The weather is actually too good not to spend the weekend on the water. But it's worth spending a day inside at Interboot. YACHT online shows all the new products from Lake Constance. Part I: Dinamica RS 940
From Lake Garda comes an elegant daysailer with a very purist design. Its lines and many details are reminiscent of competitors in the same segment, in particular the Brenta 30 and the Esse 990.
The most important features include the backstay-less rig, which allows a widely flared main with squarehead top, a retractable carbon fibre bowsprit, the very deep T-keel (2.10 m) for good cruising characteristics and a high righting moment, as well as the self-tacking jib, which also makes the sporty boat ideal for single-handed sailing.
Even with the small headsail, the Dinamica achieves considerable potential. Her sail carrying capacity is 5.8, which promises top performance even in light winds. This is also ensured by the narrow hull shape and the relatively short waterline of 8.20 metres for an overall length of 9.40 metres - when sailed upright, the boat has a very small wetted surface area.
Claudo Maletto, multiple world champion and technical director for the Luna Rossa team in the America's Cup, was responsible for the design.
But the RS 940 is not just a pleasure to sail. It offers enough comfort below deck for a weekend for two. Four guests could actually sleep, but then the space, which is not generous anyway, quickly becomes cramped. This is because the boat only offers crawling or sitting height at best, and you can only lie comfortably in the open foredeck.
Nevertheless, the equipment is comparatively complete: cooker, cool box, chemical toilet are available, plus storage space for the essentials and cloth bags on the side walls.
The finish of the prototype, already very neat on the outside, left something to be desired below deck. "We didn't get build number one finished until the last minute," says Rolf Schlaefer, who initiated the project and effectively became the shipyard manager.
The central kitchen module, for example, is not yet moulded in GRP, but as a plywood construction. However, the endeavour to achieve quality can be seen. The hull is neatly filled with polyurethane filler in the visible area and is absolutely smooth except for the hull-deck joint. Dinamica inventor Schlaefer, himself German, already has a long list of improvement measures for the first customer boat.
Why the RS 940 when there are already similar designs? He was looking for just such a boat for himself, says Rolf Schlaefer. "But what was available on the market was far too expensive for me." His Dinamica costs less than 100,000 euros in the basic version without an engine - that's not a lot for a daysailer, but it is far below the prices of established competitors.
Jochen Rieker
Herausgeber YACHT
