Untitled - Royal Huisman

Decoys and camouflage:
the hatches dovetail seamlessly with the deck. The
teak-look deckhouse features a carbon-fibre framework with teak cladding.
The Rondal mast, which is
also of carbon fibre, sports
North SDL sails. The engine
order telegraph is fake,
housing a joystick, but the
21-inch monitor is authentic, as is the starting gun.
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"Hanuman"
carries 1,125
square metres,
close-hauled
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"Hanuman" has
a full-blown
interior in which
to luxuriate
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Winning and living: after
regattas the owner and
his guests can celebrate
victory in a walnut interior. Owner Jim Clark hung
pictures that he took on
the walls of the dining
room, saloon and owner's
cabin. Acanthus International was responsible for
creating the interior.
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against "Shamrock V", is still
at the project design stage.
To make sailing these veterans fun, the Association has
drafted a set of up-to-date
rules. Approved materials are
aluminium for hulls and carbon fibre for masts. "Hanuman" was launched in 2009
at Royal Huisman with this
specification. The original was
On deck at dusk: the monitor displays all functions, whilst the doghouse oozes atmosphere.
called "Endeavour II". It is not
the first time that owner Jim
Clark has visited Vollenhove in
order to have a keel laid. In
1998 he took delivery of what
was back then a unique sloop,
"Hyperion" (47 metres), and
"Hanuman" is
the third order
in 2004 he took delivery of
the 90-metre tri-mast schooner, "Athena". As far as he is
concerned
he would even
commission the Dutch sailing
yacht
Workstation: where the captain and owner can source all the nautical information needed.
experts
to
build
a
motoryacht. Clark just loves
Royal Huisman. Vollenhove is
small and is nicely off
the
beaten track. The heart of this
district is called Huisman -the
T
he high school drop-
streamlined
out James H. Clark got
their
to know the oceans
sloops,
original
which
owners
Amsterdam"
builder is the key employer
had
Chris Gongriep. The hull has
here. "All great companies
"Windrose
of
entered or had intended to
just been turned and the keel
nurture corporate culture and
when he was in the Navy. Four
enter
the
laid and delivery is scheduled
employee
years in the US Navy are likely
America's Cup in the 1930s -
for 2012. "Atlantis", a Hoek
Clark, who himself achieved
to have been the reason that
JK3 "Shamrock V", JK7 "Vel-
design based on a Frank C.
great things in the hotbed of
Jim from Texas, who later be-
sheda", JK4 "Endeavour", J5
Paine template, is being built
Silicon Valley. That is the rea-
specifically
for
continuity", said
came a physicist and PhD soft-
"Ranger" and JK6 "Hanu-
by Freddie Bloemsma Alu-
son why only Royal Huisman
ware specialist, is now a mem-
man".
will
miniumbouw. Hoek has also
fitted the bill as far as "Hanu-
ber of the J-Class Association.
join them this year. Gerry
worked on the plans for the
man" was concerned. For all
H1 "Lionheart"
It is difficult to conceive of a
Dykstra's design firm is work-
Swedish JS1 "Svea", which
that they have in common,
smaller and more exclusive
ing on JH2 "Rainbow", a Bur-
Tore Holm designed in 1937.
the differences between "Ha-
club. It incorporates just ten
gess design built by the Her-
J1 "Enterprise", which dates
numan" and the 1937 origi-
yachts. Five club members are
reshoff yard in 1934, on be-
from 1930 and which success-
nal are enormous. It is not on-
already
half of the former owner of
fully
ly the fact that the original
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able to
sail
their
defended
the
Cup
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The price of extravagance: the
two benches in the deckhouse
and the U-shaped cockpit do not
provide that much more space
than a 15-metre boat. The ambiance however is just unbeatable.
hurtled towards the starting
line with a steel hull, whilst
"Hanuman",
for
example,
with her Alustar hull and Rondal carbon fibre mast, outpaced her rival " R a n g e r " in
her debut regatta off Antigua.
In contrast to the regatta-only
yacht, "Endeavour II", which
featured a hollow hull, Clark,
his guests and the crew are
accommodated in a full-blown
Reaching towards the target: during regattas the crew sets a second suit of racing sails.
walnut interior, including the
Hanuman is
loyal and strong
THE
RIG
LOOKS
LIKE
AN
AIRCRAFT WING
owner's suite aft and the galley and crew quarters in the
The 1937 America's Cup marked the end
this class- "Enterprise". His challenger was
bow.
