One design sailboat Class 40

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Tony Lawson’s Team Concise has teamed up with Ker design and McConaghy boats to develop the next generation Class 40 capable of out performing the newest big budget Class 40s but for a production boat price. The design concept has been refined by Jason Ker and Simon Schofield of Ker design in close association with experienced Class 40 yachtsman and Team Concise project manager Ned Collier Wakefield. Combined with McConaghy boats attention to detail quality and consistency, this new generation Class 40 will be offered as a one design class within a class.40 ONE DESIGN GalleryCONCISE AND PRECISEEnquire NowScroll downThe idea behind the Forty(1)Design, was to start with a clean sheet of paper and apply our advanced design technology to achieve the best concept and fastest possible hull shape. Team Concise were ideal clients; they understood that thorough research takes time and therefore planned their program accordingly. A particular feature of the combined CFD and numerical optimisation technology that we have developed is that an unlimited number of shapes can be explored within a reasonable time scale. The technique contrasts dramatically with traditional yacht design optimisation. This typically starts with a known reference point and makes incremental steps towards an improved solution, one tweak at a time. Consequently it is quite likely to never arrive at a truly optimal solution in the lifetime of any particular box rule. Coming from a background which has embraced many racing rules including the Americas Cup, allowed us to look at every aspect of this new design with fresh eyes. We have examined current performances