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Mini 5.80, a do-it-yourself racing yacht for under 40 000

In March 2020, the ClassMini 5.80 was born, invented by the adventurer Don McIntyre. Today, nearly 80 sailors have shown interest in amateur construction of a 5.80 m sailing yacht, whose plans are accessible for only 300 .

A strong craze for the Mini 5.80

Four months after the official launch of the ClassMini 5.80 More than 80 sailors from 23 countries are preparing to build a small 5.80-metre sailboat . This class of boat, designed by the adventurer Don McIntyre, instigator of the Golden Globe Race , won by Jean-Luc Van Den Heede in 2018, is intended to be affordable and open to amateur construction . Finally, the fact that the boat is easily transportable in a 20-foot container will make it easy to transport his boat across Europe.

At a time when ocean racing is above all a matter of technology and big money, many sailors find themselves in this yacht designed for simple and long-lasting challenges. The popularity of ocean racing is growing, and 15 countries have already found suppliers of CNC plywood kits.

The first event in this new class will be the Solo Globe 5.80 Transat, linking Portugal to the Caribbean on a course that is 3?600 miles long. The host ports are expected to be announced in the coming months and 13 skippers have already expressed interest in participating in this event, including several women.

Don McIntyre also unveiled a round-the-world project, the Mini Globe Race 2024.

A unique and simple concept

To facilitate the deployment of the class, the Mini 5.80 can be built in an amateurish way. For this, you will need to get the construction plans (300 euros), tools , plywood , fiberglass and epoxy . The organisation estimates that it will be possible to bring the boat to life in 500 to 600 hours of work for a total budget of 16 to 35?000 euros.

Several agents will be able to sell wood kits, including Plastimo, which will sell a complete pack for the 5.80. For the mast, packs will be distributed by Sparcraft and Selden , but it will also be possible to build your own.

10 sailmakers are currently studying to become the exclusive sailing supplier for the next five years. This will provide sailors with quality racing sails at an affordable price. This will limit costs and level the playing field. The decision will be announced at the end of July.

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ClassGlobe 5.80 plywood parts £3945

ClassGlobe 5.80 plywood parts (Sapele) £7500

ClassGlobe 5.80 CNC kit £5580

ClassGlobe 5.80 CNC kit (Sapele) £8915

ClassGlobe 5.80 hull stringers pack £1060

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The ClassGlobe 5.80 is a mini class yacht designed for fast, efficient trans-ocean voyages. Plans and kits are launching in 2020 and the first ClassGlobe 5.80 Transat Race is scheduled for November 2021.

Conceived by Don McIntyre and designed by Janusz Maderski, who specialises in small ocean-going yachts, the ClassGlobe 5.80 opens a new chapter in adventurous, affordable ocean racing. Sailors in 18 countries are now preparing to build the Globe 5.80 from CNC-cut kits or raw materials.

There is nothing in the world like the ClassGlobe 5.80! Ocean and Offshore capable? full of adventure and challenge to race for a few hours, days or weeks? solo or with friends? that you can build yourself with simple tools and no previous experience, or have built for you to set sail around the bay or over the horizon. Take it home on a trailer or container ship to another country. The 5.80 Family is waiting to welcome you.

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Capable of fast, efficient solo (or two-handed) trans-ocean voyages, average speeds over 100 miles a day are expected.

The McIntyre ClassGlobe 5.80 can legally be towed on its own road trailer with the keel attached, or it can be transported in a standard 20 ft shipping container with the keel, rudder and spars removed. It can sail from anywhere and transport to or from any country with ease.

To get started building your ClassGlobe 5.80, you'll first need to purchase your individually-numbered set of plans from the ClassGlobe 5.80 Association . Full construction plans cost €300 EUR, including initial Class Registration and are valid for building one boat only. Once you have your plans, you can purchase your pre-cut kit from us and begin building your own ClassGlobe 5.80 mini yacht.

The main hull structure can be built by one or two people with little experience and basic tools in 550 hours, or a few months. The Globe 5.80 has a strong plywood construction that is well-suited to amateur construction. It is simple and inexpensive and the boat should be very solid and safe.

Kit options

The plywood parts kit includes all the CNC-cut plywood parts for the boat, totalling 25 sheets of 9mm Okoume marine plywood . We can also supply the plywood parts in 9mm Sapele marine plywood , which is heavier but stronger, requiring less fibreglass reinforcement.

The CNC kit includes the plywood parts as above, plus the CNC-cut solid wood parts from 12 planks of solid timber (Douglas Fir). This does not include all the stringers and framing.

The materials for the jig are not included.

This is a new boat and additional options may be added at a later date. We can also supply the raw materials, if you prefer to build from the plans alone.

This kit weighs a lot and requires a specialised courier. The price of delivery will vary with your address. You are, of course, very welcome to collect the kit from our Lake District workshop.

Hull stringers pack

The hull stringers pack consists of the machined Douglas fir stringers for the hull: 2 each for the Sheer, Mid-Sheer, Chine, mid-Bilge and Bottom. They all come with pre-cut scarf joints to allow easy joining.

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The compact offshore racing boat known as the Globe Mini 5.80 is the brainchild of adventurer and sailing legend, Don McIntyre. This boat design is taking off all over the world in the form of a DIY kit constructed with plywood and WEST SYSTEM® Epoxy.

The new International One Design Class of plywood Mini 5.8-meter (19′) yachts is aimed at “home builders and adventurous racing sailors,” according to McIntyre. “The Mini 5.80 is for all sailors, young and old, who have a dream to sail oceans in small, fun, affordable, and proven-safe, ocean-going yachts,” he says.

“Simple plywood construction means anyone can build this Mini in a few months, or your local shipwright can do it for you. It all fits inside a 20-foot container for shipping to or from international events. The mast has a sleeve to allow two-piece shipping and removing the keel and rudder is simple. It can be taken home on a trailer by an ordinary family car.”

Less than four months after its official launch in April of 2020, eighty sailors have signed up to build one in twenty-three countries. Conceived by McIntyre, founder of the 2018 Golden Globe Race as an affordable “People’s Mini” for amateur construction, this solo ocean and offshore racing yacht is proving popular.

A whole new segment of sailors is embracing the benefits of a simpler and more sustainable challenge, says McIntyre. “The idea of an affordable wholesome, back-to-basics, non-foiling and safe mini yacht, able to sail anywhere, has great appeal. Being easy to build, own, and maintain, then offering fun yet serious one-design sailing, seems to have hit the spot. Adventurous solo sailors are excited, but there are plenty of club racers who see this as an opportunity for some fun.”

