A quirky plywood rocket with sawn-off scow bow - can the Ace 30 disrupt the IRC racing scene? 

Thank you Toby, I love it how the French are constantly pushing at the boundaries of yacht design, We British used to be the ones doing all the innovation after the war, and of course there are many pram/scow dinghy classes like Cadets, Mirrors, Miracles, Fireballs, Poole ABs, Scamps, etc. But it is the brilliant French designers on the west coast who are leading the world now, and you are absolutely right to be featuring their designs so much these days in Yachting World

Multi-Million dollar yachts or unique non traditional designs - You can always count on Toby to bring a classy presentation. Love the variety - Thanks Toby!

Nice video Toby ! It was a pleasure to sail with you for the EYOTY ! The IRC TCC is 1.001, by the way ;-)

The Ace 30 is one superb looking scow sail boat I cannot remember ever seeing such a brilliant engineered Boat and want to monitor its racing progress and owner designer comments on this one squared away vessel of fun.

Is it comfortable or does it slam a lot? Toby, I think you should add some accelerometers to your toolkit and give us some numerical insights into how comfort or not the ride on the different boats is when there is a seaway.

Should be called the Narwhal IMO. Cool boat.

Love it! Great to see guys like Antoine try new things, if it wasn't for people like him, we'd all still be living in caves. Go it, the bow came off one of those Dutch sailing barges.

Reminds me of the yachting world diamond from the 1960s. I have one and I absolutely loved it.

Reminds me of a fireball dinghy

An interesting and fun boat But I had a good laugh when I saw that monitor stand, that pressed board on which the monitor is mounted looks very modern

Awesome, would like to see a sea trial under 25kt wind. I await for that. Congratulations to the designer

Realistic setup. Unlike boats with a nav desk you can't sit at, which serves only one tack, they have a standby watch seat for both tacks which functions also as a navigator station. The only problem being that someone will eventually grab the nav station arm for support and take down the whole thing.

Beautiful! Amazing!

My left ear loved this.

And the trimmer smoking, bravo!

Reminds me of the first kayak I made. Similar shape. At a big kayak dealer event the guy with the company that had the most kayaks that day told me that in a canoe he could beat any kayak 'here today.' He told me that canoes skim, kayaks displace. My first kayak was a Great Auk design 17.5' x 23" beam. I think it was a skimmer. I consistently averaged 4.3 knots over 3-4 hour paddles. (I was only 50 at the time. Santa Monica Bay so not rough. Usually almost no wind.) So one of Tony's first comments "skims," I think is spot on. Since that first G.Auk I've built two other kayaks (both extremely narrow and long 18' and 19', beams 17.5" and 16") and have a commercially made kayak 19' - I've never been anywhere near 4 knots for more than a few minutes. I think some of the newer designs, like the Beneteaus may also be skimmers. And caveat, I'm no expert, I'll humbly defer to being set straight. Looks like a fun boat.

A lot of fun downwind, how did she perform close hauled?

I want to learn more about this boat! The hull/bottom looks very much like my school design, Although mine was all motor. Since then I've wanted to re-do it as blue water capable sail boat. It had drag coefficiency of 0.7, so turning it to sailer, it would be very close to this.

Wow, 👏👏👏 I love it, 14 apparent 10 knots

I guess it is a type of design where the waterlines of the tilting hull while sailing to the wind remain similar to the waterlines with the ship flat on the water. Especially the keel should remain parallel to the waterlines. Ships that have a classic bow and (very) wide transom tend to advance sideways regarding their waterlines while tilting. The form of the hull under water can rotate several degrees in relation to the keel. There is for me no doubt that those designs are far more efficient than the classic Sun Fast types.

Hi Toby, waiting for your tests on Rapido's. Cheers

This is a 'schouw'. Very common classic boattype in the Netherlands

Hi Toby, hope you are well and enjoying life. You'll be terrorised with comments about this no doubt, when you export the project, go to settings and export with Mono audio.

if its a short hand racer, hows it going to perform in a rough upwind passage? Would like to see

I predict the next development will be 'X' bow that you see on tugs. Not pretty but it will provide a great deal of room in the forepeak.

Beautiful Racer…

I'm looking at this from a budget view: You've just saved 2m off dock/yard fees by cutting off the part off the boat that doesn't have any internal volume... It's ugly but I like it!

It's a good video, nice boat. Audio is sometimes mono ;)

What's it like in a east coast short sharp chop?

we keep seeing the scow shaped boats in flat water, can we see what they do in waves , both swell and chop, still trying to get my head around it

Very nice flat water vid. How does it perform in my sailing place's usual nasty/short chop ?

love it

looks really nice.... just a note your sound is backwards meaning left and right are reversed

Looks to be a really fun boat. Is there a head, I wonder?

I used to have a hard chine Thunderbird classic racer, and I miss it. This looks like some sort of sci fi version of it. The famous Ragtime transpac sled was a stretched thunderbird, and it hauled ass in its day. My TBird was pretty stable and balanced as well, not sure if the hard chines had anything to do with it.

Think this hull would be very economical with engines!

I have a 1969 26ft international folkboat (IF). With the Spinnaker in 14kn and flat sea it goes 7.5kn.

nice boat, that the rudders and tiller look cheap and looks like it could break any moment.

How does it go to weather in a good chop? Slamming? Wet?

show the beating upwind in an actual sea. a bathtub looks good down wind on a flat sea.

Is the sound only in one channel?

i'm very interrested by the Scow design, but all videos i see are in very calm sea whith very small waves and downwind sailing, what about rough sea and upwind sailing?

Does it go upwind or just downwind?

Should be named “Nice Personality”

Big bow wave

Beautiful

Are plans available?

I can't imagine but that blunt bow works as a break in other-than-ideal conditions.

It’s a giant Rainbow class.

easy to make a fast boat, easy to make a sea-worthy boat, but they ain't the same boat. this looks like a good middle position, and relatively cheap. should prosper.

It looks like my old Thunderbird F@#%ed a Cybertruck! 😆

Must be scary sailing downwind in big waves. Not for me being a old seadog

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Ashtrays?

I doubt it's 100 m squared gennaker, probably 100 square metres. There's a huge difference.

300k on the water, that's a lot of money for a splinter, it's not a bad boat but it needs to be at least in the same price range as other 30ft racers, if not cheaper, what a loss For this amount of money you can get od30 or sf3300 with options and have a lighter hull that doesn't fear scratches as much

The sound is really off: mostly coming through the left ear, hard to hear listen to through headphones.

Ugly awkward. Fast? If you have to walk backwards to get aboard without seeing it, I guess it'd be fun to sail, but sheesh! Half of sailing is how awesome sailboats are, IMHO.

The hull shape is extremely similar to the small race boat called the Fireball of 1962. Nothing new.

Floating brick.

Toby, OK it’s a racer, we get it.

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looks like my nephew's optima on steroids. stick steer and all

Ugly but certainly as efficient as other scow designs, even I. Roughness!

Wheres the shitter?

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Bowling, darts, pool, sailing. name four sports where you can have a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other and call yourself an athlete.

What a misery of boat

Ugly, I wanted to like it, but it looks like a Dutch Herringbus

It’s undeniably ugly