BRIAN EILAND - RUNNING TIDE YACHTS

Brian Eiland and I have exchanged a few mails. Brian is a designer with a very large experience in the business and specially in multihulls. We mainly exchanged about new rigs and specially Dyna Rig which became famous with the mega sailing yachts "Maltese Falcon". Brian has written quite a lot about them and many other subjects you can find on his website. We both think that catamarans are a good platform to test new kinds of rigs. I think for myself that the Aerorig which is a self standing mast with a jib and a mainsail attached to the same boom is very nice in term of handling since tacking can not be easier. But first to my point it looks kind of ugly, is is heavy and offers a long of surface to the wind and on fast catamarans that might be a problem when you want to reduce sail in strong winds.

Brians' article in the June 2007 issue of the Yacht Report

Dynarig seems more appropriate and I thing they are really nice looking, I am just wondering about the performances upwind. Any way Brian is more knowlegeable about them so check the following link :

Maltese Falcon...YachtForums.com http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/perini-navi-yacht/2487-perini-navi-maltese-falcon-sailing-yacht.html

Maltese Falcon...BoatDesign.net http://boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12459

Brian is also working on his concept of afmast sail.

Thanks Brian for your cheers and comments to the luxurycatamaran blog. You have a good time in thailand.

SPIRIT 35 - NEW ZEALAND YACHTS

Eye catching Yacht

Special thanks to Roger who left a message on my blog and is a fan of wave piercer.

New Zealand Yachts is a shipyard located guess where specialized in designing and building Wavepiercer Yachts. They have also done recenlty the refit of BELLA DONA and DOUCE FRANCE the world largest sailing catamaran.

New Zealand Yachts has developped a line of Wave Piercer Catamaran Yachts from 25 to 50 meters.

They see 4 main advantages in this type of yachts :

1. Environementally sound : 40 % lower fuel consumption than a monohulls and hull shape specially designed to protect corals reefs and have less influence on the sea environment.
   
2. An amazing stability : slamming is really reduced. The air trapsact as cushion and smooth the ride even at high speeds in a 4 meter sea.
   
3. Increased Real Estate : 25 % more interior and exterior space compare to a monohull
   
4. Style : I have to admit that the Ken Freivokh (Maltese Falcon Designer) exterior design is quite nice for a motor yacht which I am not always a fan off.

Great Bathing Plaform - goes up while cruising

SPIRIT 35 was launched in 2004 and was awarded "the International Superyacht Design Award" by the Superyacht Society.

SPIRIT 35 offers her guest 258 square meters inside and 252 square meters outside for 10 guest, a lot of room. Definitely a head turner, she is available for charter ( EUR€ 98000.00-120000.00/wk) in the med and for sale at (15 950 000 USD).

Master Suite

You will find a great video of the SPIRIT 35 on You Tube.