15 March 2021 14:00 Technology
Kayla Dowling
The new ClubSwan 125 seeks to redefine the supermaxi, with North Technology Group of companies Southern Spars, Future Fibres and North Sails providing a state-of-the-art rig and sail package.
Photo: Eva-Stina KjellmanNautorâs Swan are leaders in the luxury sailing yacht industry. First introduced in 2006 with the ClubSwan 42, ClubSwan is the performance division of the brand, with each project always having a specific focus on speed, technology and competitive sailing potential.
The latest project to come from this division is the new ClubSwan 125, currently under construction at the Nautorâs Swan facility in Finland, and due to launch in 2021. Designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian, it aims to be the worldâs fastest supermaxi yacht, through innovative design solutions such as the yachtâs single curved foil solution.
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Kevin Escoffier’s Vendée Globe rescue from a liferaft adrift in the Roaring Forties was the result of incredible seamanship. Helen Fretter spoke to him, and the team that co-ordinated the search
“I AM SINKING. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. MAYDAY”
At 1345 (UTC) on Monday 30 November, on a grey and lumpy South Atlantic some 840 miles south-west of Cape Town, Kevin Escoffier was 3rd in the single-handed Vendée Globe when his boat, the IMOCA 60
PRB, suddenly and catastrophically broke up. Escoffier had time only to send a three line Whatsapp message to his shore team before all communication with the boat was lost. It would be 11 hours before anyone on land heard from him again. This is the story of his stunning Vendée rescue.