Sailing Experiences

Emily of Cowes won the racing divison of the ARC 2023. She beat a Swan 90, a Swan 54, two 40.7s, a Grand Soleil 50 and a professionally crewed Latini 52 whilst taking the fishing very seriously 🐬

She runs down the trades effortlessly under twin running headsails, but has up her sleeve a long carbon spinnaker pole and four spinnakers for those moments when the competition appears on the horizon.

Set up for the tradewind sailing. A system developed by Eric Hiscock in the 50s

Emily is a twin ruddered 45 foot Rob Humphreys design launched in 2008

When not running down the trades she flies three asymmetric kites and a jib top off a retractable carbon bowsprit

Why Emily?

This piece by Hallberg Rassy explains well why you might want to choose Emily of Cowes over a standard single ruddered cruiser racer:

In 2007, whilst doing research for a Volvo 70 project at the Wolfson Institute, Rob Humphreys came up with the design for a very special Elan which was years ahead of its time. Thanks to the financial crisis, it took other manufacturers a decade to catch on which eventually happened with the 2016 HR 44, 2019 Swan 48 and the 2022 First 44. Richard skippered a twin ruddered 3600 in the 2017 Fastnet and had a similar epiphany realising that two rudders was the only way forward for offshore cruisers racers. 😉

Emily’s IRC rating is 1044. Bandit!

Emily races with up to 13 crew

Emily’s interior is enormous for a boat of 45ft yacht.

She offers a completely different level of comfort to a First 40.

She has a spacious triple cabin forward with a King size bed, electric heads and a 2.1m single bunk. We make our own fresh water from salt water using the power from the sun.

There are two other spacious double cabins.