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l'Oiseau Bleu (Blue Bird)

Oiseau Bleu

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The aim of Oiseau Bleu is cruising, but real sailing cruising.

Oiseau Bleu

You can spend the day pulling on the ropes on top deck, with interesting sailing performances, and have a comfortable cabin and saloon for your night.

Oiseau Bleu

It could present some interest in active or sport charter in West Indies I think, with sailors interested in sailing big boats with a deck arrangement close to racing maxis, but with all comfort at anchorage.

Oiseau Bleu

The internal arrangement is as follows :

Top deck:

Main deck:

Lower deck:

There is enought space for a lower deck, in the middle section - can be used for crew quarters and technical rooms (engine room, cold room, technical facilities, etc...).

Oiseau Bleu

Oiseau Bleu

From performance point of view, Oiseau Bleu can look simple but her design is not.

I designed a sort of "dynamic" hull, using a deep hard chine. This has nothing to do with what we can find in Open racing boats because they are not used to reduced the real breadth of the ship and increase virtually the power, but for hydrodynamic lift.

Waterlines screenshots at different heel angles, to illustrate the principle :

Oiseau Bleu

This hull can provide a very good 'grip' upwind, and this allows to reduce appendage wetted area. With a semi-long keel and winglets, I'm confident in ship performances upwind.

Oiseau Bleu

The design is still under development.

If you are interested in Oiseau Bleu, please don't hesitate to contact me

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