Brooklin Boat Yard launches high-tech sloop for international sailing
Brooklin Boat Yard recently launched a high-tech, 74-foot lifting keel sloop for Spanish naval architecture firm Botin Partners, who founding partner, Marcelino Botin, has been a designer for two America’s Cup teams.
The Ellsworth American reported that Botin Partners could have chosen any yard in the world, but chose Brooklin Boat Yard to build Toroa, named for the northern royal albatross indigenous to the South Island of New Zealand.
High-tech components include a hydraulically controlled lifting keel that increases the boat’s draft from about 8 feet to just under 15 feet when lowered; and its hull and deck construction as a sandwich of carbon fiber, foam and wood.
“We basically built a strip-planked plug and covered it with an outer skin of carbon,” boatyard owner Steve White told the weekly newspaper.
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