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A man on a mission, Stanley Paris came to us in 2010. He wanted to not only break 55 yr-old Dodge Morgan’s record breaking 1986’s circumnavigation in a cruising sailboat of 150 days. Stanley wanted break the record and establish a new record by departing from St. Augustine Florida – oh and he would be 76 – setting a new record as the oldest person to do so.

Alas, he made two attempts in 2013 and 2014. Both ended in Cape Town, So. Africa. Hardly a defeat and very few sailors or boats can claim to have as many miles under her keel.

Below are the thoughts and thinking that went into this project.

An easy to manage sail plan had never been more important; Bruce Farr and his team have designed and engineered the Paris 63 for speed, sea kindliness, safety and ease of handling. The hydraulic lifting keel will provide excellent offshore performance with a draft of 14’9”. The keel lifts to 8’7” to access most of the world’s harbors. The epoxy infused carbon, E-glass and Kevlar hull with a thermo-formed core will ensure a stiff light-weight hull while a water-ballast system allows the boat to be trimmed for speed and comfort. Looks-wise, the Paris 63 is classic Farr, the wide beam carried a long way aft allows for an excellent working cockpit and an expanse below that one finds on most yachts of over 70 feet. This enables the interior to give comfort even during the most arduous passages. Farr drew a hard dodger semi-enclosed cockpit to provide excellent protection from the weather. The coach roof can be used as a step to reef the main and the boat has been set up with solar panels around the deck and pilothouse very much like the Open 60s. The cockpit benches will be 7 feet in length for a sleeping option.

Why a Circumnavigation?

Stanley Paris: In part to honor the memory of the late Dodge Morgan who took the record for a circumnavigation in a cruise boat from 256 days down to 150 days. It’s time to show that it can be done in far less.

A circumnavigation above all tests/proves the boat as well as the skipper. At my age it would be impossible to mount a successful challenge if the boat were not designed for speed, sea kindliness, safety and ease of handling. Farr Yacht Design has made this blend and with the skills present in the Maine boating community I was pleased to be able to get Lyman-Morse, known for their quality, to take on this job.

For my part I have most of my life mixed my professional career as an educator with endurance events such as completing the World Championship Ironman Triathlon in Kona. By appropriate preparation athletes of my age can restore, maintain and enhance a high level of physical functioning provided they get the advice they need from a professional. Being a physical therapist helps me to lead a healthy and productive lifestyle and I recognize that while medicine and surgery may save lives no profession speaks to the quality of those lives better than does physical therapy. As a result I find this challenge most appropriate.

To read more:

http://stanleyparis.com/

For a write up in Cruising World on Stanley’s boat, click here:

http://www.cruisingworld.com/sailboats/kiwi-spirit-a-63-foot-globe-girdler-from-lyman-morse

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• designed by Farr Yacht Design
• builder Lyman-Morse
• model Paris 63
• construction composite, vacuumed infused with epoxy and post cured
• hull material eglass, carbon, kevlar, epoxy

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Dr. Stanley Paris, discusses Kiwi Spirit, a custom designed 63-foot yacht, with the ultimate goal of sailing solo, non-stop, and unassisted, around the world. He will take on this incredible challenge at the age of 76, aiming to be the oldest person to ever accomplish such a feat. His voyage will be completely green, using no hydrocarbons whatsoever, while educating classrooms of children about his experience as he sails the globe.

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Kiwi Spirit: A 63-foot Globe Girdler from Lyman-Morse

• By Herb McCormick
• Updated: December 7, 2012

New Zealand sailor Stanley Paris is a rare character, equal parts doer and dreamer. By profession a highly successful educator and physical therapist, he has also completed the grueling Ironman Triathlon in Hawai’i and twice swum the English Channel. So it’s safe to say his record as a guy who gets things done is well established.

Like all sailors—and with a circumnavigation to his credit, he most definitely qualifies on that count—he is also prone to bouts of reverie, imagining in his mind’s eye his next distant landfall. But it’s also no exaggeration to note that Stanley’s daydreams are much bigger and bolder than your average mariner’s. For a little less than a year from now, he will set off from his home in St. Augustine, Florida, to begin a truly epic voyage, a non-stop spin around the planet that he hopes to complete in 120 days or less.

By the way, when he hoists sail to start his trip, he will be 76 years old. If his dreams come true, when he returns he will be the record-setting, “most senior” sailor ever to complete such an arduous journey.

As I discovered late last month during one of his initial sea trials off Newport, Rhode Island, he certainly has the tool for the job—a stunning, 63-foot 8-inch state-of-the-art offshore cruiser, the Paris 63, designed by the engineers at Farr Yacht Design and lovingly brought to existence with extraordinary attention to detail by the craftsmen at the Maine shipyard of Lyman-Morse.

