Tofinou 10 debuts at Paris Boat Show

BY ADMIN • DECEMBER 16, 2016 • OLDER, YACHTS • COMMENTS OFF • 439

The French boat builder Latitude 46 that’s best known for its long running line up of high-end daysailers has announced a new cruising range. The first model is a 10 metre (33ft) design intended to appeal to the kind of discerning buyers that already buy Tofinou models, while offering significantly more interior space.

The styling of the new Joubert Nivelt design makes it instantly recognisable as a Tofinou, despite the greater beam and higher freeboard compared to the company’s daysailer designs. This effect is underlined by the extensive use of wood trim on the coachroof and cockpit coamings, as well as the teak laid deck.

Below deck there’s significantly more space than the company’s existing models of a similar size, although they have made no attempt to risk spoiling the beauty of the boat’s lines by attempting to cram in too much accommodation. The largely open plan layout offers a double berth, a saloon table, small galley and decent heads compartment, plus a separate aft cabin for children or guests. Internal joinery is in teak, with plenty of white paneling and overhead hatches that give ample natural light.

The deck layout is very neat and crisp, with control lines concealed wherever possible. This emphasises the wide side decks, clear foredeck and uncluttered cockpit layout. The designers have sensibly eschewed the modern trend for twin wheels, which are of dubious benefit on a boat of this size, in favour of a varnished mahogany tiller, although a single large wheel is available as an option.

Two keel options are offered – either a conventional fin with a low centre of gravity bulb, or an electrically operated ballasted centerboard that swings up into a stub keel below the hull. The powerful 7/8ths fractional rig looks easily tamed and twin rudder promise good control even in boisterous conditions. A high standard of equipment is offered as standard, including Harken mainsail luff track and Dyneema halyards. To complement the semi traditional styling, the standard aluminium spars are painted in an ivory colour. Carbon spars are also offered as an option.

The first Tofinou 10 is scheduled to be exhibited at the Paris Boat Show in early December 2016.

Specifications:

Length 9.9 m

Beam 3.4m

Draught (fixed keel) 2.0m

Draught (swing keel) 1.0-2.35m

Displacement (estimated) 4,200kg

Ballast 1,200-1,300kg

Headsail area 22.5 sq m

Mainsail 33.7 sq m

Water tank 140 litres

Fuel tank 50 litres

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Swan 65 – new bluewater cruiser

BY ADMIN • FEBRUARY 9, 2017 • BREAKING NEWS, FEATURES, HOMEMOSAIC, YACHTS • COMMENTS (0) • 159

This new mid-size yacht in Nautor’s range is intended to embody the same principles as the original Sparkman and Stephens designed Swan 65 in the early 1970s. The model saw considerable success as both a luxury cruiser and in long-distance racing – it even won the Whitbread Round the World Race. The new design is intended as multipurpose yacht where the owner and family or guests can have a significant input into sailing the boat, but where there’s also space to take a skipper and crew along to take the pressure off in stressful situations and to take care of the chores.

It’s certainly another boat we can expect to see both cruising long distances across the world, and notching up successes on the racecourse. As with other designs in the Swan stable, owners will be able to specify their boats to orient them more towards cruising or performance modes. There will also be some cross over – for instance a square top mainsail, along with running backstays, can be used when in race mode, with the boat then converted back to a conventional pin-head mainsail, with a standing backstay, for cruising or deliveries. Other performance options include a deep (4m draught) keel and a carbon hull (the deck will be carbon as standard).

Below decks all versions will have an impressive five-meter-long saloon, including a raised panoramic living area with dining table to port and a lounge to starboard. The saloon connects directly to the galley and navigation station. A dinette or, optionally, a traditional chart table can also be offered.

The coachroof, which has 360-degree windows, is the latest evolution of German Frers’ designs for Nautor, combining the curved lines and multifaceted surfaces of the yard’s semi-raised deck saloon and flush deck models. Systems and tanks are below the floor in the saloon area to keep weight low and central, while freeing up space in other parts of the boat for further accommodation.

Interiors can be arranged with two fundamentally different layouts: owner’s suite forward, or owner aft. Additionally, various options for bunk, crew quarters and navigation arrangement are available. The Swan 65 was announced at the Düsseldorf Boat Show in January 2017, with the first boat scheduled to be afloat in 2018.

