Interesting Sailboats

[EricKLYC]

Originally Posted by PCP

This one show its hi-tech manufacturing facility and several boats being built (hey Eric, which of those is your's?).

Unfortunately none of these, Paulo! When they started infusing our hull, the 12.50 you see being launched was already in the water. This is what ours looked like when we last visited the yard five weeks ago.

Van Drop Box

Best regards,

Eric

[PCP]

Well, it is half away. Nice boat. On that movie the interior looks better and well finished. Not long for to be ready

Big geenaker pole

Regards

Paulo

[PCP]

Well, I was wrong. The Salona 35 is not yet on the water. I was fooled by one of the best photo-realistic images I have ever seen. This one (now bigger):




But I have some news, the price will start at 99 500€ with special prices for first boats. The boat comes with only one interior, this one:



And they released the polar speed prediction:



This are the speeds with the genoa and main. As you can see, as in the Salona 41 I sail this summer, the speeds with light wind are very good:

The boat can make 4.8K with 4k wind, with 5.5K with 5K wind and 6.2 with 6K wind. I wonder with a geenaker at 90º what would be the speed with 4K wind? probably 6K

Downwind the speed is also very good. the boat makes 9.3K at 90º with 25k wind and over 10K at 110º. This is a very good performance for a 35ft boat

with spinnaker with 25K at 130º the boat makes 10.5K and I wonder what speed it will make with a really strong wind like 30 or 35K. I guess this boat will be able to go at 12/13K.

I will be very curious to see this boat at Dusseldorf boat show. If the interior is as good as the drawing lead to believe, it will be a very interesting boat

[bb74]

Originally Posted by PCP

Pacer are great boats but as all boats it has a limit and when you really push the envelope....

Guy was lucky he had a vest on and didn't bang is head going over - 10 mins is a long time with the water at 11° and with the wave conditions and visibility.

Another reason an overlapping foresail is pretty important if you want to power down without having to drop the main.

Having a guy in the water and the other guy with the camera still filming the crew and boat as opposed to acting as the spotter seems a bit dumb if you ask me but I guess they'll learn by trial and error. It may seem benign at hte moment, but any MOB should be taken very seriously - surely more important than a youtube vid.

[G1000]

There is no guy with the camera! Most likely it is GoPro HD camera mounted on pole.

[G1000]

Norwegian article about J/111, Xp44, Grand Soleil 50 and Pogo 12.50: Fantastic sharp sailors

[bb74]

Originally Posted by G1000

There is no guy with the camera! Most likely it is GoPro HD camera mounted on pole.

OK - that makes me feel better about that crew... Thanks for catching that - I didn't want to come across as a jerk but I hadn't thought about that option

[PCP]

The thread is all yours. Post at will, but post nice boats

I am going to Paris. I will be back in some days.

[EricKLYC]

I’m sure Paulo will come across this litlle boat at the Nautic in Paris, intended to be a used as a dinghy: the Albatros, designed by Jean-Marie Finot.



A very particular dingy, since the “daggerboard” is in fact ballasted with 30kg of lead, making the boat much more stable and forgiving than one would expect. It pivots under the hull, a design also seen on the First Class 8 and the cruising Pogo’s. But it also seems to cant automatically, in a way I don’t quite understand.



Otherwise it looks a lot like a mini Pogo with one rudder, don’t you think?





It also seems to behave in a similar way, intended to be sailed with a little heel and able to plane quickly, even upwind.

Carbon mast, retractable bowsprit, textile rigging and built in a light and rigid material called Evolite which is also used in automobiles.

It is also said to be very safe, without requiring athletic capacities to be sailed well



Finot and their partners intend to build this boat in very large numbers, at a standard price of € 6.000.
Both Voiles Magazine and Voiles & Voiliers test sailed it and were quite enthousiastic.

Best regards,

Eric

[PCP]

Originally Posted by G1000

Norwegian article about J/111, Xp44, Grand Soleil 50 and Pogo 12.50: Fantastic sharp sailors

Interesting

All main European boat magazines are testing those boats that are nominated for the European boat of the year, those comments come from the Guys from Seilas, the Norse magazine and even if the google translation is a bit funny, it seems that they were really impressed with the Pogo 12.50.

But as I have said that is a "funny" translation: It appears the word pretentious in what regards the Grand Soleil 50 and I am quite sure that is not the right translation. The boat is not pretentious, is just much more luxurious than the Xp 44 and almost as fast and as they say, less of a racer and more of a performance cruiser and a very good one. In fact, the title should be translated as "Fantastic sharp sailboats" and that means all of them: J/111, Xp44, Grand Soleil 50 and Pogo 12.50

Regards

Paulo