Rupert Holmes takes a take a look at quite a lot of new wood yachts which were not too long ago launched or will quickly be launched
It has now been many a long time since wooden was essentially the most broadly used materials in yacht productions however timber continues to be a pure selection for some fashionable yacht designers and there are nonetheless many new wood yachts coming to market on a regular basis.
Rupert Holmes has lengthy been following the brand new yacht market and has rounded up a number of the most attention-grabbing and thrilling new wood yacht designs.
New wood yachts
WOY 26 is a completely fashionable daysailer constructed utilizing excessive tech timber building. Photograph: Nico Krauss
The WOY26 is an beautiful open daysailer designed by Martin Menzner of Berckemeyer Yacht Design and this wood yacht is a radically fashionable design, together with a flat hull with extensive, open transom, a adverse stem, twin rudders and a lifting keel with a T-bulb. For ease of dealing with, the carbon rig has swept spreaders however no backstay and a self-tacking jib.
“With the WOY26, our thought of a contemporary wood crusing yacht has come to life,” says the yard’s founder Jan Brügge, with…“sustainable design, fashionable strains for max efficiency and simple sail dealing with.”
The primary instance of the WOY26 was launched in October 2024 and boat quantity two is already in construct. Value is predicted to be ‘between a brand new Dragon and a ClubSwan 28 – or just below €200,000.’
LuluNikka’s spirit of custom design reveals in her pleasing hull strains and an inside that highlights her timber building at its finest. Photograph: Fabio Taccola
Roberto and Luisa Lacorte are passionate sailors with enviable monitor data of yacht possession, together with Flying Nikka, the Mark Mills-designed Mini Maxi that makes use of comparable foiling know-how to the America’s Cup.
When it got here to selecting a yacht to sail as a pair, or with household and associates, they turned to Giovanni Ceccarelli who created this standout 42ft spirit of custom yacht. Slender hull strains with low freeboard and a beam of solely 3.16m (10ft 4in), plus in depth exterior woodwork echo a method of earlier occasions, as do the deep bulwarks and lengthy aft deck.
But that is completely a recent yacht, with a close to plumb bow and stern, a robust square-top mainsail and lengthy bowsprit for reaching sails and uneven spinnakers. Under the waterline is a high-aspect deep draught torpedo bulb keel and environment friendly single rudder, whereas a displacement of solely 6,400kg places the boat firmly within the high-performance class.
Photograph: Alison Langley
This extra traditional and cruising-oriented design is meant as a mix of timeless design and up to date innovation, with a gracefully balanced hull harking back to these of the mid-Twentieth century.
In contrast, the deck structure borrows closely on at this time’s pondering. The ahead a part of the cockpit is an upholstered space for lounging and entertaining, whereas sail controls are led aft to the realm across the central single wheel, permitting the boat to be conned from right here when being sailed single-handed.
So far as attainable the boat is about up for push-button crusing, with electrical winches to deal with sheets for jibs and reaching sails, in addition to hoisting the in-boom furling mainsail. The mainsheet is managed utilizing an progressive hydraulic under-deck system.
Hoek Design is a long-standing grasp on this area and the Eagle 46, which was unveiled by Leonardo Yachts at Cannes in September, is unlikely to disappoint.
The elegant and timeless strains characteristic very lengthy overhangs, however there are state-of-the-art appendages beneath the water and a strong sloop rig. The deck structure is about up for straightforward single-handed crusing and there’s a big cockpit for household and associates to get pleasure from.
This guarantees to be a fully beautiful spirit of custom yacht, with crisp traditional strains, a stiff and light-weight timber/epoxy building, plus up to date underwater profile and sail plan.
Stephen Jones and Jonty Sherwill, the 2 names behind the idea, want little introduction and have collaborated on quite a few tasks throughout a number of a long time, together with the Starlight 35, 38 and 46, SJ320, Rustler 42, and most notably the Prima 38 One Design that received the BMF Yacht of Yr in 1998. Extra not too long ago Jones has mixed up to date yacht design information with conventional shapes in boats such because the Rustler 33 and Thriller 35, in addition to his personal 46ft spirit of custom yacht Meteor.
Jones says the design for the SJ66, “…evokes the Metre Boat type with modern proportions and lengthy overhangs.”
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