Containerable Motorsailers

another interesting containerable:
http://www.boxyacht.com/

[Guillermo]

The angled position inside the container is clever, as it is the general concept.
I think we'll see several containerable yachts coming to the market in the near future, as the concept opens many posssibilities.
Cheers.

[Greenseas2]

Hi folks, back again. We've been looking at the 23.5 foot Colvic watson motorsailers in the UK with the idea of shipping one back by container. With the twin fin keels, it will fit even though an internal cradle and bracing against the container wall would be needed to keep it from moving. By shipping it in a container, theft of onboard gear would be eliminated once the container is sealed.

[wblakewsx]

I wan to turn the container into a boat. Easy for a house boat, but for a sailer?

[FAST FRED]

Containers are rented for use , the Owners would probably be upset at major modification.

Box shaped sail boats are not common , the vessel would do nothing very well.

With the thousands of reallycheap boats in FL, why would one bother NOT to just by one. Florida Mariner has them by the hundreds.

FF

[Pericles]

With 1900 NM under her keel InBox is coming to Europe. http://www.containeryachts.com/pdf/Winter_07.pdf

She will be a container shipment to the Netherlands, arriving in May in readiness for a cruise through Holland, Germany, Scandinavia, then to the UK. The yacht will be available for inspection and demonstration sails at key yachting venues on its itinerary.


Pericles

[FAST FRED]

We were aboard her in Newport RI and the boat was fine.

Any idea how many have been sold ?

FF

[Pericles]

Hull#1 is to be shipped to Annapolis and will be available for inspection in late March, according to the Winter '07 report. InBox, the prototype, was built in Oregon, however the series production boats are to be built in Croatia.

Pericles

[gjw0920]

Not to sound commercial; but if anyone is interested in the D36 made in Thailand as mentioned in this thread there are two of them located in Portsmouth, RI and for sale; I have sailed one of them in winds gusting to 30 knots and they are surprisingly easy to handle, dry and fast. Call Glenn at 401 855 4355

[Guillermo]

Not a motorsailer, but a racing boat with containerable limitations/advantages in mind: Radical 40
http://www.radicalyachts.com/index.php?index

[Guillermo]

Another one: Enigma 37
http://www.enigmayachts.com/tasarim2.php?sayfa=3

[Guillermo]

More....Russell Coutt's RC 44
http://rc44.iodev.ch/en/boat/index.php?idContent=70

[Raggi_Thor]

Originally Posted by Guillermo

Container Yachts, LLC, in Middletown, Rhode Island, USA, is building a 39 ft. Robert Perry designed pilothouse motorsailer that can be shipped in a standard high cube container. ....

See more details in the last edition of Professional Boatbuilder,
http://www.proboat-digital.com/proboat/20070809/
See Content / Design Brief (on page 28).

[Guillermo]

Thanks, Raggi.

[Guillermo]

Just received this in the e-mail:

"InBox, the prototype for the Bob Perry–designed Far Harbour 39, will return to the United States Sailboat Show in Annapolis (Maryland) after a year of cruising in Caribbean and European waters. Many of you learned about the boat when it debuted in the U.S. at the Newport and Annapolis shows last fall—and many of you were intrigued with the concept of "container-cruising." By the time InBox returns to Annapolis this fall, the concept of a boat that can be container-shipped across oceans economically has been thoroughly tested: since launching in September '06, InBox has sailed some 4,000 nautical miles on her own keel, taken three offshore passages on container ships, visited 90 ports, and taken its crew to cruising grounds that U.S.-flag vessels rarely reach.

Maintenance-wise, the year has been trouble-free: the boat was designed to be simple, including what is necessary for a couple’s cruiser and excluding features that are not essential. Over the past 12 months, this prototype has demonstrated that the Far Harbour 39 is a boat that puts faraway destinations within reach for today's cruiser.

Cruising Route since Fall '06: After departing from the Annapolis show last fall, InBox sailed on its own bottom to southern Florida. From there, the boat made its inaugural container-passage to Trinidad. Bernie Blum, who first went to Bob Perry with the concept of a container-cruiser, and his wife Bette sailed the boat from Trinidad to Sint Maarten, where the boat was shipped transatlantic to Rotterdam.

In Europe, the Blums continued cruising—leaving the Caribbean sun behind and following a North Sea route past Holland; across Sweden via the Gota Kanal, banked by idyllic countryside and pine forests; to harbors rimmed by medieval cities; through Sweden's rocky skargards; and across the Baltic. InBox's crew continued to be pleased with the boat's performance: on a 26-nautical-mile passage from Aero (Denmark) to the Kiel entrance, the boat averaged 6.6 knots over the bottom flying the Code Zero alone.

The Blums had a particular interest in visiting places that were twelfth-century merchant powers in the Hanseatic Trade, and as they toured walled cities of the 1200s and docked in the shadow of towering medieval structures and threaded their way through places that were once powers of Middle Age commerce they realized what a unique opportunity InBox had afforded them: they were able to keep their lives going back at home, fly to meet the boat as it was shipped from continent to continent, and cruise the places they always dreamed of visiting. On their European cruise, they saw only three U.S.-flagged vessels, realizing that few American cruisers were getting their boats to these waters. The Blums documented their trip thoroughly and have many photos, for editors interested in a story on this region.

InBox was then trucked from Kiel to Southampton (U.K.) for some sailing off England's south coast before being shipped transatlantic to the U.S. for the Annapolis show.

Container Loading-Unloading: After three ocean passages on a container ship, the container loading and unloading procedure has proven to be easily managed with standard boatyard equipment. The procedure and time needed to do the operation have now been carefully documented: less than 10 hours are needed (the InBox record so far for container-loading from dockside and into the container is 6.5 hours). That loading time includes unstepping the rig, stripping and unpacking the mast, hauling the boat and loading it in the container, and removing the keel, rudder, and sail drive lower unit and packing them in the container. Container Yachts developed a design for pneumatic rollers that can be inflated with a dinghy pump and used to cradle the boat while rolling it into the container. The rollers support and cushion the boat while in transit; after unloading, they are deflated and readily stowed in the lazarette until it's time to reload. In the May 2007 issue, Cruising World magazine published a boat review that includes a step-by-step photographic sidebar on the container-loading process (to find the piece follow this link: www.containeryachts.com/pdf/Article-CW-5-07.pdf).

Future Travels: Several destinations are being considered for spring/summer 2008— including Alaska, the San Blas Islands/Cartagena, or Belize/Rio Dulce. And if you have any suggestions for prime cruising destinations, send along your suggestions!

Our website has more information (www.containeryachts.com), or feel free to contact Bernie Blum or Cynthia Goss at the contacts below if you'd like more background for a story."