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New ñ53 Racing Cruising Trimaran by McConaghy Boats

McConaghy Boats latest launch for an American client is a multihull with much pizzazz. The Banuls designed ñ53 Trimaran is a very fast cruising trimaran with wave piercing bows and modern clear carbon interior finishes. The ñ53 has been optimized for safety, performance and shorthanded cruising at killer speeds. Construction is carbon, E/glass with foam cores to make the boat super light. A carbon canting wing mast, Harken winches and Karver furlers ensure high performance under sail, whilst a 39HP engine and retracting bow thruster provides performance and control under power. It has a forward guest cabin, an aft owners’ suite, a generously-sized galley and saloon, full head with shower and carbon toilet provide a comfortable interior for extended cruising. An enclosed deck with navigation centre allows all round visibility with all sail handling controls close at hand. It is a machine! Check it out here.

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Safety, Luxury, Speed. Without Compromise. These are the opening lines of the owner’s website.

“Having sailed on this stunning 53′ McConaghy trimaran I can only agree to these bold statements. We easily hit 19.5 knots in 15 knots of true wind speed. The helm, whether sailing upwind or downwind was feather-light and one single person could easily tack, jibe or reef. FINN is an amazing creation, envisioned by a very experienced yacht owner” …Gregor Tarjan, owner of Aeroyacht and official dealer for McConaghy Boats in the US.

Owner Statement:

In 2000, I did a two boat build program with Peter Johnstone in Cape Town. We agreed on hull shapes, pilothouse profiles, and forward cockpit for our cats. Pete Melvin did a great job designing the hulls. We each customized our own boats using a common platform. After my 62ft Safari  was launched, the iconic look became Gunboat. Although I never had financial or management interest in Gunboat, I was always proud to have made a strong contribution at a pivotal moment in cruising evolution.

Our family sailed tens of thousands of miles on Safari. It was the perfect boat for that moment in our lives. Yet, I felt as if something was still missing. I felt I was missing an intimacy with the experience and sheer thrill of sailing.

Cats are great at accommodations. But all those berths mean mouths to feed, which means more time provisioning, which means more time trying to figure out who is going where in the dinghy and when, which means more time waiting for everyone to be ready to go ashore at once, which means more time fixing things, which inevitably means less time sailing.

So I made a basic decision: my next boat would be for day sailing with 10 if I wanted, but coastal and offshore cruising of 4 adults and two kids max. Two cabins and one fabulous head is enough to maintain. More people meant more laundry meant more time not sailing. Crew or no crew, thats what it means.

The sensation of sailing a cat is a bit like trying to sail a tennis court. There can also be a false sense of security with a cat. You are stable and upright, until you are not.

Let me say upfront, if you want to race a boat, build a race boat. If you want to cruise, build a damn safe and fast cruising boat. Safety is about speed. Speed means you can outrun weather systems, have less exposure to crew fatigue, and less stress on the boat. When you try to build a race and a cruising boat there are all kinds of compromises that sometimes don’t work out so great.

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Spars & Rigging

Lorima high modulus carbon fiber spreaderless rotating mast. Navtec canting hydraulics permit 6.5 degrees port/starboard. 800 litre stern ballast tank for blast reaching.

The two shrouds meet and then join to spectra which is connected to a ram on the aft side of the aft crossbeam. When one ram lets out, the other pulls in. To cant, the rig is either dropped before tacking, or pulled hydraulically while sailing with the press of a button on the nav pod. This same setup allows the rig to come off the boat in minutes by pulling the three large terminal pins.

Sailing Electronics

With safety being first and foremost, there is an UpSideUp system installed installed with fast dump buttons in main salon, nav desk, and each outboard winch pod.

Sailing electronics are provided by a full B&G package including:

1x Zeus Touch 12″  display screen at fully protected centerline nav

2x Zeus Touch 9″ Display at each outboard helm

Simrad 4G Broadband Radar

3x H5000 Pilot Controllers

Simrad HS70 compas

T2-Pilot-Ram-RAM-T2-24V

H5000 Race Display

WIFI-1 Module

B&G V50 VHF/AIS Radio

All sails are Incidences Hydronet.

-High aspect square top

-Furling on Karver furler

-Self-tacking

Storm Trysail

Deck Hardware

Harken Performa winches

Karver furlers

Extra-long Mainsail and Solent tracks for safety and flexibility of tuning

Cockpit awning system for full enclosure

Boom awning to amas for sun protection at anchor

13 sq meter SeaTek non-skid EVA foam.

