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Farr Yacht Design’s latest launch is the new BEAU GESTE, an 80 foot offshore-oriented racer/cruiser. Owner Karl Kwok and project manager Gavin Brady came to FYD to develop a design with the capability to race offshore with a limited crew size and also provide its crew with a level of comfort greater than what is expected on the latest breed of all-out large ocean racers. BEAU GESTE was built at Cookson Boats, with the spar built by Southern Spars. BEAU GESTE has a lifting keel to permit a deep sailing draft and also provide the ability to access docking accommodations. As with other modern ocean racers, BEAU GESTE boasts a moderately high beam and low displacement to ensure excellent offshore performance, particularly reaching. The hull shape was developed from our recent successful experiences with offshore yachts, including Volvo 70’s and Open 60’s. In particular, a plumb stem and immersed transom maximize effective length. Hull chines maximize dynamic stability in hard reaching conditions. Special consideration was given to balancing the fullness of the bow with the depth and immersion of the transom to optimize performance across a range of boatspeeds and ensure the bow lifts at higher speeds.

Below the waterline, the keel draws 5.6 meters, and is hydraulically lifted to a draft of 4.0 meters for access to shallower water. The hydraulic cylinder allows for simple ‘push button’ lifting and lowering of the keel. The keel is fabricated steel construction with a low drag and low center of gravity T-keel style lead bulb. Twin rudders, as per latest technology Volvo 70’s and Open 60’s, ensure that maximum control can be maintained in upwind and hard reaching conditions. As the boat heels, the leeward-side rudder is fully immersed and becomes more upright, ensuring maximum efficiency and allowing for small rudders and reduced surface area. The rudders are connected to each other and the twin steering wheels by a rigid crossbar system that allows for adjustment of helm load and rudder setup.

What sets BEAU GESTE apart from most large ocean racing boats is a more extensive interior accommodation and features above deck that allow for a smaller crew size. The interior features three enclosed cabins, including a large double cabin forward for the owner. These cabins are separated from the central sailing area of the boat to ensure that they are comfortable and clear of sailing gear when cruising, or in-port between races. The mast is deck-stepped, which minimizes intrusion into the interior around the mast, and minimizes the amount of water that can get below when sailing offshore. Aft of the mast, seven pairs of pipe berths allow for functional accommodations during offshore races. The galley includes refrigeration and microwave, and is located on the starboard side of the boat and provides plenty of working space for meal preparation. The cabin table allows the crew to sit down and enjoy a meal. The machinery space utilizes sound insulation to allow the crew to sleep easily. Aft, a generous navigation station has room for two people to work and a second companionway provides a second path to the interior and plenty of ventilation.

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Displacement:

24.40 m/80.05  ft

24.20  m/79.40  ft

6.14  m/20.14  ft

5.600 m/18.37  ft

4.000 m/13.12  ft

22,000 kg/48,500 lbs

14,840 kg/32,720 lbs

31.200 m/102.37 ft

10.250 m/33.63 ft

33.400 m/109.59 ft

10.720 m /35.17 ft

35.550 m/116.64 ft

14.160 m/46.46  ft

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37m  /  121'5 | brooke marine | 1989 / 1998.

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• Impressive 4,600nm range
• Lloyds Register classification
• Interior design from Bannenberg & Rowell
• Sleeps 8 overnight

The 37m/121'5" sail yacht 'Beaugeste' (ex. Beaupre) was built by Brooke Marine in the United Kingdom at their Lowesoft shipyard. Her interior is styled by English designer design house Bannenberg & Rowell and she was completed in 1989. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Bannenberg & Rowell and she was last refitted in 1998.

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Beaugeste has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 8 guests in 4 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 6 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

Range & Performance

Beaugeste is built with a aluminium hull and aluminium superstructure, with teak decks. Beaugeste comfortably cruises at 11 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 12 knots with a range of up to 4,600 nautical miles from her 37,000 litre fuel tanks at 11 knots. Her water tanks store around 10,140 Litres of fresh water. She was built to Lloyds Register classification society rules, and is MCA Compliant.

