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April 2, 2018 News

Disabled sailing gets boost with SV14 and FAREAST YACHTS collaboration

In exciting news for the disabled sailing community worldwide, the SV14 organization are proud to announce that FAREAST YACHTS will produce the SV14 at their production base in China and […]

In exciting news for the disabled sailing community worldwide, the SV14 organization are proud to announce that FAREAST YACHTS will produce the SV14 at their production base in China and in a remarkable offer, will supply the first one thousand SV14’s at a subsidized price of US$ 3,000 for the base boat ex works Shanghai. FAREAST YACHTS have also agreed to keep this price fixed until the end of 2019 after which the price correction will be no more than the material cost, and capped at the official inflation rate as published for the People’s Republic of China.

“This is an unprecedented development none of us saw coming”, says Mr. Alex Simonis who was in Shanghai to sign the agreement on behalf of the SV14 organization with the CEO of FAREAST YACHTS, Mrs. Demolar Du.

“We started discussions with FAREAST YACHTS in December 2017 with a follow up meeting in January at the Dusseldorf Boat Show. It turned out that both SimonisVoogd Design and the owners of FAREAST YACHTS shared the same vision that this project was our opportunity to give something back to sailing in a way which could make a difference to many. The fact that our two companies have been successfully working together for nearly a decade helped, but it is still beyond remarkable that we are all driven by the same passion to make the SV14 a success despite our cultural backgrounds being so different,” added Simonis.

The SV 14 is a truly unique project. Initiated by Thailand-based Marine Surveyor Peter Jacops with a desire to make sailing more affordable and accessible for people with disabilities, the SV14 has become a global collaboration with multi award-winning Naval Architectural and Yacht Design studio SimonisVoogd Design (Netherlands/ South Africa) designing the boat, valuable oversight from respected disabled sailor Russell Vollmer and production soon to start at FAREAST YACHTS, best known as the largest Optimist builder in the world and more recently for their success in the sports boat market producing a range of boats from 19 to 37ft, with their 28R being an official World Sailing approved class.

FAREAST YACHTS have started the CNC milling of the moulds for the SV14 out of aluminium. Although expensive it allows the boats to be built to an extremely high level of accuracy. The SV14 will be a fully vacuum-infused construction in GRP/Foam Core. The weight will be the same as the original wooden version to allow both models to be used in regattas.

By making the first one thousand SV14’s available at a cost which lies below the raw material cost for the wooden version, the aim is to kick start the class by introducing as many people with disabilities as possible to sailing, with the ultimate goal of seeing participation grow to a number that sailing can take its rightful place once again in the Paralympics.

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