with ablank sheet of paper plus a pool ofproprietary technology that we knewwould get us there.’

The first yachts to give ECthree aworkout are the brand new ClubSwan 50 line, the latest andmost innovative addition to thehugely successful Nautor Swan stable. From the drawing board ofJuan Kouyoumdjian, the ClubSwan50 is a high-tech, aesthetically

captivating one-design yacht. It aims to appeal to the young

and competitive, while still allowingthe pleasure of cruising in the truespirit of Swan. It is the perfectmatch for ECthree.

What’s the same?The fundamentals of ECsix are allthere. ECthree is still a carbon-fibremulti-strand rigging system, whichgives it the lightness, strength, flexibility, durability and impactresistance that made ECsix theproven success that it is.

Multi-strand construction meanshaving many individual pultrudedcarbon rods, which are boundtogether using a braided cover andterminated with either a resin coneor a laminated eye.

Using a composite of numerousfine carbon rods means the completed cables can be bent,coiled, stretched, compressed andimpacted millions of times withoutdamage. It is technology availableonly to Future Fibres, and sets their

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Future Fibres’ new ECthree standing rigging solution will make its firstpublic appearance on Nautor’s new 50th anniversary ClubSwan 50

Above: amajor furtherendorsementof a proven concept…Havingobserved the widespreadsuccess ofECsix carbonrigging –including onthe fleet ofVolvo 65s andall but onecurrent TP52,Nautor wereconfidentenough tospecify thenew moreaccessibleECthree system fromthe start fortheir newClubSwan 50,a boat that iscentral to thecompany’s future plans

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Top: the firstClubSwan 50uses ECthree standing riggingthroughout.Above: earlycompositerigging usedsolid rods –brief attemptsglueing these‘parallel’ rodsinto tubularend fittingssoon gaveway to resin‘pots’ inside ametal cone.With ECsixand ECthree,the use ofmuch finerbundled carbon rodsmeans thatthe ‘potting’processbecomes agreat dealeasier andmore efficientsince thenumeroussmall rodsare nowthemselvessplayed outwithin themetal cone

products well apart from the competition. The development ofthis product would not have beenpossible even three years ago. ButSouthern Spars has been investingheavily in R&D and design to makethese big leaps forward.

Scott Vogel, Southern Spars’chief of technology, says, ‘With thecommitment to incorporate the keyelements of ECsix and use existingtermination technologies, finding theappropriate raw materials that fit thepositioning brief was critical. Firstoff, the R&D team identified fibresthat had the combination ofstrength, stiffness and cost to fit the targeted pricing proposition.

‘Samples of the leading candidates were then tested forprocessability as well as physicalproperties. Two fibres were finallyselected, ensuring that the productwould enjoy redundancy of supply.’

While not quite matching theunique performance benefits ofECsix, the improvements over rodrigging are substantial. Reducingweight aloft increases rightingmoment and decreases pitchingmoment – so ECthree makes youfaster and more comfortable undersail and improves the roll motion atanchor. Weight removal aloft canalso deliver fuel savings, makinglonger passages more economicalas well as more comfortable.

What’s the difference?Firstly, there’s a lower price as aresult of designing a rigging productspecifically for this market. NickChristensen, Future Fibres’ DesignManager, says every step in theend-to-end process has been consid-ered in the development of ECthree.‘In essence we have reviewed everysingle aspect of design and riggingmanufacture to create the ECthreesystem. The first carbon rigging

product designedspecifically foryachts with threespreaders or fewerunder 60ft,’ says Christensen.

This started with design. FutureFibres automated the designprocess with their own riggingdesign tool, codifying the engineering so that the design goesstraight from input to output. Thisreduces design time significantly,making this part of the process upto 10 times faster than before.

Then they searched the world forthe best-value carbon fibre that stilloffered the stiffness and weightproperties required, but workingwithout the same restrictions ondiameter that would limit youroptions in the grand prix world.

