SHOGUN 43: AS FAST AS IT LOOKS !

Shogun 50

It is not yet on the water, so how do I know that it is as fast as it looks? Well, the design parameters are not very different from its bigger sister, the Shogun 50 and that one has already made the European ORC championship, and more than its 6th place, which probably indicates that it is not very good for handicap racing, its the real-time performance that shows how fast this cruiser-racer is if compared with a true racing boat.

https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2020/03/shogun-50-and-shogun-426.html

And in what regards that the comparisons with a bigger racing boat, a TP52, very well raced (2nd on the championship), are particularly interesting: if we look at results of the only offshore race on the ORC championship we will see that Shogun 50 made 4th in compensated, but second in real-time, having lost (in an 11-hour race) 56 minutes for the TP52, the fastest in real-time, and left the Swan 45 (that won in compensated) at 1 hour and 6 minutes.

 https://data.orc.org/public/WEV.dll?action=index&eventid=EURO19

The results in the smaller races show the same sailing speed, the Shogun 50 has a performance in between a TP52 e  a Swan 45 and that is a very good performance for a cruiser-racer. But the Shogun 50, and the 42, are not only about speed but about luxury and a taste for sailing in narrow very elegant sailboats. More than an absolute sailing performance, the Shogun 42 is about top performance with style.

The drawings of the 42 interiors and layout have not yet been released but we can be sure they will be pretty much custom and high quality, with carbon furniture embedded in the hull. 

But we know that this boat will have a more traditional layout (the 50 had the galley and salon on the front part of the hull), with a bow cabin and one or two aft with the galley and head in the central part of the yacht.

This is an all-carbon boat curiously made by an old traditional shipyard, Rosättra Boatyard, specialized in traditionally designed but high-performance cruisers, the Linjett, with the collaboration of composite specialists, Vaxholm Komposite and Marstrom Composite.

This is an all Carbon sandwich boat, including the interior where carbon with an oak veneer is used. The boat structure is directly infused in the hull and the carbon cabin is laminated into the hull to form a rigid shell and therefore allowing fewer bulkheads and a more free and open interior.

Shogun 50

The Shogun 43 has a narrow hull (3.7 m beam) it has a 12.3 m LWL, 6330 kg displacement, 42% B/D, a 2.7 or 2.4m draft, a 35.3 SA/D and a 94.4 D/L. It would be easy for me to fall in love with this boat...if I had the money for it, but this is one of these cases when if you ask how much it costs, almost for sure is out of your budget. A dreamboat for almost everybody.

With a customizable interior, 260 L water tankage and 160 L diesel (that taking into account the low consumption of a 40hp engine and the very good performance in light wind, will be enough), this sailboat can be used almost for anything, from coastal to offshore regattas, coastal cruising or bluewater cruising...if you like to cruise in a Ferrari, and among them, on a very sportive one.