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NEW YACHTS
NEW yachts
Hylas 60
In something of a departure from the
long-standing Hylas style, this model has
a much sleeker appearance, with a clean,
uncluttered deck layout and low-profile
coachroof. Germán Frers told us: “The
brief was slightly different for this boat- less focused on the north American
market and more European in style.”
His Argentine-headquartered firm
now also has an office in Milan (run by
his son Mani) and the boat incorporates
some Italian influenced design elements,
including an interior by Hotlab of Milan.
“The idea was to create a good cruising
boat with very reasonable performance,”
says Frers. “This is a 2018 design with an
integrated sprit, and a little more draught
than earlier boats for Hylas, but it’s not
super deep. It will be a fast cruising boat,
with a powerful hull that has a wide back
end, twin rudders and good volume.”
“For the deck, we kept to a clean,
efficient and simple style,” adds Frers.
The lofty rig is equally contemporary,
with a 105 per cent jib and reaching sails
set from the sprit. Overall it has 12 per
cent greater upwind sail area than the
slightly smaller boat, yet has the same
displacement.
Below decks the three or four cabin
accommodation can be arranged in either
owner forward or owner aft layouts. The
latter has a transverse ‘bridge’ between
the two cockpits to provide additional
headroom in the owner’s suite, at the
expense of having a walkthrough cockpit
on a single level right from the transom to
the companionway.
Frers expects that some buyers will
also specify this arrangement with
an owner’s forward layout to create a
stronger distinction between the two
cockpit areas.
http://www.hylasyachts.com/h60THERE’S A CLUTCH OF
NEW SERIOUS CRUISING
DESIGNS AIMED AT BEING
THE LARGEST SIZE THAT
CAN COMFORTABLY BE
HANDLED BY A COUPLEHylas resurgence
ylas Yachts has a pair of new serious cruising
models of a similar size: a Bill Dixon-designed
Hylas 57 and a 60-footer by Germán Frers. Both
have twin rudders and a lightweight vacuum-infused
cored hull, married to a generous 17ft beam to provide
plenty of accommodation volume for three or four cabin
layouts. Both boats offer potential for a significant degree
of customisation and to facilitate this buyers are invited
to the Hylas yard in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to meet in-house
designers and see the boats in build.
Beyond these common elements, the two designs have
very different characters. “The two were developed for
different markets,” says Roger Burroughs of Hylas UK,
“with the 60 intended as a European boat, while the 57 has
more of a North American feel.”
Hylas has long produced yachts of similar sizes to appeal
to slightly different buyers. The Frers Hylas 46 and S&S
Hylas 49 are examples of two very different hull shapes in
similar sizes and offered at similar prices.
The new 57 and 60 are both due to hit the water late this
year, and larger Hylas designs are also in the pipeline.
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