If I were to change my boat, this would probably be my top choice.
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Lightwave395
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I'm a race boat lover at heart but this is the nicest pilot house yacht I've seen (and the only one I've been on board)
She is a Chuck Paine designed 62' custom job owned and sailed by a charming American couple we shared a pontoon and numerous bottles of wine with on Ile d'yeu in 2017. They've been around the world twice, done the Galapagos and on the way back to Rhode Island from France in 2019 went via Greenland and Iceland.
They had been anchored just down the coast but came into Port Joinville to avoid two nights of 40+ knot winds
She is a Chuck Paine designed 62' custom job owned and sailed by a charming American couple we shared a pontoon and numerous bottles of wine with on Ile d'yeu in 2017. They've been around the world twice, done the Galapagos and on the way back to Rhode Island from France in 2019 went via Greenland and Iceland.
They had been anchored just down the coast but came into Port Joinville to avoid two nights of 40+ knot winds
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Koeketiene
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Rubbish argument.
It's like saying that because a Jaguar E-type doesn't win any F1 races, therefore it must be a crap car.
A piece on local TV a couple of days ago.
Maxime Sorel took a TV crew around his boat and showed them the repairs he had to carry out along the way.
Many of them structural.
Alex Thompson had to withdraw because of structural defects.
Jean Le Cam barely made it. Structural defects similar to those experienced by AT.
Followed by an interview with a naval architect involved in IMOCA design.
Current thinking is towards making the boat as light and as fast as possible.
Newer Imocas displace 8.5T (that's 1T more than my 36') and can achieve 30kts+.
We could build/ design boats that are less cutting edge and less likely to experience structural failures but they would displace 15-16T and complete a Vendee in 100-120 days instead of the 70-80 days we achieve with newer boats.
A boat more along traditional lines and utilising less cutting edge technology might not win the Vendee Globe but it would almost certainly finnish the race. And in one piece.
Although how the Vendee Globe is relevant in this discussion is beyond me.
I'm sure that there isn't a forumite alive unaware of the fact that you own a catamaran.
Tomahawk
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All I can say is racing boats are designed to be efficient and to sail well. Were it not for the drive for speed you would be sailing a square rigger and waiting for the wind to turn about in order to come home. But instead, fishermen and traders demanded innovation to make it possible to sail in every direction. Then like all men, they decided to race each other. Ifg only to be the first home with the catch and to get the best price and so the development race began. the IMOCA is merely the apogee of development. Your boat is just a step along that journey.
Frogmogman
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She is a beauty, but if its Bill Dixon 62' Pilot House yachts you're after, I think I like this one even better.....(although I'm sure I'd rather own the one you posted. All that teak and brightwork on this one would quickly become a bore).
COBAN DENIZCILIK Bill Dixon 62
Tomahawk
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I'm sure that there isn't a forumite alive unaware of the fact that you own a catamaran.
Some members of the parish may own Trimarans...
Lightwave395
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My cock up !
Found my notes from the cruise - it wasn't Bill Dixon it was Chuck Paine...
Visions of Johanna | Cruising Club of America
Koeketiene
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Some members of the parish may own Trimarans...
TWO more hulls than strictly necessary.
Tradewinds
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How about this one? Bob Perry design
Bajansailor
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She is definitely gorgeous - and well worth quoting to see her again.
I just had to look her up on Chuck Paine's site - here is some info about her.
At least I presume that the vessel you met was Visions of Johanna?
https://www.chuckpaine.com/pdf/62VISIONSOFJOHANNA62.pdf
And here is a better description on Ed Joy's website -
Visions of Johanna - 62' Modern Circumnavigator — ED JOY DESIGN
Here is her Marinetraffic page - although they have not heard from her since November, when she was in Maine.
VISIONS OF JOHANNA (Sailing Vessel) Registered in USA - Vessel details, Current position and Voyage information - IMO 0, MMSI 366950780, Call Sign WDB7973
And here is her owner's Blog -
Visions of Johanna
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Bajansailor
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How about this one? Bob Perry design
She is gorgeous as well - she seems to have been renamed 'Wild Horses'
This one's got me stumped....
Marinetraffic currently has her in Bainbridge Island, near Seattle on the west coast of the USA.
WILD HORSES (Sailing Vessel) Registered in USA - Vessel details, Current position and Voyage information - IMO 0, MMSI 367459070, Call Sign WDF5074
Lightwave395
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That's correct, she was named after the owners wife and the Bob Dylan song . The couple were delightful, that is until a battered old fenderless 45' Beneteau tried to raft up alongside when I thought Bill the owner was going to kill the Ben 45 skipper with a winch handle...