PDQ's neuer 41 Fuss Motor-Kat
Wie schon lange erwartet, wird PDQ in Kürze den neuen 41 Fuss Motor-Katamaran auf den Markt bringen. Nach den großen Erfolgen der kleinen PDQ 34 war dieser Schritt zwangsläufig, um die Palette zu erweitern.
Die PDQ 41 biete u.a. eine Eignerkabine auf Decksebene, mit einem Kingsize-Bett, um das man herumgehen! kann. Die Bordfrau wird sich bedanken. Weiterhin ist ein zweiter Gästewaschraum vorhanden und als Krönung kann man sich das Dinner mit einer zweiten Pantry auf der Flybridge zubereiten. So verliert man auch beim Kochen nicht den Überblick.
Zur Zeit werden die letzten Moldings kompletiert. Die erste 41er soll im Spätsommer zu Wasser und auf den Herbst-Bootschauen gezeigt werden. Weitere Infos zum Boot und zum Konstruktions-/Fertigungsprozess unter: www.pdqyachts.com
Elsewhere in Hongkong ...
Last week Ellen Macarthur's 60' trimaran, B&Q, arrived in Hong Kong. The
10,000-mile delivery from Southampton to Hong Kong, took the CMA CGM
container ship the 'Bizet' 23 days to complete.
B&Q took up temporary residence at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. 'It's a
tough call taking B&Q visiting,' said Tessa Pelly, Operations Manager of
Ocean Challenges. 'There are plenty of places that can accommodate a 60'
yacht, but not when the boat is nearly 60' wide as well.'
B&Q left Hong Kong Monday for Yokohama, Japan, where Ellen Macarthur will
join ship and take off on the first leg of the Asian Record Circuit.
The declared objective of the ARC is to establish a series of 12 new
crewed record times between principal ports in Japan, South Korea, the
PRC, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore. This is a first-of-its-kind
for a major sailing campaign to take to these waters with the aim of
setting benchmark times that can be challenged in the future by other
sailors.
Right now there seems to be a craze for setting records sweeping across
mainland China - annual sales of the Guinness Book of Records rose to
30,000 copies last year since it was first published in Mandarin in the
late 1990s. Some of the records being set in China may be slightly bizarre
- the longest karaoke session, the world's tallest building made of
flowers or the most people brushing their teeth at one venue - but this
passion for setting records is believed to be a sign of mainland China's
growing prosperity. Mainland Chinese people now lead more comfortable
lives, have more leisure time and, as a result, more time to follow their
own dreams.
Quite what China will make of Ellen and her record-breaking trimaran, in a
country where sailing is hardly developed, remains to be seen. But one
thing is certain, the fact that Ellen, the fastest sailor to
circumnavigate the globe non-stop, is female may not surprise them. In
sport, female Chinese athletes are leading the way. At the 1996 Atlanta
Olympics, where 26 national teams had no female participants, 199 of
mainland China's 309 competitors were women. At Sydney 2000, 65% of the
mainland Chinese team were female.
Asian Record Circuit: proposed dates and route 25 March
1 April - 2006 Record 1Yokohama, Japan to Jeju Island, South Korea: Target: 4 days, 18 hours
Record 2: Jeju Island, South Korea to Dalian, China: Target: 2 days 5 hours
Record 3: Total time Yokohama, Japan to Dalian, China: Target: 7 days, 1 hour
5-6 April 2006 - Record 4: Dalian to Qingdao, China: Target: 1 day, 10 hours
9-11 April 2006 -
Record 5: Qingdao to Shanghai, China: Target: 1 day, 15 hours
16-18 April 2006 -
Record 6: Shanghai to T'ai-pei, Taiwan: Target: 3 days
21-23 April 2006 - Record 7: T'ai-pei, Taiwan to Hong Kong SAR: Target: 2 days, 11 hours
From 1st May 2006 -
Record 8: Hong Kong SAR to Sanya (Hainan Island) China: Target: 1 day, 21 hours
Record 9: Sanya, China to Nah Trang, Vietnam: Target: 1 day, 21 hours
Record 10: Nah Trang, Vietnam to Terengganu, Malaysia: Target: 3 days
Record 11: Total time Hong Kong to Terengganu, Malaysia: Target: 6 days, 17 hours
Record 12: Terengganu, Malaysia to Singapore: Target: 1 day, 11 hours
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