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Class40
Jason Ker’s new Class40 design for Team Concise available from 300,000 Euros
With the 130th boat due to be launched this year, the Class40 Class40 #Class40 represents one of the most successful ever genres of offshore racing yacht. Joining the fleet this year will be a new designer who has combined forces with an old team in a new initiative. -
SpeedDream27
Cam Lewis : " This boat is bleeding edge technology"
After an extended period refining the design and testing the internal keel canting mechanism, SpeedDream27, a prototype for what will become the worlds fastest monohull, was launched and sailed off Rockland, Maine. As a completely experimental boat there was quite rightly some anticipation as to how things would work but on its maiden sail, (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
The Volvo Ocean Race has unveiled details of the Farr 65’ that will be used for the next two editions of the Race
The plans detailed by Race CEO Knut Frostad at a presentation in Lorient Lorient L’actualité du port de Lorient et de sa région. on Thursday will significantly reduce the cost of mounting a competitive campaign and are designed to bring the size of the fleet to 8-10 boats in future editions. The 65-foot (19.8-metre) monohull racing (...) -
Yacht Design
judel/vrolijk & co presents a 38ft ORC Lake Racer
The project came from an owner wish to sail a “one off” racing boat fully optimized for Lake Constance ORC regattas after several years experience on an existing production boat. To achieve such a goal, we were able to use most of the latest technical tools, materials and design developments coming from previous racing projects (...) -
One Design
Owen Clarke Design presents a mono-type (one design) IMOCA Mono60
"This, along with a generic design was presented before the meeting in Lorient Lorient L’actualité du port de Lorient et de sa région. in February 2012 at which some of the members of IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA discussed the way for ward for the class after the 2012 Vendee Globe. This discussion included this option as one of the (...) -
Oracle Racing
James Spithill : "The AC45s have proven spectacular; the AC72s will be sensational"
At an ORACLE Racing press conference today CEO Russell Coutts described how the team’s first AC72 AC72 #AC72 catamaran is in an advanced state of construction at three locations around the Pacific Rim. -
Sondage
David Raison SeaSailSurfer and Claire Leroy SeaSailSurfeuse of the year 2011
DAvid Raison, winner of the Transat The Transat #thetransat #ostar 650 and designer of his mini 650 Mini 650 #mini650 The n°747 "Magnum" alias TeamWork for the race is the double winner of this year poll. He is the SeaSailSurfer and the yacht designer of 2011. You also voted for french match-racer Claire Leroy as woman of the year. The (...) -
Kiteboat Project
Videos : Jumping waves in Maui on the Trifoiler
For the last day of the year, here are two videos realized by crazy Americans who decided to go surfing and jumping waves in Maui aboard a Trifoiler modified. With its kite sail, they easily surf Surf #Surf around the shore. -
P28 Gonet & Cie
The first foiler with π foils and profile sail set sails in Switzerland
The epitome of avant-gardism through the design of her structural rig, in association with her inverted π-shaped hydrofoils, today the “P28 Gonet & Cie” monohull reveals her lines as well as the essence which colours the project. -
PUMA Ocean Racing
Juan Kouyoumdjian to design Laird Hamilton’s new SUP
PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG Propulsion introduced Laird Hamilton, big wave surfer and father of modern stand-up paddleboarding, as the honorary 12th crew member of the PUMA Ocean Racing team.