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Rainbow II - Kiwi Classic heads home

5/31/2012

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Chris Bouzaid, the original owner and skipper of the Sparkman & Stephens 36-footer, RainbowII, has bought her back and will return the yacht to New Zealand to be restored.   

Restoration work will be led by the man who built her in 1967, Max Carter, at the Percy Vos Boatyard in the Wynyard Quarter. She will receive new flooring and mast step, using New Zealand kauri donated to the Classic Yacht Charitable Trust by Origin Quarries' Gerard van Tilborg.  Bouzaid plans to donate Rainbow II to the newly established Maritime Museum Foundation in Auckland

Rainbow II notched up a string of major international victories in the 1960s.  After her historic win in the 1969 One Ton Cup off the German archipelago of Heligoland, Rainbow II was sold to an owner in Bermuda. Now, 43 years later, she is going home.

On the back of Jimmy Davern's 1966 Sydney-Hobart line-honours win  on Fidelis, this little yacht - along with her dedicated crews - was originally responsible for putting New Zealand on the international sailing map."  - winning 121 races over two years.  

Among the victories were the Whangarei- Noumea and the Sydney-Hobart races in 1967, Kiel Week  in Germany and the One Ton Cup in 1969. A month later, she won her divisions in both the Channel Race and the Fastnet Classic.

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Seawind Catamaran 950

5/26/2012

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Seawind Catamarans' Founder  Richard Ward unveiled his comány's new 950 model - a long overdue multihull option for the "bottom end of the market" - on the opening day of the 24th Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show.
The 32-foot cruising cat Seawind 950 is a bolt together kitset  cat that can be shipped around the world in two 40ft containers at a fraction of the cost of piggy-backing a fully assembled catamaran on a yacht transporter. 

 The concept is expected to open up new markets in Europe and on the Great Lakes in Canada, as well as appealing to charter companies and young families, who have previously been priced out of the multihull market. 
"The Seawind 950 is a boat normal people can afford. It has a big boat feel, a great family boat capable of coastal cruising , but comes in a box, two boxes in fact."
The Seawind 950 has: 
  • a three cabin layout as standard with a spacious bathroom to port aft and a full galley down to starboard. Like its bigger sister the Seawind 1000, the saloon table in the 950 also drops down to offer another double berth. A two cabin, two-bathroom option will also be made available for the charter market.
  • The cat is powered by a fully-battened mainsail and overlapping jib
  • twin Yamaha 9.9hp high thrust outboards for auxiliary propulsion.
"We think it will charter very well, at the base charter level, for two couples. There is absolutely nothing like this anywhere in the world as far as we know so it's very exciting," Ward said.

The Seawind 950 can be shipped from Seawind's Vietnam factory to any major port from a starting price of A$225,000. Two qualified boat builders could assemble the boat in 1.5 days. Seawind offers to assemble the boat for an additional $10,000 although with just six bolts, Ward believes many owners will choose to put the kitset cat together themselves."Shipping a 30-footer to Europe costs roughly $70,000 which is just ridiculous. We think it will open up a lot of markets now there is no barrier to shipping."

The Seawind 950 will be available from November 2012. 

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Kiwis win Four Titles at the 7th World Superyacht Awards

5/14/2012

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New Zealand has scooped four titles at the 7thWorld Superyacht Awards in Istanbul.The international panel of 17 judges awarded

  • Auckland's Alloy Yacht's  67.9m ketch - designed by Philippe Briand (France) and launched in Auckland as the biggest yacht ever built in New Zealand gained two titles: Neptune Award for Overall Sailing Yacht of the YearSailing Yacht of the Year 40m+ size range. Construction took one million man-hours.
  • Antares III, took the top prize in the Sailing Yacht 30-40m category. The 30m sloop rigger, of Auckland's Yachting Developments and Dixon Yacht Design was built in just 400 days, defying the expression that "good things take time".
  • Neville Crichton, was honoured with a Legacy Award for his "instrumental role in the establishment and growth of the New Zealand superyacht building industry, for his leading position in the world of sailboat racing, his generosity of spirit and his inspiration to others in these fields." He is the owner of 41.1m powerboatComo.
  • Karia, the 45m Ron Holland design, built by RMK Marine, received a judges' commendation in the displacement yacht below 500 gross tonnes division.
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Slippery ships

4/4/2012

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http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120326-slippery-ships-and-cramped-canals 

I saw something like this when I was in Costa Rica in 1976. I met a drunken American engineer who explained the golf ball theory. This worked on the principal of dragging air along with the dimples in the golf ball. This gave the golf ball less resistance, greater range & speed.

In his case, he plus the US Army Corp of Engineers had indented the hulls of a 25ft Piver Trimaran with a small ball peen hammer giving a dimpled affect. He claimed a 15% increase in speed under engine or sailing and  less fuel being used motoring. No proof.  

I wanted to try it, but could never find any one with a boat I could take a hammer too. Now, 36 years later, air bubbling has turned up!
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Universal Hull

3/17/2012

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Warwick Collins Universal Hull is an innovation in hull design. This fuses together two classic hull types (the long, thin, easily-driven hull and the beamy commodious hull) in a form which yields the chief virtues of both types of hull. The two hulls are joined above the waterline by a ledge which also acts as a spray ledge. The resulting shape is easily driven because of the long, thin underwater shape but enjoys the accommodation space (above the waterline) of a beamy hull. 

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Collins 
  • http://boats.woodenboat.com/?p=2185
  • http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?132396-The-Universal-Hull 
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK666_3LNuc
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUQHQmmdSZc 
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