Despite the world wide recession, the recent market study published by the Bonnier Corporation (Sailing World) showed that - amazingly, Multihulls held their course in ‘09 with comparable imports to 2008 levels and even more astonishingly - Multihulls accounted for nearly half of all cruiser imports to the US shores. Good News: Importers see brighter skies next year, driven by unsold inventory back home, new models and partnerships; The recession kept cruiser length imports off-shore in 2009 and generally sales were down -33% across the board. 2009 was all about “holding and waiting” for the credit markets to open up, and the North American economy to start turning. Bright skies ahead. An optimistic view that we’ve seen the bottom and are ready to rise up to the surface. Punch through the other side of the storm as we say...
Multihull Market 2010
Despite the world wide recession, the recent market study published by the Bonnier Corporation (Sailing World) showed that - amazingly, Multihulls held their course in ‘09 with comparable imports to 2008 levels and even more astonishingly - Multihulls accounted for nearly half of all cruiser imports to the US shores. Good News: Importers see brighter skies next year, driven by unsold inventory back home, new models and partnerships; The recession kept cruiser length imports off-shore in 2009 and generally sales were down -33% across the board. 2009 was all about “holding and waiting” for the credit markets to open up, and the North American economy to start turning. Bright skies ahead. An optimistic view that we’ve seen the bottom and are ready to rise up to the surface. Punch through the other side of the storm as we say...
Race 2 - The Sequel
Buckle your seatbelts. Bruno Peyron has officially announced that he has decided to relaunch The Race. He is the three times holder of the infamous Jules Verne Trophy (see below blog entry) and creator of The Race - a grueling non-stop crewed race around the world without outside assistance and without limits. After several months of studies and consulting with the main potential competitors, a second edition of the race around the world for the giant G-class multihulls is planned for 2013-2014, starting from a port in Southern Europe.
Race II: watch the promotional video
48 Days !
Jules Vernes would have been proud. It took only 48 days and 7 hrs for Frank Cammas and crew to sail Groupama 3 around the world ! It marks a break with the design philosophy of Orange and the G-Class multihulls of the last decade, as designers VPLP said today: "Can we hope to break the record by reducing the size of the boat rather then creating something always bigger and more powerful? That was the challenge that Franck Cammas and Team Groupama asked us to overcome together. We concentrated on maximising versatility and responsiveness, rather then on maximising power, in order to pass through the transition zones faster whilst trying to avoid conditions that were too violent. Groupama 3 was designed to fulfil this particular race strategy and evidently Franck and his crew responded perfectly and adopted the ideal methodology. The result is that the record was attainable despite the fact that the weather conditions were not ideal."
Caribbean Fun
Discover wonderful islands, make new friends and test your regatta skills. Imagine sailing on a Fountaine Pajot cruising cat in paradise - surrounded by not only turquoise waters and sandy beaches, but like minded sailors on other FP cats. Welcome to the 2010 Fountaine Pajot Owner's annual rendezvous in the BVI's held April 28 - May 1st 2010.Even if you do not have a catamaran, Aeroyacht will coordinate and provide you with bareboat charter contacts. Over 25 catamarans have already signed up.
Download the full agenda here.
Monument to Xynthia
No, this is not a contemporary art installation but a sad reminder of what happened last week. We were test sailing not even 36 hours before on a Salina 48 catamaran in the notorious Bay of Biscayne, France when a violent depression battered the region of Charente Maritimes. Thousands of boats sustained damage and tragically 52 people got killed as miles of old seawalls collapsed in tidal surges. Fountaine Pajot's La Rochelle plant was temporarily flooded but could resume operation today. This event was overshadowed by the Chilean earthquake, the resulting Tsunami and massive snowfalls over the North Eastern US. Folks, it is time to realize that Mother Earth threw a series of tantrums - possibly in reaction to Global Warming.
VICTORY !!
We did it !! The American team, founded ten years ago by software mogul Larry Ellison, achieved its ultimate goal when they powered across the finish line of today's Race 2 with a margin of 5 minutes and 26 seconds to defeat the Swiss Defender’s Alinghi 2-0. This has been an unprecedented event poising 2 giant multihulls against each other. Bravo to our boys, the wing mast and to multiulls!for more America's Cup coverage - click here
Horizon Job !
