Built in Australia in 2003 , Hart Marine was born to race in the famous Rolex Sydney-Hobart race, a regatta iconic of the hill, and the world that has won at the first year of participation. Lthe following year lost the keel and “hood” in the middle of the ocean.
In 2005 is charterizzata from the Fast and the Furio Sailing Team to participate in the Barcolana, with the name of “Trieste Province” Skandia and win with the first-time record in the history of the regatta in trieste less than an hour’s journey . Then we lose track of the boat until Furio Benussi, who was in contact with the owner, he finds it in 2015. The boat was finished on the rocks, half-destroyed and abandoned in a square in the island of Menorca.
In 2019, the project BoReAS(Boat Recycle in Action for Sailing Project), which is involved in Arca Fondi SGR, is one of the sponsor of the initiative, aims to put at the disposal of the Fast and the Furio Sailing Team, a racing boat fast-paced and competitive, while minimizing environmental impact associated with the construction from scratch of a boat with the same technical characteristics and performance. You then choose to return to “Wild Thing” on the fields of the regatta.
The boat is brought to Trieste after an adventurous voyage from the Balearic islands with great difficulty, for the team that had to learn to get to know her.
In 2019, after a series of extraordinary maintenance interventions carried out in Trieste, the boat returns to racing and started his second life as a Arca SGR.
The boat is long-30,4 m for a total of 34 mt out by adding the dolphin striker of 3.5 mt.
The tree has a height of 45 meters.
The sail area upwind is composed of 400 square meters of the mainsail and 220 square meters of the tassel. In the case of the little wind is also used sailing upwind zero of 500 sqm and a sail area of maximum upwind of 1000 square meters and a maximum area in the stern of 1500 square meters. The width of boat is characteristic, is a boat which is long and narrow, 34 meters long and 5 meters wide. But fishing 6 mt and 20 deep.
The boat can reach a maximum speed of 30 knots under the particular conditions of the wave, no wave can easily reach 25 knots. The weight is 27 metric tons.
How does it work and what is the use of the canting keel? Its function is to increase or decrease the righting moment depending on your needs, moreover, by tilting the keel contrasts with the gravity and reduces the plunge of the boat, producing an effect of “lifting, lifting. Then the boat will be able to,at will, be less drifting with the wind strong, or crush with a little wind, a boat less immersed and dry compared to the one with the hull in a central position. The keels overhead always work in pair with the canard, the appendix orange color that you see at the bow of the Ark Sgr, to improve the hydrodynamics. The canting keel Arca SGR measuring 6 meters in height x 14 tons.
The work at the site of the last two years, have allowed the team to add 5 meters high in the tree, 2 mt more to the boom, 1 mt more to the dolphin striker (the prolongation of the bow).
The new hydraulic system of the last generation, it is the most recent version of the plumbing C that will allow the crew to get performance much better in the maneuvers of the canteen kill. The canting keel, moves of 42 degrees from the side and from the other, thanks alluse the new hydraulic system, can be moved by pressing a button, the keel will fall by gravity without the need to use any engine to its movements. If the previous engine for a complete movement of the keel were needed 40 seconds, thanks to the new hydraulic system will switch to 14 seconds to dry the sails. With the sails the time of the fall of the keel will go from 7 seconds from a part of the city centre, only 3 and a half seconds. Thus improving the performance of the boat in the regatta.
After the experience of the project Arca SGR one of the new “dreams” by Furio Benussi and his team is to teach the management and maintenance of a 100 feet of the young people, to educate them and give them the skills of a trade for the future.
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