For the development of ECthreeFuture Fibres’ choice was a standard-modulus fibre as opposedto the intermediate-modulus carbonused in ECsix. These carbon rodswere then pultruded at our own facility using a recently completed new fast-pultrusion machine. Thecombination of the new fibre and afaster pultrusion process allowsECthree to deliver a more accessibleproduct to a wider market.

Next they terminate most of the cables using the proprietary CarbonEye termination system. Thissolution was originally developed forthe high-end race market and wasfirst trialled on several of the latestgeneration Imoca designs.

It enables a significant reductionin the metal component of ECthree,further reducing weight and simplifying interface componentrybetween the mast and boat… andso reducing cost even more.

Finally they adopted the StackedShroud system developed by FutureFibres to consolidate bundled rigging‘rods’ into a single harness.

This simplifies the constructionmethodology, reducing the assemblytime and increasing manufacturingefficiency.

Available exclusively on a newbuild Southern Spars mast, ECthree now allows yachts up to60ft in length to unlock the performance and comfort benefitsassociated with the upgrade tomulti-strand carbon rigging, whileremaining within the tighter budgetparameters of many of the projectsin this size range.www.futurefibres.com �

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1 & 2: top-end adjustment withstainless turnbuckle hangers3: Future Fibres’ ‘StackedMultishroud’ continuous rigging 4: lower-end adjustment through a turnbuckle and jaw assembly

July in Finland is off-season.Companies closed, families gone totheir summer houses. So it is asomewhat eerie sight to come toNautor, this hallmark of aboatbuilder, with a brand new yachtmoored in front of the Pietarsaariplant, workers everywhere when infact there should be no one andnothing around.

Normally the Finnish adhere tonational holidays like they were areligious thing. They care to spendtime with their relatives and friends.Normally at Nautor they assembleboats inside, not on the dock. Andnormally, if and when they do inviteyou to a sea trial they will havechecked and fixed every little detailto a degree rarely seen.

This year, however, is anythingbut. It marks their 50th anniversary– a date few serial production yardshave passed. Nautor did not justweather this past half-century. Theymoulded it, earning a near-mythicalreputation early on when pioneeringGRP boatbuilding. UnforgottenRamon Carlin’s win in the firstWhitbread Round the World Race1973/74 on his Swan 65 Sayula.

Now at 50 and matured in manyways, Nautor are not going to sit

still. Quite the contrary. With theClubSwan 50 they present a yachtpivotal to their near future. ‘It’s notjust a new model,’ says marketingdirector Vanni Galgani. ‘It’s astatement.’

The smallest boat of the range,she is also the technologically mostadvanced, built and cured in pre-preg carbon epoxy. At 8.5 tons – 3.45 of which are attributed to her keel ballast – no other serialproduction yacht her length comeslighter, none carries more sail area.On the yard’s commissioning dockthe sound of small, choppy wavesnudging her stern is indicative ofboth her strength and nimbleness – it resembles that of a Laser or a505, so thin the layers of carboncloth, so light the panel just abovethe water.

She is carbon everywhere: rudderstock and blades with tubercledtrailing edges like on Rambler 88are, of course, carbon. The 3m keelfin: pure high-modulus carbon. Eventhe hinged backrests of her salonsofas, doubling as sea-berths, aremade of carbon – as are the teakveneered floorboards, the diningtable, the masterfully infused mastsupport, the base of the berths.

Just the frames of the hatchesbreak with this regime. As a visualquote of Nautor’s past they areartfully built from solid teak.

Why this? Well, because theClubSwan 50 is still supposed to be a Swan. She may be a one-design racer-cruiser, she maybe competitive in ORC or IRCaccording to her set-up. But neverever would Nautor’s mainshareholder Leonardo Ferragamoconceive a pure racer. Hence hervast decks covered in teak (3mmthin, though, mind you!). Hence herso artfully designed and decoratedcabin. In fact, if seasoned sailorswent down below blindfolded andhad to tell just what kind of boatthis is few would ever imagine herto be a thoroughbred.

