I did some more digging on the boat, and it looks like it was designed with Trans-atlantic amature racing in mind. From the drawing board of a pretty successful open 40 designer. Sadly the reviews were primarily in French which I don't read, but if I was in the market for a fast cruiser in this size range it would certainly be something worth looking at.
I am also no sure if it is intended to be beachable. From what I saw it looks like it has deployable legs that would allow it to dry out on from a falling tide, but couldn't be driven up on a sand beach. But my sense of this is pretty spotty.
Not bad
In fact even if sharing the same concept the designer of the Malango 999 and the Malango 888/Mojito 888 is not the same even if both are involved on the solo racing scene.
The 999 is designed by Julien Marin a prolix NA with many interesting designs and some interesting boats produced between them a 40 class racer that had some success (2006).
http://julienmarin-archinaval.com/fr/travaux_architecte_naval.php#lien_marin40_bis
The 888 is designed by the more famous NA Pierre Rolland, an ex mini racer.
His first design was a mini for himself. With it he made the 1987 and 1989 mini Transat. With is second design, also a mini racer Thierry Dubois won the 1993 mini Transat. He is the one that design the first Pogo mini racer that won many races. Designs also the first Pogo cruiser, the 850 (160 boats built). He designs (in collaboration with two other NA) the Open 60 that will allow Bernard Stamm to won two times the circumnavigation race "Velux 3 Oceans". He designs also several interesting fast light cruisers like the Django series, the Bongo, the Fabulo 36, the Yaka, the Banjo and some fast voyage boats in aluminium.
He is a top solo sailor, having made several years of Figaro series and finishing a mini transat in 4th. He uses his vast experience to design fast boats easy to sail solo.
rolland Archi : Les plans de Pierre Rolland
A Bongo twin keel cruiser making the Transat:
The soul of the Malango/Mojito his the director of the shipyard and he is the guy that defines how he wants the boats: Denis Bourbigot
The boats are designed with fast cruising in mind but specially the 888 also with a famous amateur transat race in mind, the Transquadra.
The Transaquadra is a famous French solo/two race for amateurs more than 40 year's old. The race is divided in two legs, one in July other in January and in fact we are at the middle of one. The first leg had already taken place and on January we will have the second. There is a Malango 888 racing.
Transquadra 2014-2015 | Transat solitaire et double r?serv?e aux amateurs.
