Craig Loomes Design Group Limited

PO Box 147-027,
Ponsonby, Auckland,
New Zealand
Tel +64 9 360 9799
Fax +64 9 360 9795

designer@cld.co.nz

www.cld.co.nz

Earthrace

Description

Following successful trials of a 6m test model, Craig Loomes Design Group has launched a 23m wavepiercing trimaran designed and built to attempt the current UIM powerboat record for an equatorial circumnavigation via the Panama and Suez canals.

The Craig Loomes Design Group team has focussed on optimisation of fuel efficiency to minimise refuelling stops and also on ride comfort, allowing the crew to maintain high average speeds in adverse sea conditions. The entire boat is intended to wave pierce, minimising pitching motions and preventing slamming or pounding of the bottom shell.

The efficient hull form is capable of range in excess of 2500 nautical miles at a passage making speed of 15 knots.

Bakewell-White Yacht Design

PO Box 34569, Birkenhead

Auckland, New Zealand 

www.bakewell-white.com

SleepyHead

Description

Open Class Offshore Powerboat placed third in the NZ Championship 2005, 115mph

Description

The B23 is the latest design from the Swedish designer Ocke Mannerfelt's drawing board. The Boat was designed in 1996 for the UIM 2.0 litre class. It is a 23 feet long monohull built of a Divinycell sandwich and high quality fiberglass construction.

This boat is developed from the B28, it features further refinement of the aerodynamics and the shape of the bow. It has the same characteristic wing profile as the B28, but is lower to further improve the ground effect and stability.

The first hull was delivered to the team in June. It is powered by a 2.0 litre normally aspirated Mercury Short Shaft outboard motor, the engine delivers approximately 200 hp @ 6500 rpm.

The first prototype, with a dry weight of 1800 lb (280kg), where able to reach a top speed of 82mph (71 knots).