Stanley’s boat—the appropriately named Kiwi Spirit —is a unique vessel on several fronts. For now, the yacht is fit out as a lavishly appointed cruising boat with full amenities, including staterooms, a powerful diesel, a generator, refrigeration, and just about everything you’d want in a long-range voyager. However, when Stanley takes off for the high seas, almost all of it will be gone.

Yes, nearly everything down below—the modular furniture and the heavy-duty machinery—can be removed via the companionway, and that will be the fate of nearly all the gear and creature comforts before Stanley departs. Among his many goals will be the first-ever completion of a completely green, non-stop and non-assisted passage, with nary a drop of fuel aboard. Instead, for power, he will rely on a suite of solar panels, a series of wind generators, and a quartet of hydro-generators, the juice from which will be stored in a bank of ion phosphate batteries.

Afterwards, all the good stuff will come back on board and Stanley will take his wife cruising. Kiwi Spirit , with a lifting keel and a convertible interior, is most certainly the definition of a dual-purpose boat.

We’ll get into more detail on Stanley and his steed in the February issue of Cruising World . For now, all I can say is, as I drove Kiwi Spirit upwind at 10 easy knots on Narragansett Bay, I had a dream of my own. What would it be like to be a stowaway?

For more on Stanley Paris and his quest, visit his website .

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With new boat, a final try at setting a sailing record

At 81, stanley paris wants to be oldest to sail solo, nonstop around world.

ST. AUGUSTINE — Dr. Stanley Paris has a new boat and an old goal ready to cross the horizon.

The Kiwi Spirit II is set to depart Thursday when Paris will start his last attempt to become the oldest man to ever sail nonstop, solo around the world. He expects to go through the Bridge of Lions about 12:30 p.m.

He is 81 years old.

“The boat was designed in France [a model Finot-Conq 53] and I had it built in Germany and then I sailed it from Germany to the United States and prepared it for this event,” Paris said.

A physical therapist by profession, Paris has sailed since he was 7 years old as a part of Sea Scouts in New Zealand and lived on a sailboat in Boston Harbor for two years in the 1960s.

“In 1998, I had a boat built for me in Sweden and I went there and I sailed from Sweden back to the United States and then around the world over a period of four or five years, leaving the boat in different ports and coming home, going down with family or friends and sailing it to the next place and so, between 1998 and 2002 I went ‘round the world.”

He has sailed across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and has visited England, Alaska, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and the Caribbean.

In retirement, though, he began preparing for his current goal of sailing around the world.

“I leave St. Augustine here and go around Bermuda. ... and the route will be down the Caribbean staying well away from the islands of course, getting around Brazil, then heading south to get under South Africa and then going east under South Africa and Australia, under New Zealand, under South America and then heading up north again through the south Atlantic backup to Bermuda, after rounding Brazil, after rounding Bermuda, then back into St. Augustine where I suspect if I succeed there will be quite a welcome.”

This is fourth attempt. His first boat was named the Kiwi Spirit — he is originally from New Zealand — and was 64-feet long, which made it more difficult for one person to handle.

In 2014 he started off to sail solo, nonstop around the world. He set out on the Kiwi Spirit only to realize that the fittings for the mast and sails that make everything hold fast to the boat were coming loose.

“I was getting to the southern hemisphere south of South Africa," he said, "when the deck fittings became loose and [I] sent pictures of them to the naval architect and he said they were hopelessly too small and and I shouldn't carry on.”

Nothing he could fix at sea, Paris motored to Cape Town.

His second attempt, in 2015, also failed when his mainsail ripped in half part-way through his trip.

“That was totally unexpected and it’s a modern high-tech fiber, so not the sort of thing you can repair at sea," he said. "It needs heat treatment and heat sealing and you can’t do that on a boat.”

Last year, his third attempt also came to a halt near Bermuda due to the boat’s electronics not working correctly.

This time, Paris has a smaller, more agile 53-foot boat named the Kiwi Spirit II.

“The advantage of that will be, it won’t be as fast as the previous boat, but then I’ll be able to keep the sails up longer when the weather’s deteriorating.”

Sailing around the world may seem daunting, but Paris is no stranger to challenges. He has swum across the English channel, driven a VW bug from England to India, biked and ridden a motorcycle across the United States and competed in an Iron man triathlon.

He said that although his family is worried for him, they understand that it is part of his personality to take risks.

“There’s always a chance of a fatality out there," Paris said. "People have got washed off their boats and boats have sunk but most sailors manage one way or another to get home, to get back to safety.”

At 81, however, he says that he understands that there is additional risk to this undertaking, “like having a stroke, and there’s no one to help you you’d be in pretty bad shape. And if you have a heart attack you can’t get to a hospital quickly either.”

