More about ELF 26 catamaran
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2021
- Cristian Visoiu and Steve Walker www.ahoy-boats.com/call-me.htm continue their conversation about the new ELF 26 Catamaran in the company of Ewa Marcinkowska and Daniel.
PRICES BELOW. This fast, compact, cruising boat has more accommodation and facilities in it than other catamarans of this size like the VirusBoats V8. The outside space lends itself to a very enjoyable, social experience when sailing.
ELF 26 LAR is removable and transportable (trailer or 40’ container).
The body is "sandwich type" made (means fibreglass + PVC foam + fibreglass), all Lloyd's or/and DNV-GL certified materials.
For osmotic protection we will use neopentyl glycol gelcoat for entire boat and vinyl-ester resin as a first layer in exposed areas.
The boat is category C.
LOA 7.96 m
BOA 4.85 m
Sail Area: Mainsail 27sqm
Jib 14.5sqm
Mast length 11 m
Empty weight 950 kgs
Displ. to WL 1350 kgs
Draft 650 mm
Headroom 1.80 m
2 single berths in each hull: Fwd 900 wide, aft 800 wide
DETAILED PRICE LIST of the ELF 26 LAR (2021)
Basic Price (ex-works) € 49,800.00
VAT (19%) € 9,462.00
Final price (ex-works) € 59,262.00
This is the basic price is for a READY TO SAIL boat as follows:
CONSTRUCTION of HULLS and DECKS
Hand laid up in GRP to Richard Woods Designs specified layup with white gelcoat finish.
Hull topsides and decks are of sandwich construction using PVC contour foam.
(gelcoat, resin, glass fibre and foam are Lloyd’s certif)
HULLS
Interior GRP tray with bunk bases and sole, three buoyancy compartments throughout the hull.
Single berth with stowage beneath at each end of hull.
4 single berth cushions and cover
Space for chemical toilet
2 smoked polycarbonate hatches
LAR Keels. (Low Aspect Ratio)
COCKPIT
Open bridge deck rigid cockpit.
Forward safety nets.
Anchor and sail lockers incorporated into forward end of main crossbeam.
Tiller steering, aluminium tiller bar and two tiller extensions.
1 Bathing ladder
MAST & RIGGING
Fractional rig
Aluminum Mast (11m) and Boom (3.65m) .
Fully battened mainsail with 2 reefs (27sqm), dacron leisure type
Roller reefing jib (14m), dacron leisure type
Main and jib halyard cleats, 2 winches and 1 winch handle
5:1 block main sheet tackle
3:1 Mainsheet traveler
Standing rigging
ELECTRICS:
Battery cable and connectors
Interior lighting
Int/ext 12V sockets
Navigation lights
Bearing compass
Electric panel with switches and fuse
OPTIONS
Performance sails (LITESKIN/CCLS-L, Rutgerson battcar) € 3600 + VAT
Lazy bag € 580 + VAT
Asymetric Spinnaker 37 m² € 1560 + VAT
Port hull Galley (sink-folding stove combo included) € 1350 + VAT
Starboard bathroom with sink and privacy wall € 1260 + VAT
Outboard support (for Yamaha FT9.9 LEX) € 450 + VAT
Cockpit seats € 480 + VAT
Windlass Lewmar 1000 Pro Fish € 890 + VAT
Delta anchor 6kg/25m/25m chain and rope € 360 + VAT
Fitted Yamaha FT9.9LEX, 12lt tank + antitheft € 3600 + VAT
100 AH Deep Cycle Battery € 230 + VAT
VHF Garmin 115i + antenna + cable € 450 + VAT
Garmin GNX Wireless Sail Pack 43 € 1400 + VAT
THETFORD Porta Potti Qube 165 portable toilet € 80 + VAT 
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beautiful trimaran, practical and comfortable
Just to clear up any confusion that might ensue from you favourable comment, I know I have a lot of videos about trimarans out there and some people call me "Mr Trimaran", apparently, but the ELF 26 is a catamaran with just 2 hulls. Still a multihull though. 😃
Seems pretty quick in light winds. What kinds of boat speeds were you seeing in what wind? What is the light displacement?
We were not keeping track of our speed but in the sound recordings the highest figure I heard mentioned was 5.1knots. Richard Woods' plan estimation is about 850kg. Cristian has had no opportunity to make the weight measurement, but has estimated to about 1000kg.
looks great ideal for australian waters
It really is! Call me if you want to talk about Elf or buy one. And here is a very happy customer's review ruclips.net/user/shortsXTyE3UUfAdM?
Can you buy an elf 26 in Australia?
They are built in Romania and can be shipped in a forty foot container to anywhere in the world. So place your order and you will have your own Elf!
You don’t need a boom vang on a catamaran due to the full width traveller.
Yes we discussed this. I agree with you. But after further discussion with Cristian it turns out that things just ain't that simple.
I think this is more like a kicker than boomvang
@@dzintarsblums1339 Perhaps there are some language differences, but boom vang and kicker generally mean the same thing in U.S. vs British English. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_vang
The boom vang or kicker pull the mainsail foot down when going downwind.
Do you have a different meaning for kicker?
@@LoanwordEggcorn Well I am happy to be corrected but I regard a kicker or kicking strap as something designed to hold the boom down, which is not really necessary on fast multihulls usually because of the traveller and the fact that fast boats are nearly always close hauled even when sailing downwind. Again, I am happy to be corrected because I never had a vang on any of the trimarans I'd sailed before but, as understand it, the vang performs the opposite function to the kicker as it is there to hold the boom up rather than to hold it down. That is especially useful when lowering the main to take a reef.
@@StephenWalkerAhoy-Boats Thanks Stephen. I think we agree, but are talking about different topics. I was actually replying to Dzintars Blūms's comment where he was trying to differentiate a boom vang from a kicker.
There may be some language differences, but I believe that in both British and American English, we use the terms kicker and boom vang respectively to refer to the same devices whose main sailing purpose is to keep the boom down when sailing downwind.
This can refer to devices that are a simple block and tackle from a point a meter or so away from the mast along the boom to the base of the mast, or to those that include a spring opposed by a block and tackle to either hold the boom up (for example in the absence of a topping lift) or pull it down (for example when sailing downwind).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_vang
To slightly confuse things, there's an invention called a Boomkicker, which is a fiberglass rod used as a spring to hold the boom up, and opposed by a block and tackle to keep the boom down. This replaces a coil spring in a tube with a fiberglass rod used as as spring. Both function as springs. (The coil spring boom vang/kicker seems common on larger Beneteau monohulls.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomkicker
Perhaps it's the latter that Dzintars Blūms is referring to as a kicker.
Again, there may be language differences, but I believe the conventional language usage is to refer to all as kickers, kicking straps or boom vangs, some which include a support spring and some which do not.
This is a separate topic from whether boats that are apparent wind sailors are so fast that they can be close hauled downwind, and/or (slower sailing) multihulls which have a wide traveller (or other widely spaced mainsheet attachment arrangement) and therefore don't need a (separate) boom vang/kicker function to keep the boom down when sheeted out and sailing down wind.
P.S. Looks like there are many different types of sold boom vangs: www.practical-sailor.com/sails-rigging-deckgear/solid-vang-showdown