Ocean Racing Magazine - #6 - December 2007 & January 2008 - (Page 59)

mely rapid beating on the beam with a spinnaker in the breeze: she is perfectly suited to coastal runs and offshore sailing. She is fairly easy to sail, as soon as there is some pressure, and more technical when you need to cant the keel leeward in light airs… She may well be a little less adaptable on windwardleeward courses than Chieftain, the Farr design with a canting keel (30°), which won the Fastnet. Yet she is the yacht of your dreams to sail around Ireland, the Isle of Wight, RORC races and even the QuebecSaint Malo and the Route du Rhum sailing single-handed " with her adjustable bowsprit, she can move away from the wind with an excellent compromise between bearing and speed: fourteen knots of speed at 140° from the real wind blowing at fifteen knots She doesn’t have a lot of canvas upwind, but can be fitted with a square-topped sail with backstay, which should make up for this small loss. Perhaps a code 0 would offer an advantage in very light conditions." appears that you have to put the ballast leeward to heel her over, then to limit interference from the daggerboard (angled at 2,5°) in front of the mast on the keel blade. " SPECIFICATIONS Builder: JPS Productions Designer: Samuel Manuard Hull length: 13.80 m Waterline: 13.50 m Beam: 3.96 m Draught: 2.65 m Displacement: 5000 kg Ballast: 2200 kg Mainsail surface: 64 m2 Genoa surface: 56 m2 Spinnaker surface: 220 m2 Provisional IRC Rating: 1.316 Deck layout "There should be a foot rest for the helmsman so he can get some support when the wind gets up. The deck fittings are of a very high standard and the coffee grinder very efficient to take in the spinnaker sheet during a gybe. The cockpit is spacious and we don’t walk all over each other during manoeuvres. The pitman is well positioned in a hollow in front of the companionway, with a hood on each side to protect the watch seat. The bowsprit, which goes through a carbon ring holding the stay, takes perhaps a bit too long to get out, but the carbon mast, all of the shrouds made of PBO, the blocks and the tackles are of very high quality. " The keel "It is the helmsman that sets the keel angle (up to 45°) thanks to buttons at his fingertips. He can also react quickly when the wind gets up and the result is impressive! Without the crew having to sit out, she rapidly steps up the speed by half a knot… Passing the start line beating, we can quickly see how fast she can accelerate. As for her ability to evolve, the Mach 45 has what it takes in six knots of wind, but things are a little tougher below that as you come out of a change of tack: probably due to a lack of practice by the crew… It The hull "The Mach 45 has a very flat hull at the stern with a chine to modify her beam. There is a high freeboard, but you get used to that and that is an advantage in offshore races. She doesn’t have the delicate touch at the helm of a singlerudder boat, but she remains very easy to control. The hull is particularly suited to downwind sailing and even in light airs Interior "The finishing touches both inside and out are quite remarkable. However, the Mach 45 is above all a racing yacht! The mess is very modern with a bare minimum, very Italian style design, but it will be much more comfortable sleeping at sea than on dry land, particularly in comparison to many cruising racing yachts… She is not really a cruiser. She’s a fine boat, but above all designed for ocean racing. When the crew have mastered her, she will leave many fifty-footers behind without any problem." Dominic Bourgeois © D. Bourgeois ©L. Vidal/JPS Productions Superb finishing touches, the interior of the Mach 45 offers a large mess and a very pleasant fore cabin, while the stern is given over to four bunks Under spinnaker, her light displacement is capable of remarkable acceleration, which feels like that in a large Mini Transat! Ocean Racing - december 2007

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Ocean Racing Magazine - #6 - December 2007 & January 2008

Cover
Edito
Contents
What they said
News
Portfolio - The news in the picture
Transat Jacques Vabre - Monohulls in power
In the words of the skipper - Michel Desjoyaux, A little bit more
Barcelona World Race - A couple sailing around the world
Imoca - Growth crisis in the Imoca class
Transat 6.5 - A whole series of records
Mini Class - Anatomy of a winner
Multihulls - What sort of trimarans tomorrow ?
Volvo Ocean Race - Second generation
Trials - Mach 45 : an unusual IRC
Match Racing - King Richard
Tactics - A good start
Portrait - Jacques Caraës
Lab - Tubular or wing mast ?
Forty years ago - Chichester, the lonely sea and the sky
Equipment - Shop window
New products - From the drawing board to the boatyard
Opinion - The mirage of worshipping technology

Ocean Racing Magazine - #6 - December 2007 & January 2008