He said that he knows the odds are against him on this trip, but he is still trying to prepare both himself and the boat to go around the world.

“The odds of success are not high," he said, "and right now this happens to be the 50th year, the anniversary of the first person to sail around the world, and so they’re honoring that with a regatta that began in England and 18 boats started out around the world, 18."

At the halfway point at Tasmania, Paris said, there were only eight boats left. He estimates that only five or six will make it back to England.

“So with masts breaking and keels coming off and all sorts of things the odds are against four to one against success," he said. "It’s not a simple flip of the coin.”

He has prepared his boat with 60 days' worth of frozen food, 60 days' worth of canned food and 60 days' worth of freeze-dried food in case the freezer goes out and spoils his frozen food.

“On a boat like this I hope to go round nonstop the entire way therefore, you only need one bed," Paris said. "Although I’ve got one on each side of the boat, depending on which way the boat is leaning.”

He said that he had made other modifications to the boat, such as only having one bathroom and taking out the air conditioning.

“I had to bring in a lot of food supplies and a lot of spare parts because I’m not allowed to get any spare parts or restock food or anything like that on the trip,” he said.

His boat is set up to make the trip without running any diesel, by using solar panels to power what he needs. He said that his goal is to make it around the world while still staying “green.”

Even with all of the physical preparations, he said that mentally the trip is difficult.

Paris will only sleep for 45 to 90 minutes at a time during his trip so that he can keep an eye on the wind, weather and his sails.

“Obviously you go through quite a few emotions but you settle down. What you lose touch of is with what’s going on in the world,” he said.

He said that he even loses touch with his family to a certain extent, despite talking to his wife every week on the phone.

“She won’t be telling me things that, you know the sink is not working or the stove is broken or someone’s ill in the family because these things I can’t do anything about and it will only worry me," he said. "So, I even become disconnected from my family, from reality and that you know is happening that adds to sort of the loneliness.”

Paris is the founding president of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences.

“So I just like challenges I’m very goal-oriented ... always putting first my business and family, and when I could afford or take the time I would do something adventurous like that.”

He said after this adventure, though, he might relax more in his retirement.

“I don’t know if there’s anything next. I think I’ll hang up everything," he said. "When I finished biking across the country, which was quite a hard effort at 97 miles a day and at times quite scary — some of the roads some of the traffic. I haven’t been biking since.

"So I don’t know what will happen if I succeed with this. I know I won’t want to go sailing the following weekend.”

Dr. Stanley Paris & Kiwi Spirit II

Solo non-stop circumnavigation, octogenerian to make 3rd attempt at solo non-stop circumnavigation.

Introduction

This is about my efforts to become the oldest person to ever sail non-stop and solo around the globe. More than a hundred individuals have managed this feat with the oldest being 71 years and I will be 80 when I start later this year on Saturday, November 14, 2017.

Despite two failed attempts, both ending in South Africa, the first time due to failings of the deck fittings and the second to a complete tear of the mainsail, I have decided to try again. A new boat has been commissioned and launched in April 2017.

I have had a very successful and active life. I have done well professionally as a physical therapist, academically in founding four nationwide campus’ focusing on health sciences, in business principally in real estate and have used those assets to take on a number of athletic challenges.

In 1960 I drove a VW beetle from London to India and back. In 1985 I completed the World Championship Kona Ironman Triathlon and the following year swam the English Channel twice. Sailing has been there with me for the longest time. My wife and I lived on a sailboat in Boston Harbor for two years before sailing to England and back. During the years from 1998 to 2004, I circumnavigated by way of the Panama Canal with family and friends visiting Alaska, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the Caribbean before home to St. Augustine, Florida.

It was not until 2002 when my oldest son Alan decided to sail solo in the Around Alone event sponsored by Sir Robin Knox-Johnson that the bug of solo sailing hit me. I was impressed with their youth and vitality, their planning and self-reliance and above all their cooperativeness when they were in port (it was a planned four stop event).

I love sailing and I enjoy the great companionship of a crew, but solo sailing appeals to me for it requires a great deal of forethought. First the sailor has to have the experience and skill to sail solo. Next the boat must be capable to be sailed solo.  What I also enjoy is the extensive planning from deciding on provisioning, what spare parts and repair materials to carry, staying current with electronics, etc.  Stopping along the way for repairs is of course a disqualifying event. Strangely, some people just don’t get that solo means solo i.e., sailing alone. No time in port, no one to help. You can’t even receive a newspaper or a spare part. You can anchor to do repairs but cannot have human contact or assistance.

