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Avanti26R
(One Design Racer)
The Avanti 26R is an exciting new 26ft one-design and club racer designed to give you every bit of performance possible while avoiding high costs in low gain areas. This is achieved by carefully limiting exotic materials to areas where the gains are most noticeable. The goal, the highest performance at the lowest possible cost.
The Avanti26R exhibits high form stability at typical heel angles under powered up windward sailing. All the parametric coefficients used to predict a hull’s performance have been optimised for a strong windward performance in medium to high winds.
With high form stability, she is able to carry a decent amount of sail area (41m2) to overcome the slightly larger wetted area at low wind speeds. Her keel is deep and heavy (465Kg at a 2m draft), to give plenty of drive against stronger weather.. With 5x 85kg crew, most of the righting moment will still come from the crew weight and form stability. Off the wind legs are guaranteed to bring exhilarating speeds with an A2 of 85m2. With the jib tack set at 550mm aft of the bow and a 1.6m bowsprit, the jib can be kept up on downwind legs and a good amount of extra drive will be extracted from the jib.
The flat and open cockpit of the Avanti26R covering 53% of the length of the boat, line-handling and crew movement during quick close-quarters manoeuvres will be a breeze for even the clumsiest crew members. There is a spinnaker take-down system through the only hatch with a spinnaker retrieval line exiting close to the transom. Main sail control lines (including: Main Sheet, Backstays and Traveller) run to the main trimmer directly ahead of the helmsman. The headsail trimmer sit directly in front of the main trimmer, with all the primary jib controls close at hand (including: Jib sheet, jib clew downhaul, Jib inhaul and spinnaker sheet). There is a conveniently placed camcleat to cleat the jib sheet during spinnaker hoists (a hobble system is being contemplated at the moment).
The lifting keel is made of carbon with a positive pressure locking mechanism in both the longitudinal and transverse directions. The keel consists of an extremely solid carbon beam permanently integrated inside the carbon foil.
The rudder is built similarly with a solid carbon rudder stock and a carbon skin. The tiller and bowsprit is also made of carbon. The hull itself is structurally designed to surpass offshore requirements, yet she is only rated for coastal sailing, making for a still and safe boat.
The electric switch panel is accessible from the deck, preventing any crew from using the spinnaker hatch at sea. This deck accessible switch panel includes the navigation lights, bilge pump, VHF and instruments.
Class rules will be designed to contain the costs, yet allow high performance sailing. There will be limited instruments allowed for class racing, although the extent of this limitation will be shared at a later stage. Deck hardware will be limited to a fixed set of options from each of the most trusted bands, allowing owners to sail with their preferred brands without gaining a check book advantage.
Current estimated APHtot is 1.1671 under ORC and with crew weight within the class limit of 425Kg.
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