All the secrets of the Eco Racer 769, the recyclable racing boat

They are a bold innovative company that is doing some very interesting things, and their Eco Racer was on display at the Genoa Boat Show. We’re talking about the folks at Northern Light Composites, whom we visited to learn the secrets of this great little boat. Small only because of its 7.69 meters long, 2.8 wide, because otherwise this is a boat of great ambition. In fact, the Eco Racer is built with alternative materials such as thermo plastic resins and flax fiber, which make the boat recyclable at the end of its life, as the folks at Northern Light Composites told us in the video below.

The boat’s design is by Matteo Polli, the wizard of ORC racing boats, who has created eye-catching, modern lines and a hull designed to compete in the mini offshore circuits. But in addition to the design “star” there is the hand of another great sailor in the Eco Racer project, we refer to Roberto Spata.

Eco Racer’s blanket and Roberto Spata’s “handprint”

Roberto Spata, one of the most experienced professional sailors there are in Italy, now also a project manager for boats such as the Momi 80 (which together with the Eco Racer won the Design Innovation Award of the Genoa Boat Show) and working on innovative boats such as Northern Light Composites. On the Eco Racer Spata oversaw the positioning and layout of the deck rigging, and told us something interesting about the idea behind it.

“The Eco Racer project was born out of a collaboration with Matteo Polli with whom I work often and with whom we have a commonality of views. My work on Eco Racer was to make the deck equipment and rigging as simple as possible. It is right that such small boats should be beautiful, and the design of Eco Racer is because of its lines as well as being interesting because of the concept of recyclability of the boat, but they should also be simple for owners who do not then have to waste hours ashore on maintenance. The deck plan will be very clean with hidden maneuvers, a boat where it will be “unnecessary” to go to the bow after ditching the moorings. The Eco Racer after the launch will be taken to Garda where we will test it by pulling the prototype to the limit for the final optimization,” Roberto Spata told us, whom we will see more and more often in this guise of boat preparer and optimizer, also in the role of project manager, as well as a professional racer.

Mauro Giuffrè

THE ECO RACER 769 AT THE GENOA SHOW

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