International fleets are expected to appear over the next few years. “The yacht is creating real interest and new opportunities traveling to Europe for the 2021 Globe 5.80 Transat and Mini Globe Race in 2024,” he adds.

The concept is simple: “Building plans (Euro $300), hand tools, plywood, WEST SYSTEM® Epoxy, then clear out the garage and start building your Globe 5.80. Build time is approximately 500 to 600 hours.”

Ten sailmakers are currently under review to select an exclusive one-design sail supplier to the 5.80 Class for the next five years. This will deliver identical high-quality racing sails at a realistic price to all sailors through economies of scale. It also caps cost, leveling the playing field and ensuring even competition, whether sponsored or unsponsored.

CNC kit suppliers have been established in 15 countries, including Australia.

CNC cutting the kit pieces.

Andrew Denman of Denman Marine in Kettering, Tasmania, has been appointed the Australian kit agent and is CNC-cutting kits and keel bulbs for the fast-growing fleet.

“We have supplied two kits so far and have another one in the pipeline.”

According to the founder of the Class 5.80, Don McIntyre, the boat was designed as an offshore-capable mini which will appeal to many, including the hardcore single-handed enthusiast.

“Class racing in small boats like this has proved very popular internationally but the types of hi-tech vessels used would normally be out of reach budget-wise for most people,” adds Andrew. “The use of plywood, fiberglass and WEST SYSTEM Epoxy in a simple but strong structure brings the costs within reach of many more people.”

Andrew is supplying the kits and recommending WEST SYSTEM Epoxy, which he says is the ideal base for structural bonding, coving applications, and for coating and sheathing the plywood.

Internationally regarded as the leading marine epoxy, WEST SYSTEM is easy for the amateur builder to work with. The WEST SYSTEM User Manual provides basic epoxy techniques to help ensure user success.

The boats are made of Lloyd’s certified marine plywood, solid timber cleaning, and stringers, sheathed in fiberglass and epoxy. They are solid, sturdy, and strong. The result should be a durable, low-maintenance watercraft.

The Solo Globe 5.80 Transat is the first major event for the 5.80 Class. Host port partners are expected to be announced in the next few months and already there are thirteen expressions of interest from around the world. “There’s an ambitious calendar of events for this little boat,” says Andrew. “If anybody’s going to pull it off, it’s Don.”

CNC cutting the Globe Mini keel bulb.

Since 1969 Gougeon Brothers, Inc., manufacturers of WEST SYSTEM Epoxy, have guided amateur boat builders through their wood and WEST SYSTEM Epoxy projects. Have questions? Call our Technical Department at 866-937-8797.

Technical Data

Length Overall – 5.80 m (19′)

Hull Length – 5.70 m (18.7′)

Width – 2.27 m (7.4′)

Draft – 1.40 m (4.6′)

Weight – 700 kg (1,543 lb)

Keel Ballast – 220 kg (485 lb)

Deck – 8 mm Plywood (0.3″)

Hull – 20 mm & 10 mm Plywood (0.8″ & 0.4″)

Twin Running Dagger-boards

Mainsail – 12.5 m 2 / 9.9 m 2 / 7.2 m 2 / 4.4 m 2

(134.5 ft 2 / 106.5 ft 2 / 77.5 ft 2 / 47.4 ft 2 )

Jib – 7.6 m 2 / 4.7 m2 (82 ft 2 / 51 ft 2 )

Storm Jib – 1.6 m 2 / 0.9 m 2 (17 ft 2 / 10 ft 2 )

Gennaker – 25 m 2 (269 ft 2 )

Adventure : Self-build mini for long journeys and regattas

Kristina Müller

 ·  01.03.2020

It may sound a bit like a premature April Fool's joke, but Australian circumnavigator and sailing adventure enthusiast Don McIntyre can certainly be trusted with projects like this: As he announced today (Monday), he wants to launch a new boat class, the Class Mini 5.80. This new type of boat, a 5.80 metre short self-build boat made of plywood, will be used to sail ocean races on the Atlantic and even around the world. The plan is to race across the Atlantic alongside the Mini-Transat as early as autumn 2021, and even around the world three years later.

Big plans for small boats

With this initiative, McIntyre wants to make "big adventures on small boats" possible and, above all, affordable. A construction plan should cost around 300 euros and the boat should be quick and easy to build thanks to its simple plywood construction.

"I love small boats for their simplicity and pure adventure," says McIntyre. "But I have no idea if sailors will be excited about this new development. I certainly am. We hope that boats will be built all over the world, and if that happens, we will support national associations and local races!"

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Membership of the new Class Mini 5.80 will be compulsory for every self-builder and will cost 35 euros per year.

Back to minimalism

With his idea, the Australian is taking up the former idea of the Mini-Transat, the legendary regatta across the Atlantic in which around 80 single-handed skippers sail across the Atlantic every two years, largely without contact to the outside world.

The race across the Atlantic was first organised in 1977 as a "poor man's race" to enable ocean racing on small, affordable boats. Wolfgang Quix was the only German to take part at the time and sailed the 5.70 metre Waarschip "Waarwolf", an even smaller boat than McIntyre now has in mind.

In the eyes of the Australian organiser, however, the costs of participating in a Mini Transat on a Mini 6.50 are now exploding. Although you can buy used Pogos relatively cheaply, says McIntyre, you then have to put in a lot of work to have a competitive boat. Not everyone can do that. "Many are afraid of such a challenge, but still dream of an ocean race in a small boat. Now they can do it."

Tiny do-it-yourself models

The boats are to be 5.80 metres long, 2.27 metres wide and have a draught of 1.40 metres. The first prototype for McIntyre himself is already being built in Poland. The Australian has announced that he intends to sail across the Atlantic with it soon. "I'm looking forward to it!" he says.

In 2010, he had already sailed around 4,000 nautical miles across the Pacific on a small boat.

From transatlantic to circumnavigation

The enterprising 64-year-old has already drawn up an ambitious regatta calendar for his new boat class:

The first Transat race on the dwarf boats is due to take place in November 2021, followed by a race from Europe to the Azores and back in 2022 and another Transat in 2023, before a round-the-world race in stages is due to take place in four years' time. However, it remains to be seen how seaworthy the boat from the pen of Polish designer Janusz Maderski is and how many boat builders will be inspired.

In 2027, all owners of a ClassMini 5.80 will be invited to Europe to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Mini-Transat in 1977.

