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Great new Rogers carbon concept which is rapidly establishing itself as a class, with three sold to date. This design is more akin to a small TP52 than a traditional IRC yacht, guaranteeing a fast and controllable ride and at less than half the price! Couple this with a competitive IRC rating and it proves that you can have your cake and eat it! Full details are available under ‘Current Projects‚Äô.

Following an uneventful delivery, the first off the production line in UAE has now arrived in Mukalla, Yemen. In the words of her Skipper “Force 8 Dubai to Hormuz and she rode like a champ. Steadying sail doing what it’s suppossed to do. We’ve got ourselves a great boat! Hats off to Rogers Yacht Design!” They eagerly await the rest of the fleet.

Our work continues. Sponsors to be announced. Read the recent article from the Yachting World site:
www.yachting-world.com/auto/newsdesk/20050110140338ywnews.html

The first Optimum 60 was launched last August and is now moored at Thorpe Park, London; she is primarily used as a weekend pad for waterskiing. The next has now been barged from Southampton to London and is moored at Riverside Quarter, Wandsworth. Production continues.

The Rogers Classic 60 is for the discerning owner who wishes to possess a ‚Äòyacht to be proud of‚Äô whilst enjoying superb performance that traditional classic yachts achieve. Whilst the mix of aesthetics and performance were key to this design, so was ease of use for a crew of just two, for weekend sailing. Read more in ‘Proposals’.

A new dimension to sportboat racing, offering blistering speed, reduced crew numbers and a cutting edge design‚Ķ‚Ķ..this is the SKS25. Click into ‘Proposals’ for full brief.

The Rogers Transpac 52 pushes hard to optimise for TP52 racing whilst offering two unique differences from its competitors. Read more in ‘Proposals’.

Song of the Whale recently returned to the UK following a very successful maiden expedition to the Arctic Circle, focussing on Blue Whales. The boat made many port stops in Iceland where ‘education’ was the basis of their work. The team are now on their way to the warmer waters of the Med. to carry out acoustic research with Sperm Whales.

Racing again in this years Round the Island Race in their family Contessa 26 ‘Rosina of Beaulieu’, Simon with his brothers Kit and Dave Rogers narrowly missed an historic 3 consecutive win overall victory by just over three minutes on corrected time.

Despite this they were absolutely delighted with their Silver Roman Bowl trophy which gave them second overall under IRC out of a record 1682 boats. They also won Class 12 and were part of the Royal Lymington Yacht Club Team which won the Team Trophy overall. Not a bad days work; well done boys!

The classic yacht ‘Alice III’ designed by RYD was just one of the 110 boats that competed in this years Dresden Challenge racing from Gurnsey to Jersey.
Boats of all shapes and sizes took part including a Volvo 60, production one designs and one-offs.

In force 2-3 north westerly and brilliant sunshine, Alice romped home 8th across the line and first overall on corrected. Well done to all team members!