In Pietarsaari, side by side withthe 50, lies her role model, herancestor: Tarantella. Build number1, model 1. The first and only onein 1966 when the legacy began.This legendary Sparkman &Stephens-designed Swan 36started it all. A slender, narrow hullwith timeless lines, a cockpit sotiny you wonder how she could everaccommodate more than a couple.Her benign stature makes her a

Beauty and beast

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Sleek, powerful, radically new… With her teak decks and seductive interior, you just wonder what she is all about – until sails are set and shewhisks away, in the lightest of puffs. At sea with Nautor’s ClubSwan 50

Swan no1Tarantella(inset) keepsthe newClubSwan 50honest as thelatest productfrom Nautorgoes sailingfor the firsttime. Theoriginal Swan36 is now adesign iconbut it alsoremains a formidableperformer onhandicap onwindy wind-ward-leewardcourses. A keel galleryallows a displacementrange of250kg for theClubSwan 50,to help it alsoslot into bothof today’s principal offshore rating systems

Hudson Hakes HH66Large performance multihulls offerthe best of all worlds – sailingexcitement, comfort and style, bothracing and cruising – and areentering their next generation withthe recent launching of the HH66catamaran, built by Hudson Yacht &Marine. This is the latest in a longseries of designs from California-based Morrelli & Melvin, who havebeen leaders in not only finding theright balance but also optimisingthe competing elements of speed,style and reliability into bold newinnovative designs. Couple thisdesign refinement with one of theworld’s largest integratedproduction builders in advancedcomposites and the results arespectacular.

Hudson’s history in building largeperformance cats goes back severalyears, with eight 60ft fast luxurymultihulls already under their belt.Builder Paul Hakes’s ownrelationship with Gino Morrelli goesback further with the developmentof small, fast cats like the SL33,introduced in 2008 for theEuropean lake sailing market. Thisfast 650kg, 10m design alsocaught the attention of America’sCup contenders of the day whowere new to the multihull genre,both Luna Rossa and Team New

Zealand getting their own boats toplay with as they learned moreabout multihull sailing and design.

Yet Hakes and Morrelli actuallygo back further still, to Hakes’sdays at Cookson Boats during thebuilding of Steve Fossett’s JulesVerne-contender PlayStation, a100ft monster from the late 1990sdesigned by Morrelli & Melvin. Itwas here that Hakes got a taste forthe uniquely high static anddynamic loading inherent to big catsand the structures needed toaccommodate these loads in anoffshore performance context.

In design evolution Hakes saysthe HH66 differs slightly from its60ft predecessors – they’re not onlylarger for size sake, but based onfeedback from the 60ft owners.‘They found that the 60ft designwas large enough to accommodatethe owners and their guests, butnot to comfortably accommodatethe minimum two full-time crewneeded to manage a boat of thissize and complexity,’ said Hakes

‘Many thought that one or atmost two crew would be sufficientfor boat handling and themaintenance and operation ofsimple onboard systems, but asthese boats became more complexit became apparent that two proswere needed to allow the owner and

guests a measure of comfort whenmaking journeys of any significantlength.’

Another important element in thenew design is the evolution fromcentreboards to daggerboards. At 6m long and fabricated using300kg of carbon, the latest boardsare curved slightly inboard forefficiency. And this configuration isefficient, giving a 20% boost inlift/drag efficiency and generatingup to 3 tons of lift. Fully deployedthese boards yield a 4m draft; butwhen cruising in shallower watersthe boat still performs well withthem partly raised.

The T-shaped rudders of theHH66 contribute as well,generating 800kg of lift to helpdampen pitching, in turn increasingcomfort and speed. In total thefoils generate nearly 4 tons of liftwhen the boat is at speed.

