ONE DESIGN pure sailing!
SLIP & TRAIL WHY SAPHIRE? Slip and trail without a crane, easy handling and fast sailing with your family and friends for more than a day or night is your ambition! SAPHIRE stands for colourful motion and emotion ashore and on the water for a great price to promote big fleets all over the world. FAMILY SAILER Spend your weekends on the boat with your family. You don t need to spend the money for hotels. Travel from one lake to another without any extra expenses and have fun with your family and friends. No hotels and no special car for transport is needed and a lot of safety: the boat is designed for coastal areas CE Class C. SLIP & TRAIL You don t need a crane to launch SAPHIRE! The lifting keel with an easy and light to step carbon rig makes you free and independent. Launch the boat directly from the trailer and step the mast like on a dinghy with your own hands. ONE DESIGN All boats are exactly the same. The value of your boat remains higher even though price performance ratio is very outstanding due to mass production. Compete against the same boats and challenge yourself with one of the fastest available 8m production sailboats on the market. Equipped for pure racing light and fast!
FAMILY SAILER KIDS FRIENDLY MATTRESSES Change your interior colours and enjoy a new interior every season! Wash and dry instead of leaving them for 10 years untouched. Wipe away coffee or wine spills easily on the waterproofed membrane. A technology coming from the outdoor industry and used for expedition jackets in rough conditions. Wash it as many times you wish and use the covers outdoor in the cockpit to enjoy comfort like home without any risk! Choose your favourite colour online easily with our SAPHIRE configurator that allows you to enjoy all the options on our website. OUTBOARD EQUALS INBOARD ENGINE You don t see it, you don t hear it but it s there! You can buy an electrical Torqeedo Outboard engine as an option which would be fully integrated below the cockpit with a remote control. Or you keep using your fuel outboard engine at the transom of the boat. BUY ONLINE AND GET THE BEST DEAL SAPHIRE is sold directly on boat shows and on the web to offer you the very best price! The boat will be delivered directly to your home address. The boat is so simple that you can set it up easily on your own. This allows us to offer you the best price performance ratio in the market. However, if you wish to have your boat delivered through a yard we will take care that you get a delivery package from your yard for a good price.
S.A. 2 E=3.560 P=9.600 IG=9.250 J=2.950 D129 - FM27 - OD PRELIMINARY SAIL PLAN 1:30@A2 11-11-05 129_SAIL ALT. 2 ALT. DATE 11-12-19 SPECIFICATIONS SAPHIRE 27 FT ENGINE OB 40.00 m 5 hp pure 01P ONE DESIGN FAMILY WEEKEND SAILER DIMENSIONS LOA 8.000 m LWL 7.500 m Bmax 2.500 m Draft 1.700 m (0.45 m) DSPW 1150 kg Ballast 500 kg Sail Area 44.00 m2 Mainsail 29.00 m2 Family Mainsail 25.00 m2 Jib 15.00 m2 Gennaker (optional) 75.00 m2 Code 0 (optional) 35.00 m2 P 9.600 m E 3.800 m IG 9.250 m J 2.950 m CE Certification C HULL & DECK State of the art construction method using vinylester vacuum infusion sandwich technology, PVC core. The maximum weight tolerance is 3% only. Hull and deck finish are in white gelcoat and the walking surfaces treated with anti-skid paint. The bilge finished with topcoat paint. INTERNAL ACCOMODATION Internal accomodations are in composite lamination. Two berth with mattresses and back rests, two pipe berth in the bow to allow high flexibility. One folding table and two floor boards and a galley with sink are included. EQUIPMENT Four lights and navigation lights with batteries are installed. Manual bilge pump with handle is situated in the cockpit as well as the engine installation. RIG & SAIL Carbon fiber mast with 30 angled spreaders using a discontinuous Dyform rigging. The boom is constructed in Carbon with internal outhaul and two stoppers for the reefing system. 1 mainsail halyard, 1 jib halyard and 1 gennaker halyard, 2 jib sheets and 1 mainsheet are included. Square top mainsail with four battens in Polyester to reach high performance or alternatively, a Polyester family mainsail. Jib in Polyester. DECK LAYOUT Anchor locker, baskets under cockpit seats, hatches on companionway, foredeck and engine well. Bow toe rail and pulpits and stanchions are also included. DECK EQUIPMENT Equipment was chosen carefully to ensure best performance. The self telling winches guarantee best efficiency. Stoppers and organizers are of highest quality. KEEL Keel blade in steel strut lead with antimony state of the art casted bulb. Lifting keel provision prepared. RUDDER AND STEERING SYSTEM Rudder attachment on transom with tiller and tiller extension and retractable rudder blade. CHOOSE YOUR OPTION PACKAGES The electric propulsion package consists of a Torqeedo electric engine to be used like an inboard including battery, charger and shore connection set. The electric system package serves all those who prefer to use a classical fuel engine at the transom of the boat and consists of battery, converter sockets and charger. A cruising package is designed for families spending their weekends and holidays on the boat and in addition the cooking package, including water tank, is made for longer trips. The bowsprit & gennaker package includes everything for downwind riding. For longer distances we propose the code 0 package. More options wait to be discovered online as from the anchor & mooring package to all kinds of boat and sail covers and up to different kind of trailers. Visit our website and explore the world and the colours of SAPHIRE boats. Design your personal sailing dream at saphireboats.com.
