News Archive
Antarctica
Well just time for a quick end of year message and up-date. Been working flat out and now off to Argentina and then off to sail to Antarctica! So an office shut-down till mid January!
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BOSS 34
AYD is very pleased to announce that they are the designers of the all new Boss 34 powerboat. A really exciting new design using our latest concepts in stepped hulls and incorporating many new and interesting features. This really gives us the opportunity to further progress high speed design and build on the success of our previous race winning designs.
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Build progress & Racing
A really busy winter for our boat builder clients - with a number of new designs in build and others about to start. Quite a lot still ‘under wraps’ - but a few that can be mentioned:
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RIB CHAMPIONS
Very pleased and proud to announce that the new Technohull 888 has won the Greek F2 RIB Championships this year. Competing against boats from various other builders / designers the 888 was the class of the field with 6 wins & 3 seconds out of 9 races. Our congratulations and thanks to Technohull and the driver of the 888 - Stavros Loulourgas
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RIB Racing
Great to see RIB racing returning to the UK - with this weekends BIBAO race at Lymington. Excellent event with 28 boats racing in four classes. One of the best events I have been to in a long time and such a good atmosphere, lots of happy people.
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Owner’s club
For 2010 we will be adding an AYD owners club to our facilities and support. Basically open to owners, users, builders and followers of our designs - it will be a way of keeping all up to date of our craft, the people who use then and their achievments, travels and exploits. There will be other benefits such as discounts with K4+ chandlery, promotional items and in time meetings / rallies etc. Also we will look into a sales section for various craft, new or second hand.
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Technohull 12m RIB
We can now announce that the new 12m triple step hull design RIB is for our long time partners Technohull. The new boat is particularly exciting and whilst using some features of the very successful 999 and 888 models it also has many new features that we believe will take the perormance and handling for such craft to an new level. Design work is underway and many areas of performance and styling are being explored.
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Secret Projects
Too early to announce full details but some very exciting news on new contracts. We are now designing a 12m triple step hull and also another 10m triple step hull - for different clients in different parts of the world. Certainly looking forward to seeing these progress and announcing more details.
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10m triple step
We are very pleased and excitied to have started design work on a new high perfomance sportsboat using an AYD developed triple step / double chine arrangement. Using developments from other previous and successful AYD craft along with new features, this craft is going to raise the bar for such craft! More details to follow in due course.
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