Two Anchors. One with 250′ of 3/8″ chain, One with 100′ chain and 150′ rope

Electrical System

LED lighting throughout.

Watt&Sea racing aluminum hydrogenerator on sliding transom track. Comes online at 6 knots of boatspeed.

4x Solbian SB88 panels for daylight battery charging

Mastervolt 180 Amp Hour 24v LiION battery

Dedicated LiION start and bow thruster batteries

Construction

The hulls on FINN are constructed of infused E-Glass/foam, with Carbon-fiber reinforcement where necessary. Her X-Beam Crossbeams are of carbon fiber, as are all appendages and chainplates.

E-Glass was chosen to be both a good balance between performance and cost, as well as for being quieter underway and more resilient in the event of grounding. As a result, the entire platform has a weight of 10.8 MT

Boat Name FINN

SpecsBuilder: McConaghy

Designer: Bañuls Design Hull Shape: Trimaran

LOA: 53 ft 0 in Beam: 43 ft 0 in Minimum Draft: 2 ft 6 in Maximum Draft: 11 ft 0 in Bridge Clearance: 83 ft 0 in Dry Weight: 10800 kgs

Engines Engine 1: Engine Brand: Yanmar Year Built: 2014 Engine Type: Inboard Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel Location: Port Propeller: 3 blade propeller Engine Power: 39 HPTanksFresh Water Tanks: 1 (50 Gallons) Fuel Tanks: 1 (50 Gallons)AccommodationsNumber of cabins: 2 Number of heads: 1ElectronicsComputer Radar – Simrad 4G Repeater(s) – B&G Log-speedometer – B&G Wind speed and direction – B&G GPS VHF – V50 Navigation center Compass – Simrad HS70 Plotter – B&G Zeus (3x) Depthsounder – B&G Autopilot – T2-Pilot-RamS ails Gennaker/Cruising spinnaker – Incidences Fully battened mainsail – Incidences Asymmetric spinnaker – Incidences Storm jib – Incidences Furling genoa – Incidences Trisail – IncidencesRiggingHydraulic winch – Harken TillerInside EquipmentBow thruster – Lewmar – Retractable Fresh water maker – Spectra Deep freezer Manual bilge pump Hot water Refrigerator Marine head – Carbon Fiber Electric bilge pump Heating Electrical Equipment Shore power inlet Electrical Circuit: 24V Outside Equipment/Extras Cockpit shower Solar panel – Solbian Covers Lazy bag Cockpit cover

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Discussion in ' Multihulls ' started by R.Finn , Jun 17, 2014 .

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Here's a VPLP grad with some really nice designs. The n53 in the Lorima news letter caught my eye. http://banulsdesign.com/_bd-cms/index.php?page=n53-trimaran  

Corley epoxy coated

Agreed, very nice work there  

redreuben redreuben

http://www.n53trimaran.com/gallery/#prettyPhoto  

The trimaran has been completed and is ready for shipping to the US. It was built in the McConaghy facility in Zhuhai  

Attached Files:

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A gallery of photos of the N53 prior to shipping. http://www.mcconaghyboats.com/n-53-trimaran-finn.html  

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The N53 has been launched and it looks great on the water. Photos by Clint Clemens  

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Monday 2 February 2015

Banuls designed n53 trimaran constructed by mcconaghy launched.

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• FINN Ñ53 TRIMARAN
• BAÑULS 60 CATAMARAN
• BAÑULS 78 Catamaran
• SUP BROWN SUGAR
• 33rd AMERICA’S CUP

bañulsdesign has launched a new range of semi-custom high-performance catamarans.

The range has started with the BAÑULS 60. Visit  the website

Hull#1 is based in Hong Kong and Hull#2 in Italie.

The range is  extended to the BAÑULS 53 & BAÑULS 78

Thanks to Christophe Launay for the photos  www.sealaunay.com

From diaporoma to thumbnails

ñ60 catamaran drawings & specs

LOA……………………18.28m (60ft)

LWL………………………….18.28m

Beam………………………….8.60m

Draft………………………1.4 / 3.2m

Displacement Light…………….9.3T

Bridgedeck Clearance…………1.1m

Mainsail ………………………118m2

Solent ………………………….56m2

Code 0  ………………………120m2

Gennaker …………………….190m2

Asym. Spin …………………..235m2

Air draft ………………………….25m

Eglass / Epoxy / Corecell Foam  Carbon reinforcements

High modulus carbon mast

Longeron, martingal boom & appendages are standard modulus carbon.