The Boats
achieved a design that will elevate
The Avanti 26 DH - (Double Handed trailer sailer)
The Avanti 26DH concept was originally developed to the personal requirements of the designer, Erhardt Joubert. This need was for a boat that was affordable, fast, sea kindly and versatile. The designer enjoys shorthanded sailing and designed the Avanti26 around a deep and heavy keel with low initial stability.
The resulting prototype boat proved to be a remarkably easy to control boat that is incredibly forgiving in a wide range of conditions. She can take the worst of the Cape Town South Easter with full sails, yet perform well in the lightest puffs. The highlight of the Avanti26DH performance is her docile handling at boat speeds up to 18-19 knots, with the maximum speed achieved in the first season at 21.7 knots. She is yet to broach in a race…
Avanti26R - (One Design Racer)
The Avanti 26R is a newly designed 26 one-design and club racer designed to give you every bit of performance possible without using exotic materials, except where it really matters. The goal, the highest boat speed at the lowest possible cost.
The Avanti 26R uses only the same keel bulb as the Avanti26DH. The rest, is the near polar opposite. High form stability at low to moderate angles of heel, optimized performance coefficients for lower upwind heel angles. Her keel is marginally shorter to reduce downwind resistance and inertia, yet still deep and heavy enough to facilitate easy recoveries from the inevitable downwind broach. With most of the righting moment coming from crew weight and form stability at low angles, she boasts 23% more righting moment upwind at 12 deg heel than the Avanti 26DH (designed for heel angles around 20-22 deg with DH crew). The shorter keel additionally offers a more favourable handicap to performance ratio.
Avanti 32DH (One Design Racer)
As with her smaller DH sibling, the Avanti 32DH is a very versatile sail boat and can easily transform from a focussed offshore racer into a family cruiser and club racer.
The Avanti 32DH will be available with a traditional interior layout, functional and simple with more attention to aesthetic details or a modular, removable interior for the more focussed racers. On both models there will be a removable and collapsible cockpit table that can seat up to 6 people with drinks and snacks, or 4 guests seated for a meal. The modular interior boats a removable interior saloon table with the galley built into this saloon table. By removing the saloon table, the galley is essentially also removed to reduce weight for club racing and to compensate for additional crew weight. The traditional interior offers the usual L-shaped galley.
COMING SOON
Class Association
The builder will run a class association to help promote competitive racing and limit running costs in an interactive relationship with the boat owners. This association will also contribute to the evolution and improvement of the design. With the directors’ involvement in the L26, Cape31 and ORC classes, the Avanti 26’s integration into the yachting community will be facilitated. Input from the trustees of the Lipton Challenge Cup would be sourced.