LOA 20.11m

LWL 18.38m

Beam 5.62m

Draught (standard) 3.50m

Draught (optional telescopic keel) 2.75/4.20m

Displacement 28,000kg

Ballast 9,000 kg

Mainsail 121.9sq m

Fore triangle 112.9sq m

Jib 118.3sq m

Fuel 1,200 litres

Water 1,000 litres

Hot water 80 litres

Grey water 200 litres

Black water 200 litres

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Prestigious award for rookie yachtsman

BY ADMIN • FEBRUARY 9, 2017 • BREAKING NEWS, HOMEMOSAIC, RACING • COMMENTS (0) • 66

28-year-old Gavin Reid has won the coveted Yachting Journalists Association Yachtsman of the Year award. After an Olympic year the award normally goes to one of Britain’s gold medal winning sailors. By contrast Reid only started sailing two years ago, yet his heroic rescue at sea of a man at the masthead of another yacht was judged to be worthy of joining the names of past winners. These including legendary figures such as Sir Ben Ainslie, Sir Robin Knox Johnston, Tracy Edwards MBE and Dame Ellen McArthur, all of whom were awarded their honours as a result of their sailing successes.

Reid was an amateur crewmember on a Clipper Round the World race yacht when a distress call was picked up off Australia’s New South Wales coast. The other vessel, a yacht returning from the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, had a crewman who had been stuck at the top of the mast for several hours, while the remainder of the crew on board were incapacitated.

Reid, who is profoundly deaf and quit his job as a supply chain coordinator to compete in the race, volunteered to swim between the two yachts in order to board the stricken vessel. Once there he found the four other crew were all incapacitated and unable to help their crewmate who had been tangled in halyards at the top of the mast for several hours. Using the one remaining halyard – for the staysail – he hoisted himself two thirds of the way up the swinging mast, then climbed the rest of the way hand-over-hand, to reach the crewman, untangle the lines and help to lower him to safety.

“To be named boats.com YJA Yachtsman of The Year over some of my absolute heroes of the sport feels like an incredible honour,” Reid said on receiving the award. “If someone had told me two years ago when I was starting my training for the Clipper Race that I would be here today collecting this award, I couldn’t have believed it. I have learned and experienced a huge amount and hope I can inspire others to take up the challenge of ocean racing. It’s been a fantastic adventure.”

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Around the world in 40 days

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It’s not so long ago that the first non-stop circumnavigation under sail in less than 80 days was completed. In 1993 Bruno Peyron completed a circuit of the globe in 79 days, six hours and 15 minutes to become the first winner of the Jules Verne Trophy. One of the coolest trophies in the yacht racing sphere, it is in the form of a hull hovering over a magnetic field and therefore appears to be suspended in space. The shape of the trophy is defined by a set of curves proportional to the circumferences of the sun, the Earth and the moon.

Since 1993 the trophy has been won a further eight times, with the record time reducing to an impressive 45 days, 13 hours when Loick Peyron’s giant 130ft trimaran Banque Populaire V and her 14 strong crew completed their lap of the planet in 2012. At the time it appeared as though their record would be safe for a long time, but there have been numerous attempts to better Peyron’s time. Last season Francis Joyon’s 103ft Idec Sport challenged again for the trophy, but missed out on the record by two days, as did Dona Bertarelli’s Spindrift Racing (the former Banque Populaire V).

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This season Joyon set out again, with a crew of just six, but was forced to return when there was no clear path through the doldrums. He then set out for another attempt, crossing the start line off Ushant in north western France, on December 16, 2016. They sped quickly south, initially gaining a 200-mile advantage on Banque Populaire’s time. However, as they crossed the equator on day five the doldrums were only just relinquishing their grip on Joyon’s team and they had slipped back compared to the reference time.

However, they quickly recovered this and gained further ground in the Southern Ocean, where they were able to leave one weather system behind and hook into the one ahead, gaining a significant advantage. Idec Sport rounded Cape Horn after only 26 days and 15 hours, setting a new record more than four days ahead of the reference time.