Retro adventures on trend

So Don McIntyre has big plans again. However, he has already proven that he is able to inspire sailors for extraordinary trips and deeds with the organisation of the Golden Globe Race 2018/19. 18 single-handed sailors from all over the world took to the starting line to sail around the world without technical navigation aids, just like 50 years ago. The next edition is already planned for 2022. And for 2023, numerous crews have already registered for the new "Ocean Globe Race", an anniversary regatta of the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973 devised by McIntyre.

How McIntyre will ever find time for mini-sailing on the Atlantic with all his events is questionable, however - especially as he originally wanted to sail in the Golden Globe Race himself.

The plans will be presented in detail at the Hiswa Amsterdam boat show from 11 to 15 March 2020 and will also be available on the class website from then on: https://classmini580.com

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 B&B is a proud partner of the Class Globe 5.80 organization and is the designer of the KIT for the Globe 5.80 sailboat designed by Janusz Maderski for the Globe 5.80 one design class. Read all about the class on their website classglobe580.com

Here are some pictures from the first kit produced in the USA which was Hull #30. 

For more information you should visit the Globe 5.80 website and their facebook group . They also have a Builders Group  and their own Forum . 

The video below describes every part in the boat and the assembly procedure as well as gives a very detailed idea of what is included in the kit. You should watch this entire video before deciding to purchase a kit. If you are interested in purchasing a kit for the boat you will first need to  purchase a set of plans  and attain an official hull number.

Please make sure you read all of the documentation provided for the class. We are not in charge of the class and likely do not know the answer to you class related questions but we did develop the kit for the boat and are happy to answer any questions about the assembly and construction of the kit or will help you find the answer! This is NOT a stitch and glue boat kit like many of our designs. Instead this build uses long standing "plank on frame" construction techniques with plywood for planking. The interior of the boat is not "filleted and taped" like a stitch and glue boat however the exterior is reinforced with fiberglass for strength. 

Kit Options: See below for details

* still requires additional non-cnc cut solid timber, see below.

** port cutouts are left solid in the sheer strake panel as boats meant for ocean racing must only have a single port in this panel. Make sure you are up to date on all the required specs for a class legal ocean racing build. The 5.80 website is the place to learn about this. 

***  if purchasing the rudder and daggers separately from the kit the cost is $900 to account for the material used. 

NEW :  Click here to read through the  Recently asked and answered questions  about the 5.80 Kit (last updated 7/14/2020)

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K it Deposit: ( 50% of Kit price)  CLICK HERE  to checkout and get on our production schedule.  We require a 50% deposit for the kit. We will provide an estimated ship date when you place your deposit. The balance of your kit and any additional options will be due when the kit is complete and ready to ship. Payments can be made by CC but we prefer check. Please see our available options below.

Shipping time:  3-4 weeks typically Typical production time for a kit of this size is 3-4 weeks depending on material stock. You can of course also pick-up your kit at our workshop. We have a tractor and can load the crate into a trailer or pickup truck for your convenience. 

CNC Cut Plywood: 

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  CNC Cut Solid Timber Framing, Deck Beams, and Stem:

Epoxy 

Estimate of 21gal based on hull surface area and required glass thickness.

  Cabosil Thickener 

6 lbs of our cabosil and wood flour blend used to thicken epoxy for gap filling, laminating and structural gluing

Fiberglass Package  (using 9mm Meranti for the hull)

-6" x 9oz fiberglass tape x 30 yards (Tape for lower chines) 2 layers for 600g/m2 -4" x 9oz fiberglass tape x 1 roll (50 yds) (Tape for lower chines) 2 layers for 600g/m2 -3" x 9oz fiberglass tape x 1 roll (50 yds) (tape for deck, sheer joints) -50" x 10oz cloth x 25yds (Deck and cockpit reinforcements) -50" x 1708 double bias glass x 25 yards (bottom, sides, transom sheathing) ~800g/m2 for 9mm Meranti -1lb tub of 1/4" chop strand mat for skeg filler. Fairing Filler: -3M ceramic microspheres 4 gal

CNC cut White Oak "strong" wood parts: These include the keel floor timbers to which the keel plate is bolted and the mast support beam and posts. These parts are laminated from clear white oak and cnc cut to exact size. 

CNC cut Laminated plywood Rudder: 

The rudder is laminated from layers of 9mm meranti ply and the cnc cut to 3d shape. It is ready to sand smooth and fiberglass. The layers fit into the kit sheets so if you purchase the rudder with the full kit there is a discount as opposed to purchasing the rudder by itself. We offer the rudder and oak parts separately from the kit for builders building from plans. 

CNC cut Laminated plywood transom skegs:

These optional skegs are mounted to the transom and provide additional directional stability to the boat for offshore heavy downwind conditions. The parts are laminated from 9mm meranti plywood and cnc foiled to shape ready to be sanded and fiber glassed. 

Shipping Estimate: (contact for an estimate to your zip code)

Plywood Shipping Crate: 8' x 4' x 12"  ~750lbs Solid Timber Shipping Bundle: 8' x 20" x 8" ~350lbs Epoxy Shipping boxes: 12x12x12 (4 gal per box) 40lbs per box. 6 boxes Epoxy Thickener boxes: 12x12x12 x 2 boxes

Total Weight: ~1500lbs for plywood, timber and epoxy

Shipping Estimates below include full value insurance, private residence delivery and liftgate fees. Prices subject to change at any time. Actual shipping cost is determined at time of shipping based on the actual weight of the crate. 

Los Angeles, CA- $1100 Michigan - $800 Florida - $800 Maine - $900

Cheaper options are available for service center pickup or business/loading dock shipping address delivery locations. Private residence and Lift gate fees are $90 each (you need this if not delivering to a loading dock). If you have a full size pickup truck and can collect the crate at the shipping center near you you can save $180 on the below estimates.

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Home-built 5.8m yachts to race across the Atlantic in the Globe 5.80 Transat

• Katy Stickland
• October 26, 2023

The second edition of the Globe 5.80 Transat will start from Lanzarote, and will see skippers racing home-built 5.8m plywood yachts across the Atlantic

The Class 5.80, Trekka - hull number one - being sailed by race founder, Don McIntyre. The boat will be sailed by Ertan Beskardes in the Globe 5.80 Transat. Credit: Ocean Frontiers OGR/ GGR/CG580 Credit: Ocean Frontiers OGR/ GGR/CG580

The Globe 5.80 Transat, a 3,500-mile race across the Atlantic in home-built plywood 5.8m/19ft boats , will begin next month.

