| Monaco. Wally says Pilgrim project is Fife & Herreshoff inspired |
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| Monday, 02 January 2006 | |
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Boat building news: When Wally teams up with Hoek Design and Soto Acebal, the result is the Pilgrim project: a 200-foot (60.80-meter) yacht uniquely combining the classic lines with the latest technologies to reduce displacement, improve performance and simplify maintenance and manoeuvring. The design dates from 1893! Pilgrim was one of the most extraordinary designs ever made for the America’s Cup and the first classic yacht ever designed with a fin keel, spade rudder and bow rudder. The starting point of this breakthrough project was to develop a yacht to the likes of William Fife and Nathanael Herreshoff would have. Had they been alive today, they would have surely used the new technologies in weight savings, reduction in maintenance and reduced crew. To achieve this challenging goal, a highly specialised design team was set up, that included Wally, Hoek Design and Soto Acebal Naval Architecture. The project is based on carbon composite hull construction: the weight studies showed that a 200-foot (60.80-meter) carbon yacht can be built around 190 tons (418,878 lbs) displacement at half load versus the 250 tons (551,156 lbs) of the aluminium construction. The design is developed with 20-ton (44,092 lbs) water ballast. The hull lines have been optimised for performance under heel. Different hulls with varying waterline beams have been considered and CFD tested The waterline beam has been optimised for a very low displacement yacht of this size. The Pilgrim project comes in different versions that vary for the rig configuration (ketch, sloop and schooner), and the hull construction technology (aluminium, advanced composites). These options have been deeply evaluated and tested along with different appendages (lifting keel with trim tab, canting keel, and Alberto Calderon’s Canting Ballast Twin Foil) to find the best performing configuration. The sail handling systems developed by Wally simplify manoeuvring and enhance safety, while dramatically reducing the required crew to only eight or nine people. A fixed bowsprit serves to take the load of the forestay well forward of the stemhead and to tack the Code 0 sails. The deck layout is characterised by two deckhouses, perfectly integrated into the style of the project: they combine classic lines with contemporary materials such as tinted glass. The deck is simple and features the high bulwark like the Wally 143 and Wally 130 currently under construction, while the social cockpit has free standing furniture recalling the latest Wally designs. Down below, the social areas include the lounge, dining, salon and library, the guest night area features four double cabins plus the owners’ stateroom. |
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