Boating South Africa recently put together a fantastic video showcasing our latest HopYacht, and they highlight many of the new features we’ve carefully designed for your comfort and enjoyment.
If you’re considering making a HopYacht your own, this video offers a great look at how it will elevate your lifestyle on the water. It’s definitely worth a watch!
The HopYacht 30 is designed to fit into 2 standard 40’ containers for shipping. To make loading and offloading straightforward the cabin and hull modules are mounted on special frames fitted with wheels. To maximise the living space in the cabin you’ll notice it’s a sung fit inside the container with literally a few centimetres to spare on each side!
The mast also fits neatly between the two hulls and is secured on its own cradles.
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Shipping in containers not only means everything is more secure, it also means that if the port arrival is still some distance from where you would like to commission and launch your boat, loading and transferring the containers by road transport is easily done and very cost efficient.
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HY005 (pictured above during offloading) is safely in La Rochelle, France and albeit a very rainy day here, we are looking forward to brighter weather, rolling up the cockpit awnings and introducing the first HopYacht 'sur la mer en France'. You can step aboard this boat in the electric boat section of the show on the MV Yachting stand 1-6 October.
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Hope to see you there, however if you are the other side of the Atlantic, we have a HopYacht 30 in Fort Lauderdale ready and waiting for you to test sail!
You can also meet Paul Tomes co-founder of HopYacht on the MV Yachting stand at La Rochelle Boat Show, France.
When French sailing journalist Nobert Conchin test sailed the very first HopYacht 30, we held our breath, hoping like crazy he would approve of the concept. We had come a long way from the initial sketches and we were delighted with how the prototype had turned out. However, Norbert is a seasoned blue water sailor and we wondered how he would react to a yacht designed for short hops on coastal and inland waters and how would he enjoy having just a single sail? Here’s an extract from Norbert’s test sail report in Multihulls World Magazine.
'This is a catamaran that has ripped up the rulebook, and come up with a (r)evolutionary concept: For the first time, a combination of comfort and liveability has been brought together in an ultra-easy-to-handle boat under 10 meters in length.'
‘This hugely positive review meant the world to us, especially from someone who has experienced sailing a broad cross-section of the world's leading yacht brands.
Our HopYacht YouTube Channel has also had a steady stream of positive comments, however we do get the occasional negative comment that may have been written by people who just don't get the HopYacht concept, or perhaps the HopYacht 30 is just too much of a departure from the norm.
One of the most recent comments we have had that made us all chuckle, was from a prospective owner, who described the boat as 'so easy to sail, it's perfect for couples to enjoy seriously relaxed sailing, without be forced to entertain people, just because you need crew!' What makes you think this is also a seasoned sailor? :-)
Hope to see you in La Rochelle!
