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Gerard Cok selection of the week : Elan 400
Class Ocean50 - Boat for Breizh World Tour 2017-2018
Designed by Judel/Vrolijk & co, the world‘s most successful yacht designers, the HANSE 575 is the perfect cruising yacht. The designers have, of course, helped us maintain our record of offering the fastest cruising yacht in its class.
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Première at the Boot 2013 in Düsseldorf (Germany)
Will this be the boat that can win for example the next Transquadra?
Dehler aims it to be a performant competitive yacht. It keeps the Dehler principles to designing luxury and modern interiors with superior Equipment….
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http://www.dehler.com/fileadmin/sys/dehler/swf/brochures/Dehler_38/files/assets/downloads/publication.pdf
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On the pontoons people are whispering: The French boats are almost all using the plans of the architect Guillaume Verdier, making the boats lot lighter, making them faster down the wind. But are those boats reliable enough ? Alex Thomson, using Farr plans on his Hugo Boss, is more confident than ever finishing this race and benefits gains on long-term (http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/article/2265/alex-thomson-the-french-favourites-won-t-finish.html) . But don’t forget the severe delamination in the first part of last Vendee Globe making Alex Thomson to pull out the race (http://thistrainisforgourock.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/hugoboss.jpg?w=300&h=186 )
At the end we’ll know the truth.
Stumbled on the Twizzle website today, this team of professionals is specialized in creation of award-winning high performance, high tech sailing yachts with all the luxury of a motor yacht. Very much worth visiting if you’re a Sailing enthusiast and appreciate the craftsmanship of high end luxury.
http://www.twizzle.org/about/galleries/
On the 27th of March 2012 The Twizzle attended the St Barths Regatta
The Twizzle blog writes:
What a terrific Bucket Regatta, with St Barths in all its finery! 47 yachts entered this year with Twizzle being the heaviest ad second longest after the new Heterios (went aground on the first race and did not finish). The yachts were split into four divisions this year and the Peter Craig, the Principal Race Officer, did a terrific job of keeping yachts seperated around the marks. Jim Teeters did a superb job of rating every yacht resulting in the most exciting finishes for many a regatta. The last days race (Around the Island the Wrong Way) was just brilliant, with a Spinnikar start and finish, with Twizzle sailing briliantly, coming in 3rd in its Mademoiselle Class (including all the Dubois designs) and 10th overall, being pipped at the post by just ONE second by Ranger the J Class racing yacht.
At the end of the Bucket Twizzle came 3rd in its class and 12th overall out of 47 yachts - a testiment to Twizzle’s extrodinary Race and Permenant Crew, lead by John Cutter as tactician, Piet van Os as navigator, Yerin Hobsen as Deck Crew leader and Race Crew organiser and not least Captain Gordon Percy of Twizzle on helm!
Racing has improved Twizzle beyond all recognition and it was wonderful to see how calm, professional and effortless the crew was handling this huge sailing yacht in Race consitions. Racing Gybes and kite hoisting were no problem, even on the technically challanging short course on Day 2.
Congratulations to the Dubois designed Lady B on a superbly sailed competation, winning our class outright and coming 2nd overall! Twizzle and crew are looking forward to the Loro Piana Regatta in Sardinia on the 5th June 2012.
source: http://www.twizzle.org/blog/2012/03/27/st-barths-bucket-regatta-march-2012/
Check out this great website:
http://www.pogostructures.com/en/
These masterbuilders are a must know in the sailing world!
ROUND the world yachtsman Alex Thomson waved goodbye to his Hampshire base yesterday as he set sail to join up with his rivals in the Vendee Globe race.
Thomson left Gosport on his 60ft yacht Hugo Boss bound for Les Sables d’Olonne in France ahead of the start of the 30,000-mile solo non-stop round the world race, writes WILL CARSON.
The 38-year-old has competed in the Vendee Globe, regarded as one of sailing’s toughest challenges, twice previously but has never finished it.
His chances of victory were all but ended before the start of the 2008 race when his boat was damaged by a fishing vessel while waiting to enter Les Sables d’Olonne marina.
“This feels like a very positive moment,” said Thomson prior to leaving the dock yesterday.
“We have got a few people on board because we want to avoid the disaster from four years ago.
“This year we are really confident with the boat and the team we have had behind the preparations the last few years.”
He first hit headlines in 1999 becoming the youngest ever skipper to win a round the world race, sailing his team to victory in the Clipper Round the World Race.
In the 2005 Velux 5 Oceans race Thomson was rescued from his sinking yacht in the Southern Ocean by Golding.
In July this year, Thomson set a new world record for the fastest solo crossing between New York and Cornwall, completing the course in eight days, 22 hours and eight minutes, smashing the existing record by more than a day.
See Will Carson’s Sailing Spotlight in today’s Daily Echo
source: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/9984385.Alex_chases_round_the_world_glory/
