De två första båtarna levereras våren 2008 till Tyskland och England.
This cruiser racer is an advanced high-tech and visually attractive 16 meter rocket-ship. PCT is building the new Ker53 Cruiser Racer using female moulds for shaping the hull, deck and many interiors in w/p-carbon / foam / carbon-epoxy. The entire boat full of innovative, yet practical details, PCT also takes care of creating the best insulation system for a carbon hull or designing custom made composite deck lashings.
The carbon/epoxy hull and deck forms, together with the race sail package are designed for speed; the interior is designed for cruising in style and comfort. Radical, yes. But also light and practical. Fully equipped with the latest high modulus carbon rig and sail designs, and “state of the art” deck hardware, the KER53 Cruiser Racer is the ultimate no compromise “ready to sail” package. It defines new standards on the IRC circuit.
Marc Tucker och Design Unlimited har gått hela vägen när det gäller interiören. Den kan fås som “classic”, eller som här i en “modern” variant…
ORMA 60 har varit en stor klass sedan tidigt 80-tal, och som mest fanns det 18 båtar på linjen 2002 (Route du Rhum). Men nu verkar intresset ha avtagit, och racen i år samlar bara några få båtar.
Orsakerna är flera. Dels har kostnaderna för att ta fram nya båtar och kampanja dem blivt mycket höga. Dels optimerades de nyare båtarna för bansegling (vilket var stort i Frankrike) vilket gjorde dem mindre säkra på havet (bara 3 av 18 kom i mål på Route du Rhum 2002). Sedan kan man säkert se konkurrens både från stora 100-fots multis som slår rekord, och betydligt billigare IMOCA 60.
En möjlig lösning är en entypstrimaran, MOD 70. Man tror att en sådan hade kunnat kosta 2M€ jämfört med en ORMA 60 som kostar 3M€. Även de löpande kostnaderna kommer att bli lägre.
length over all 21,4 m
beam overall 16,91 m
draft 4,50 m
height above waterline 28,50 m
light deplacement 6,2 T
up-wind sail area 267 m²
down wind sail area 397 m²
Sailing has always meant dreams and adventure, with values based on daring, discovery and striving. Now a competitive sport in its own right, sailing combines two complementary aspects which make up its strength: technology and people.
Thanks to its modernism, its technological innovations, its performances and its estheticism, the ocean multihull has transcended love of the sea and racing by attracting a much larger audience than the natural sailing public.
After those that can be considered pioneers: Tabarly, Kersauzon, Birch… the heroes of the 80s and 90s: Bourgnon, Peyron, Poupon, Arthaud… appeared a new generation of navigators, combining generosity, talent and professionalism… Cammas, Lemonchois, Bidégorry, Ravussin, Desjoyeaux… Recently, the multihull and ocean racing have awakened the interest of Anglo-saxon and Scandinavian skippers, like Ellen MacArthur (GB), Knut Frostad (Norway), Klabbe Nylof (Sweden).
Today, the ocean multihull brings together the best skippers of the ocean world.
Modernism and performance, security, reliability and cost effectiveness, the 70’ Multi One Design is going to become the boat of reference for the Orma class for ten years starting in October 2009. A strong and innovative concept, voluntarily turned toward the internationalization of the circuit and already creating a new, keen interest for sailing enthusiasts.
The Multi One Design World Championship will be made up of:
An annual European Tour, organized over 5 weeks in June and July – a genuine tour of Europe at the heart of the biggest capitals.
An «ocean» program with each year one or two big Transatlantic races including one-handed or doubles races outwards (Route du Rhum, Transat Jacques Vabre, The Transat) and return races with crews including the Quebec / St Malo Transat. This « return transat » program will eventually include two new concepts being studied for 2011 and 2013.
Offshore sailing has been booming in France for the past ten years. An example is the Route du Rhum, which gathers 1 million visitors for each start, and the Jacques Vabre Transat which gathers 300 000. This increasing interest is now shared by a number of European countries who have recently discovered this fascination with offshore multihulls. This keen interest represents a genuine media and events potential on a European level.
En 40-årig man bröt ett par revben under provsegling av sin nya båt.
Mannen som var på väg mellan Kalmar och Nynäshamn på en provtur i sin nybyggda segelbåt skadade sig under natten till söndagen. Av någon anledning vid två tiden på natten slogs han omkull av bommen och föll. I fallet skadade han sin ena axel samt bröt ett par revben.
Larmet gick hos RS Visby vid halv sju på söndagsmorgonen. Då hade både RS Loftahammar och räddningshelikoptern från Visby försökt att hjälpa mannen. Men pga rådande väder och att mannen inte ville överge båten.
