Yachting takes you inside the 2017 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.
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With fall firmly upon us and winter peeking around the corner, two things are bound to happen in the coming months in the Salish Sea: low pressure systems will sweep in off the Pacific Ocean bringing strong southerlies, and brisk northerlies will push down from the Fraser River Valley.
As boaters, we obviously need to keep a keen eye out for these potentially hazardous winds and to protect our boats appropriately. And if you’re out cruising this time of year — which we highly recommend — you’ll want to have some places in mind to duck in and wait out weather from any direction.
In our years spent cruising Puget Sound and the San Juan and Gulf islands throughout the short, cooler days, we always had a lot of anchorages or docks in mind to escape and hide in the event of a big blow. That being the case, I’ll share a few of those over the next few weeks and months for those out taking advantage of the amazing winter cruising in the Pacific Northwest. Our first was Blind Bay. Here’s the second:
Manzanita Bay, Bainbridge Island:
At some point during the past three winters we sailed from our typical cruising grounds of the San Juan and Gulf islands to the friendly confines of Central Puget Sound. On our way down and back we’ve stopped in places like Mystery Bay, Mat Mats Bay, Port Ludlow and Kingston, but once we hit the Seattle area, we’ve basically used Bainbridge Island and nearby Blake Island as a home base.
Eagle Harbor, Port Madison and Blakely Harbor are favorite anchorages that are great in nearly any weather. But Manzanita Bay has a special charm to it, and is quite good in a strong southerly. While this spot is certainly no secret (are there any?), each time we’ve been here Yahtzee has been the lone boat anchored out.
Located on the northwestern side of Bainbridge just south of Agate Pass, we like to use Manzanita if it’s blowing from the south and we need to wait for the tides through the pass, to head over to Poulsbo or to move south down the backside of the island. Though the bay itself is relatively narrow and lined with some beautiful properties, it’s a wonderful anchorage.
We’ve found this chart from the Salish Sea Pilot’s Puget Sound guide to be particularly helpful.
Chart courtesy of SalishSeaPilot.com
Our preferred spot to drop the hook is down in the bottom of the bay in about 20 feet. Like many anchorages in this area, the bottom composition is a sticky mix of mud and sand that provides good holding. There is plenty of swing room here and even if the wind is up in the high 30’s, which it has been for us, the chop is minimal.
Beyond being a comfortable anchorage, we’ve been told that you can go ashore at a spot in the northern corner of the bay and that, at high tide, you can take your dinghy or kayak up the creek that feeds into the southern portion. If you’re out for a winter cruise around Bainbridge Island this or any season, give Manzanita Bay a try.
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The 32-metre Ultimate trimaran (a new generation of maxi multihulls designed for singlehanded racing) is making for her port of registry, Lorient La Base, before beginning a series of sea trials.
Flying across all the seas of the globe…
Designed to be helmed singlehanded around the globe by her skipper Armel Le Cleac’h, this extraordinary boat joins the first Ultimate multihull to be issued by CDK Technologies back in 2015, Francois Gabart’s trimaran MACIF. Perhaps her most striking feature is the installation of foils and rudders with lifting surfaces (fins enabling the adjustment of the boat’s longitudinal trim). These appendages should translate as speeds never before achieved by boats of this size by aiming for extensive ‘flight’ situations.
A build process spanning nearly two years
It has taken 20 months, 135,000 man-hours and 100 people to successfully complete this construction (of which 100,000 hours solely involved the CDK Technologies yard). The finesse of the forms is outstanding and she features a highly innovative helming station. Every detail has been studied at length by the designers, Team Banque Populaire and the CDK Technologies design office, so as to optimise the craft and make her reliable, with the focus on saving weight and enhancing performance. The target cruising speed: 50 knots or nearly 90km/hr.
A latest generation mast and boom: CDK Technologies at the cutting edge
CDK Technologies successfully launched into the manufacture of large-scale carbon masts in 2015, with the delivery of an innovative 42m mast.
Sticking to this approach and taking advantage of the supreme performance of its 50m autoclave, which is the only one of its kind in Europe capable of creating wing masts, CDK Technologies has devised for this boat a particularly innovative technique for manufacturing large masts, enabling the design of the profile to be optimised, whilst making the spar more lightweight. This 100% CDK technology has also been applied to the manufacture of the Banque Populaire IX’s boom.
Maxi Banque Populaire IX © CDK
CDK and Banque Populaire, an historic collaboration
A genuine synergy has been created between the CDK Technologies yard and Team Banque Populaire. Indeed, the yard has built the majority of the Team’s boats, including the Maxi Trimaran Banque Populaire V in 2008, to date the largest racing multihull ever built.
Providing so much more than just a service, there is a true collaboration between the teams from CDK Technologies and Banque Populaire. The permanent exchanges between the Team’s design office and that of CDK Technologies, under Stéphane Digard, with assistance from Matthieu Kloek and Romain Cachia, have enabled Armel Le Cleac’h to have an optimised boat, which is ready to take her debut flight.
A foiling solution in the vanguard of innovation
A derivative of the solutions fine-tuned in the America’s Cup, a unique system for manoeuvring the foils (these huge aileron-style appendages added to the floats) lies at the heart of the successful, innovative approach by Team Banque Populaire in collaboration with the teams at CDK Technologies.
Objective Round the World 2019
Upon her launch on 30 October, the Maxi Banque Populaire IX will begin a long period of fine-tuning. Inevitably, this will be an intense time for the teams at CDK Technologies, whose greatest reward will be to see this jewel of technology, which has required all the yard’s energy for the past 20 months, take flight for the very first time.
VERBATIM
Frederic Chenot, Head of Development at Banque Populaire : “It’s always an extremely moving moment seeing a new boat hit the water for the first time. I’m particularly happy to be sharing it today with all those who have contributed to her design with such ingenuity and worked on her construction for so many months. This is the reward for a collaboration of unfailing quality.”
Ronan Lucas, Director of the Banque Populaire team: “CDK Keroman Technologies is a long love story, indeed we’ve been working together for over ten years. The result is high quality every time, despite the growing complexity. I’m proud to launch such an accomplished boat. She is the fruit of this collaboration, where the exceptional quality of the human relationship is always constructive with the aim of producing the most perfect product possible.”
by CDK Technologies
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Yacht Engineering’s Georgi Belchev chats about his busy show meeting clients and his goal to advance the company’s ventilation duct cleaning service.
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The Pershing 90 took high-performing express cruisers to new lengths.
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