The inventor of the Musto performance skiff has come up with a new boat. With the pragmatically named "light skiff", designer Joachim Harpprecht wants to give young people and light adults an introduction to skiff sailing.
The light skiff incorporates many of the concepts and design approaches of the Musto performance skiff, but unlike its big brother, the light skiff is manageable for sailors weighing 40 kilograms or more. With a length of just under four metres and a width of 1.60 metres, the boat weighs 60 kilograms ready to sail. The hull is made of sandwich laminate and is manufactured using the vacuum infusion process; the mast, boom and gennaker pole are made of carbon fibre. The sail area is manageable on the cross with a mainsail of seven square metres and continues the concept of a sports boat that can be handled by light people.
Downwind, the sail plan is supplemented by a ten square metre gennaker, which is sheeted from a trumpet via a retractable gennaker pole. Standing in the trapeze, the boat can easily reach high speeds.
The light skiff costs 7,990 euros (including VAT, from Kiel).
YACHT tested four not quite so sporty, but still fun planing dinghies on the Flensburg Fjord in summer 2012.
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