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From there the team – Francis Joyon, Bernard Stamm, Alex Pella, Sébastien Audigane, Clément Surtel and Gwénolé Gahinet – had a fast passage north, taking less than 14 days to cover more than 7,000 miles between Cape Horn and Ushant. The final night gave no respite with rough and wet reaching conditions that saw the boat maintaining speeds of 30 knots or more under a deep reefed sail plan.

“We weren’t aiming for 40 days,” Joyon said after completing the voyage. “It was something we couldn’t even have imagined. Beating the record by a minute would already have been an achievement. Some people thought we were having a laugh trying to take up this challenge with such a small crew. It took us about two and a half circumnavigations to beat the record. That is around the same score for all the boats that have attempted the Jules Verne Trophy. Only Bruno Peyron managed it on his first attempt in 1993.”

A measure of the technology in these yachts, and the achievements of their crews, is that the record for a circumnavigation by a motor yacht stands at more than 60 days.

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The latest big boat from this volume German boat builder sets new standards in many respects. The company had identified “relaxing as absolutely the number one priority,” so there are four sun bathing locations and the biggest hinge-down bathing platform/terrace of any boat in its class. There are easy steps up from this to deck level – guests are not expected to clamber up and down ladders on this yacht – and there’s a wet bar combined with outdoor galley at the aft end of the cockpit.

On deck the new design has clearly defined and separate working, sunbathing and social areas. The design brief was to optimise performance in lighter airs, as are often found in the Mediterranean. To aid performance the boat is built of vacuum infusion, which creates a lighter and stiffer structure than more conventional fibreglass layup. In addition, the keel was optimised to minimise wetted surface area. The shoal draught keel has no bulb and provides a ballast ratio of only 31 per cent, although the hull shape offers significant form stability, and the deep keel option has a weighty bulb.

The interior has a fresh new style that will progressively be introduced to the entire Bavaria range as new models are rolled out. The aim was to produce what would only a few years ago have been seen as a superyacht style and volume. The saloon has 270-degree windows, plus generous overhead hatches and a pair of hull windows each side.

Interior finishes include a dark walnut, mahogany or light oak. Solid wood cappings in high wear areas will help to withstand knocks and bumps and allow for easy repairs if the worst should happen. The furniture is not structural, so there’s plenty of scope for layout changes to suit owners’ demands. In addition, this approach allows for a modular approach in building, with the interior built in sections outside the hull to reduce build time and manufacturing costs.

The soundproofed owners cabin is forward and is well appointed with a small dresser, plus separate head and shower. In charter versions two smaller double cabins can be provided in this area. All heads have 70 litre holding tanks and optional grey water tanks can be installed below the saloon floor.

Hull length 16.16m

Length at waterline 15.50m

Beam 5.25m

Draught standard keel (approx.) 2.52m

Draught shallow keel (approx.) 1.99m

Displacement 17,130kg

Ballast shallow keel 5,390kg

Ballast deep keel 5,785kg

Fuel (approx.) 500 litres

Water (approx.) 650 litres

Self tacking Jib 56.5sq m

Mainsail 80sq m

Genoa 69sq m

Gennaker 232sq m

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Eileen Ramsay dies aged 101

13 Feb 2017

Yachting photographer Eileen Ramsay dies aged 101

Eileen Ramsay, the Queen of British yachting photography during the post war years, has died aged 101.

Ms Ramsay recorded the explosion in small boat sailing during the 1950s and 60s, capturing not only the boats but also sailing pioneers such as Francis Chichester, Alec Rose, Col Blondie Hasler and Eric Tabarly.

Ms Ramsey was born in Sanderstead, Surrey in 1915. She began her career in 1937 as a 22 year-old receptionist to the Reading based Royal photographer Marcus Adams.

Mr Adams was about to be called up to help record the impending conflict against Germany and rather than close down his studio, gave each of his staff a camera and told them to go out and take some interesting pictures.

“I didn’t know anything about cameras then, but my pictures were judged the best and I got the job of running the business while he was at war,” said Ms Ramsay.

“Photographic materials were very difficult to get, but I had great success taking pictures of wives and people in uniform, which taught me a lot about portrait photography.”

