World Superyacht Awards - Unfurled wins Sailing Yacht of the Year

by Sail-World.com NZL on 17 May 2016 Southern Spars is hugely proud to have built the mast, boom and revolutionary outhaul system for the Frers 46 Unfurled.

She is the 15th yacht to win an award at this prestigious event with a Southern Spars mast.

As well as winning the overall award for Sailing Yacht of the Year, Unfurled also won the over 40 Metre class.

While only three yachts competed in the over 40 Metre class, each represented a quite different aspect of the sailing superyacht spectrum extremely well - so the judges were presented with yet another difficult choice.

After an interesting discussion, the secret ballot decided the winner to be Unfurled, a 46-metre sloop from the boards of German Frèrs that was constructed by Vitters Shipyard, marking the first collaboration between the builder and designer.

This yacht was not only judged to be extremely well designed and built, but it was considered to be a yacht that could ably fulfil the more specific racing and luxurious cruising roles of the other competitors as well as those of the ‘cruising and occasional racing’ function that her owner had requested.

At the same time, Unfurled employed the latest technological advances such as retractable propulsion pods, a sophisticated carbon rig and roller furling system as well as downwind sails stored on special drums under the foredeck that allow easy deployment.

For the citation for Sailing Yacht of the Year from Boat International click here

Unfurled:

LOA: 46m

Builder: Vitters Shipyard

Naval Architect: Frèrs Naval Architecture & Engineering

Exterior Design: Frèrs Naval Architecture & Engineering

Interior Design: Stirling & Co

Spars: Southern Spars

Sails: North Sails

For the full award list click here