An eight-meter cruising round bow you make your own

Round bow for cruising boats to gain a tide of space inside and out and compete with the extra-large size of catamarans.

Round bow on cruising boats?

It is not a utopia; we are getting there. At the Paris Boat Show, it was all anyone was talking about. Because while it is true that for ocean racing boats it is already a reality, in cruising boats until now there were no concrete examples.

The round bow, in jargon called a scow, is very effective not only because of the space you gain at the bow but also because of the incredible performance you get, facilitating glide without the boat sinking the bow. We tell you well about it here and recommend that you take a look at it.

But, as we have said, for cruising boats until now almost no one had tried this on a boat size other than those of just over six meters. Now there is a round bow boat under construction, the Sailscow 37, and other projects about to take off.

A yard for round bow cruising boats

Credit is due to a new French shipyard that happens to be called Sailscow, which in addition to the Sailscow 37 is creating a range of 28-foot and 40-foot round bow cruising boats.

The Sailscow shipyard was born from the meeting of Jean-Michel Linck, an experienced builder, and Gildas Plessis, a naval architect who has made it his mission to develop cruising boats with round bows.

The site’s choice of epoxy CP construction hides a definite choice. In fact, Sailscow offers customers the opportunity to purchase a pre-fitted kit and finish building the boat themselves.

An 8-meter kit to build it yourself and save money

One only has to analyze the interior drawings of the smallest in the Sailscow range, the 28, to realize the space that is gained compared to a traditional 8.50-meter boat with a boat that has a round bow, that is, as wide as the stern.

Its round bow allows it to sail with little heel due to its shape stability, but also to sail without getting the deck too wet (the boat basically sails over the waves instead of cutting them). In addition, the large bow volume offers an unusually large double berth on an 8.5-meter yacht . Like a real superyacht suite!

One only has to see the layout of the interior to realize this. Like all Sailscow shipyard models, the 28 is also available as a kit version so you can assemble it yourself at the shipyard with the help of technicians for any eventuality, significantly reducing costs.

But Sailscow also offers the finished version with different levels of finish, can deliver the boat at different stages of manufacture, from the complete kit for amateur builders, the covered hull to be finished, the custom finished boat ready to sail.

Sailscow 28 – Boat Datasheet

Hull length 8.56 m
Maximum width 3.15 m
Maximum draught 2.30 m (reduced 1.90)
Displacement 3,000 kg
Sailscow Shipyard