This is the second time the race has been run, and five entries are confirmed: Niels Kamphuis (NED), Michael Moyer (USA), Jack Johnson (USA), Keith Oliver (GBR) and Ertan Beşkardeş (GBR).

Ertan Beskardes sailing Trekka . The Turkish-British sailor has plenty of race preparation experience, having competed in the 2018 and 2022 Golden Globe Race. Credit: Ertan Beskardes/Ocean Frontiers OGR/GGR/CG580

All the entrants have to sail a five to six-day qualifying voyage from Lagos, Portugal to Rubicon Marina in Lanzarote ahead of the race start.

A former 2018 and 2022 Golden Globe Race skipper, Beskardes is sailing the 5.80 Class prototype, Trekka , which belonged to the race founder, Don McIntyre.

See a video of the inside of Trekka below.

Beskardes has already sailed Trekka from Les Sables d’Olonne in France, across the Bay of Biscay and south towards Lagos, Portugal. He has already provisionally entered the 2025 Mini Globe Race .

This is a solo race around the world in Class Globe 5.80 boats in stages, and the Globe 5.80 Transat is the first of two qualifying solo-transat races for the event.

Keith Oliver began building his Class 5.80 in February 2022. Credit: Keith Oliver/Ocean Frontiers OGR/ GGR/CG580

Fellow British skipper, Keith Oliver is facing time pressures to make the start of the Transat.

He has only just finished building his 5.80, Meraki (Hull No. 178) , and is currently carrying out sea trials; he has just weeks to make sure all the systems on board are running smoothly and make Lagos by 12 November. He will be trailering his 5.80 from his home in Chichester to Portugal.

Meanwhile, both American entrants are shipping their 5.80s from the US to Lagos.

Michael Moyer on Sunbear with friends, family and rival skipper, Jack Johnson. Credit: Michael Moyer/ Ocean Frontiers OGR/ GGR/CG580

A US Coast Guard Licensed Captain, Michael Moyer has sailed over 74,000nm, 8,000 singlehanded.

He will be sailing Sunbear (Hull No. 079). He had hoped to compete in the inaugural Globe 5.80 Transat, but the yacht wasn’t finished in time.

Moyer, who is from Newport Beach, said: “I have been waiting almost three years for this great adventure, let’s go already!”

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Jack Johnson has been sailing all of his life and said he enjoyed building his 5.80, Right Now (Hull No. 113) .

The Californian sailor, who has over 10,000nm under his belt, 500nm solo, has entered the Globe 5.80 Transat to “test himself with a challenging solo sailing event.”

Dutch skipper Niels Kamphuis has always dreamed of completing a transatlantic crossing.

Niels Kamphuis crossing the Bay of Biscay in Biggest Monkey ahead of the start of the Niels Kamphuis. Credit: Niels Kamphuis/Ocean Frontiers OGR/ GGR/CG580

He has spent one-and-a-half years building his boat, Biggest Monkey (Hull No. 163), and has already sailed it solo from Brest to Lagos for the start.

“The Class Globe 5.80 is a very interesting, affordable and fun boat to build. I’ve sailed all my life but this experience was still on the bucket list,” said Kamphus.

The Globe 5.80 Transat will start on Saturday, 25 November from Lanzarote, with the first arrivals at Falmouth Bay, Antigua expected just before Christmas.

Lutz Kohne, who was in charge of the inaugural 2021 Globe 580 Transat, continues as Race Director for the coming edition.

He has just returned from his own solo Atlantic crossing to qualify for the Golden Globe Race 2026.

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ClassMini 5.80 officially launched at HISWA

The new plywood ClassMini 5.80 Yacht was officially launched Saturday, despite the sudden closure of the HISWA Boat Show in Amsterdam.

The ClassMini 5.80 is attracting serious interest from sailors around the world. Hundreds are now waiting for the release of building plans (that cost just euro$300) so they can start building their dream.

  The concept for this unique One Design Class 5.80-meter yacht developed by Australian Adventurer Don McIntyre and designed by Polish sailor Janusz Maderski, goes against the modern trend of High-Tech, extreme foiling yachts.

Instead, it returns to the most basic principles of a simple, strong, safe and affordable ocean-going Mini Racer, that anyone can build using simple tools.

It also tows behind a family car and can easily ship in a 20ft container to, or from international events.

This idea resonates well with sailors young and old, who had over the years been left behind in the rush for ultimate speed with corresponding extreme budgets costing 10x more.

On 21 March the Mini 5.80 plans will be released to experienced builders ONLY. First time amateurs will need to wait until 1 June to receive their Plans.

This allows time for them to watch and learn from Online Blogs of the first and second prototypes. One building in Poland by Piotr Czarniecki for Don McIntyre and a second built with well-known Dutch timber boat builders KOLIBRI, which take approximately 500 hours to build.

Sailing events include a planned Solo 5.80 Transatlantic Race in November 2021 from Portugal to the Caribbean and a world first Mini Globe Race (Via Panama) in 2024.

These will require minimum sailing experience standards and skipper training, specified safety equipment and boat surveys to minimize risk.

All the details are available on the www.Classmini580.com website

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The McIntyre ClassGlobe 5.80 is a SIMPLE, AFFORDABLE, SAFE, Extreme weather ocean capable, easily handled, FUN to sail (and build) fully self-righting yacht. Features include, Basic plywood epoxy construction, bow crash box, three watertight compartments. Six full frames, two watertight bulkheads, pine stringers and oak floors. The hull is covered with sustainable plantation 10mm plywood. Central bottom strip of plywood 20 mm. Deck covered with 8 mm. The hull is then laminated with epoxy and glass. A 142 degrees point of vanishing stability with central, strong skeg supported outboard rudder with three sets gudgeons and pintles, allowing simple effective trim tab wind vane steering. A simple overbuilt steel fabricated Keel, with lead bulb, two x 2mtr bunks, bunks or on the cabin sole, or an athwartship bunk by lifting a floor panel. A secure comfortable cockpit, two transom balancing Dagger boards, quick closing companionway hatch/door (Or 50 x 50 Deck hatch closure) with 360-degree visibility observation cab with 1.65mtr headroom under and 1mtr headroom while sitting on a bunk.

Capable of fast, efficient solo (or two-handed) trans-ocean voyages, average speeds over 100 miles a day are expected.