With all this load, the boardsinevitably have to be robust: thedesigned static load limit is 8.5tons and the dynamic load limitmuch greater. To ensure reliability,HYM fully test each board beforeinstallation. The daggerboard isalso engineered to take 0.5mdeflection at 17 tons of load, with abreaking strength of twice thisamount. But it’s important that theengineered maximum load is not

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The world of large performance cats is coming alive with a vengeanceModern, fast,comfortableand very wellfinished, nota bad way tocruise aroundthe world…stopping offoccasionallyfor a nice‘venue’ regatta

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Rather thanfollow theprevioustrend onthese largemodern catswith thesteering positionburied insidethe interior,the helmsmanof the newHH66 is moreinvolved inthe sailing ofthe boat whilestill enjoyinggenerous protectionfrom the elements

too high: if the boat grounds at highspeed the foil needs to break andnot the boat.

This kind of tailored engineeringis possible due to the scale ofHYM’s operation; there is completedigital control on the design, toolingand fabrication of parts both largeand small. This vertical integrationin the design process allowedMorrelli to nearly achieve his idealdesign scenario, leaving the hullshapes to be the last element inthe design process – because allthe other constituent pieces of theboat, their weight and their positionhelp drive the choice of hull shapesneeded to maximise performance.

Having said this, the HH66 hulldesign is a bit more generous thanseen on other similar cats, in partbecause Morrelli and Hakes agreethat when owner specification andcruising gear inevitably tip thescales beyond the original designweight, the effects on hull trim areless pronounced with a lessdeleterious effect on performance.

There are other practicalelements that make the HH66distinguishable from the previousgeneration of this genre: forexample, rather than install complexand enormously expensive co-generation electrical systemsthat limit fossil-fuel dependence buthistorically lead to myriad problems,the HH66 is powered by two old-school but highly efficient 80hpYanmar marine diesels. Being easilydriven, this big cat does notconsume much fuel anyway; acalculation made for a clientinterested in trans-Atlanticcrossings found that if the windstopped completely and it becamenecessary to proceed under power,at a modest 6kt the boat wouldhave a range of about 1,500miles… not bad.

If a client does insist on having acarbon-free platform to cruise theworld, HYM can accommodate it,having invested on the previous-generation boats in thedevelopment of retractable skegs,lithium battery banks, dual-propulsion/generation propsystems, solar panels, 280Velectric engines and the energy-management systems to controlthem all. Not such an easy fix on aremote Pacific isle, though…

Armed with a team of 25 in-house engineers and designersat HYM, Hakes is able to efficientlytranslate design concepts intoreality across an entire project,since these boats are built from

strong, stable carbon tooling tooptimise longterm cost andproduction efficiency. This isparticularly important, given thatHYM now has no fewer than six ofthese 66-footers in production.

Yet, as Paul points out,‘production’ is a relative term forthese boats, when each of theowners and their project managershave specific requirements in theirchoices of deck and interiorlayouts, onboard equipment andthe systems needed to support thefunctionality of each choice.

‘Our in-house engineering anddesign staff work with our clients tolay out the options,’ says Hakes,‘This makes the process easy andefficient. We integrate the designand engineering of the tooling andcomponents, then put parameterson the options, so performance isnot unreasonably sacrificed and theoverall design concept is notcompromised. This is importantwhen we go through a fabricationprocess of several months, whilewe try to stay within reasonabletimelines and deliver the quality thecustomer expects as well as thereliability to ensure problem-freesailing over the long term.’

An example of how HYM cancustomise a production boat is insteering station choices. The lastgeneration of luxury performancecats had steering stations locatedforward in the boat, either fully orpartially enclosed within the cabinstructure. While certainly securefrom the weather, this also limitedthe helmsman’s ability to have anyvisceral feel for the boat, anelement in sailing that every sailor

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To address this and the practicalmatter of how to dock a boat that isnearly as wide as it is long, HYM’sengineers came up with a cleversolution in the helm station, wherenot only are there seats available toaccommodate the helm on eachhull, but the steering pedestalsthemselves rotate to allow greatervisibility in close manoeuvres.

