THE NOMINATED BOATS FOR THE 2015 EUROPEAN YACHT OF THE YEAR

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: 

Dufour 310

Dufour 310

Bavaria Cruiser 46 

Dufour 310 GL

Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 349

Nautitech 40

 RM 890

Performance Cruiser:

XP55

XP55

Corsair Cruze 970

Dehler 46

Jeanneau SF 3600

JPK 1080

XP55

Luxury Cruiser:

Euphoria 54

Euphoria 54

Euphoria 54

 Italia 15.98

Moody 54DS

 Wauquiez Centurion 57

XC35

Special Yacht:

A44

A44

Advanced 44

 Astus 24

 Pogo 3

 Pointer 25

 Saffier SC 33

Blue Water Cruiser:

Boreal 52

Boreal 52

Boreal 52 

Rapier 550

Garcia Exploration 45

 Ovni 52 Evolution

 Southerly 535

The winners will be announced at the Dusseldorf boat show.