The Class Globe 580 can legally be towed on its own road trailer with the keel attached, or it can be transported in a standard 20 ft shipping container with the keel, rudder and spars removed. It can sail from anywhere and transport to or from any country with ease.

The main hull structure can be built by one or two people with little experience and basic tools in 550 hours, or a few months. The Class Globe 5.80 has a strong plywood construction that is well-suited to amateur construction. It is simple and inexpensive and the boat should be very solid and safe.

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The McIntyre Mini Globe Race (MGR) will commence on February 23, marking the beginning of a 13-month round the world race for Class Globe 5.80 yachts. Home-built from plywood on timber frames and coated in glass epoxy, 5.80 refers to its length in meters (19-feet) which is compact enough to fit in a 20ft container.

Conceived by Australian adventurer Don McIntyre, the idea emerged during his 2010 adventure sailing 4000-mile across the Pacific in an open timber whale boat with very little food, water and no charts, recreating William Bligh’s Mutiny on the Bounty journey.

McIntyre, in collaboration with Polish designer Janusz Maderski, launched the one-design class in 2019, offering simple construction plans for €300. Builders can also opt for a CNC pre-cut plywood kit, supported by an active online builder’s community. Currently, over 80 yachts are in various stages of completion, with about 20 in the water and another 140 builders with plans.

“The MGR, like the Golden Globe Race, will be a voyage of attrition,” said McIntyre. “I have great faith in the sailors, the boats, and the meticulous planning that has gone into this event over the past five years. The Globe 580 yachts are robust, safe and fun to sail, offering an affordable challenge.”

In an age where technology and Euro 20 mill can send a solo sailor around the world in 40 days, a fleet of courageous mini sailors will show it can be done for less that Euro 50,000 over many days! Sixteen men and two women from 11 countries will navigate 28,000 miles solo around the world in identical, cramped plywood mini yachts, pushing the limits of what many believe to be possible.

Before the main event, participants must complete a solo 3,600-mile qualifying race, solo across the Atlantic. This journey begins on December 28, 2024, from Marina de Lagos in Portugal, continues to Marina Rubicon in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, and concludes at the National Sailing Academy, Antigua.

The race begins and ends at the National Sailing Academy, Antigua. The first leg takes sailors to Shelter Bay Marina, Panama, where yachts will be transported overland to the Pacific Ocean. The second leg, starting on March 23, 2025, covers 6,500 miles to VUDA Marina in Fiji, with mandatory pit stops in the Marquesas, Tahiti, and Tonga. Each pit stop requires an eight-day minimum stay, allowing sailors to rest and make repairs.

The third leg spans 10,000 miles to Cape Town, South Africa, with stops in Darwin, Mauritius, and Durban. Given the challenging weather conditions and the notorious Agulhas current, an additional ten days of pit stops are allowed. The fourth and final leg of 7000 miles begins on December 22, 2025, with stops in St. Helena and Recife, Brazil, before the final sprint back to Antigua, expected by late March 2026.

This McIntyre Mini Globe follows in the footsteps of John Guzzwell, who set off in Sept 1955 to become first person to sail a small yacht, his home-built Laurent Giles designed 20’ 6’ “TREKKA” solo around the world. McIntyre has great confidence in the Class Globe 580’s capabilities. He built and raced a Class Globe 580, named “TREKKA”, solo across the Atlantic in 2021, proving the yacht’s endurance and suitability for such a demanding race.

Sailors must undergo survival and medical training, comprehensive medical checks, and stress tests. Safety equipment adheres to world-class standards, detailed in the official Notice of Race.

Restrictions include the prohibition of electronic wind instruments and logs, limited 200-amp battery and 200-watt solar panel capacity, and only electric outboard motors. Hydro generators and desalinators are not allowed. Sailors can make unpenalized stops, but the race clock continues to run, and YB3 satellite trackers provide 24-hour monitoring for everyone on the MGR website.

Unlike other solo races, MGR entrants sail as independent voyagers, with each sailor responsible for their voyage plan, logistics, and safety management, overseen by individually appointed safety managers. These managers’ report to MGR event management but maintain primary responsibility for their sailors around the clock.

“Ten years ago, I set out to bring back affordable, human around the world racing that was truly sustainable for all sailors, where money and speed at all costs is not the driving force. All three events – Golden Globe Race, Ocean Globe Race, and now MGR – are epic human stories.”

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Friday, march 27, 2020, class mini 5.80: an inexpensive boat to circumnavigate.

20 comments:

I love solo sailing and I do it in the Algarve, Portugal. I own a Beneteau Evasion 25, I had Westerly 22 from the 70' and before a 18f german home made. My best experience was crossing to Azores, semi solo, on a Fountaine Pajot 44 catamaran, brand new, helping a friend. What a trip.......

Freeboard vs lenght looks amazing, calculation for side sea in the south (-40) should give frightening results... and then drift...

A Big Beam is Dangerous www.inquirer.com/philly/hp/news_update/20070712_Trans-Atlantic_sailor_capsized__hung_on_-__lived.html It is the "Beam / Hull Depth" ratio what determines if the sailboat is safe or dangerous along with the vertical position of the center of gravity

That has no sense. What makes a sailboat dangerous are many factors. In what regards beam, it increases the positive stability (more dificult to capsize) and increases also inverted stability, more dificult to get back on its feet again. What counts as positive is the positive area (the bigger the better) and the relation between the positive and the negative stability. Again, the bigger the better. It counts also as positive the bigger or lesser righting moment (in proportion with the displacement) the boat is making at 90º and the bigger AVS the better. And of course, it counts also the boat displacement that, with all factors being the same, the bigger the better. That boat is a 20 year old design, a Pogo 8.50 a small boat that is relatively safe for offshore work in relatively moderate conditions and its owner was pushing a bit the envelope because he crossed the Horn with it, but even so I doubt it would pass today the certification for Class A, as the Django 7.70. As you know when a modern boat is inverted, except race boats that can play with the water ballast, it is not able to re-right itself except if a smaller wave than the one that capsizes it, hits the boat. I don't know the conditions that led to the capsize but on the photo the boat is on flat waters and therefore without any possibility of re-righting itself. Also the boat was flooded and a flooded boat has no intact stability anymore but a compromised one. I dont know the reasons for the flooding but it can have to do with the main hatch to be open or even with the seacoks to be open a thing many forget to close when sailing and that can have dire consequences in a circumstance like this one.

