Black beauty

Luca Brenta launch their new 52ft daysailer

The latest in the B Yachts range of boats from the Luca Brenta Yacht Design Office has been launched. The new 52ft custom version was built by Adria Sail in Fano and compliments the established line of production yachts that currently includes the B30, B38, B42 and the biggest of the family, the B60.

The design brief was short yet extremely precise. The owner, who had extensively sailed the B42 last summer, wanted to implement a totally different deck layout giving up on the coachroof and interior accommodation in order to have a large cushioned platform from the wheels forward to mast. This solution clearly pushes the concept of a daysailer with the highest respect for guests' comfort!

In general the design philosophy shares the same naval architectural concepts of the other B Yachts: Great stability (55% of total weight is for the keel/bulb configuration), generous sail plan with square head mainsail and 110% overlapping jib on longitudinal tracks (like the B60) and with an innovative push button handling solution for the jib which allows to sail to be tacked from the steering wheel via the use of two separate hydraulic pistons. Also main, traveller, vang and jib halyard can also trimmed from the steering pedestal, allowing the skipper full access to the sailing controls.

The Luca Brenta Yacht Design office, as far as the hull lines and keel/rudder/sail plan configuration are concerned, has carried further development work over her predecessors, with particular attention to the forces equilibrium both to increase performances and helm response. Focus on the steering sensitivity means the boat is a pleasure to drive, following the result of a long work carried out by the office over the years and a very important characteristic of all the work produced by the office.

The boat was built by Adria Sail to the highest standards in terms of composite construction using infused epoxy resin over a combination of sandwich and carbon fibre of different lay-ups.

Structural engineering has been carried out by High Modulus, NZ. The mast is in high modules carbon fibre by Hall Spars. Composite rigging is from Future Fibres and deck gear is from Harken (winches) and Ronstan.

Principal dimensions:
LOA 15.83m
BEAM 3.74m
DEPTH 3.17m