Being at sea is scary enough to some people. I have seen the novice go from excitement to fear and depression as we slip over the horizon and lose sight of land. Then when night falls and clouds obscure even the stars we are sailing into a vast black hole, equilibrium is challenged. When the weather turns foul, the inexperienced wishes for nothing but a safe port. Sailing is a challenge and solo sailing is for me the ultimate challenge.

In 2011 while in semi-retirement, I began to plan in earnest. I hired an architect and had built a 64 foot boat named  Kiwi Spirit . The boat was launched in November 2013 leaving me with a year to train before the start.

I have made many mistakes in these past few years and I take full responsibility for them. I blame no one but myself for what went wrong for I chose the architect, builder and equipment including sails and fittings and if I did not choose them, then I allowed someone else to do it for me. Unfortunately, I allowed an entirely unsuitable boat to be built for me. It was too physical, large and complicated. I have had six large boats (over 44 feet) and this boat was the first that if you visited and asked to go sailing the next day, I might have declined as it took so much work to get ready. If you can’t go for a day sail on short notice then that sounds like a misfit. It was 64 feet in length and with a bow sprit that slid out for another six feet, possibly the largest boat that anyone has attempted to solo around the world. It even came with all manual winches. Even the young sailors who joined me found grinding up the mainsail too much work. There were the reaching struts designed to hold out the genoa. These were unruly and dangerous to use, difficult to fit and were abandoned early in the program.

Lead Up Events

Finally I was ready to race and match myself and boat against other sailors. I entered the boat in three international off shore races. The Bermuda One – Two (solo sail down to Bermuda from Newport, Rhode Island and two handed back). I gained line honors (crossed the finish line first) on both legs despite a handicap that made me the last to start.  The solo leg was the most challenging. Twenty-four boats started and only eighteen finished with one sinking and one sailor requiring a rescue.  On the two handed leg back to Newport I was joined by my son Alan and we won by some eight hours for the 900 mile course.

Third I entered in the Marblehead, Massachusetts to Halifax, Nova Scotia race.  Seventy-two boats took part. They would not allow me to go solo so I brought a non-sailing friend along. We got 14th with the next double hander coming in 28th.

So for all the boats short comings I could sail it and it was unquestionably fast. Thus I decided to stick with the boat and got ready to sail non-stop around the globe. After all I had spent a great deal of money and with advancing years I had to get started.

First Attempt 2014

On my first attempt beginning November 2014 about 50 days into it, off the coast of South America, the fittings that hold the mast and sails to the boat proved inadequate and began to fail. Breakages occurred and repairs can be made while at sea but safety cannot be compromised beyond the already inherent risks of solo sailing. The fitting were just “not up to it.” The small screw held the end cap plates but the screws fell out or broke as seen below.  On the advice of the boats designer, I turned on the engine and made my way to Cape Town, South Africa.

Second Attempt 2015

In 2015 tried again. We had strengthened the fittings and they worked well. Everything was working better and I was quite content even after 50 days alone. We were I thought bullet proof when suddenly and without warning the huge mainsail tore completely in half as shown below.

I looked up and could not believe my eyes. It could not be true. But I looked again and it was true. This sail could not be repaired at sea and any repair I could make would not weather the seas ahead. I was finished.  Once again I made it to Cape Town through some rather heavy weather, 30 knots with gusts to 50.

Would I Try Again?

After two failures, just a year apart I needed to lick my wounds. Was this really what I wanted to do? Retired was it not time to take it easy and enjoy life, family, friends and more sedate living. I had failed before and moved on so why not now? The truth is that after a failure I usually tried again until I succeeded, such as in my first two efforts to swim the English Channel. Could I live with this failure and move on or did I in advancing years have to try again? Was I in good enough mental, emotional and physical health?  I thought so much has been endured and learned and it would seem a pity as long as I have good health and family support not to try again. So my wife and I agreed that I should try again. Thank you to my wife Catherine.

Of course spiritually or is it emotionally, I needed a new boat for a fresh start.  So we donated the original Kiwi Spirit to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy where it will be well used and appreciated.

Kiwi Spirit II

In a sailing magazines I saw a drawing of a fast short-handed cruiser being built in Kiel, Germany and designed by celebrated French naval architects Finot-Conq. In January 2016, I visited Germany and met with the Architects and Builders and could see that with some minor alteration encompassing my needs as a solo sailor this boat could be right for me. I came home, reflected and decided to try again in a new Kiwi Spirit II .

As I write this piece at the end of 2016 it is important to know that I have full confidence in the Architect and Builder but just in case I have this time put together a team consisting of my son Alan and long time sailor Steve Pettengill as the project manager. Steve is full time in yachting and yacht repairs and has sailed several thousand miles with me. He knows well how to make the boat what we call “Stanley Centric."

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STANLEY PARIS: What Really Happened On Kiwi Spirit?