"What makes a sailboat dangerous are many factors" Captain Obvious

your first reaction to something that sounds strange to you because you do not understand it ... is to immediately release a "no sense" Greetings and have a nice day

It seems to me that it is you that don't understand the basics about sailboat stability. Maybe you should read some more about it. https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2014/03/stability-1-misleading-information.html https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2016/04/rcd-increases-minimum-sailboat.html https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2019/05/please-rcd-certification-for-bluewater.html

Not sure i follow your logic regards stability above. I don't consider myself an expert - far from it (its not my day job), but i do know a little about boat stability calcs from some amateur design work. 1. Firstly I understand that boats don't capsize solely based on wind hitting the sails - this is obvious, but has to do with the descrption of form stability of a mini transat racer above. They carry beam aft in order to carry sail and comply with the class rules regarding ballast. Boats capsize (and i mean go past their AVS) mainly due to wave action (probably also in consort with wind, but wind alone will most likely only take them to a broach situation if designed correctly and they don't downflood). 2. Being knocked down (as opposed to capsized) is (relatively) fine, so long as the hull maintains its watertight integrity and the AVS is not reached. The boat will come back upright so long as it does not reach its AVS. 3. The area under the 'positive' side of the AVS curve indicates the force required to push a boat into a capsize. Things such as a coach roof, hard chines, and a pilot house etc all provide a resistance to this as they should be considered to provide rolling resistance (chines) and increased bouyancy that needs to be overcome as they are forced under the water (presuming they are still intact). A boat with a narrow beam will have less resistance to this inital force than one with a wide beam. However this works both ways, a wide beam also resists being turn back upright. 4. The area above the 'negative' portion of the AVS curve indicates the force required to push the boat back upright from its equilibrium state upside down. Again a large, intact coachroof helps here and a narrow beam is beneficial in reducing the effort required. In order to right itself from this state the boat must be hit by a wave of sufficient force that it overcomes the state of equilibrium the boat is in (i.e. pushes it back into the positive AVS side of the curve). The greater the difference between the positive and negative AVS areas, the greater the difference in energy required to capsize the boat, and then right it again. Therefor usually related to how long the boat stays inverted after a capsize - all things being equal. So consider the shapes of the mini transat racer and the mini 580. Take two extremes to show the point - One is like a surfboard with a keel (the mini transat racer) and one it more like a cigar tube with a keel (the 580). The surfboard is happy upside down as well as right side up (in equilibrium). It will take a lot of force to push it back upright after a capsize (therefor they have to cant keels/ fill or empty ballast tanks to help them add this required energy - requiring input from the sailor on board to overcome the inverted stability created by the wide hull). The cigar tube isn't very happy upside down, in fact it probably won't have a negative AVS - it simply won't stay upside down. It requires zero input from anyone on board to right it again. This could be considered a more seaworthy boat. Obviously the cigar tube is an extreme example, but the principle is used effecitvely on some search and rescue lifeboats - they are not stable upside down due to a huge, watertight superstructure, they will always self-right so long as the boat is intact. An extreme example for sure, but on a scale where the surfboard is at one end and the cigar tube is at the other it becomes obvious where the two boats being compared above lie. Sure there are a bunch of other seaworthiness factos such as boat strength etc, but assuming as you are above that neither boat falls apart or floods, the boat that self rights without input from any one on board is clearly the more 'seaworthy'.

I have on the blog some articles about boat stability and what you say is basically correct, except in what regards the last part where I do not follow: the mini 580 is not a cigar type boat and it has an inverted stability, meaning it will need a wave to re-right it when inverted. One of the things that counts most in what regards seaworthiness is not only the energy needed to capsize the boat, but the relation of that energy with the one needed to re-right it, from a capsized position. It is the proportion between the energy of those two waves, the one needed to capsize the boat and the smaller one that is needed to re-right the boat up, when it is inverted, that is important. But of course, if the relation is the same or close, what you want it is a boat with a much bigger positive stability because it will be much more difficult to capsize and when a boat capsize bad things can happen, from losing the mast to water entering the boat. And the 650 mini racer without having a worst relation between positive and negative stability has a much bigger positive stability and will be much more difficult to capsize, and therefore will be a much more seaworthy. Note that the mini is beamier but has a much lower center of gravity due to a much superior B/D and more draft. That will compensate for the extra beam. And you are wrong about the Series 6.50 mini to have water ballast. That is specifically forbidden by the rules. As important as dynamic as static stability is dynamic stability and if in what regard to have small area appendices (keel and ruder) both boats are similar, but the 580 mini has a much higher freeboard and that will act as a lever when a wave breaks over the boat increasing in much the rotating movement that can lead to a capsize. But I was wrong about one thing on the article, it is possible for a 650 mini to be certified as a Class A boat. It is the case with the Pogo 3 series boat but of course, impossible to certify a 580 mini.

Proto 650 have water ballast.

When capsized, it is actually GOOD thing that water goes into the boat. As the boat fills up with water it loses its stability. The more water inside, the less stable it becomes, and then it will turn again, this time to the upright position. The wider shape of MINI 650 will most likely require much more water inside then 580 to get that effect. So, 580 is likely to be more safe in that regard. And 580 can be build with positive flotation, although I am not sure how this would affect the amount of provisions you can then take with you for a longer passage. Ultimately, it is the integrity of the boat that counts. And I think Mini 580 is ultimately stronger, but that is just my opinion. By the way, I own a Mini 650, and I am just in the process of selling it and getting a 580.

Yes, a boat flooded will have less stability so if inverted it will be rolled more easily but when it is on his feet again, it will also have less stability and be easier to roll. So, unless you like to be rolled and rolled again on bad sea conditions, to have a flooded boat is always a very bad idea. If you have a 6.50 mini and are changing it by a Mini 580 you are going to regret it. Try to test sail the 5.80 mini first. What is the 6.50 Mini you have?