Just hours ago BMWOracle did a serious horizon job on the defender. Bravo ! If any of you have witnessed today's America's Cup battle between the US- BMWOracle tri and the Swiss defender Alinghi - you have been part of history. In an unprecedented match between the 2 giant multihulls the wing was the king. A real show stopper, the US tri's solid wing sail clearly produced more power on both the upwind and down-wind legs hurtling the boat at over 25 knots in only 7knots of breeze. This is ice boat territory! In short - we smoked 'em. Lets hope nothing breaks on Sunday and we are one step closer to bringing the 'auld mug' back home.
America's Cup chooses Fountaine Pajot
T+2 days: The America's cup committee again choose the Fountaine Pajot Cumberland 46 power catamaran. At this year's controversial event held in Valencia Spain, several Fountaine Pajot power catamarans, are sailing between the two most exceptional multihulls of the world: The US challenger, the 90' BMW ORACLE trimaran and the Swiss defender, the 90' ALINGHI catamaran. These 2 yachts are extensions of egos for 2 billionaires. On one hand we say "Bravo"- for putting their money into creating the most awesome sailing machines - yet "Shame on them" - for dragging this once illustrious event through courtrooms and embarrassing the sailing community and millions of fans.learn more about the Cumberland 46
Go Race !
As we - sailing fans, are approaching the ultimate battle of multihull giants (in court), the NY Supreme court ruled today "..stop bickering - and go race" ! This means, the first of the best of 3 race series will start February 8 th- that's in 8 days gents. This final ruling allows BMW/Oracle, a 90' trimaran to challenge Cup defender Alinghi's 90' catamaran in the first-ever America's Cup match race between two multihull racing yachts.
Get in one last vote. Our reader poll shows 55% in favor of the tri - we not only keep our fingers crossed, but wholeheartedly agree - Go Challenger !
Outremer 49 - winner Boat of the Year 2010 !
Hot off the press. During the Duesseldorf Boat Show the winner of the 2010 Boat of the Year contest was announced: it is our Outremer 49 catamaran ! Finalists were the Catana 41, Dragonfly 27 tri, Lagoon 400, Lipari 41 and the Outremer 49. Congratulations to our friends and craftsmen at Outremer Yachting who are already preparing to launch hull Nr. 3. Hats off also to the talented interior designer Frank Darnet - who has transformed the Outremer 49 into a truly comfortable boat and the boat's naval architect Christophe Barreau. Bravo to the entire team!contact Aeroyacht to reserve your Outremer 49
AERO - for sale
AERO -is for sale. She is a custom built 31' Farrier center cockpit F9XR and has been Gregor Tarjan's personal boat. She boasts an extra wide interior, longer bowsprit, a suite of North 3DL sails and unique features such as a bespoke aircraft style canopy over the hatch, a carbon boom and single handed sail controls that make solo sailing easy. AERO comes with a brand new trailer, has never been raced and probably represents the perfect shorthanded cruising machine. She was maintained by the Corsair specialists at the Multihull Source, is simple to maintain and certainly is one of the most beautiful trimarans on the Eastern seaboard. Wether you want to sail across the lake, an ocean or the world, fast - AERO is it.Check here for more details on AERO
Lipari 41 - nominated by Cruisng World
The world is taking notice of Fountaine Pajot's newest catamaran. The Lipari 41 has been nominated by Cruising World Magazine at last years Annapolis Boat Show as one of the best cruisers in its class. An independent panel of experts who inspected and tested more than 2 dozen yachts finally narrowed down their findings. Decisions were based on extensive dockside inspections and sea trials of the boats. All of the nominees will be reviewed in detail by the magazine's editors and are featured in the January issue of Cruising World. Aeroyacht will have a client's demo Lipari 41 at their NY office in Spring. She will be available for client test sails. Contact us to sign up.
New e-mail
Remember the goofy car mounted cel-phone antennas of the 80's and the cool music that U2 gave us in the 90's? Every decade has its fads and fashions. So what evil (other than baggy jogging suits) will we all remember of the last 10years? exactly; Junk Mail.This is the reason we are changing Aeroyacht's main contact email address to gt@aeroyacht.com.
The old info@aeroyacht.com attracted spammers like bees to honey. For the last 10 years it was our general contact address and will be dropped at the end of the month. Please make a note of our new address: gt@aeroyacht.com
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