Contrary to the magazines boat's of the year this contest is more relevant: It is not only the testers of a magazine that chose the boat but testers from 10 European leading sailing magazines (one for each country). All boats are tested on the water in two rounds, the last one after being selected the finalists on each category.
This year there will be two alterations: Multihulls will not be in a special class but competing with monohulls in the different classes and a new class is introduced : Bluewater Boats. Regarding this last one, and taking into consideration the boats selected, it would seem to me more appropriated to call them Voyage Boats (that's the way the selected boats are called in Europe) but as the term is not used in the US, probably they went for a more dubious qualification. It would create some confusion since on the class of Luxury yachts there is also boats adapted to blue water sailing.
The Nominated boats:
Family cruiser:
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| Dufour 310 |
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| Dufour 310 |
Bavaria Cruiser 46
Dufour 310 GL
Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 349
Nautitech 40
RM 890
Performance Cruiser:
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| XP55 |
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| XP55 |
Corsair Cruze 970
Dehler 46
Jeanneau SF 3600
JPK 1080
XP55
Luxury Cruiser:
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| Euphoria 54 |
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| Euphoria 54 |
Euphoria 54
Italia 15.98
Moody 54DS
Wauquiez Centurion 57
XC35
Special Yacht:
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| A44 |
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| A44 |
Advanced 44
Astus 24
Pogo 3
Pointer 25
Saffier SC 33
Blue Water Cruiser:
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| Boreal 52 |
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| Boreal 52 |
Boreal 52
Rapier 550
Garcia Exploration 45
Ovni 52 Evolution
Southerly 535
The winners will be announced at the Dusseldorf boat show.
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