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the sleeping quarters, where there are two cabins plus a full-width master stateroom forward. Good performance is guaranteed, with polars showing that the twin- ruddered, bulb- keeled hull should BOATS easily achieve double- digit cruising speeds. If you really want to get home in a hurry, fire up the twin 78hp Surfari 53 diesels and power straight into the wind at 11-plus knots. Hull and deck moldings are resin- infused composites, and the rig is carbon fiber. A short sprit provides a tack point for offwind sails. Sailhandling is all done NEW NEW by thumb—powered winches all round, with a square-topped main on a furling Just Launched Bermuda 50 boom. Expect to write a check for a little over $2 million for this unique yacht. By Peter Nielsen Edited by PETER NIELSEN I first met Jeremy Wurmfeld some years back when he and sailmaker Robby Homegrown Beauties Doyle collaborated on the e33, a sweet daysailer with a performance edge to it. A quartet of new American designs Wurmfeld has since set up shop in New 44ft Performance Yacht York along with fellow S&S alumnus Carl Away from the docks competitive under IRC and also pleasure. Will Fontaine’s latest Persak. Among Persak & Wurmfeld’s at last October’s U.S. take its crew cruising in comfort. design, the Surfari 53, be another growing superyacht portfolio is the odd Oyster 36DS Sailboat Show in Composite construction and trendsetter? “rogue” design that shows the duo have Annapolis, Maryland, a carbon rig will keep weight There is certainly nothing not forgotten their sailing roots. The the buzz was all about down—cruising displacement is conventional about this boat. Motive 25 sports trimaran is one such; the just-announced a hair over 25,000lb—and with Fontaine set out to create what this 44ft Performance Yacht is another. Hinckley Bermuda 50. This is the its hydraulic lifting torpedo keel he describes as a “good looking, Designed to be built in epoxy/ first new sailing boat from drawing nearly 12 feet, this good performing, family oriented, wood composite by Lyman Morse in Hinckley since 2004, when the boat will go to weather like no sailing lifestyle platform.” The Thomaston, Maine, the 44 has distinctive venerable builder got in right at Hinckley before it. At the press of result is a striking coastal cruiser styling marked by a fairly bluff bow, the forefront of the daysailer a button, the keel will retract to a that will stand out from the herd a long stern overhang, a squared-off movement with its DS42. more harbor-friendly 6ft 6in. in any anchorage. house and a mainsheet arch. A fine Hinckley’s Bermuda 40, The deck layout and sail As Beneteau did with its Sense entry, narrow waterline beam and deep designed by Bill Tripp Jr., is one handling systems are optimized series, Fontaine has borrowed foils—draft is 7ft 8in—combined with a of the most beautiful boats ever for a two-person crew, with all from the catamaran concept of displacement of 18,000 pounds, promise built, in my humble opinion. This desirable conveniences (and a single-level living, but without zippy performance. Mast and boom are “gentleman’s ocean racer,” as few luxuries) belowdecks for the pressures of designing for carbon fiber and the fractional sailplan Tripp described it, was designed comfortable cruising between—or volume production the end comprises a square-topped main, self- and a no-frills aspect. A long cockpit to within arm’s reach of the helmsman. in the late 1950s to the CCA instead of—races. The renderings product is quite different. Instead tacking jib and an asymmetric spinnaker leads to a small cabin with room for the With a full-battened square-topped rule that eventually gave way show a spacious and classically of a bulkhead dividing the cockpit flown off a stubby sprit. essentials—an enclosed head, a pair of main sail and self-tacking jib, she’s all ALSO IN THIS SECTION: to the IOR in the late 1960s, styled interior—you would expect and saloon/galley, there is a The drawings show a large galley and settees and a V-berth. There’s space for a singlehander could ask for. Weiss’s after begetting a generation nothing less. Welcome back, sliding glass door, motorboat- heads/shower, with saloon settees set minimal cooking facilities should you not drawings show the boat with a tiller, Boat of the prettiest boats afloat. It Hinckley. style, with the side windows also forward of amidships and a double cabin be of the sail-all-day, go-home-at-night but no doubt you could have a wheel if Reviews looks gorgeous from any angle, sliding open for extra ventilation. in the eyes of the boat, but Lyman Morse school of yachting, but this boat is not you wanted one. I don’t know why you DEHLER 38, and although not famed for its Few yachts are as head-turning Combined with the plexiglass- will customize the interior to suit the intended for long-distance cruising. would, though. BAVARIA VISION windward performance, it shone as the Friendship series of topped roof—it’s more of an buyer. Long, low 42, J/88 Page28 on any other point of sail. It was bespoke sloops designed aircraft-style canopy than a and—displacing an iconic boat for Hinckley, so by Rhode Island-based Ted cabintop—this makes for an Finally, Steven Weiss, who for many just 8,350lb—light, Contacts it is therefore only fitting that Fontaine. In fact, the Friendship exceptionally light and airy years worked for Hinckley and has she has a small THE HINCKLEY COMPANY, hinckleyyachts.com the Bermuda 50 comes from the 40, designed in 2001, was the interior; the boat can be steered also spent time at Oyster Yachts and sundeck abaft the FONTAINE DESIGN GROUP, fontainedesigngroup.com design office of Bill Tripp III. forerunner of the modern- from an inside helm station Morris Yachts, sent news of his latest tiller and a good- It’s a thoroughly modern daysailer trend—boats designed that has all-round visibility. You design, the 36DS. It’s a pretty 36-foot sized cockpit with PERSAK & WURMFELD, persakwurmfeld.com cruiser-racer, designed to be for pure, unadulterated sailing step down from the saloon into daysailer, with a pleasing classic style all sail controls led STEVEN WEISS YACHT DESIGN, weissyachtdesign.com 26 January 2014 - sailmagazine.com sailmagazine.com - January 2014 27.