DESIGNERS COMMENTS CLAUDIO MALETTO SAPHIRE is the most unique concept on the market and its potential is enormous. Target was to design a boat that can be manoeuvred by a family with small kids but at the same time also used by hard core sailors for regattas. It was very important for me to combine safety with speed since modern racing boats also bear quite some risk in strong winds. Flexibility for transport and slipping the boat was also a key element of the concept. The design language is modern and still timeless to grant a long lasting value for the boat. Easy to sail was the clear guideline to integrate all the innovative ideas and to create a boat that is unique on the market. The Italian designer Claudio Maletto from the studio Fontana Maletto in Como has been working for many years for the Italian Syndicates of the America s Cups, contributing, as a yacht designer, to the design and development of eleven famous Italian cuppers. FRANCESCO PELIZZA The step forward we made was to design a boat that with these features and without this massive study would have cost a fortune. She is extremely light, stiff and sound and we used the latest engineering instruments (CAD, FEA, CFD) with the aim of producing a sport boat at the price of a production boat. Advanced Mechanical Solutions was founded by Francesco Pelizza in 2005. AMS core business is the design and analysis of composite materials for nautical fields. ALESSANDRO CASTELLI «The family and racing combination requires a special sail plan with light and easy handling sails. The full batten square top mainsail in combination with the carbon mast and without any backstays is the ideal combination for fast sailing and easy handling. This style derives from the Americas Cuppers and modern catamarans. For classical family cruising and beginners I developed a "user friendly" less powerful mainsail. Alessandro Castelli was already involved in the first Swiss America s Cup Campain and his sail designs have won dozen s of championships around the globe. MAURO SCULLI From the beginning of this exciting adventure with SAPHIRE I have imagined its p o t e n t i a l c l i e n t v e r y demanding for all the aspects of the design, outside and inside. In my mind I see that client like the one who appreciates the lines of a sport car but also the comfort of a family transporter: two faces not so easy to put together. A hard job has been dedicated to give modern lines to the exterior, with some really new elements and details for a production boat of this dimension. Both, the interior and the deck layout have been developed under the dictate of light weight and functionality. Long studies had been done together with Claudio Maletto to integrate his well performance oriented thoughts to be combined with my view of a cheerful day onboard SAPHIRE. Mauro Sculli, chief architect of the StudioSculli, has been working both as yacht designer and project manager for approximately 30 years. BOGDAN SKORKIEWICZ From the very first moment I was enthusiastic about the unique concept idea of S A P H I R E. W e h a v e produced thousands of boats in the leisure industry but this one is really different. Thanks to our industrial processes, we are able to produce light weight family racing boats that fulfil the requirements of a one design class. Maximum allowed weight difference for SAPHIRE is 3% and we can guarantee this due to the fact that all our processes and production methods are standardized and certified. Thanks to our in-house quality department and our own transport company we can assure not only the product quality but also the delivery and after sales service. Bogdan Skorkiewicz is General Manager of Delphia Yachts in Poland.
MICHAEL TOBLER Former Chief Sales Officer of one of the leading outdoor companies in the world turned his passion into his profession to realize this unique concept of the SAPHIRE boats to enable more people to have access to the sailing sport. He combines in SAPHIRE all his 40 years sailing experience with 20 years of management knowledge. With this new concept, he addresses to ambitious sailors who like to practice their sport with family and friends. They love high speed, pure sailing and racing but at the same time they want to use the boat for leisure and fun. CONCEPT The SAPHIRE concept slip and trail without a crane is unique, very easy to handle and uncomplicated! It is designed especially for people who love exploring different lakes and sceneries on their own, with friends or with their family. Michael Tobler is father of two children therefore kids safety on board is very important to him! DEDICATION Michael Tobler dedicates SAPHIRE to all the sailors being young and ambitious in their spirit: They want to be among the winners on the sunny side of life and they want to enjoy, share their passion and they want to race! COMPANY SAPHIRE AG is a Swiss company and was founded in spring 2012. SAPHIRE AG operates directly in the market in order to have a direct contact with the consumers. The boat s concept is so simple, that no professional help is needed to set it up and to sail - simple & easy. SAPHIRE AG 6403 Küssnacht am Rigi Switzerland info@saphireboats.com saphireboats.com For further and more specific information, please contact our head office. pure sailing!