The sloop is a sailing boat with a single mast and a fore-and-aft rig. It has only one head-sail: if a boat has two or more head-sails, it is named cutter, not sloop, and its mast may be set further aft than on a sloop. In Dutch they call it "sloep", and in French it's called "chaloupe". The most common rig of modern sailboats is the Bermuda-rigged sloop. Typically, a modern sloop carries a mainsail on a boom aft of the mast, with a single loose-footed head-sail (a jib or a genoa jib) forward of … [Read more...]
Pink Gin VI, the 52 Meters Jewel from Baltic Yachts
Pink Gin VI is the largest carbon fiber sloop in the world, which displays some of the most innovative features seen in a sailing yacht: two opening balconies set into the topsides, Baltic Yachts’ revolutionary "Force Feedback Steering System" and a carbon composite hull and deck shell built to the highest degree of accuracy. [source of all pics: boatinternational.com] The displacement of 235 tons (light craft) is considered low for a yacht of this size. It has been achieved by using … [Read more...]
Amsterdam in Water Boat Show – September Edition
Amsterdam in Water Boat Show took place this year (2016) between August 29 - September 3 in Amsterdam Marina. This is a very short post about it, just for the record and pure fun. I have been so busy all month with issues outside my main business, so I have neglected my show articles even about the most fanciest of them all, the one from Cannes. I'm not so sorry because the Cannes Show was already featured on this website, and in Amsterdam they were exposing boats for the second time this year. … [Read more...]
HISWA Amsterdam Boat Show
The Amsterdam Boat Show, organized by HISWA at RAI Amsterdam, is a festival who celebrates water sports fans indoors. It is held in 2016 between 16 to 20 March. HISWA stands for Dutch Water Sports Industry Association. If you are looking for a new boat, you will find a wide array of launches, open sailboats, day sailing boats and speedboats, most of which are ready to immediately be used. The Association also has a fun sports section which offers everything in the field of windsurfing, … [Read more...]