I am no expert in this field -not even a gifted amateur. But on the class 580 website, I found an article on the stability of the 580. They claim a point of vanishing stability of 142 degrees. I was under the impression that this is quite a respectable value. Am I mistaken, don't you believe the designer's claim, or is there something else going on? I would be very interested in your opinion on the matter. The article in question can be found here: https://www.classglobe580.com/flottation-complete/

Hi, The point of vanishing stability (AVS) has to do with lots of things and it is a value that in what regards seaworthiness and stability has to be looked with several other factors. The reason that boat has a high AVS has not only to do with a low CG (B/D, draft, type of keel) but mostly due to a high freeboard (that is continued by the cabin) and a sealed mast that brings buoyancy. But contrary as what would have happened if that value was obtained mostly by a low CG, those two factors (freeboard and mast buoyancy) will not increase the force necessary to prevent the boat to capsize to 90º, neither the recovering speed from that position. A boat capsized at 90º will have much less positive stability and a much smaller wave can finish the job and invert the boat. That is why the force the boat is making to return to the vertical at 90º is a value as important as the AVS itself. You will have a boat boat not difficult to capsize (much easier than on a mini 6.50) but a boat that after being inverted (if everything remains intact) will return to the upright position without much dificulty. However if the boat is rolled by a wave the changes are that you will end up with a boat without mast, and therefore with a higher AVS. The higher freeboard will make also easier for a wave to capsize the boat because it offers a big surface to create a rotating moment and many things can go wrong when a boat is inverted. I hope this will help you to understand better the 580, that if it is as inexpensive as they say to build, it will make for an interesting sailboat for coastal cruising with some offshore ability, but far from a boat suited for a circumnavigation with acceptable risks. Not even a 650 mini, even if considerably more seaworthy and able to cross oceans on the right season, should be considered for a racing circumnavigation due to inadequate safety. That does not mean that if such a race was made with them the majority would not be able to do it, but a percentage of them would not, and between those there would be a high probability of dire consequences, including death and that is not acceptable in a sport.

Thank you for your extensive reply. I'm beginning to think that boat design is as much art as it is science. At the very least it can sparks some heated debates, as witnessed above. Fair winds and following seas to you, sir! Sanne

Pogo class40 AVS 128 degrees. Mini 580 AVS 142 degrees. The absolute minimum AVS for Design Category A is 100 degrees.

And a log (cylinder) has a 180 degree aVS and keeps rolling all the time. The AVS is not the only point to sailboat seaworthiness. Overall stability is as important as the AVS and a Mini 650 has a good AVS (it depends on the model but over 120º) and a much bigger overall stability than the Mini 580, meaning that will be much more difficult to capsize. Furthermore while on the Mini 650 the good AVS is obtained due to a low CG on the Mini 580 (that has a higher CG) the higher AVS is obtained due to a high freeboard, a high cabin and the mast, that is closed and full of foam. All that will give a better AVS, will contribute to re-right the boat (assuming the mast does not broke when the boat is rolled) but will not contribute to a better overall stability, as the lower CG of the Mini 650 does.

Log has 0 degree AVS. Initial or form stability has nothing common with capsize resistance.

I do not understand your point. Inicial stability is part of the overall boat stability and as so contributes to capsize resistance. Hull form stability, the one that is generated mainly by the hull form, is part of the overall stability, it is not only generated at small angles of heel (initial stability), and as so contributes to capsize resistance.

Don't know much.about the mumbo jumbo above, but I have built quite a lot of them,.and sailed even more. Never really been into racing per se, and that may make the difference. My two bits worth. 1. If you want to get to your destination fast, fly, don't sail. 2. Boats don't capsize or sink. Skippers do.

The compact offshore racing boat, known as the Globe Mini 5.80, the brainchild of adventurer and sailing legend, Don McIntyre, is taking off all over the world, a DIY kit constructed with plywood and epoxy resin, such as WEST SYSTEM.

The new International One Design Class of plywood, Mini 5.8-metre (18ft) yachts is aimed at “home builders and adventurous racing sailors”, according to McIntyre.

“The Mini 5.80 is for all sailors, young and old, who have a dream to sail oceans in small, fun, affordable and proven safe, ocean-going yachts,” he says.

“Simple plywood construction means anyone can build this Mini in a few months, or your local shipwright can do it for you. It all fits inside a 20-foot container for shipping to or from international events. The mast has a sleeve to allow two-piece shipping and removing keel and rudder is simple. It can be taken home on a trailer by an ordinary family car.”

Less than four months after its official launch in April, 80 sailors have signed up to build in 23 countries. Conceived by McIntyre, founder of the 2018 Golden Globe Race, as an affordable “People’s Mini” for amateur construction, this solo ocean and offshore racing yacht is proving popular.

A whole new segment of sailors is embracing the benefits of a simpler more sustainable challenge, says McIntyre.

“The idea of an affordable wholesome, back to basics, non-foiling and safe Mini yacht, able to sail anywhere, has great appeal. Being easy to build, own and maintain, then offering fun yet serious one design sailing, seems to have hit the spot. Adventurous solo sailors are excited, but there are plenty of club racers who see this as an opportunity for some fun.”

International fleets are expected to appear over the next few years. “The yacht is creating real interest and new opportunities travelling to Europe for the 2021 Globe 5.80 Transat and Mini Globe Race in 2024,” he adds.

The concept is simple: “Building plans (Euro $300), hand tools, plywood, epoxy resin, then clear out the garage and start building your Globe 5.80. Build time is approximately 500 to 600 hours.”

10 Sailmakers are currently under review to select an exclusive One Design sail supplier to the 5.80 Class for the next five years. This will deliver identical high-quality racing sails at a realistic price to all sailors through economies of scale. It also caps cost, leveling the playing field ensuring even competition, whether sponsored or unsponsored.

CNC kit suppliers have been established in 15 countries, including Australia.

Andrew Denman of Denman Marine in Kettering, Tasmania, has been appointed the Australian kit agent and is CNC-cutting kits and keel bulbs for the fast-growing fleet.

“We have supplied two kits so far and have another one in the pipeline.”

“According to the founder of the Class 5.80, Don McIntyre, the boat was designed as an offshore capable mini which will appeal to many – including the hardcore single-handed enthusiast.

“Class racing in small boats like this has proved very popular internationally but the types of hi-tech vessels used would normally be out of reach budget wise for most people,” adds Andrew. “The use of plywood, fibreglass and epoxy resin in a simple but strong structure brings the costs within reach of many more people.”

Andrew is supplying the kits and recommending WEST SYSTEM epoxy, which he says is the ideal base for structural bonding and coving applications, and for coating and sheathing the plywood.

Internationally regarded as the leading marine epoxy, WEST SYSTEM is easy for the amateur builder to work with. The FREE WEST SYSTEM User Manual provides all the basics on working with epoxy and basic techniques for various applications, to ensure the build can be completed to a high standard that will result in a durable, long-lasting, low maintenance boat.

“The boats are made of Lloyd’s certified marine plywood, solid timber cleating and stringers, sheathed in fibreglass and epoxy resin. They are not hi-tech, but they are solid, sturdy and strong.

The Solo Globe 5.80 Transat is the first major event for the 5.80 Class. Host Port partners are expected to be announced in the next few months and already there are 13 expressions of interest from around the world.

