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The Plastiki is a 60-foot (18 m) catamaran made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other recycled PET plastic and waste products. [2] Michael Pawlyn [3] of Exploration Architecture worked on the concept design with David de Rothschild and helped to shape some of the key ideas.
39.60 m (130 ft) Goudy & Stevens: George Steers: 1967: replica of the gaff wooden schooner America (1851) Le Pietre: 39.60 m (130 ft) Ada Yacht Works: 2009: Wooden gulet Perseverance II: 39.60 m (130 ft) Baltic Yachts: Dykstra Naval Architects: 2021: Aramid foam core/epoxy sandwich sloop Endeavour: 39.56 m (130 ft) Camper & Nicholsons: Charles ...
[1] [10] In 1998 [4] or 2000 [12] he visited the Salon nautique international de Paris in order to buy a similar racing catamaran for himself, but instead bought three cruising catamarans, transported them to Madagascar and founded Sunreef Charter, a France-based yacht charter company [13] [12] [4] His son Nicolas also owned a travel agency ...
ORMA 60 is a class of sailing trimarans administered by the Ocean Racing Multihull Association (ORMA) that created in 1996 by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) within the sport of sailing. The boats were built to a box rule that permitted 60 feet length and beam and a 100-foot mast. The class was active from 1996 to 2007.
On the occasion of the Route du Rhum 2010, the organization of the race decided to group together in a new category all the multihulls of 60 feet and more, with no maximum limit of size. The aim was to succeed the ORMA class of 60-foot trimarans, to wait for the construction of the MOD 70 for the year 2011 and to open the race for large ...
The Jeanneau Yachts 60 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of vacuum-infused fiberglass, with wood trim.It has a fractional sloop with a bowsprit, an over-plumb stem, a slightly reverse transom with a drop-down tailgate-style swimming platform, dual internally mounted spade-type rudders controlled by dual wheels and a fixed L-shaped fin keel with a weighted bulb.
Bluebelle was a 60-foot (18 m) twin-masted sailing ketch based out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ship was scuttled following an act of mass murder by the ship's captain, Julian Harvey, on November 12, 1961. [3] Harvey died by suicide on November 17 within hours of receiving news that 11-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault had survived the scuttling.
Recreational sailing catamarans and trimarans gained popularity during the 1960s and 1970s. [8] [17] Amateur development of the modern sailing trimaran started in 1945 with the efforts of Victor Tchetchet, a Ukrainian émigré to the US, who built two trimarans made of marine plywood, which were about 24 feet (7.3 metres) long. He is credited ...