Windjammer Project   /   3 masted barque

The Windjammer Project is a 74m / 243' LOD (86.25m / 283' LOA) three-masted barque that will reflect all the style and glory of similar-sized and rigged ships owned by Kings and Kaisers more than a century ago. Lifestyle aboard will be redolent of a period when a privileged few made ocean passages cocooned in an environment that evoked fine hotels and the foremost gentlemen's clubs. Sheltered deck spaces will provide intimate conversational areas for morning coffee, a read, or a secluded afternoon nap on a Lloyd Loom lounger. Magnificence is a word that is likely to be called upon to define interiors using the finest veneers, marbles, fabrics, bevelled glass, crystal chandeliers, carpets and furnishings.

State of the art technology made be hidden, but it will be far from absent. The hull will be built from Alustar aluminium, the masts from aluminium to the height of the cross-trees, then carbon fibre. The yards, also carbon fibre, will feature ingenious in-yard furling for the square sails