Cowes based yachting photographer Ken Beken recalls: “Eileen carved a name for herself with her creative skills shouting out from the pages of nautical books and magazines.

“Her style was unique and innovative and an ‘Eileen Ramsey shot’ was always easy to discern.”

Ms Ramsay gave up photography in 1971 when her partner George Spiers was killed tragically in a riding accident, but later took up watercolour painting.

She remained fit and alert right up until her 102nd year able to recall almost every photograph she had taken and provide an amusing anecdote about each subject.

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Rita is launched13 Feb 2017Rita with the Land Rover BAR America’s Cup teamThe ambitions of Land Rover BAR to win the 35th America’s Cup – and bring the trophy back home to Britain after 166 years – have taken a step forward with the launch and christening of the team’s America’s Cup class race boat Rita.Code-named R1, the boat represents three years of design and build including four test boats.Sir Ben’s wife Georgie and daughter Bellatrix christened Rita – the same name as all 19 of Sir Ben’s previous boats – in Bermuda where the team is preparing for the America’s Cup event in May.The team will now continue with its intensive testing and development programme that will include in-house racing against test boat T3.”The launch represents the sum of all the team’s efforts to bring the America’s Cup home and we’re delighted to get her in the water here in Bermuda,” said Sir Ben. “We’re a start-up team, and we had to build not just the boat but the design and engineering team, the facilities and the processes to get to this point today.”Richard Hopkirk; Land Rover BAR engineering manager added: “We believe this is the most sophisticated and best prepared British challenger, with a total campaign design effort of 50,000 hours and a construction effort of 35,000 hours for Rita.”The boat is supported by high-tech hydrofoils, 67m of rope on board, 130m of hydraulic pipes and more than 1200m of electronic and electrical cabling connecting 190 sensors and four video cameras.

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More records broken

Alex Thomson celebrates, photo courtesy of Mark Lloyd

And congratulations also go to British sailor Alex Thompson who finished the Vendée Globe solo round the world race onboard his boat HUGO BOSS despite breaking his starboard foil a few days in.

After finishing in a time of 74 days, 19 hours and 35 minutes, Mr Thomson become the fastest Brit to sail solo around the world matching Dame Ellen MacArthur’s second place finish that she achieved in the 2001 edition of the race.

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Record is broken by four days

The Idec Sport team celebrate their achievement

Congratulations to Francis Joyon and his crew who have completed a record-breaking Jules Verne Trophy.

The team on board the maxi-trimaran Idec Sport sailed around the world in 40 days, 23 hours and 30 minutes.

The team sailed 26,412 miles at an average speed of 26.85 knots, beating the previous record set by Loïck Peyron and his crew by 4 days, 14 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds.

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GAC Pindar returns as Volvo Ocean Race provider

06 Feb 2017

GAC Pindar returns

GAC Pindar and GAC companies around the world will return as the Volvo Ocean Race for the second consecutive time as the official logistics provider.

The Group will work closely with GAC offices around the world to provide a wide range of services for the Race which kicks off in Alicante, Spain, on 22 October.

During the 2014-15 Race, the GAC Pindar team clocked up more than 21,000 man hours working to ensure the smooth delivery of the event.

“We are thrilled to again be the official logistics provider for this iconic event, building on the success of our collaboration for the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race,” said Andrew Pindar, team principal at GAC Pindar.

He added: “This appointment for the second consecutive time sends a clear message about our ability to meet the toughest challenges in yachting. We have established ourselves as a leader in the field, and that reputation is underpinned by the qualities that the GAC Group as a whole, the Volvo Ocean Race and its participants embody – stamina, spirit and teamwork.”

The announcement of its appointment for the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 follows the signing in November 2016 of a long-term deal making it the official provider of marine logistics and shipping services for World Sailing.

GAC Pindar is also the official logistics provider for the Extreme Sailing Series, World Match Racing and the M32 Series.

Richard Mason, Volvo Ocean Race COO, concluded: “As a unique global event working under severe time pressures and facing unexpected obstacles, flexible logistics management is integral to operational delivery of the Volvo Ocean Race. The 2017-18 edition will see the sailors tackle one of the toughest race courses in recent history – and with 12 Host Cities on six continents, we’re facing a challenge on-shore, too.”

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