Aluminium Centreboard Boats?

[Tim Good]

Other than Ovni and Boreal can anyone name other aluminium centreboard boards on the market? Is there any? If you know of any custom ones then feel free to share also

 

[Roberto]

http://www.allures.fr/

http://www.garcia-yachting.com/voilier.php?id=38

Or with a small bit of keel + lifting boards
http://www.sailworks.net/integral/#c

 

[AliM]

We had an Atlantic 36 rafted to us a few years ago in the Netherlands - a stunning boat - Al and lifting keel. It was made in the NL, but I don't know if they still are, but there is a second hand one for sale in Lemmer, which I found when I googled the name.

Have a further look at Dutch boats - they favour lifting keels for their shallow seas, and there are still some small volume boatyards about.

 

[PlankWalker]

The Kiribati 36 looks interesting
http://www.yachtdesign.com.br/02_ingles/plans/ki36/desc34-1.html

Plank

 

[Sandy]

Other than Ovni and Boreal can anyone name other aluminium centreboard boards on the market? Is there any? If you know of any custom ones then feel free to share also

Are you aware of the delivery times on a Boreal? They are my first new boat of choice after I win the lottery at the weekend, but sadly I am not sure I could wait for delivery. So far I've not heard of a second hand hull on the market.

 

[choppy]

Whilst on Dutch & Aly anyone know anything about Puffin centreboarders ? interesting lines, look very solid & a decent rig or just slow ?

 

[Sybarite]

Other than Ovni and Boreal can anyone name other aluminium centreboard boards on the market? Is there any? If you know of any custom ones then feel free to share also

Google "Meta", "Strongall". They are specialists in heavy duty zinc coated (protection from electrolysis) aluminium boats.

Architects Michel Joubert and J-P Brouns both have had their own boats built there; in their case, bilge keels.

 

[funk-an-bord.de]

In Germany there is a boat design
http://www.reinke-yacht.de/
It has a bilge kiel and I was sailing with the owner from the canarias island to the north.
Wilhelm

 

[Monique]

But they are so B*tt Ugly!

Some VD Stadt are Alu.

 

[funk-an-bord.de]

But they are so B*tt Ugly!

I agree. They look like a tank.
But the centreboard cockpit was absolutly dry even whith 7 beaufort from back and waves passing 1,5 meters at each side of the cockpit.
Wilhelm

 

[westhinder]

We had an Atlantic 36 rafted to us a few years ago in the Netherlands - a stunning boat - Al and lifting keel. It was made in the NL, but I don't know if they still are, but there is a second hand one for sale in Lemmer, which I found when I googled the name.

Have a further look at Dutch boats - they favour lifting keels for their shallow seas, and there are still some small volume boatyards about.

Atlantic Yachts, built in Harlingen
http://www.atlanticyachts.nl/home/

 

[westhinder]

Whilst on Dutch & Aly anyone know anything about Puffin centreboarders ? interesting lines, look very solid & a decent rig or just slow ?

Some have made very nice voyages.
http://www.oliviervanmeer.com/fleet/puffin/

 

[Greenheart]

Those Puffins certainly are pretty and characterful-looking.

As a dinghy sailor I'm always attracted to big centreboard designs because at their best, they really seem to 'upsize' the versatility I'm familiar with. But it always seems a pity that the slick performance of racing dinghies is so compromised in bigger designs, I guess because a ruddy great centreboard case wouldn't allow optimum use of accommodation space.

I get the feeling this causes centreboarders to be rather 'middle-of-the-road', without any sporty associations...while race-boats with deep fins, just accept their inconvenience.

It might be that no-one really wants a seriously fast, fine-handling yacht which can also float in a couple of feet of water - or perhaps the combination is technically difficult...

...but in the absence of a really slick-looking, pure-performance centreboarder, is it surprising that fast, equally shallow-drafted multihulls are so popular? Their accommodation is scarcely without compromise, but they combine high performance with shallow-water practicality and can dry-out on cheap moorings too.

