Motorboats of the Future

摘要

Glisse. If there's one word that sums up the work of the legendary yacht designer Nigel Irens, it's the French word glisse, meaning something that slides or is slippery-or, in other words, very, very fast. Little wonder Irens is revered as a design guru in France, having produced many of the most successful trimarans on the multihull circuit during the past 30 years, including iconic yachts such as ENZA NEW ZEALAND, B&Q CAS-TORAMA, APRICOT, FUJICOLOUR, and IDEC, to name just a few. During a long and illustrious career, he's even found time to dabble in traditional boat design, designing cult-status monohulls such as Roxane and Romilly (see WB No. 125), which proved that even the anachronistic lug rig could have glisse in the hands of a skilled designer. Now 68 years old, the master of intuitive design would be ready to slow down, you might think. If you did, you'd be wrong.