The
label
"wolf
in
sheep's clothing" is therefore
of the J-Class yachts' golden era, as they
Thomas Lipton in "Shamrock V". After
then went into decline and exited the regat-
Lipton's death in 1931 the aviation pioneer
plied to "Hanuman". A 1930s
and aircraft manufacturer, Thomas Sopwith,
black, high-gloss exterior with
fairly appropriate when ap-
21st
followed in the wake of the successful de-
century
standards of
comfort and engineering un-
fender; he challenged Vanderbilt's "Rain-
derneath.
bow" for the first time in 1934 in "Endeav-
things have changed, even on
However
certain
the surface. The crew operour", and then sailed against the latter's
"Ranger" in 1937 in "Endeavour II". Sopwith ordered "Endeavour II" in steel and
ates the halyards and sheets,
made of Vectran and Dyneema,
including
carbon-fibre
backstays, using matt black
with a maximized waterline from Charles
Ernest Nicholson. Sopwith applied the benefits of his aircraft manufacturing experience.
Vanderbilt had Sparksman & Stephens con"Hanuman" role model: "Endeavour I
duct the first tank tests. Even Sopwith did
not manage to beat Vanderbilt. Racing
Harken winches, of which the
most powerful can do 156
metres/minute.
The
Carew
Group,
just
a
which
few
months ago achieved an enduring success as Larry Ellison's "USA-17" triumphed in
the America's Cup, fine-tuned
ta scene at the outbreak of World War Two.
destiny was such that it was not until 2009
The J-Class was born in 1929 just before
that "Endeavour II" managed to beat "Rang-
Herreshoff's Universal Rule came into effect
er" in a battle of the replicas. Sopwith sold
the sail profile, consisting of
mast and sails, which looks
like an aircraft wing. The tiny,
single teak-look deckhouse
in 1930. Harold S. Vanderbilt defended the
the yacht in 1947 to a wrecking yard and she
consists
Cup in 1930 for the first time in a yacht of
was finally broken up and scrapped in 1968.
structure and teak
of
a carbon-fibre
cladding
and the builder concealed the
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"Hanuman" in action: the crew
operates halyards and sheets
made of Vectran and Dyneema.
One of the most powerful winches can do 156 metres/minute.
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hatch hinges in the deck. You
H A N U M AN
LOA:
42.20 m
27.40 m
LWL:
Beam:
Draught:
Displacement (50%):
Hull speed:
Material:
Mast:
Air draught:
Engine:
Waste water engineering :
Winches:
12.8kn
Alustar
Furler:
Autopilot:
North Sails
534m 2
461 m2
130m 2
Scania Dl 12 59m, 259 kW
Gears:
Propeller:
Hundested, 4-blade
Fuel tank:
8,240 I
Generators:
2,900 I
1,7001
4.57m
165.41
Carew Group
Mainsail (racing):
Genoa 1 (racing, 130%):
Freshwater capacity:
Waste water capacity:
52.85 m
Rig design:
2 x 40 kW
Generator output:
6.60m
Rondal/composite rigging
Sails:
Staysail (racing):
also cannot miss the obvious-
ZFW-350A
2 x Kohler
Hamann Mini
Clark, who is so used to
Harken
computers, cannot do with-
Rondal
out
such assistance. WAN
(wide area network) technology enabled him to control
Sailor, Panasonic
iMac, iTunes
sails every conceivable stretch
Schneider, Beckhoff
RHS Yacht, MS Windows, Mac OS
rion", "Athena" and "Hanu-
Akzo/Sikkens
You have to be wealthy to do
Entertainment:
Naval architect:
Interior design:
"Hyperion" from ashore. He
of water on board "Hypeman" as the mood takes him.
Dykstra & Partners
Pieter Beeldsnijder
Interior:
Acanthus International
Classification:
Lloyd's (SSC)*1 00 A1
Builder:
monitor in front of the wheel.
Segatron
Communication system:
Software:
Paint system:
strument panel with 21-inch
Hundested, 38 kW
B&G, Furuno, C. Plath
Bow thruster:
Navigation system:
Computers:
ly modern multifunctional in-
Royal Huisman, 2009
The name of a
Hindu deity
that. After eight years as a
young professor at Santa Cruz
and Stanford, researching and
co-developing
3D
monitor
displays together with his students, he then was one of the
founders of Silicon Graphics.
He bailed out in 1994, came
up with Netscape together
with Marc Andreessen and
waged the legendary browser
war against Bill Gates. The
three Huisman yachts were his
reward for a series of other
successful start-ups.
And the name? Hanuman is
the name of a Hindu deity
with the face of an ape and a
long tail. Clark has not converted to Hinduism. The key
to the choice for the "Endeavour II" replica is less compliElegant profile: just the shallow deckhouse and a skylight punctuate the sheer of the
deck above the shiny black hull. The mast projects down towards the keel in the crew
cated.
Hanuman
embodies
perseverance, devotion and
superhuman
strength.
And
mess. The owner's cabin is located aft behind the companionway, whilst guests are
the sloop will need to demon-
accommodated directly behind the dining room and saloon. Sails are stowed forward.
strate these characteristics
during the next few years too.
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