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July in Finland is off-season.Companies closed, families gone totheir summer houses. So it is asomewhat eerie sight to come toNautor, this hallmark of aboatbuilder, with a brand new yachtmoored in front of the Pietarsaariplant, workers everywhere when infact there should be no one andnothing around.

Normally the Finnish adhere tonational holidays like they were areligious thing. They care to spendtime with their relatives and friends.Normally at Nautor they assembleboats inside, not on the dock. Andnormally, if and when they do inviteyou to a sea trial they will havechecked and fixed every little detailto a degree rarely seen.

This year, however, is anythingbut. It marks their 50th anniversary– a date few serial production yardshave passed. Nautor did not justweather this past half-century. Theymoulded it, earning a near-mythicalreputation early on when pioneeringGRP boatbuilding. UnforgottenRamon Carlin’s win in the firstWhitbread Round the World Race1973/74 on his Swan 65 Sayula.

Now at 50 and matured in manyways, Nautor are not going to sit

still. Quite the contrary. With theClubSwan 50 they present a yachtpivotal to their near future. ‘It’s notjust a new model,’ says marketingdirector Vanni Galgani. ‘It’s astatement.’

The smallest boat of the range,she is also the technologically mostadvanced, built and cured in pre-preg carbon epoxy. At 8.5 tons – 3.45 of which are attributed to her keel ballast – no other serialproduction yacht her length comeslighter, none carries more sail area.On the yard’s commissioning dockthe sound of small, choppy wavesnudging her stern is indicative ofboth her strength and nimbleness – it resembles that of a Laser or a505, so thin the layers of carboncloth, so light the panel just abovethe water.

She is carbon everywhere: rudderstock and blades with tubercledtrailing edges like on Rambler 88are, of course, carbon. The 3m keelfin: pure high-modulus carbon. Eventhe hinged backrests of her salonsofas, doubling as sea-berths, aremade of carbon – as are the teakveneered floorboards, the diningtable, the masterfully infused mastsupport, the base of the berths.

Just the frames of the hatchesbreak with this regime. As a visualquote of Nautor’s past they areartfully built from solid teak.

Why this? Well, because theClubSwan 50 is still supposed to be a Swan. She may be a one-design racer-cruiser, she maybe competitive in ORC or IRCaccording to her set-up. But neverever would Nautor’s mainshareholder Leonardo Ferragamoconceive a pure racer. Hence hervast decks covered in teak (3mmthin, though, mind you!). Hence herso artfully designed and decoratedcabin. In fact, if seasoned sailorswent down below blindfolded andhad to tell just what kind of boatthis is few would ever imagine herto be a thoroughbred.

In Pietarsaari, side by side withthe 50, lies her role model, herancestor: Tarantella. Build number1, model 1. The first and only onein 1966 when the legacy began.This legendary Sparkman &Stephens-designed Swan 36started it all. A slender, narrow hullwith timeless lines, a cockpit sotiny you wonder how she could everaccommodate more than a couple.Her benign stature makes her a

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Sleek, powerful, radically new… With her teak decks and seductive interior, you just wonder what she is all about – until sails are set and shewhisks away, in the lightest of puffs. At sea with Nautor’s ClubSwan 50

Swan no1Tarantella(inset) keepsthe newClubSwan 50honest as thelatest productfrom Nautorgoes sailingfor the firsttime. Theoriginal Swan36 is now adesign iconbut it alsoremains a formidableperformer onhandicap onwindy wind-ward-leewardcourses. A keel galleryallows a displacementrange of250kg for theClubSwan 50,to help it alsoslot into bothof today’s principal offshore rating systems

This year’s 134th edition of thelargest regatta in the world deliveredenough excellence on every front tobe regarded as the best regatta inthe world as well: competitive spirit,spectator interest, cultural activities,outstanding race management and adiversity of weather conditions, plusbenefits such as an on-water repairservice (from HSH Nordbank) and adaily weather briefing (courtesy ofBoot Düsseldorf).