RS Visby kunde ett par sjömil utanför Kappelshamnsviken borda seglaren med två man. De kunde reva segeln och med hjälp av motorn styra in segelbåten i Kappelshamn.
Väl inne i Kappelshamn väntade ambulansen på att föra mannen till Visby lassarett för vård av sina skador.
Man önskar att man kunde ta åt sig äran, men den här gången är det våra vänner med samma båtnamn som är på hugget igen. Foto: Dan Phelps | Spinsheet
December 5, 2007- With just sixteen months of racing under their belt, Team Blur captured the 10th annual Melges 24 Southeast Championship, finishing ahead of more than eighty circuit competitors to win the highly coveted 2008 Quantum FUSION M Melges24 Class Kevlar Jib.
Innan Barcelona World Race pratades det mycket om hur man skulle hålla ihop båtarna. Och väl nere i södra oceanen så verkar det svårt att köra fort utan att saker går sönder. Senast är det Delta Dore som brutit masten. Sedan tidigare är både PRB och Estrella Damm på väg till Kapstaden.
1 Paprec Virbac 2 +0
2 Veolia Environnement +136
3 Hugo Boss +207
4 Delta Dore +544 (mastbrott)
6 Mutua Madrileña +1380
7 Estrella Damm +1728 (roderproblem)
8 Educación Sin Fronteras +2127
RET PRB (masttoppen avbruten)
Sylvie Viant, Race Director of the Barcelona World Race, has been notified by skipper Jérémie Beyou onboard the fourth-placed IMOCA 60 Delta Dore that his boat has been dismasted. Both he and co-skipper Sidney Gavignet are unhurt and safe onboard and the boat itself is structurally intact.
Jérémie contacted the Race Direction team by Iridium satellite phone at 0120 GMT (11 December) just minutes after the incident: “We have just been dismasted, we have wind from 300°, 25 knots increasing to 35 knots sometimes, and waves not too bad at about 4 metres. We were sailing with one reef in the mainsail and staysail (small headsail). The mast seems to have fallen backwards.”
Just under an hour later Jérémie reported: “We had to quickly cut the mast and boom away in to the water because it they were becoming dangerous and was going to start damaging the hull. The boat is okay, the deck is okay, only there are no more lifelines. And we have nothing big to use to make a jury rig for now.”
The boat’s position at the time of dismasting was 47°00 S 033° 25 E, nearly a thousand miles south east from South Africa, drifting slowly at between 1 and 2 knots east. The reason for the dismasting is unknown at this time.
The Race Direction Team is in regular contact with the two French sailors Jérémie Beyou and Sidney Gavignet and their shore team headed up by Gilles Chiorri. The skippers have 188 litres of diesel onboard, which will provide approximately 60 hours of motoring, the equivalent of approximately 240 miles. The team are also already studying the options of a jury rig using spare mainsail battens onboard.
Nearest land to their current position:
Edward Islands 175 nautical miles to the east (uninhabited)
Crozet Island 685 miles to the east (uninhabited)
Port Elisabeth (South Africa) 850 miles to the north west
Perth (Australia) 3700 miles to the east
The Maritime safety organisation, MRCC Cape Town, has been informed, however the skippers have not requested any outside assistance at this time.
“These professional skippers always know that there is a risk involved in ocean racing of any kind. Indeed, in any sport where the boundaries are being pushed. This does not lessen the immense disappointment that Jérémie and Sidney must be experiencing and everyone from the race organisation shares in their disappointment and wishes the skippers a safe passage to land,” said Andor Serra, Director General of the Fundació Navegació Oceànica Barcelona, co-organisers of the Barcelona World Race.
Mark Turner, CEO of OC Events, co-organisers of the Barcelona World Race added: “It’s easy to become complacent about sailing around the world, but the last few days during which we have seen PRB lose the top 3 meters of their mast and Estrella Damm suffer severe damage to their rudder are a strong reminder just how hard it is to race at this kind of pace, on these 60-foot racing machines, racing around the planet non-stop. Nearly 10,000 miles in, and the damage toll is mounting. Ocean racing competition at this level has many human performance factors, but it remains nonetheless a mechanical sport. The adage ‘that to win you must first finish’ has never been more true. This is a cruel fate though for this well prepared team that was working so well together onboard, and sailing prudently by their own admission. Also, just as Jérémie was getting his first taste of the Southern Ocean, an ocean he will now have to wait until the 2008 solo Vendée Globe in a year’s time to revisit.”