Thank goodness I was off having my own misadventure when Stanley Paris announced in his blog that he was abandoning his solo circumnavigation attempt and pulling into Cape Town. Otherwise there’s a good chance I might have stepped in it like my SAILfeed compatriot Andy Schell did when he read the news. It seems that what set Andy off was a single phrase in Paris’s announcement: “that the design of the rigging attachments to the yacht were inadequate for ocean sailing.” My reaction when I read that was pretty much WTF too.

Andy made some critical assumptions and statements based on that statement and promptly got slapped down by Patrick Shaughnessy at Farr Yacht Design , the firm that designed Paris’s boat, Kiwi Spirit . The implication in Shaughnessy’s response, as published by Andy , is that the phrase in question refers not to the original design of the “rigging attachments,” but to the design of some jury rigs created by Paris.

One big problem in trying to figure out exactly what happened on Kiwi Spirit is that Stanley Paris is not very good at blogging. From his blog we can learn little or nothing about the rigging failures he experienced and how he tried to make repairs. On his Kiwi Spirit Facebook page I did find one post put up by his shore team, on January 9, with photos they’d received of damage to Kiwi Spirit ‘s staysail furling rod and the staysail stay’s deck attachment.

According to an e-mail that Paris sent Andy , this damage was caused after “a spinnaker halyard wrapped around the top of the furler at the head and the furling torque caused the separation.” According to Shaughnessy’s e-mail, the C-clamp jury-rig seen in the lower photo was necessary because the “retaining nut” for the pin securing the bottom end of the stay had been lost.

We know also from Andy’s correspondence with involved parties, and from a Florida News4Jax TV report posted on the Kiwi Spirit Facebook page, that Kiwi Spirit ‘s main boom suffered major damage during an uncontrolled crash jibe. In his e-mail to Andy, Paris says the boom itself was cracked and that the “boom end pulleys” (the sheaves, presumably) for the preventer, first reef clew line, and outhaul were also damaged. He concedes he had no preventer rigged at the time, but notes he doesn’t think it would have made a difference if he had. In the News4Jax report, Paris also states that “the block that holds [the boom] to the boat” (a sheet block presumably) was broken and cracked. Shaughnessy references damage that sounds somewhat similar to this in his e-mail to Andy and further mentions that the mainsail suffered some broken battens, that these battens had been replaced with fishing rods, and there was concern going forward that the boom damage would lead to still more battens breaking.

Evidently, Paris sent photos of all relevant damage to interested parties on shore for appraisal, but so far no photos, save for those two above, have been shared publicly. (I note now that the original January 9 post containing the two staysail photos is no longer on the Kiwi Spirit Facebook timeline, though the pix themselves are still accessible.)

According to the News4Jax report, Paris fell while trying to repair the boom damage and cracked two ribs, but this may be inaccurate. (I know from my own recent experience that TV reporters aren’t always very careful with their facts when covering yachting mishaps.) According to a blog post by Paris dated January 4 , what sounds like this injury occurred on January 1, as Paris was recovering “a light headwind sail” that had blown out during the night. He states that he had been scared during the night as the wind increased, and that he’d had to handsteer the boat as the sail was overpowered. After the sail tore, he says he could not take it down in the darkness, but could only watch it “self destruct” until dawn came.

It is interesting to note that Paris makes no mention of this event or of his injury in his January 2 blog post , which is a perfectly boring anodyne account of passing a ship at night.

Kiwi Spirit ‘s route to Cape Town

It is also interesting to note that even as I am drafting this post, Paris, who is now back in the U.S. (he’s letting a delivery crew bring Kiwi Spirit back from Cape Town as far as the West Indies), has just made another post on his blog stating that he will now “have extensive meetings with the sail maker, designer, builder and others to determine the best course of action that will restore my confidence in the boat and its fittings.” Which implies to me that his problems with the boat may have involved more than just a couple of isolated rigging failures.

When I last blogged about Paris , my operating assumption was that all the money and expertise he had available to throw at this project pretty much guaranteed its success, barring something unforeseen happening. I mean, hell, according to the story I read in the February 2013 issue of Cruising World , Paris was going to carry “a second carbon-fiber rig that will be stowed below in several sections in the event that the first fixed one fails.”

This denotes an extremely high level of preparedness. And now we’re supposed to believe that he had to stop because of a crash jibe, a halyard wrap, a lost retaining nut, a broken block, and some busted battens?

Kiwi Spirit ‘s sailplan. Paris told Cruising World magazine that Bruce Farr designed an extra rig to be stowed onboard

I’m guessing there may be more to this story than has been shared so far.

Here are a few of the questions that come to my mind:

-Were there no spare battens, retaining nuts, or boom sheaves on board? If so, why was it not possible to use them?

