Yachting Developments of New Zealand Launches Antares III, a 30m Composite Performance Cruising Sloop.
Built to comply with stringent Germanischer Lloyd and MCA classification requirements, the vessel is incredibly strong yet 25%-30% lighter than similar vessels built in Aluminum, this is achievable by the use of composites. The composite structure is post cure epoxy Eglass/Carbon/Kevlar incorporating high strength foam sandwich technology. The hull has a Kevlar outer skin giving increased impact resistance.
Blonde Teak interior as designed by Rhodes Young, was built in-house by Yachting Developments specialist tradesmen with a horizontal grain and is contrasted with wide Walnut planked floors. The yachts accommodation consists of an upper and lower saloon that are open to each other, two spacious guest cabins and a full beam Owners cabin with private access to the aft cockpit. Forward of the galley and crew mess is accommodation for four crew members.
Spars and rigging are carbon fibre by Southern Spars NZ. The modern underwater shape includes a high-aspect carbon fibre rudder with direct quadrant non-assisted steering giving absolute feel to the helmsman.
Patrick Yeoward, owner representative and Project Manager describes the launch of Antares III: “They say that things run like a Swiss watch… Well that will have to be rephrased to a ‘Yachting Developments launch’. One can expect things to run smoothly when following the 6P code, but when the weather turns and you can’t see from one end of the boat to the other, you could be forgiven to think it is all going to go wrong. But no. With increasing wind and driving rain that yacht was launched, on time. The rig stepped, on time. The boom loaded, on time. And moored up, on time. The look of relief on the faces on board certainly said it all. All involved from the Owner’s side would like to congratulate and thank Ian Cook and his team for a job that was most certainly well done.”
Photo: Yachting Developments
| Technical details | |
| Producer: | YACHTING DEVELOPMENTS (NZ) |
| LOA: | 100'00 ft |
| LOA: | 30 m |
| Waterline lenght: | 26,70 m |
| Beam: | 7,35 m |
| Draught: | 3,85 m |
| Ballast: | 28.500 kg |
| Displacement: | 100.000 kg |
| Fuel tank: | 2.700 l |
| Water tank: | 1.200 l |
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