They are suitable for beginners, trailerable, affordable and should offer much of what makes a yacht, namely good habitation, are also suitable for longer holiday trips and offer sufficient safety.
As a result, they are actually in demand, but the market hardly offers them. Smaller yachts, or more precisely, ships between 20 and 30 feet, have become rare. Hardly any large shipyard can afford the costs for development, mould construction and marketing, which are almost as high as for much larger ships.
YACHT is now responding to the great demand from its readership and the fact that the Sailart 24 is a completely new yacht on the market. In a three-part series, starting with issue 15, it is focussing on the compact cruiser segment.
In a large-scale comparison test, the Etap 24i from Belgium, the Sunbeam 24 from Austria and the two Polish-German co-productions Kron 70 and Sailart 24 compete against each other.
YACHT 14 will be available at newsagents from 2 July 2003
Fridtjof Gunkel
Deputy Chief Editor YACHT