-I’ve noticed that Kiwi Spirit when she set out from St. Augustine had fixed furlers for her jib and staysail and a removable continuous-line furler for her inner staysail.

Earlier in her brief career she had continuous-line furlers on all her headsails.

Why was this change made? Were the sails on continuous-line furlers being carried as spares?

-When did the damage to the staysail furler and stay attachment occur? Was this related to the “light headwind sail” incident on January 1?

-Exactly what “light headwind sail” was it that blew out on January 1? Wasn’t it on a furler? Why couldn’t Paris simply roll up the sail before it was damaged?

-Was there really a whole spare rig onboard? Did that include a spare boom?

-Why was there no preventer on the boom when the boat jibed?

-Is the jibe that caused the boom damage the same as the one described in Paris’s December 26 blog post ? This involved what sounds like a serious injury.

-How many times was Paris injured? Was he more badly injured than he has let on?

-Were there other problems with the boat that we haven’t been told about?

Some larger questions I have include:

-Is Paris having second thoughts about his “green voyage” goal? The whole notion of burning hydrocarbons up the wazoo to build a super-sophisticated boat, then pledging to burn none at all on a voyage around the world–while relying on gear like electronic autopilots, microwave ovens, and electric stoves–seemed a bit disingenuous in the first place. Judging from Paris’s blog posts, the green goal turned out to be both a distraction and potentially counter-productive .

-Is Paris wishing he had a smaller, simpler boat?

BOTTOM LINE: And I mean this–Dr. Paris is to be APPLAUDED for stopping when he did. I am sure, given all the preparation he and others put into this, that it was not an easy decision to make.

I do also think, however, given all the effort that was put into publicizing this project, that we are owed a more complete and coherent account of what happened.

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We all had a WTF moment when we read the blog regarding rigging failure. I watched Kiwi Spirit leave St. Augustine. I regret I didn’t cross the Lions Bridge to get a closer look.

He probably would have been

I love Doane’s sleuthing article. I can’t wait to hear more about this voyage. Thanks for sharing!

Good article Charlie. Thanks.

Hi Dr. Paris purchased a Jordan Series Drogue, I do not know if it was on board for his voyage. A few weeks or so before your offshore trip on the new multi I got an email from a different editor at Sail regarding the Jordan Series Drogue asking specifically for info regarding multihulls and use of the Jordan Series Drogue in storm conditions. supposedly for an upcoming edition of Sail. Was the Jordan Series Drogue considered for your offshore passage?

@Bob: Thanks, mate, and thanks for stopping by!

@Dave: No, we did not have a series drogue, or any sort of drogue, on Be Good Too.

KIWI SPIRIT is back in St. Augustine. All looks normal from afar.

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Recently, Lyman-Morse launched a 63-foot custom sailboat called Kiwi Spirit (see “One step closer to the dream” in Chartroom Chatter). The boat is owned by Dr. Stanley Paris, whose goal, at age 76, is to be the oldest man to sail around the world and to do it without using any fossil fuels. To generate electricity for use on Kiwi Spirit , Paris will employ solar, wind and water power.  

Using water power is the most intriguing part, because water generators, or hydrogenerators, have been an approach less frequently utilized by voyaging sailors. Kiwi Spirit , however, will use a new water generator product called Watt&Sea that just might make hydrogenerators more popular with voyagers.

Watt&Sea was developed by French solo offshore sailor Yannick Bestaven, who won the 2011 Jacques Vabre aboard his Open 40 Aquarelle. The product resembles a long shaft outboard motor but without the engine on top. Instead, Watt&Sea has a generator unit at the bottom of the leg that produces electricity as the boat moves through the water. Kiwi Spirit is equipped with not one but four Watt&Sea units spaced out on the transom so as to provide power no matter the tack or amount of heel.

It makes sense to take advantage of all that water flowing past the hull. Since seawater is about 827 times denser than air, water flow can do more work in a given time than air. So, a hydrogenerator seems the perfect solution to making electricity while voyaging. If that’s so, why have wind and solar been more popular than water generators?

One reason for this may be the type of hydrogenerator products available. Most have been units that use a prop/spinner that is trailed behind the boat like a taffrail log. As the prop/spinner turns in the water flow, it turns the torque line which spins the generator. The generator unit is generally mounted on the stern. This setup requires deploying the spinner, and sometimes retrieving it could be fouled by seaweed or trash in the water. And there is always the chance that spinners can be lost to fish strikes, impacts with heavy objects in the water, etc.

Still, this type of trailing spinner hydrogenerator, like the Ferris Waterpower 200, can make a substantial amount of power. The output curve for the Waterpower 200 claims nearly 20 amps at eight knots of boat speed.