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Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024

This year represents 20 years since Karl Kwok won the 1997 Sydney Hobart with his new Farr 49 Beau Geste. The Hong Kong businessman is keen to repeat the experience, especially after missing last year when he left this Beau Geste in Gavin Brady’s hands. They finished fifth on line and eighth overall. Kwok last raced to Hobart in 2013 after buying this canting Botin 80 for the classic offshore races, and finished fifth on line behind three super maxis and a V70, leaving a fourth super maxi and the rest in his wake.

The retail giant has won many of the major offshore events around the world with various Beau Gestes. With this latest, won the 2016 Groupama Race around New Caledonia after finishing second on line to Scallywag. An all-carbon canting yacht, it has similar foils to a V70, with daggarboards and features a distinctive black hull and dragon on the mainsail. Team Beau Geste, Karl Kwok’s TP52, won the Australian IRC Championship for a fourth consecutive time (2014-2017). Kwok’s recently bought MOD70, Mod Beau Geste, was second online in the Coastal Classic from Auckland to the Bay of Islands, speaking volumes about the polished crew. 

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BEAUGESTE is a 37.0 m Sail Yacht, built in the United Kingdom by Brooke Marine and delivered in 1989.

Her top speed is 12.0 kn and she boasts a maximum range of 4000.0 nm when navigating at cruising speed, with power coming from two MAN diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 8 guests, with 6 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a gross tonnage of 250.81 GT and a 8.0 m beam.

She was designed by Sylvestre Langevin .

The naval architecture was developed by Ron Holland Design (59 other superyachts architected) and Jon Bannenberg Ltd. - she is built with a Teak deck, a Aluminium hull, and Aluminium superstructure.

BEAUGESTE is in the top 30% by LOA in the world. She is one of 213 sailing yachts in the 35-40m size range, and, compared to similarly sized sailing yachts, her cruising speed is 0.84 kn above the average.

Specifications

• Name: BEAUGESTE
• Previous Names: BEAUPRE
• Yacht Type: Sail Yacht
• Yacht Subtype: Motorsailer
• Builder: Brooke Marine
• Naval Architect: Jon Bannenberg Ltd. , Ron Holland Design
• Exterior Designer: Sylvestre Langevin
• Refits: 1998

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Invisible Hand one of a new generation of 52-footers that represents a return to the offshore roots of the TP52 class, and a resurgence of level-rating grand prix racing on the west coast of the US. Erik Simonson reports

The original Transpac 52 Class ( TP52 ) left an indelible mark on US west coast sailing, but the few that were left racing in California represented a wide range of vintages and race only under handicap. The launch of the Pac 52, a new offshore-specified 52ft class, in 2017 was an attempt to recapture some of that TP spirit and get level rating grand prix racing started up again in California.

The TP52 story began in 2000, when a contingent of Californian sailors sought a new racing class, something smaller than the 70ft sleds that had been surfing their way to victory in the 2,225-mile LA-Honolulu Transpac Race for the previous two decades. They were after a planing design of about 50ft that was simple to sail, could handle round-the-cans races and scoot across the Pacific in a hurry.

The Transpac Yacht Club, which organises the biennial race, proposed a new class to a few local naval architects, including teams from Alan Andrews Yacht Design, Nelson Marek and Reichel/Pugh. The club settled on a 52ft box rule concept, and enlisted designer Bill Lee to help form the rule. Their aim was to have new boats on the start line of the 2001 Transpac Race: the TP52 was launched.

A pre-regatta blackout period only allows teams to practise for three days out of the seven leading up to a regatta, to keep crew bills down. Photo: Sharon Green / ultimatesailing.com

For the following five years there was glory aplenty for west coast TP52s both inshore and offshore, including trans-Pacific races. But the TPs evolved rapidly, adopting square-topped mains and bowsprits. The first generation boats aged quickly as the costs of remaining competitive spiralled, and with no formal organisation or class association, west coast orders slowed.