“There’s an ambitious calendar of events for this little boat and getting any new class of boat off the ground is hard work” says Andrew. “But if anybody’s going to pull it off, it will be Don.”

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Sister of doomed teen speaks for first time since yacht tragedy

The sister of Hannah Lynch who died on a superyacht after it was struck by a mini-tornado has spoken out for the first time.

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The sister of doomed teen Hannah Lynch, who died on a superyacht after it was struck by a mini-tornado, has spoken out for the first time.

Tributes continue to pour in for victims of the sunken 56m yacht, the Bayesian, which went under following a wild weather event on Monday. Among the victims are the yacht’s owner, UK tech billionaire Mike Lynch, and his daughter Hannah.

Mr Lynch, once dubbed “Britain’s Bill Gates”, had invited friends and family onto the boat in Italy to celebrate his recent acquittal in a massive US fraud case.

But the $58 million yacht was struck by something akin to a mini-tornado before dawn on Monday as it was anchored off Porticello, near Palermo.

Mr Lynch and his daughter were among six bodies recovered from the wreckage. The 18-year-old was the last person unaccounted-for with the body of Mr Lynch and four others recovered by rescue divers on Thursday.

Fifteen people were rescued, including Mr Lynch’s wife Angela Bacares, a mother with her one-year-old baby , and New Zealand captain James Cutfield who is recovering in hospital.

Hannah’s sister Esme has spoken out for the first time since the tragedy, remembering her younger sister as her “little angel”.

“Sometimes beaming with a smile, sometimes cheeky, sometimes for advice,” she said in a statement.

“No matter what, she brought boundless love to me. She was endlessly caring, passionately mad, unintentionally hilarious and the most amazing, supportive and joyful sister and best friend to me.

“And on top of all this, she had even more love to give endlessly to all her friends and passion to give to her incredible studies and goals. She is my little angel, my star.”

Friends also paid tribute to Mr Lynch, who helped pioneer a form of artificial intelligence, describing him as a pioneer of the British tech scene.

“Mike was the most brilliant mind and caring person I have ever known,” friend Andrew Kanter said.

“There is simply no other UK technology entrepreneur of our generation who has had such an impact on so many people.

“His passion for life, knowledge and all those around him was instantly inspiring to everyone he met, and he will be sorely missed.”

The Lynch family have said they are “devastated” and “in shock” but are being “comforted and supported by family and friends”.

Sky News reported a spokesperson for the family said in a statement on Friday that the Lynch family is “devastated, in shock and is being comforted and supported by family and friends”.

“Their thoughts are with everyone affected by the tragedy. They would like to sincerely thank the Italian coastguard, emergency services and all those who helped in the rescue. Their one request now is that their privacy be respected at this time of unspeakable grief.”

Sicilian prosecutors said Saturday they were investigating possible manslaughter as it emerged that trapped passengers scrambled for air pockets after it went down.

“The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Termini Imerese has registered a file with the state against unknown persons, hypothesising the crimes of negligent shipwreck and multiple negligent manslaughter,” state prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio told reporters on the Italian island.

But he said he was only announcing the probe due to the huge international interest in the case, stressing: “We are only in the initial phase of the investigations.

“At this stage, precisely because the investigation could develop in any way, we are absolutely not ruling anything out.”

How the ship went under is being pieced together by investigators, with Girolamo Bentivoglio Fiandra of the fire service telling reporters it sank by its stern and came to rest on its right side on the sea bed, some 50m.

He said the passengers trapped inside “took refuge to seek safety in the cabins on the left side where somehow the last air bubbles formed”.

“We found the first five bodies in the first cabin on the left side, and the last body in the third cabin on the left side.”

‘Human error’

The firm that built the superyacht said “human error” is to blame .

Last Thursday, the head of Italian Sea Group, Giovanni Cotantino, said the tragedy could have been avoided after the $58 million ship capsized in a water spout.

“Everything that was done reveals a very long summation of errors,” Mr Costantino said.

The company, which includes the Perini Navi company, built the luxury 56-metre yacht in 2008.

Mr Costantino told Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper that bad weather was forecast and all the passengers should have been gathered at a pre-arranged assembly point, with all the doors and hatches closed.

He claimed the Bayesian was “one of the safest boats in the world” and was virtually “unsinkable”, telling Italian publication Corriere della Sera: “The passengers reported something absurd, that the storm came unexpectedly, suddenly. That is not true. Everything was predictable.”

Captain grilled

Prosecutors, who have been interviewing survivors from the tragedy, questioned captain James Cutfield for several hours about the disaster, Giornale Di Sicilia reported.

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The 51-year-old, who managed to escape from the vessel, told Italian media, “We just didn’t see it coming” , when speaking of the abrupt nature of the water spout.

There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Mr Cutfield.

– with AFP

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Lynch yacht captain being probed for manslaughter in Sicily sinking case

The captain of the luxury superyacht Bayesian, which sank off Sicily last week, is under investigation for potential manslaughter and negligent shipwreck after the incident left seven people dead, including UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter. The yacht, struck by a mini-tornado, sank during a storm, and the investigation is still in its early stages read more

The captain of the luxury superyacht which sank off Sicily last week is being investigated in a probe for potential manslaughter, reports said Monday.

James Cutfield, a 51-year-old New Zealand national, was one of 15 people who survived the sinking of the Bayesian, which left seven people dead, including UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter.

Prosecutors on the Italian island on Saturday announced they were investigating potential crimes of negligent shipwreck and manslaughter over the sinking of the yacht in a storm before dawn on August 19.

They did not name any suspects and stressed the investigation was at an early stage. The prosecutor’s office did not respond to AFP requests for comment on Monday.

Lynch, a 59-year-old British tech entrepreneur and investor, had invited friends and family onto the boat to celebrate his recent acquittal in a massive US fraud case.

But the 56-metre (185-foot) yacht was struck by something akin to a mini-tornado as it was anchored off Porticello, near Palermo.

The body of the yacht’s cook was found shortly afterwards, and six people – including the businessman and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah – were reported missing.

Following a major search operation, divers pulled up the bodies of four of Lynch’s friends on Wednesday, that of Lynch himself on Thursday, and finally that of Hannah on Friday.

The yacht currently lies on its side on the seabed, some 50 metres down.

All six bodies were found in the cabins closest to the surface, five in one and Hannah’s body in another, and officials said they likely moved there while trying to find pockets of air.

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