More than just a regatta, KielWeek is the world’s festival of sail,with 4,000 participants from 50countries and tens of thousands ofspectators daily either performingthemselves or enjoying the actionvia Kieler-Woche TV, from Audi, SAPreporting and tracking software, withcommentary provided to the thou-sands of spectators wandering theshoreline. In all, Kiel Week attractedsome three million visitors this year.

And while the hardware put on agreat show, ranging from the latestcarbon raceboats in the offshoreclasses, to the established but stillnimbly fast Olympic and interna-tional dinghy classes, to the tradi-tional sail training and classicclasses traversing the Kiel Bucht,

the real attraction was the talentedsoftware that came to Kiel to compete.

The level of prowess was impressive indeed, from Olympicathletes on their final performancebefore the main event in Rio, J70keelboat champions on a quest fora European title, offshore sailors insearch of the German ORC trophy…all capped with an amazing turnoutof 96 hungry junior 470 crews from15 countries.

Kieler Woche involves a huge programme on a scale that today is only made possible with the substantial and generous supportwhich the event receives from the regional government of Schleswig-Holstein.

In the Olympic classes, worldchamps Peter Burling and Blair Tukewon the 49ers without needing tosail the Super Sunday medal race.With this win the Kiwi pair extendedtheir winning streak to 27 majorregattas and so travel to Rio havinggone unbeaten since they took thesilver medal at London 2012.

In contrast, the title of 470 JuniorWorld Champion was much moreuncertain, and was not decided until

the last downwind leg of the finalrace. Series leaders Keiju Okadaand Naoya Kimura from Japan werein eighth place for much of the wayaround the course – not enough towin the title – but some clever sail-ing on a thrilling last downwind legadvanced them two places to sixth,just enough to secure the title.

The J70s were appearing in Kielfor only the second time, yet 91entries turned up to compete fortheir second European champion -ship. The racing was ultra-comp -etitive, with many of the favouritesfalling to starting line infractionsand other problems. The eventualwinner is relatively new to sailing(three years’ experience) and newto the class (two months in theboat), yet kept clear of these prob-lems to emerge as a surprise con-tender. In truth, the winning skipper’sgenetics may have given her a slightedge: her father won the ORC WorldChampionship here in 2014.

‘I never expected such a goodresult here,’ said Claudia Rossifrom Italy, daughter of multiple ORCchampion Alberto Rossi. ‘We haveonly had the boat since February,but my crew are very ambitious…’

Why Kiel Week always delivers…

There was another close battleon the same course area as theJunior 470s in a non-Olympic classthat remains popular throughoutGermany: the Contenders. ‘Thisclass is flourishing in Germanywhere there are now a lot of youngguys sailing the boat,’ said SorenDulong Andreasen from Denmark,eventual class champion after aweek of fighting with Jesper Nielsen

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Top: 27 andcounting...Burling andTuke in actionat Kiel. Otherhappy victors(above), 470 JuniorWomen worldchampionsDepares andMartin (ESP)

from Germany. ‘They like the boatbecause it gives you so much backthe more you practise.

‘For many of these guys theLaser, for example, is too simple.The Contender is hard to sail andeven in light winds you are poweredup and trapezing, so it is good onthe lakes too. They have over 200boats active in Germany and soweekend regattas there are getting

45 boats easily.’Finally, after completing some

short offshore and coastal courses,the inshore portion of the Germanoffshore championship was alsoheld in Kiel Week, attracting not onlythe best in Germany but teams fromoutside the region as well. One was86-year-old Piet Vroon from Holland,winner of the 150-mile overnightrace on his Ker 51, his crew com-peting at Kiel for the first time.Vroon’s team have another full sea-son ahead including Cowes Week…where Vroon first raced in 1952.

