https://sailingmagazine.net/articles.sec-113-1-perry-on-design.html Sat, 25 Jan 25 00:00:00 -0500 en hourly 1 https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2617-swan-51.html Nautor says, “The first Swan 51 represented a landmark in the inspirational evolution of the Nautor Swan brand.  Launched in 1981, the model marked the first collaboration between Swan and the ...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2618-sun-odyssey-350.html For this review, I should save the surprise for the end, but why make you wait? About a month ago, around midnight, depending on the version of the story, I rolled out of bed and fractured my bac...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2603-nautitech-open-48.html It will be fun to see what happens when we compare two catamarans with similar L/Ds using both hulls, and similar L/Ds using each hull individually, while reducing LOA by 9.62 feet.  The 48 Open...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2602-bali-58.html The Catana Group is launching its 14th Bali catamaran model, the 5.8, in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the line. The promo blurb says “always bigger,” and I’m not going to argue with ...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2589-dufour-44.html Dufour is a French builder that has been around as long or longer than I have been designing. Its Arpege model was hugely successful and began life as a half-tonner. This new Dufour is aimed at the cr...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2590-outbound-5360.html I first met Tim Kernan about 20 years ago when he was attending The Landing School of Boatbuilding and Design in Maine, taking its yacht design course. The students are required to complete an in...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2580-cayman-28.html Regular readers probably know that years ago Mark Mills was an intern in my office. He was fun to have around and really knew sailing. I would listen to him talking to my clients on the phone with his...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2581-elan-impression-43.html The newest design in the Elan series of cruising boats is this Rob Humphreys-designed Elan Impression 43, which marks 20 years of Humphreys designs for Elan. The deck is designed by the Pininfarina st...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2566-wisp.html We have two very contrasting designs to review this month. The first is this very special design that I’ll call a “weekender” although there’s nothing to stop it from sailing out for a mo...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2567-rapido-40.html Now for that contrast I mentioned earlier: The Rapido 40 designed by Morrelli & Melvin in southern California, is a high-performance, high-tech, folding trimaran built by Triac Composites in Ho Ch...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2557-full-circle-30.html It’s hard to find interesting designs for review these days. So this month I thought we’d try a little different approach. In early 1973 I quit my design job in Seattle, loaded my Peugeot wagon an...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2558-tanton-no-309.html When Yves-Marie, Chuck and I left Dick Carter’s tower in Nahant, Massachusetts, to try it on our own I don’t think either of us knew where the future would take us in the world of yacht design. We...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2546-dragonfly-40.html Holy cow! We have a 40-foot folding trimaran to review. This will be fun. My buddy Doug, who lived on the next beach, had one. It wasn’t a Dragonfly but it was similar and not as nice as the Dragonf...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2547-x49.html This month we are going to look at a revamp of the X4.9. I’m not very familiar with the 4.9 but the promotional material I have does a good job of highlighting the changes and there are many. X-Yach...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2534-solaris-44.html Here’s a new model from the Solaris yard in Aquileia, Italy. The design is by Javier Soto Acebal, with design contributions from the yard’s in-house design team. In keeping with the well-establish...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2535-tartan-455.html I can’t recall seeing a Tim Jackett design I did not admire. Tim’s eye captures class proportions and shapes while insuring that performance does not take a back set to aesthetics. It’s sim...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2522-wallyrocket-51.html I’m not sure when I first became aware of Wally yachts. They are built in Milan, Italy. The company concentrates on maxi types with very sophisticated design work from a number of top designers. The...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2523-rapide-41.html It’s exciting to see Mark Mills step away from his ultra-high-performance sportboats and show us what he can do when asked for a custom 41-foot cruising boat. The client asked for a fast cruiser tha...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2515-hanse-460.html Now we will flip the design focus 180 degrees and see what designers Berrett-Racoupeau do when the focus is on volume for an LOA limit as opposed to the SwanClub 28’s focus on boat speed for a given...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2516-clubswan-28.html I’m struggling to find a name for the new crop of high-performance racers like this brand new ClubSwan 28. They are not extreme. I’d say the label of extreme belongs to the foiling America’s Cup...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2501-beneteau-oceanis-371.html Beneteau is certainly the big name in production boats today. It has a lot of practice providing boats that serve a wide range of buyers. Part of the company’s success is its pursuit of interior vol...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2502-mat-122.html Once in a while someone will ask me, “Who is your favorite designer?” It depends on the day and my mood but I usually have a very short list, if you rule out designers no longer with us. Currently...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2497-falken.html It was quiet in my office, except for my hi-fi. It seemed like with my move to the new beach shack there was the inference that I had retired. Not so. I’m not dead yet. Bruised maybe, but not dead. ...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2485-jeanneau-yachts-55.html We have two big production built cruising boats to review this month and both are from very prestigious yacht design offices and built by very successful builders. Our theme for this month will b...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2486-hallberg-rassy-57.html Now let’s see what Hallberg-Rassy working with my favorite designer, German Frers, can do with the volume issue. This is a substantially heavier boat than the Jeanneau. Heavier means more displ...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2468-code-x.html I’m proud this month to bring you two reviews of boats designed by two of the many interns I have had in the office over the last 48 years, Mark Mills and Paul Bieker. I have had interns from all ov...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2469-cape-31.html Here’s a new design from Mark Mills in Ireland. The Cape 31, built in South Africa, has been selling very well and as of this printing will probably have at least 50 boats racing all over Europe and...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2470-green-56.html You may not be familiar with the name Mark Fitzgerald but if you have followed the design work of Chuck Paine’s office you have seen Mark’s work. Mark has been Chuck’s right-hand man for years a...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2471-areys-xfc-22.html I was 14 years old and beginning to get very interested in yacht design. I have no idea why. Nobody in my family had ever owned a sailboat. I had probably been sailing twice. But with the focus a...]]> https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2457-excess-14.html It’s multihull month, aren’t we lucky? But there’s no point in getting all curmudgeonly about it. Today the charter boat scene is dominated by catamarans. They have a big footprint on the water ...]]>