[chris200x9]

Forte Carbon Boom- Main + Jib sheets exit on the boom
Farrier built C-Foils- add performance and safety on all points of sail at over 10kts boat speed
Farrier built Carbon Rudders- twin rudders for added performance and safety
Hydraulic Canting Rig- single ram in center of boat drives both shrouds
Constrictor Clutch System in line with shrouds for safety, redundancy + leeward shroud tensioning
Hydraulic Headstay- enables mast to be moved fore + aft for perfect rig balance with all sail combos, easy to use on the fly
Custom curved Harken main traveler allows full range w/o changing mainsheet tension
Custom curved Harken self-tacking jib track, jib easily switches sides in the tacks
Adjustable Screecher leads- purchase lead under cockpit seats with floating lead thru the deck
Barber hauler system set up to both haul screecher lead outboard and spin lead forward
Mast rotation controls, positive rotators both sides and rotation limiter
Upgraded Harken 46 winches- makes for easy sail handling under load
2:1 tack line for screecher furler
2:1 tack line for spinnaker furler
Colligo Marine Top down spinnaker furling system with anti-torsion rope
All Dynex Dux synthetic standing rigging replaced regularly--currently less than one year old
Mast diamond wires are PBO
Storage bags for all carbon components: rudders, daggerboard, lifting foils, beams, mast, boom here

[Necrathex]

For more information about this boat call Richard Allen at 180 Marine any time including weekends and evenings.

[aranaahmed1]

If you want to go REALLY FAST and appreciate a state of the art boat with the best of everything this is an amazing opportunity.
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[BillyBobBob]

Galvanized steel double axle road trailer
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[awwright]

Taniwha (formerly known as Jailbreak) is the fastest, highest-tech Farrier-designed folding trimaran ever built. No expense has been spared to make this all carbon boat the lightest and fastest possible. This is a likely line honors boat in most distance races and can also be raced around the buoys. Easy set up and take down, for trailering to distant race locations.

[Btcm]

“There were a lot of twists and turns in the creation of this race around the world. This race justifies 20 years of commitment and high-level sailing. This is the race that will consecrate the life of an athlete and a sailor.”

[draaglom]

The newly launched Banque Populaire XI

[benjamin1greer]

However, in the 2018 Route du Rhum – the transatlantic race with a reputation for being something of a demolition derby – four of the big trimarans suffered severe damage. Armel le Cléac’h’s Banque Populaire IV capsized and broke up mid-Atlantic, while the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild lost 10m of one float, Sodebo also suffered structural cracking to one float and Macif lost a foil and a rudder. more

[xterm11]

Unsurprisingly, the race has been a long-time in coming to fruition. Now called the Solo Ultim World Tour, it will be organised by the hugely experienced event company OC Sport Pen Duick, in collaboration with the Class Ultim 32/23, to start in the autumn of 2023.

The concept was first mooted around 15 years ago, just as the notoriously skittish Orma trimarans were in their final days. A calendar was drawn up for the embryonic Ultime class which included solo and crewed round the world races, building up to a solo around the world race set for December 2019, then called the Brest Oceans.

[jemenake]

History seemed to be repeating itself – in the 2002 Route du Rhum, only three of 18 multihulls had managed to complete the race, and the ensuing capsizes and dramatic rescues saw many sponsors leave the Orma fleet. It was clear that the Ultim class was nowhere near ready to race solo around the world.

[dammy09]

The Ultim class has announced the first single-handed race round the world for giant multihulls, the Solo Ultim World Tour.

[yrrryyoderj]

The result was music to their ears—a state-of-the-art tri that Bullimore and Irens sailed to outright victory in the 1985 Round Britain Race. They also won their class in every leg of the Round Europe Race that year. Their reward was to be jointly elected Yachtsmen of the Year at the London Boat Show.

[molecular]

After that came another trimaran design for Bullimore, the beautifully sculpted 60-footer, Apricot. Part of Nigel’s genius has long been to enlist outside talent and skills—people like Martyn Smith, then ex-Chief Engineer for British Aerospace, who designed the Concorde’s nose cone—and the approach is much in evidence in this design. Smith, for example, took over the structural composite work, while the boat’s 78-foot carbon wing mast was designed by Barry Noble, a former sparmaker who was then making carbon-fiber violins and cellos.

[Sabunir]

“I’ve been fascinated by water and slippery boats my whole life,” says Irens, who in his student days in the 1960s lived on an old workboat on the River Hamble while he studied for a diploma in Boatyard Management at Southampton College of Technology. His liveaboard neighbor was SAIL Magazine writer Tom Cunliffe. Both were impoverished students who lived in fear of the harbormaster’s visit to collect harbor dues. Irens was even Honorary Commodore of the Old Gaffers’ Association in 1970. Who would have guessed that 40 years later he’d design a wooden gaff cutter, Westernman, for Cunliffe, let alone generate a string of maxi multihulls and become a consultant for the America’s Cup? more

[Kristin Kelly]

For 40 years, Irens has been at the cutting edge of multihull ocean racing. His name is on a string of record-setting catamarans and trimarans that are bywords among multihull aficionados everywhere, including ENZA, the 92-foot cat on which Peter Blake and Robin Knox-Johnston set the first Jules Verne sailing record in 1994; iDEC, on which Francis Joyon became the fastest man to circumnavigate solo; B&Q Castorama, on which Ellen Macarthur became not just the fastest woman around the world but, for a while, the fastest person, period. These and many other designs have long been celebrated as a kind of fusion of art and science. Irens’s designs, built for speed and endurance, have been called poems of flowing function, and for decades have been sought after by the hottest sailors on the race circuits.

[rokh]

Irens’s love for sailing (and multihulls) goes back to family holidays on his father’s 30-foot plywood catamaran, in which they crossed the English Channel to France and cruised St-Malo, La Roche Bernard and the canals.

[dconradcopelande]

Tucked away down a narrow alley in the picturesque town of Ashburton, on the edge of Dartmoor National Park in England, is a tiny building called the Tenter loft, a relic from the ancient wool industry when cloth was stretched on tenterhooks. It’s now the quirky office of British multihull designer Nigel Irens, the man behind some of the fastest sailing boats on the planet.

[joshg56]

The fastest cruising trimaran to this day is the Maxi trimaran IDEC SPORT. This vessel is both wind or mechanically powered and has completed a voyage around the world in 40 days 23 hours 30 minutes 30 seconds. The Maxi trimaran IDEC SPORT can reach an average speed of 26.85 knots or 30.71 MPH. more

[hlubagrays]

That is exactly what happened to Hydroptère. Hydroptère is an experimental hydrofoil trimaran. This vessel managed to reach 56.3 knots or 104.3 km/h (64.8 mph) near Fos-sur-Mer. However, it capsized a few minutes after. here

[flemingo]

In addition, this boat has covered a distance of 26,412 nautical miles, or 48,915 km (30,394 mi). In 2020, the Maxi trimaran IDEC SPORT managed to sail from Hong Kong to London in 32 days. here

[bernardkatz12]

While the Maxi trimaran IDEC SPORT has been established as the fastest cruising trimaran of all time due to the journeys it has completed, there are however a few other boats that have managed to reach more speed. These boats however have not been able to withstand such speed and have capsized. here