In Europe, however, the Mediterranean circuit had surged in popularity. By 2006 the Audi TP52 MedCup had become the pinnacle of grand prix racing, with the original offshore element set aside in favour of hardcore inshore racing. The boats got stiffer, lighter and faster. They were largely built in Europe and sailed with European professional crews. If you wanted to race TP52s on a level rating, the Med was the place to be.

Enter the ‘core of four’: American owners Manouch Moshayedi, Victor Wild, Frank Slootman and Tom Holthus. These founding members banded together to form the Pac 52 Class Association, primarily to bring grand prix level rating racing back to the west coast of the USA. Although each owner comes from a slightly different yacht racing background, they all wanted to eliminate the handicap element in the new class.

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The first Pac 52 started life as a new 52-footer for Beau Geste Racing team. When Manouch Moshayedi, owner of the 100-footer Rio , heard that a new Beau Geste was in build at Cookson Boats in Auckland, he contacted Victor Wild, who was also keen to get into some grand prix level racing.

With the tooling already in place, a second boat could be built cost-effectively (now sailing as Wild’s Fox ). If they bulk ordered material and found a couple of other perspective owners, they could save even more and have the nucleus of a new class. The Pac 52 Class was born.

The association was formed with three main elements at its core: a level rating class rule; cost effectiveness; and a mutually agreed schedule. The boats are intended to be lighter and faster than the Super Series TP52s (the current crop of TP52s that race on a purely inshore circuit including the Med, Miami and Key West) but capable of racing offshore and costing much less. Getting into the class with a new boat can come in between US$1.8-2.2 million, compared to a Super Series boat at about $3 million (£2.32 million).

The Pac 52 rig is around 60cm taller than the Super Series TP52s, with 10cm extra draught. Photo: Cynthia Sinclair

Four of the Pac 52s were built at Cookson’s, the sole exception being Moshayedi’s Rio , which was built at Premier Composite Technologies in Dubai. Rio utilised the existing plug made for Super Series boat Platoon, a Judel/Vrolijk design, while Provezza (another Judel/Vrolijk Super Series design) provided the mould for Beau Geste, which in turn led to Fox , Invisible Hand and Bad Pak . Theoretically any of the recent Super Series moulds would work, with a deeper keel and taller rig added.

While Beau Geste , Fox and Rio are set up for inshore racing, Invisible Hand and Bad Pak opted for an offshore package. By modifying the Vrolijk deck and adding 150mm freeboard to the bow and 125mm to the stern, Mick Cookson created enough room to allow crawling access to the aft cockpit bunks and make space for a navigator. The two offshore boats have removable galleys and bunks, and can carry watermakers.

The hull of the Pac 52 has a core of foam. The deck has a honeycomb core, which is a slightly less expensive yet more robust alternative to the Nomex construction of the Super Series sisterships. The offshore-moded Invisible Hand and Bad Pak run lines above deck and have eliminated most through-hull protrusions, making them much dryer. Invisible Hand ’s steering can be switched from wheels to tiller with minimal effort, while Bad Pak ’s owner chose a two-wheel configuration.

One of the biggest weight savings was in the engine. Pac 52s have Lombardini 40hp models, which provide a little less power than the Yanmar 57hp models specified for the Super Series TPs, but weigh 100kg less.

The new class sports a 600mm taller mast, which is placed further aft, increasing the J measurement (jib foretriangle). The smaller main improves the Offshore Racing Rule (ORR) rating when competing in non-class events. Brent Rhune, pro bowman on Bad Pak , says this configuration gives the boats increased power at the lower end of the wind scale.

“The Pac 52 starts planing in 14-15 knots, adding an extra gear or two,” he says. For quick-response rig tuning, Pac 52s have hydraulic headstays, mast deflectors and mast-foot adjusters, powered by a hydraulic rotary pump on the aft coffee grinder.