I can't recall seeing even an open 'sportboat' with a centreboard. That may be for performance reasons, but I'd have thought the option to trail such a boat would increase sales.

Are there any aluminium lifting-keel designs dedicated to exceptional performance and the impressively slick styling which often follows efficiency of hull/deck/coachroof form?

 

[Polux]

There are several types of aluminum center-boarders but if voyage in high latitudes or in cold climates is the purpose probably the best regarding price and quality is probably the Garcia explorer 45 designed for and under the supervision of Jimmy Cornell. Several are already commanded. If it is not properly for cold climates and high latitudes an Allures 45 would be a better choice in what regards to be a more overall adapted boat, more agreeable on less cold climates and faster. The Boreal sits in between the two. I like particularly the Allures 45 that has a very good price.

http://youtu.be/YkwBY-CGHcA

Some more aluminum boats and discussion about them here:

http://interestingsailboats.blogspot.pt/2014/03/tk-march-7-2014-at-958-pm-last-year-has.html

 

[DJE]

I can't recall seeing even an open 'sportboat' with a centreboard. That may be for performance reasons, but I'd have thought the option to trail such a boat would increase sales.

Melges 24, Bull 7000, Laser SB3, .....

 

[Greenheart]

I thought those boats had retractable fins - bulbed daggerboards - like the old Tempest keelboat? I had the impression that their owners could raise the keel for transport, but that in practice, they never use the option whilst afloat...so in my mind they weren't, or aren't centreboarders. I'll be glad if I'm wrong.

 

[choppy]

(Leaving material aside) Pretty well describing a trailable trimaran here - which similarly is where my interest in centreboarders started

 

[Xcinquemila]

After many years of racing, then cruising, went for an X-Yacht, dumped it.
Came across an number of builder/architects not been mentioned here.
The dutch builder http://www.kmy.nl/ building various Alloy centerboards , Stadship and Bestevaer.

The after some research found a French builder who cooped, competed , with Skip Novak and Cornell new expedition boats.
I am now in the process of building with the http://www.explorer54.com/ but a 60' version for myself and my friend is building a 54' version.

The places one would go with these boats would make them less desirable for the eye, but I think this architect did a good job in finding, speed, eye, and purpose build in one.

http://xcinquemila.weebly.com/explorer-60.html



Some of the picture are from the yard where the expedition version was under construction enjoy the uploads on weebly.

Before some people asked me how about the power on board, rather say inboard, we opted for a Volvo Penta D3 150.

 

[charles_reed]

Those Puffins certainly are pretty and characterful-looking.

As a dinghy sailor I'm always attracted to big centreboard designs because at their best, they really seem to 'upsize' the versatility I'm familiar with. But it always seems a pity that the slick performance of racing dinghies is so compromised in bigger designs, I guess because a ruddy great centreboard case wouldn't allow optimum use of accommodation space.

I get the feeling this causes centreboarders to be rather 'middle-of-the-road', without any sporty associations...while race-boats with deep fins, just accept their inconvenience.

It might be that no-one really wants a seriously fast, fine-handling yacht which can also float in a couple of feet of water - or perhaps the combination is technically difficult...

...but in the absence of a really slick-looking, pure-performance centreboarder, is it surprising that fast, equally shallow-drafted multihulls are so popular? Their accommodation is scarcely without compromise, but they combine high performance with shallow-water practicality and can dry-out on cheap moorings too.

I can't recall seeing even an open 'sportboat' with a centreboard. That may be for performance reasons, but I'd have thought the option to trail such a boat would increase sales.

Are there any aluminium lifting-keel designs dedicated to exceptional performance and the impressively slick styling which often follows efficiency of hull/deck/coachroof form?

Parker 31 - even if not aluminium

 

[Greenheart]

True, I don't know why Parker yachts have gone unnoticed by me all these years. Absence of a doghouse, I expect.