Lars Modin Design II

Aprea mare is sold here too.
Lots of small boats like polar and saga like sloops here (but mostly the dutch versions with lots of wood etc. Very fuel efficient too, 1 - 3 ltr. of diesel an hour isnt that bad?
Maybe you could use solar panels for staysail?

Predicting the market..... Hmmmmm.

Hi

For me the the economy, the land scape and the way of life of a country makes the market.

I will put here a issue from Economist Rod Oram

" So to thrive in these turbulent times your industry needs a minimum of three factors: stability of the world; wealthy clients; and social acceptance. The third is the most volatile. In a flash, society could become seriously hostile towards people who own and run big boats for personal pleasure. "

About your idea is good and and will have its niche of market.

Best Regards

Ah so, now I catch your drift. Sorry I was slow on that. But .... maybe this concept would be easier to sell in a large boat than one as small as in this sketch?

novice Kelly

Wow, that is a sweet ketch in your photo Lars.

One nit-pick on your 30 design, which is the tiller steering. Hard core sail guys love this (me among them), but I doubt very much that John Q powerboater will ever accept a tiller.

Kelly

still, scandinavia is THE forerunner on giving boaters on a budget both a steeringwheel and a tiller on boats (saga, polar)...

AMG
take a look at Filippi
http://www.filippiboats.it/imbarcazioni_eng.htm

The new wing boats are superb. Perhaps narrowing R47 and using fixed wings?
I suppose it comes down to how much one wants of what.. stability or speed...

one suggestion that would make rowing far more interesting would be a mechanism that would reverse the rowing motion so youd be able to face the direction in which youre going..

AMG
Exactly right. The acceleration was great but leaning forward for the next stroke nullified the momentum. I tried one about 10 years ago and my stomach muscles still have a less than pleasant memory of the event.

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a very pretty arrow

one of the boats most beautiful, that I ever seen ...

Gonna need longer oars Lars

WOW!

I just love every one of the designs I have seen so far Lars, both in I and II portfolio's

As you know I am doing my due diligence research and I must say so far I am stoked at the possiblities. And if I am unable to find what I want off the shelf (so far proving more difficult then I imagined!) I will be making a trip to Sweden to meet with you most definately.

I want 165-175ft, which is most likely the price range I am looking at, To be able to have a helicopter landing area but not full time storage, a full time submarine that I have mentioned before which is the size of a small car and NOT cigar shaped, suggested I should incorporate a decompression chamber/deep diving gear area which is still up for research as submarines have the lowest level of incidents/fatalities of any transportation, though then again, recently it may have changed those numbers!

I love the yachts with the master cabin having a sweeping forward (from bed) view onto a private sun deck either fore or aft of the master cabin, even your eye in the sky helm or sundeck helm though probably not realisitic in a yacht this size.

A garage for a custom matching tender to double as a fishing boat at times, jet skis and a custom matching day sailer in the lines of your sailboats say a 17-25 footer, easy drop mast for storage on deck or garaged, tiller steering, fast yet stable ability, easy to handle 1-3 person asymetrical chute on a pole-less system with a retractable bow sprit.

All done in dark burgandy hull perhaps. I have seen dark burgandy on a Lola race car with gold pinstriping that would be a beautiful hull color & boot stripe combination, A Parchment or very light Buff upper decks, much lighter then Ellix Too though, but not white. More like the leather interiors of a Rolls or Aston or Jag perhaps. Perhaps Brass Insignia and if not too high maintenance what a brass rail would look like and brass port surrounds? Hmmmm have to see it first to see how much golden accents to limit without getting into the gaudy range.

I can also imagine a Ice Blue, silvery Blue , sleek, I haven't personally seen anything of the color I imagine but I am sure it can be made to my mind's eye. Of course using Stainless Railings and a white upper structure as a Iceberg moves up in color from the icy blue frozen ocean to the glaring white snow up top. Then silvery blue tint to the windows thru out.

Best guess of how much? and how long would it take a yard to complete? from sitting down to the first meet/greet to the delivery of such a dream, keeping in mind the design isn't for charter at this time but a personal summer home for 2. A crew of hopefully no more then 8, 2-3 security persons, and no more then 6 guests at a time. Elevator, dumbwaiters, "safe room" for security intrusion protection, a high caliber gun mount up on foredeck for the worst case event(Discreetly camoflauged of course) World travel range including a mid level Ice class, and a contemporary interior reminescent of Sweet doll.

Hull Material, superstructure and mechanicals and shipyard for construction is completely left up to you to choose of course.