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Nautor Swan
Oy Nautor AB is a Finnish producer of luxury sailing yachts, based in Jakobstad. It is known for its ''Nautor's Swan'' range of yachts models. The company was founded in 1966 by Pekka Koskenkylä. The designers Nautor has worked with four naval architects during its history. The original designer Sparkman & Stephens had a long association with Nautor and were responsible for the first 775 yachts sold. These early designs combined a luxurious interior in a fiberglass hull with features that were then current in successful racing boats, such as the separation of the skeg-hung rudder from the keel. They won numerous races including the Cowes Week in 1968, the Bermuda Race in 1972 by Swan 48, followed by even bigger success in 1974, when a ketch rigged Swan 65 by the name '' Sayula II'' won the first ever Whitbread Round the World Race. In 2016, this adventure was presented in a documentary film, ''The Weekend Sailor''. During the mid to late 1970s the designs from the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vela Parasailor
Vela or Velas may refer to: Astronomy * Vela (constellation), a constellation in the southern sky (the Sails) ** Vela (Chinese astronomy) ** Vela Pulsar ** Vela X-1, a pulsing, eclipsing high-mass X-ray binary system Places * Vela Bluff, Antarctica *Vela, Dolj, Romania * Vela (Ilidža – Sarajevo), Bosnia and Herzegovina * Velas, Maharashtra, India Ships * '' CMA CGM Vela'', a container ship in service since 2008 * USNS ''Vela'' (T-AK-89), US Army port repair ship * ''Vela''-class submarine, of the Indian Navy ** INS ''Vela'' (S40), in service 1973–2010 Technology * Project Vela, a system developed by the United States to monitor compliance with the Partial Test Ban Treaty ** Vela (satellite), a series of satellites launched by the United States to monitor nuclear testing *** Vela Incident, an international incident, in which a Vela satellite is thought to possibly have observed a nuclear test * Versatile Laboratory Aid (VELA), a data logging tool used in education Peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Winch
Andrew Winch is an internationally known English yacht designer based in Barnes, London. He has been selected as one of two design teams for business jet interior development of the Boeing 787. Yacht designer Founded in 1986, Winch Design is a London-based design studio. List of yachts designed This is a list of yachts designed by Winch, as listed on the website. Awards Winch has won a number of International Superyacht Society awards for design and styling, including the: *1992 award for Best Sail 23m+ as stylist and interior designer *1996 award for Best Power 43m+ as stylist and interior designer, and Best Power Interior as Interior Designer *1997 award for Best Power 43m+ as stylist and interior designer *2001 award for Best Power 43m+ and Best Sail 23m-36m as interior designer *2002 award for Best Sail 36m+ and Best Sail Interior as interior designer *2006 award for Best Sail 23m-36m as designer and interior designer *2009 award for Best Power 40m-65m as designer, stylist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ClubSwan 36
The ClubSwan 36 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian as an one design racer and first built in 2018. Giovanni Belgrano was the principal engineer and aerodynamic expert Hervé Devaux designed the rig. Production The design has been built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, since 2018. It was fist publicly shown in Scarlino, Italy on 3 May 2018, it remains in production. Design The ClubSwan 36 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with infused E-glass epoxy corecell foam with carbon fibre reinforcement on the keel grid and also in the lateral bulkhead. It has a fractional sloop rig, with a deck-stepped mast, one set of swept spreaders and carbon fibre spars, including a retractable carbon fibre bowsprit. The standing rigging is made from rod. The hull has a reverse stem; an open plumb transom; dual internally mounted spade-type rudders controlled by a tiller with an extension and a very high aspect ratio fixed, fin, steel keel with a we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nations Trophy
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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