Cannes Boat Show - my yacht of the show...

[Wandering Star]

My concern is for the 3 crew members who appear to be lolling uncomfortably and dangerously along the starboard lifelines, a definite no no on my boats. They don't appear in subsequent pictures so I presume they went overboard? I also think the female crew might have chosen her clothes more carefully as the colour of her shorts are in bad contrast to the colour of the boats hull.

As for the boat itself, I agree with Seajets opinion and I wouldn't sail on board her for fear of being spotted amongst the crew and thus shamed.

 

[Twister_Ken]

I suspect one of the missing people was the guy who specified the hull colour.

 

[westhinder]

I like it, but then I like Wally yachts too. Have been fortunate enough to have sailed several times on a friend's Wally mobo and i have to say the design and attention to detail was fantastic. I can be no judge of mobo's, but to me it was very stable at speed (up to 40 knots), maneuvred impeccably (2 jets) and was eminently suited to its use in the Med.
Would it be the best boat for our cooler climate? Probably not, but horses for courses.

 

[AndrewfromFal]

A lot of the comments about the style / design / etc remind me of the comments that French boats used to elicit among people I sailed with in the 80s (faddish / unseamanlike / etc, etc). I mention this because there's a sort of synchronicity between this thread and the one about the collapse of the British boatbuilding industry.

This new 80 footer is the brain child of Michael Schmidt, who created Hanse initially by buying up moulds from bankrupt yards, doing a little repackaging and adding them to his range of yachts. From this grew the behemoth that is Hanse today (he sold up a couple of years back).

I think its probably safe to say he knows his market.

 

[doug748]

A lot of the comments about the style / design / etc remind me of the comments that French boats used to elicit among people I sailed with in the 80s (faddish / unseamanlike / etc, etc). I mention this because there's a sort of synchronicity between this thread and the one about the collapse of the British boatbuilding industry.

This new 80 footer is the brain child of Michael Schmidt, who created Hanse initially by buying up moulds from bankrupt yards, doing a little repackaging and adding them to his range of yachts. From this grew the behemoth that is Hanse today (he sold up a couple of years back).

I think its probably safe to say he knows his market.

But you can't abandon criticism on the grounds that something new once endured.

A lot of commentators will hear nothing said against old boats, others praise to the heavens anything they think is new. The trick is to weigh the job up in perspective.


I like the external look of this boat but think the interior is a disaster. It is a profile that will not transfer well to a smaller hull, look out for some 30 foot shockers in the near future. I blame Wally for a lot of, me too, euro box designs, as we speak.

 

[Sans Bateau]

...just for daring to do it.

http://brenta.windcraftgroup.com

Wally school of design?

http://www.wally.com/wallyno/

 

[AndrewfromFal]

Wally school of design?

http://www.wally.com/wallyno/

Brenta did most of the early Wallys.