New from the drawing-board of German Frers is this sexy forty-foot state-of-the-art "race daysailer." The designer claims the boat was designed for high performance sailing with speed, easy handling and a mix of classical lines with innovative features topping the design list. The builder calls it "the perfect boat for match racing."
The Blink F38.7 sports a fractional rig, a retractable carbon rudder and fin keel with a deep lead bulb. (The boat draws seven feet with the keel fully extended). With room for five in the teak-lined cockpit, skipper and crew should be efficient without tripping over each other.
Perhaps the coolest feature of the boat (other than the promotional picture above) is its transportability. The boat was designed to break down and fit into a standard forty-foot shipping container aboard its included trailer. A trailerable high-tech forty-foot race machine which can be shipped easily to any race venue on the globe? German Frers may just have created the "perfect" match racing machine for the non-billionaire sailor.
(And just think, if it is loaded aboard a sail-powered freighter, it could be the green non-billionaire racing sailor's dream machine.)
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Perfect" Match Racer Born
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