Suprises......total

[JimCooper]

Heres Ma & Pa out for a sail in their "Sports yacht" sailing in all of 15 knots if I read the sea conditions. Not carrying that much sail either.

These yachts made their debut at the recent Paris boat show, cost (I think) around $150 000 USD for a pretty basic setup.

Not the best marketing photo that I was sent. The wide stern trimming the bow down with heel while the autopilot steers the boat and the crew hang on in misery forced out of the cockpit to try and keep her upright. If sh'e overpowered in these conditions then she needs a crew of 7 just to keep her on a reasonable angle, but she's only a 32 footer. Now add a gale some sleet and a dead engine and try and get back to a safe mooring .

Must be designed for day lake sailing in summer.

For the same money you could buy a nice snug small ship from the used boat brokers and sail safely to anywhere in the world.

Cheers
Jim

I battle tying to get images displaying sometimes finally hopefully this has done it.

[Bergalia]

Aye, aye man Jim, fit like yersel...intrigued by note - but attachment link 'invalid...'

[JimCooper]

Aye Bergalia

Thanks for the tippoff that my image was not displayed.
I have a wee problem with the attaching at times :-)

I edited that first post and succeeded this time. Last time it said it had but hadn't if you follow ?

So what do you think of the beatiful wee boatie.?

Cheers
Jim

[Bergalia]

Errrr.....No thanks Jim...I'll walk...

[crawdaddy031]

me thinks the autopilot is the one with all the brains on that boat! I know almost nothing about sailing(not really) and that is just plain silly.

[Willallison]

intriguing pic.
You have to ask yourself, where was it taken from?.... and is what looks like a sailboat doing its darndest to sink itself, really just punching through the wake of the camera boat?.....

[Bergalia]

Good point Will....but she still seems to be making heavy weather of it. Nose too far down despite crews' weight to stern...

[MikeJohns]

This was used as a marketing photo here (Australia) the boat was just foisted onto the market at the recent GoldCoast boat show. She is small light and definately a coastal sheltered water sailor. Her price with a racing wardrobe and plastic interior is as you say equal to a real boat on the used boat market.

She is falling into the photographers wake and its the old trick of doing multiple passes just ahead on smooth water while clicking away to get one action shot as though she was in the rough. A case of the marketers thinking the shot looks exciting and the yachtsmen thinking it looks like its an untenable platform at sea.