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ETAP 39s
The ETAP 39s is a Belgian sailboat that was designed by Slovenian designers J&J Design, as a cruiser and first built in 1998. Production The design was built by ETAP Yachting in Belgium from 1998 to 2005, but it is now out of production. Design The ETAP 39s is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of polyester glassfibre-foam cored sandwich, with wood trim. It has a 7/8 fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars, a deck-stepped mast, wire standing rigging and a single set of swept spreaders. The hull has a raked stem, a reverse transom, with boarding steps, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel or shoal draft keel, both with weighted bulbs. It displaces and carries of lead ballast. The foam-cored construction renders the boat unsinkable. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel and with the optional shoal draft keel. The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo Penta MD-2040s diesel engine of for docking and manoe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J&J Design
J&J Design is a naval architecture, design, boat and production-process engineering company, mainly for high-volume production sail and powerboat builders. It introduced the Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer, carbon-epoxy technology from the America's Cup into cruising sailboats with the Shipman line. J&J also designed and engineered the first serial production hybrid powerboats, the Greenline Hybrid range. History J&J Design was founded in 1983 by brothers Japec Jakopin and Jernej Jakopin in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Japec, the elder brother learned to sail by the age of 13. After graduating from the Medical school at the University of Ljubljana in 1974 he pursued an academic career at that school's Institute of Physiology and at the University Medical Centre. During that time he spent the weekends designing and building do-it-yourself boats, and operating a sailboat charter base. In 1983 CEO of Elan (company), Elan, the main Slovenian sporting goods (including recreational boats) m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
