Super Yacht Catamaran, Eco 110

I'm not normally attracted to many new yacht designs, both sail and power, BUT this one caught my eye,...what one might term a 'superyacht size'. Look thru these many illustrations,..
https://www.windyachts.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Eco-Yacht-110-UK-Brochure-BF.pdf

I like the idea of a boomless mainsail, but I wonder how they are going to tame it?

Check out the accommodations inside,..nicely laid out. There may be a bit too much 'stuff' on top of the upper deck,...maybe OK at anchor or in port.

 

The power version, Eco Yacht Power

ECO YACHT 112 POWER - A 112-foot multiyacht equipped with electric motors - Multipower - Multihulls World - Multihulls World https://www.multihulls-world.com/news-catamaran-trimaran/eco-yacht-112-power-a-112-foot-multiyacht-equipped-with-electric-motors

.....much nicer looking than any number of those other power cats

 

Multicoques wrote,..

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Pajot Custom Yachts has released a spectacular concept for ‘The Eco Yacht’ Catamaran 110’, an innovative easy-sailing cat without a boom. Features include forward helm stations integrated into the side decks, supported by an interior navigation and monitoring station.


The boomless yacht – a design as old as the first Dart 16 and more recently used on the AC75 yachts for the 36th America’s Cup – incorporates a narrow, square-topped mainsail (180sqm), which can be hoisted or lowered in less than four minutes and stored in a locker on the expansive flybridge.


“The absence of a boom allows for very simple, safe trimming,” says company founder Marc Pajot, the legendary French sailor who has been designing racing multihulls since 1980 and involved in the brokerage of luxury yachts since 2001.


Pajot, 67, created the 110-footer with Nicolas Fauroux, an engineer and naval architect whose designs include the 40m sloop Vaimiti, as well as Franck de Rivoyre and Christophe Larose, structural and rigging engineers who have worked on the majority of sailing catamarans over 18m (59ft) including round-the-world record breakers Foncia and Groupama.

 

Mainsail Box Storage System, illustration on this site

Eco Yacht 115 https://en.pajot-yachts-catamaran.com/p15-the-eco-yacht.html

 

Eco 88,...a bit shorter version

Pajot Custom Yachts and Wider shipyard unveil a 27m eco-friendly hybrid catamaran concept, Eco Yacht 88 https://www.superyachttimes.com/yacht-news/eco-yacht-88-concept

 

A mast without a boom
The 181 m2 horn mainsail is easily hoisted on a boomless mast, which allows simple and safe adjustments, especially during gybing manoeuvres. To stow it, it descends by itself and simply folds flat on deck into a mainsail locker on the flybridge without human handling. Guided by lazyjacks that are unfolded when the locker is opened. She is hoisted with a single halyard on an electric winch to lock on a hook. Once the locker is closed, the sail is protected from UV rays and bad weather, and leaves room for a large sunbathing area.

The adjustment of the double-stranded sheet tension is done by 2 standard single-acting jacks and the sheet bar will be continuous with a "push, pull" jack, 2 buttons are enough for the adjustments. The headsails - a 110 m² jib, a 264 m² genoa, and a gennaker up to 790 m are mounted on electric furlers and sheets on captive winches located in the side lockers of the Fly. The mainsail will be set up or lowered in less than 4 minutes from the integrated helm stations at the front of the catwalks where all the controls are located. An interior lookout station is also designed around the chart table.

 

Do my eyes deceive me or it that mast not on the centreline?

 

I think the mast is stepped just a wee bit aft the centerline ,...and I think I've seen a few pics of her carrying two headsails like some of the ocean racing tris are nowadays. ...(mastaft)

 

Mastaft? More like buttmast?

A buttmast for your poopdeck?

Nah, ... I think I need a cup of tea and a nap.

 

mast aft ??