As with the Super Series TPs, the pit area on the inshore-moded Pac 52s is offset to starboard for fast port-hand mark roundings. It is recessed for reduced windage, with control lines run under deck. Photo: Invisible Hand Sailing

“Set-up on the Pac 52 is all-important: rig tune, mast butt [foot] and rake,” adds Rhune. “Figuring out the crossover of leaving the jib up versus taking it down and hoisting the staysail, thus keeping two guys off the bow at the top mark and three guys at the bottom, ends up earning you boat lengths.”

Cost control

Deck gear packages vary. Fox sports an array of top-end Harken ceramic winches, a hydraulic mast ram and forestay, carbon fibre gearing, and aerodynamic coffee grinders. Invisible Hand and Bad Pak carry a more conventional package with corresponding cost savings.

A key aim of the class association is keeping costs realistic, with an owner-driver rule and limit on seven professional sailors per crew. There are also limitations on new sails, use of support RIBs, and a ‘blackout’ period before each regatta to discourage expensive and lengthy pre-regatta training.

Invisible Hand ’s chamfered bow is designed to encourage waves that break over the bow to roll off the deck. Photo: Invisible Hand Sailing

Five Pac 52 Class events were scheduled for 2017, the inaugural year, including the Rolex Big Boat Series in September, with a break in the middle to allow the offshore boats some bluewater time.

Brent Rhune says the fleet is living up to its promise from a sailor’s perspective: “The boats are a blast to sail, just like their predecessors. Although we have just five boats at this point, the racing is close, with nose-to-tail mark roundings, lead changes, camping [sitting] on opponents on the beat, and so on.”

Ruben Gabriel, who races on Invisible Hand , says the pro-am ethos of the fleet is also a big draw. “It’s half-pro, half-amateur racing against each other in a very competitive environment. Everything is rapid fire, everything rises another notch. Every action is precise and deliberate; there is no wasted effort.

“Even the pre-race and post-race debriefs are exacting. Sharing stories and hearing tales from the pros is a great learning experience.”

Specification

LOA (max): 15.85m (52ft) Beam (max): 4.5m (14ft 9in) Draught (max): 3.6m (11ft 9in) Displacement (min): 6,900kg (15,200lb) Sail area (upwind max): 171m 2 (1,840ft 2 ) Asymmetric (max): 272m 2 (2,927ft 2 ) TCF (max): 1.208

A version of this article was first published in the September 2017 edition of Yachting World.

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Kiwis help Beau Geste win offshore world title

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A team stacked full of New Zealand sailors won the offshore sailing world championships at The Hague last weekend.

Karl Kwok’s Pac 52 Beau Geste (Hong Kong) secured the class A title with a day to spare, finishing seven points ahead of Outsider (Germany) with another 19 points back to Van Uden (Netherlands) in third. They won six of the nine races and had the luxury of not having to compete the final race. 

The Beau Geste team was composed mostly of Kiwis and was led by project manager Gavin Brady. The team was: Jim Baxter, Nick Blackman, David Brooke, Chris Cowen, Matt Humphries, Matt Kelway, Patrick Kong, David Lenz, Spencer Loxton, Rob Salthouse, Dave Swete and Jim Williamson.

“Its been a thrilling week of racing here, and we are really pleased with the result,” said Kwok, owner of Team Beau Geste. "The team has worked hard. We were really pushed by Tilmar and his crew [on Outsider], they gave us some great racing." 

Kwok is no stranger to racing in New Zealand and his trimaran Beau Geste was second in last year's Coastal Classic.

Results and standings from the offshore sailing world championships at The Hague last weekend:

1st: Team Beau Geste (Karl Kwok - HKG) 1 2 1 1 1 1 1.5 1 (10 DNC) 9.5 points 2nd: Outsider (Tilmar Hansen - GER) 2 4 (3) 2 2 2 1.5 2 1 - 16.5 pts 3rd: Van Uden (Gerdjan Poortman - NED) 3 6 5 3 (7) 5 3 3.5 7 - 35.5 pts

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