‘We had wonderful weather andwe went fast,’ Vroon reported. ‘Itwas quite a complicated course. Itwas a good sail and we won hand-somely on corrected time. Theregatta has a good reputation and Iwanted to come here and see it. If Idid not do it now then I might neverhave been able to again!’

Vroon and his team won this bat-tle, but it was Axel Seehafer’s Soto40 that won the war, crowned cham-pions in ORC I, while Max Gurgel’sXP-44 did the same in ORC II andJascha Bach from Amsterdam wonclass ORC III-IV with his Italia 9.98.

So, if being part of the world’slargest regatta interests you, just setyour calendar for the 135th Kiel Weekover 16-25 June 2017. www.kieler-woche.de �

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www.hh42performance.comPaul Hakes teamed up with Hudson Yachts inChina to deliver this thoroughly foxy-looking flush-deck 42-footer. ORCi and HPR versions are now available with different-length keel fins.Five boats have been sold… Several to Europe

Ker 40+ 12.12m Ker Yacht Design McConaghy Boats Feb 2015

www.mcconaghyboats.comLighter in displacement than its race-winning predecessor, the Ker 40+ features a deeper fin as well as an increase in reserve buoyancyforward. A winning Fast 40 in IRC, five boats have been sold to Europe and more look likely

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MAT1180 11.8m Mills Design MAT Sailing Yachts October 2015

www.mat.com.trThe latest fruits of the Mills Design/MAT Yachtspartnership is this aggressive IRC racer. Relativelylight but with plenty of form stability, the prototypewon its class on debuting at Hamilton Island. Analluring package for inshore and offshore racing

MC38 11.52m Dunning & Associates McConaghy Boats Sept 2011

www.mcconaghyboats.com

Harry Dunning’s low-freeboard flyer offers a supercool – and cool-looking – way into the growingmid-sized ‘HPR-style’ pure performance arena ata pretty remarkable price. 25 boats have alreadybeen built with three more currently on order

Arcona 380 11.28m Stefan Qviberg Arcona Yachts Nov 2014

www.arconayachts.com

Designer Stefan Qviberg’s latest hull form flies in strong winds and is impressively stiff to windward, while her interior reflects ArconaYachts’ attention to detail and Swedish roots – all handcrafted in farmed Khaya mahogany

Left: an open boat like the PCT-builtCarkeek 47 is always susceptible towater ingress so PCT came up with an innovative drainage system thatkeeps the interior both dry and tidy.Grundoom was specified with a liftingkeel and so PCT built her a sportsboatgantry on a grander scale – allowingthe keel to be lifted manually using thepedestals with a lock-off system onceup. The system has proved reliable andalso avoids the weight of hydraulics

BACK TO CONTENTSSeahorse New Boats TableThe Series build table enhancement option wasconceived to enable new projects to come to marketinexpensively through the key place whereperformance sailing boat owners will be looking.

Regular listings are the simple line of text... whereprojects are rotated according to availability of space.

The enhancement package delivers:-

1. A guarantee that your listing will appear in thetable not rotated through

2. Bigger, bolder font for your listing

3. Twice the number of words for the description

4. A picture

5. A url link

6. The entire listing will become an active link to yourwebsite in all online editions of Seahorse (to whichall IRC and ORC cert holders worldwide areautomatically signed up)

Really strong, really smart, inexpensive activation

Price to list one series build - Euro 122 per issue (based on a 12 consecutive issue run)

Price to list second and third series build - Euro 81 per issue (based on a 12 consecutive issue run)

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Ads are a maximum of 200 words

Graphic can be a logo or product picture, width in newsletter will be 200 pixels in width, maximum of 225pixels height, in either JPG or GIF format. We will alter to fit. We can create animated GIFs at no charge.

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Ad rates stated herein are guaranteed until December 31, 2016. Any ad or ads purchased before that date isguaranteed regardless of when the ads run.

Adverts are kept to rates that reflect the most efficient targeted advertising in the sailing sector these ratesare achieved in part by specifying prepayment of all campaigns.

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