Principal Dimensions
LOA 105'-0"
LWL 93'-3"
Beam 24'-9"
Draft 10'-6"
Displacement (1/2 load) 253,400 lbs
Fuel Oil Capacity 6,000 gals
Fresh Water Capacity 1,000 gals
Propulsion Twin
Cruise Speed 22 knots
Max Speed 25+ knots

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 We grabbed the last few half tins of peanut butter & nutella, the already opened soy sauce and balsamic, and a few boxes of crackers left on the charter boat, Soterion, before we hauled her out of the water.  

We set up a temporary kitchen on the desk in the cabin.  Our plan is to put all our personal items in the forward cabin and keep the door closed during working hours so that it lessens the amount of saw dust on our stuff. . .  but wait.  We're still working in the forward cabin! Ack!

 

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Two friends one with a Django 7.70 other with a First 33.7 decided to make a kind of test sail between the two boats. I know, not fair, the First is considerably bigger and an older design but even so I found interesting the video and the comments on You tube:

Not a great video too since both boats are not shown sailing side by side but the information is interesting: With very light winds the First 33.7 is faster upwind and points better. With 20/25k winds the Django is a bit faster and more responsive. Well I would like more information but that's the only thing they say :-)

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Here's a nice image of Stormy Weather, design #27, that the son of her original owner was kind enough to forward to us. Thanks for sending it.

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Don't take me wrong, classical means not that the boat is not very fast, means only that it is an evolution on older designs, without nothing really new, except the fact that it is probably the only medium production cruising boat built in carbon (not an option) and just that makes it outstanding.

Well, maybe not only carbon since on small letters they say vynilester resins and carbon but the weight (9550kg) indicates that carbon use is somewhat extensive. Arcona are strongly built boats and there was no way of having that weight on a 14m Arcona if carbon was not used.

The design is from the NA that had designed all other Arconas on the line, Stefan Qviberg and that explains the conservative design that is very similar to the other Arconas. Does not mean I do not like it, in fact the hull design is very similar to my own boat or the Comet 45s....but the Comet 45 is a 10 year old design.

Anyway the performance I am sure that will be there (due to the light weight) even if I believe that it will be a poor boat in compensated racing and nothing special going downwind, as we can see by the speed and wind they show on the video.

Regarding cruising it will be another story, the performance will be super, a top building with a very good interior comfort. However I don't like at all the interior design that seems of bad quality to me (they should have it redesigned by an interior designer) and the standard water tankage (320L) is small for a 14m boat.

Thanks to Thomas Larsson that brought this boat to my attention :-)

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