Interesting Sailboats

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Look at this Seacart 26 promotion movie:

SeaCart 26. Promo. from Love Strandell on Vimeo.

Not much wind and the boat glide very fast, effortlessly. Nice. What a day-sailer, what a racer, what a wonderful boat

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O.K.! Starting to like this . . .AureusXV/XVI . . . Ferrari mention understood . . .personally would rethink the interior surfaces/finishes (personal, colors & textures etc.) yeah just me.

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Originally Posted by mikel1

O.K.! Starting to like this . . .AureusXV/XVI . . . Ferrari mention understood . . .personally would rethink the interior surfaces/finishes (personal, colors & textures etc.) yeah just me.

Yes I agree. I understand the designer's idea and the zen spirit with some luxury is a great mix, but mainly on the dark set-up I thing you are right.

On the light colors set up it seems a lot better to me. You can see that on the cabin. Pity that the saloon is shown only with the dark set up. I don't like the movable cabinets idea on a boat with this size.

Regards

Paulo

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And some great sailing without a sailing boat:

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Great photo of Hetairos:




You can downloaded it from Yacht magazine in several sizes and use it as Desktop for Mars.

März 2012*|*YACHT.DE

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Finally things are really hot on the VOR, while they are heading in difficult conditions to Auckland.

Difficult conditions mean spectacular sailing and the French from Groupama are blasting away winning miles to everybody.

Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 | Race Data Center


Nothing is decided yet. Still 2000 miles to Auckland and the 2th and 3th are at only 90Nm. Big fight for 2th between the Australian/American Puma (2th now) and the Spanish from Telefónica.


Great images:

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Worse conditions are felt by the ones that are racing the "Around NZ" two crewed race .

Most of the boats run for shelter on bays, many suffered damage and the Pogo 40 retired from the race.


03 Mar 2012

Danaide 030730 nzdt Mar Sheltering Golden Bay with Expedition Coppelia & Truxton

Expedition Coppelia 030730 nzdt Mar Sheltering Golden Bay with Danaide & Truxton

Krakatoa 2 030730 nzdt Mar Withdrawn from race.

Panther 030730 nzdt Mar Tried calling vessel on SSB no response. Vessel too far to call on VHF. Saw position had updated with yellow brick.

Pelagian 2 030730 nzdt Mar 38 40S 169.12E Incident involving vessel, They are taking on water and now have the situation under control with pumps and their engine has started.

Revs 030730 nzdt Mar 41S 170E Very broken on VHF unable to copy restof the position.

Sunstone 030730 nzdt Mar 42 05S 169 53E

Surreal 030730 nzdt Mar 42 56S 170 15E ALL GOOD ENJOYING GINGER CRUNCH

Truxton 030730 nzdt Mar Sheltering Golden Bay with Expedition Coppelia & Danaide

Vingilot 030730 nzdt Mar 41 52S 169 29E

SSANZ - News


Remember these are amateurs, good one, but not professional racers and most boats are cruising boats, some really old ones.


Pelagian and Panther are still experiencing high winds, but all well. Pelagian intend to continue in the race. Panther crew very seasick but OK and heading for Nelson. Panther, Vingalot and Revs are repairing ripped sails. Lead boats are in more comfortable weather and making good progress.

SSANZ

You can follow their fight against the weather here:

Round New Zealand Two Handed leg 2 - Powered by Yellowbrick Tracking

About the boats, we can see that with these muscular upwind conditions, the downwind fast runners were left behind, that the First 44.7 continues to lead on real time and that two cruising boats, a Cavalier 45 and a really old SS 39 are showing to the racing boats that with heavy weather, upwind, with short crew, they can beat them.

The SS 39, sailed by an old couple is making an incredible race and they are leading in handicap in all categories. Chapeau to them

You can see an interview with them on a previous post about this race.

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Originally Posted by G1000

Take a look at first twin-wheel Pogo12.50. Eric is it yours?

I guess Eric miss your post

But I hope not. The boat was not designed for that and two wheels on that boat only make sense if the boat has a large crew and that's the opposite of its sailing program (solo or short crew).

If you have a tiller and am extension all the winches are near by at reach. With wheels all winches are very far away and out of reach from the skipper.

For having this set up they should have re-positioned the winches.

Regards

Paulo

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New boat: Tide 34, a centerboarder with a classic flavor. A beautiful boat made in small series. Not an inexpensive one but one that will not look outdated in half a dozen years.

Very light (2780kg) and with not much ballast (500kg) most of its stability comes from form stability and the boat is only certified as class C by the RCD.

This boat does not pretend to be an offshore boat, just a nice boat for protected waters.

[G1000]

Paulo, I was just joking regarding twin-wheel and Eric I'm aware Eric will sail shorthanded.

Also wanted to post Anasazi Racing blog about family on a racing Open 40 making a circumnavigation. Amazing!

If you really love sailing and making dreams alive, then you don't really care much about interior or size or ... How about 32 days and 2000km on Laser?