Because the generator unit itself is a cylinder mounted in a bracket on the stern, the Ferris Waterpower 200 can also be fitted with an air blade and hoisted into the rigging to be used as a wind generator. This type of flexibility allows voyagers to continue to make electricity even while at anchor.   

The Watt&Sea unit is designed for water only and can’t be used as a wind generator. One big plus for the Watt&Sea, however, is ease of deployment. The generating unit is mounted at the end of a fin-like aluminum strut (in either 38- or 24-inch lengths for the cruising model). The strut is attached to the mounting bracket with a pin. The entire unit can rotate on the pin and be spun up out of the water. So, deploying the Watt&Sea is a little bit like pushing the rudder down on a Sunfish sailboat. Once down, the unit is fully immersed in the water stream. Since the propeller is well below the water surface, it is less likely to be fouled by seaweed or other trash. The strut can still suffer damage from heavier, floating flotsam like logs, however.

Fitted with a standard 9.5-inch propeller, the reported output of the Watt&Sea unit is impressive. At eight knots of boat speed, the unit can produce 200 watts (approximately 16 amps at 12 volts). With the larger 11-inch propeller, output can reportedly reach as high as 400 watts (33 amps at 12 volts) at eight knots. Larger boats that can maintain higher speeds through the water should be able to do even better.  

The Watt&Sea also comes in a racing model that has a hydraulically controlled variable pitch propeller. All the race boats in the current Vendée Globe Race are equipped with Watt&Sea racing systems.

A similar type of hydrogenerator, the Aquair UW is offered by Ampair (available from Solar Power Marine: www.solarpowermarine.com), although its electrical output is not as high as the Watt&Sea units.

For some voyagers, one drawback to the Watt&Sea product could be the price. The cruising models have a suggested retail price of $5,995 for the cruising package (includes the generator, strut, 12-volt converter, three-bladed propeller, bracket and fasteners). Compare that to the Ferris 200, which has a cost of $1,899. The Watt&Sea racing version has a suggested price of $18,899. Watt&Sea products are available in the U.S. via eMarine Systems (www.emarineinc.com).

Paris, owner of Kiwi Spirit, will be putting the Watt&Sea units to the test when he undertakes his circumnavigation. His use of these units on his trip and the experience of the Vendée Globe racers will provide useful feedback on the reliability and utility of this product.  

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“Have just had KS on the hard. New rudders, steering overhaul, replaced all anodes, hull and topsides polished. Watermaker serviced, engines serviced and various other bits and bobs. Looks a million dollars! Fresh underwater survey undertaken for insurers.Discovery have now built six 50’s. Latest just launched at cost of GBP 1.2+ million ex/VAT. Surely at current asking and with low value of Sterling KS represents exceptionally good value!”

KIWI SPIRIT is the only used Discovery 50 cat for sale worldwide. Somebody who wants one either must buy factory new at GBP 1.1m on a like for like spec basis or make a realistic offer for Kiwi Spirit. Owner has reduced the price to GBP635k and is open to offers. She represents a significant discount upon new and is available now. Fully sorted. A new build will take a year plus a season of debugging and usual warranty issues!

The boat has just been hauled and has had an under water inspection by a professional marine surveyor. She has had her copper coat antifouling refreshed. Engines have been serviced and on a preventative maintenance basis the sail drive diaphragms have been replaced. At the same time we have replaced propeller seals and bearings. She has a new sprayhood and Bimini.

In short she is a turn-key proposition, ready to go, in first class order throughout with full cruising inventory and could be in the Caribbean for the winter season.

KIWI SPIRIT is set up for short-handed world cruising with effortless handling, in style and with considerable comfort.  She is fully equipped and truly ready for “take off”.   This exceptional and rare Discovery 50 is essentially a turn-key proposition. Sail handling is a facilitated with twin furling head sails, self-tacking jib and in mast-furling along with electric winches. All the re-fitting and upgrades have been done and most importantly she is “fully sorted”. The high specifications speaks for itself.

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KIWI SPIRIT was formally named DISCOVERY MAGIC and originally built for the Chairman of Discovery Yachts Ltd. This vessel received much acclaim in the yachting press.

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Cruising World – Best Import boat 2011

Cruising World – Best catamaran 2011

SAIL best boats – Best Multihull 2011

SAIL best boats – Best accommodation 2011

This beautiful 50ft catamaran is like new. Kiwi Spirt was acquired by the current owner in 2013 with the intention of sailing her back to New Zealand. The current owner is a very experienced multihull owner and has spent a lot of time and money getting her up to his exacting standards and ready to cruise the world. Where it has been possible to improve upon the original specification then the current owner has done so – with no expense spared!

