The 100 liter/hour watermaker for medium-sized boats
20 September 2024
PHOTO Comanche, finally sailing the 100-footer born to win it all!
THE PERFECT GIFT!
Give or treat yourself to a subscription to the print + digital Journal of Sailing and for only 69 euros a year you get the magazine at home plus read it on your PC, smartphone and tablet. With a sea of advantages.
We showed you the photos of infusion operations (the most impressive in history, in America), those of the launching, e now we can finally see the new Hodgdon 100 Comanche under sail: The 30.5-meter ultratechnology built by the oldest shipyard in the United States (in operation since 1816), commissioned by tycoon Jim Clark and designed by Guillaume Verdier in collaboration with VPLP Design, has taken to the water in Newport for its first tests ahead of the upcoming Sydney Hobart.
A BOAT TO WIN IT ALL
The boat was born to break any record in major regattas around the world – Esimit Europa 2 can start shaking! VPPs (velocity prediction programs) talk about speeds of more than 30 knots. Then again, the boat is a concentrate of the experience French studios have accumulated in designing multihulls and IMOCA60s. The boat’s beam is 8 meters, and the keel is particularly long to minimize bulb weight. The big challenge will be to make the 100-footer walk even in very light winds (such a large beam translates into a lot of wetted surface area-the large sail plan should be the solution). The skipper of the boat will be Ken Read. After the Sydney Hobart the other races in which Comanche might participate are the Bermuda Race, the RORC Caribbean 600, the Transpacific Yacht Race or the Transatlantic.
SEE PHOTOS OF GEORGE BEKRIS
Share:
Facebook
Twitter
WhatsApp
Check out the latest issue
Are you already a subscriber?
Ultimi annunci
Our social
Sign up for our Newsletter
We give you a gift
Sailing, its stories, all boats, accessories. Sign up now for our free newsletter and receive the best news selected by the Sailing Newspaper editorial staff each week. Plus we give you one month of GdV digitally on PC, Tablet, Smartphone. Enter your email below, agree to the Privacy Policy and click the “sign me up” button. You will receive a code to activate your month of GdV for free!
Highlights
You may also be interested in.
Double rudder wheel: when racing serves cruising
double rudder wheel is now almost a must-have for the majority of boats on the market but, in reality, it is a requirement that originated well back in time, for racing. Like so many arrangements developed for competition, however, it
Open Transom, a (nearly) 40-year-long evolution
Open Transoms, quite simply, what we might call the “trend” of the past two decades, if not more. Sterns open to the water, C-turned, with a flat cockpit running from the hatch to the sea and, why not, recently also
Five super “flagships” that are Classic Boats not to be underestimated (17-18 m)
Looking back to the 1980s and 1990s, to the Classic Boats, today’s boating scene differs more than ever in size, offering yes hulls of all types and square footage, but starting, however, from much larger numbers than it was.
CAT vs. MONO: Lagoon 50 and Oceanis 46.1 at Cala dei Sardi by NSS Charter
One or two? Catamaran or monohull? Who to choose for our sailing vacation? We compared a Lagoon 50 and Beneteau’s Oceanis 46.1 in Cala dei Sardi at North Sardinia Sail headquarters. https://youtu.be/ug6Hu29JFJI Golgo di Cugnana, Nord Ovest della Sardegna. Il
