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Racing Sailboats - Manufacturer Listings |
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Sailboats span a wide variety of possibilities
from high-performance dinghies with spinnakers
and trapezes to a newer crop of offshore one-design
classes. Performance-oriented boats generally
trade off weight and luxury for speed and maneuverability,
and are generally more spartan below.
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Aquarius Sail Inc. is the builder and retailer of the RC-30, RC-27, ARC-22, ARC-21 and ARC-17 Catamaran sailboats. These light weight high performance catamaran sailboats are built from state of the art composite materials.
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Baltic Yachts advocates composite construction by using the materials to build yachts. In 1973, a group of five men collaborated with locals from the Bosund, Finland area to build a light displacement sailboat to perform better than the competitors and make the sailing experience enjoyable for cruising and racing sailors. Today, the yachts are highly individualized and benefit from on-site design and engineering groups working with customers. At Baltic, design starts out as an iterative process to determine performance and weight. Baltic also has its own control system for accurate weight and center of gravity calculations that solidifies the design for use in construction. The lamination process allows for less resin usage. Yachts produced by Baltic can measure up to and over 200 feet in size.
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Beneteau has been building boats for more than one century. Originally, robust trawlers sailing out regardless of the weather because they had to; boats built with dedication to excellent workmanship, with respect, and, above all, with high regard for the safety and the pleasure of the people who sailed them. The company's history is a long series of anecdotes, successes, accomplishments, constant innovation and strong sensations.
This family business is entering the third millennium with the goal of making pleasure boating accessible to an even greater number.
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Beneteau Yachts is renowned worldwide for its construction of sailing boats and yachts, with a long history of wins and awards. In 1884, Benjamin Beneteau, a qualified ship building worker, decides to build fishing trawlers and opens Beneteau Boatyards in the town of Croix-de-Vie in France. Today, the locations where Beneteau boatbuilding occurs are five factories in the Vendee area of France, and one factory in Marion, South Carolina. The Beneteau group includes other yachting companies of CNB, and Wauquiez. Beneteau yachts lead the yacht building industry in offshore miles. Beneteau builds several lines of sailing boats/yachts, including the First line of 21 to 48 foot cruiser/racers, the Oceanis Clipper cruising line from 32 feet to 46 feet, and a custom series of 50 and 57 foot-long yachts.
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For nearly 40 years, C&C has led the industry in performance sailboat design and technology. The right mixture of speed and comfort has produced a string of successful racer/cruisers, and continues to guide today's C&C. This heritage and design philosophy produced our current fleet of C&C's that are the fastest, strongest, best-designed racer/cruisers ever built.
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Slovenia-based Elan Marine has established a presence with its line of Rob Humphreys–designed performance cruisers and low-slung racer/cruisers.
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For over 30 years Cantiere del Pardo has been producing a superlative range of sailing yachts from 34 to 70 feet. Since the first Grand Soleil 34 in 1973, the Grand Soleil range has been a central point in European boat building history, both for the outstanding quality of the yachts and for the success of the yard.
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Owning a Hobie Cat means more than owning a sailboat. Over 100,000 Hobie Cats are sailing around the world in huge Hobie fleets and regattas. Through the social and racing activities of Hobie fleets, members have an opportunity to participate in activities designed to enhance the quality of their recreational time, and to contribute to a spirit of friendship that has graced the sport of Hobie Cat sailing since 1967. Sailors everywhere have come to call this unique affinity "The Hobie Way of Life".
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The story of J/Boats is a classic entrepreneurial tale: With a $20,000 investment, and a speedy 24-foot sailboat that Rod Johnstone built in his garage, Rod & his brother Bob Johnstone went into business. That was 1977. Now, that boat (the J/24), has become the most popular recreational offshore keelboat in the world.
While other manufacturers may sell more boats, the Johnstones have won the high-end, performance-oriented segment of the market. Theirs is the so-called racer/cruiser category: boats that perform well enough to race but which are comfortable and easy enough for the family to daysail and cruise. It is with knowledgeable, experienced sailors that the Johnstones have done best.
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Jeanneaus are built by one of the largest and one of the most successful marine groups crafting production sailing yachts in the world, building boats in the U.S., France and elsewhere.
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Mel-Ban Boat Works opened doors to sell Inland Lake Sailboats circa 1945, to become Melges Boat Works in 1948. The first production boats were of all things "flat bottom" row boats. Harry Melges Sr. used this production to bide his time while gathering together what was to become the most forbidable group of boat builders in the Midwest.
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Santa Cruz Yachts builds sailing yachts in an unusual location called “the chicken coop” in Santa Cruz, California. Santa Cruz is formerly known as Bill Lee Yachts, a company started in 1977. Bill Lee and several other designers were proponents of and originated ultralight sailing manufacturing. Today, almost all of the boats built since 1977 are still being sailed, in spite of criticisms of ultralight displacement. Santa Cruz’s lightweight and strong hull construction is achieved by a laminate sandwich procedure. Over the years, Santa Cruz has constructed yachts in the 27-foot to 72-foot range. Among other achievements, Santa Cruz 70 finished first in a Port Huron-to-Mackinac Island Sailboat Race. The Santa Cruz 52 captured Sailing World magazine’s Boat of the Year award.
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Solaris Yachts is the brand name of a family-owned yacht building company named Cantiere Serigi based in Aquileia, Italy. Semi-custom and special project custom sailing yachts are the focus of Solaris yachts. The Cantiere Serigi yard contains six parts: composite works, fitting, woodwork and painting, workshops, haul/launch area, and the head offices. The philosophy adhered to by Serigi includes building Solaris yachts with leading technology, and keeping the owner familiar with a Solaris yacht from design through launch. Mahogany, teak wood, and cherry wood are carefully chosen for the interior design of a Solaris yacht. The hulls are designed for performance, and construction yields a very light, strong, and insulated hull. Solaris yachts range from a 36-foot cruiser to a 90-foot special project.
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Swan Yachts are the brand product of Nautor’s Swan. Nautor’s Swan has been building sailing yachts of both performance and luxury since its inception in 1966. The boat building yard for Swan yachts is Oy Nautor Ab, in Finland on the Gulf of Bothnia. Pekka Koskenkylä established Oy Nautor Ab. Practically all of the Swan yachts manufactured over the years are still used today. Research and development continuously searches for advanced techniques, while Nautor holds to the modular construction philosophy for Swan yachts. This research led to the unique process of manufacturing composite rudder stocks by means of resin transfer molding. Swan yachts are built in various sizes from 45 feet to a superyacht at 112 feet in length. Nautor’s Swan holds the yearly Swan Cup, a sailing race known worldwide.
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In 1979, one of today’s most successful and quality orientated production yards was established in Denmark. During the 1980’s, X-Yachts designed, and built, winning IOR yachts for World Class Racing. Their success with this market attracted the attention of the cruising market, which was now looking for fast, quality, and comfortable sailing yachts. Nothing nothing more obvious, but to use their boat building experience from the fast racers, and combine this with building Performance Cruising yachts.
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