The only reason for sale is a change in circumstances due a terminal illness. Consequently, since purchase, she has had exceptionally little used but has been fastidiously maintained. She is available at a substantial discount upon replacement cost.  She is sparkling and is equipped with everything you need to go long (or short) distance live aboard cruising  New sails, new batteries, new paint job and new bits everywhere with most of it having little or no use since re-commissioning.

KIWI SPIRIT is set up for short-handed world cruising with effortless handling, in with style and with considerable comfort.  She is fully equipped and truly ready for “the off”.   She is essentially a turn-key proposition. All the re-fitting and expense have been done and most importantly she is “fully sorted”. The high specifications speaks for itself.

Owners Comments: 

Having completed a 5-year circumnavigation in a 65ft monohull I reached the conclusion that the ideal vessel for live-board long distance cruising has to be a catamaran. One spends a lot of time at anchor so stability, good visibility and an inside-outside flow are all desirable characteristics. A good dingy is essential – preferably a RIB. A cat provides an excellent platform for a good RIB kept on davits. This makes for quick easy dingy drop and retrieval. The transom steps on a catamaran provide ease of boarding. All essential attributes for comfortable live aboard cruising.

Before purchasing Discovery Magic and transforming her into Kiwi Spirit, I looked at and tried all the well-known production Catamarans in the size range 45ft to 55ft (and some lesser known designs). All were found lacking in one respect or another – until we came across the Discovery 50. By Catamaran standards Kiwi Spirit has to be one of the best looking cats afloat. She is much admired wherever we go. By any standard, the design, fit-out and build quality put her in a different league to all others that we looked at.  With all the upgrades and improvements that I have since carried out she would be hard to beat and needs to be viewed to be fully appreciated.

Ease of handling by a retired husband and wife combination was an important consideration. Sail handling is a doddle with twin furling headsails, self-tacking jib and in mast-furling along with electric winches. Good off-wind performance is achieved by an A3, asymmetrical reaching spinnaker, a Parasail downwind spinnaker and a self-furling storable Code Zero.  Upwind performance is the Achilles heel of most Catamarans but thanks to a narrow sheeting angle and a large overlapping Genoa Kiwi Spirit will go to windward, like a monohull, at a sailing angle of just 35 degree apparent!  This sets her apart from the majority of cruising catamarans.

Reliable engines and a good range under power are also important attributes for a long distance cruising yacht. With her twin 75Hp Yanmar engines there is worldwide service back-up. With her optional long range fuel tanks Kiwi Spirit has a range of around 1,750nm under power.

Put simply, this Discovery 50 Cat redefines luxury live-aboard short-handed long distance cruising!

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• Updated: June 4, 2017

In Bermuda this morning, the docks were abuzz with talk about the first battle of the afternoon, a race that many are calling the first match up of the real America’s Cup show: Oracle Team USA vs. Emirates Team New Zealand.

On Friday night, at the Lido bar at Elbow Beach, as pitchers of Dark ‘n Stormies flowed, armchair skippers made bold predictions of the next Cup in Auckland, or of Oracle entering the main event a point — and leg — up on the competition. Time will tell.

I began my Saturday onboard Pain Killer, a Moorings 4800 charter catamaran, docked at Caroline Marina, in Morgan Bay. Over coffee in the cockpit, I glanced down the dock and spotted a lovely looking boat with a familiar battle flag announcing the presence of Kiwi Spirit, or in this case Kiwi Spirit II. And right beside the blue and white hull was owner Stanley Paris, who on the original Kiwi Spirit, tried twice to sail round the world, starting from Bermuda, only to be turned back both times by boat woes off Cape Town.

Now, with his new 53-foot, Finot Conq- designed boat, built by at the Knierim Yachtbau in Kiel, Germany, Stanley is gearing up for another go-round, and this time feels more confident about handling a boat that’s considerably lighter and 10 feet shorter than his previous ride.

He’s quick to credit his project manager, round-the-world singlehanded racer Steve Pettengill, for arriving at a more manageable design and layout.

“I feel more secure on this boat, said Paris, as he washed flags that had somehow been doused in leaking diesel on his shakedown transatlantic sail. “I feel confident I can singlehand it.”

Stanley, soon to be 80, took delivery of the boat in Germany, and with a crew of four, including Pettengill, sailed to Horta. In the Azores, half the crew departed, and Stanley and another mate made the crossing to Bermuda, though the intent had been to make a landfall in Newport, R.I. to participate in the Bermuda 1-2. Delivery delays, along with weather along the northern route across the Atlantic made the start of the singlehanded portion of the contest impractical, though he still plans to make the return to Newport — the double-handed portion of the race — with his son.

This summer, he plans to enter the Marblehead-Halifax race with two sons and a grandson, and then will get the boat ready for his next attempt to circle the world, starting on Nov. 4 from his current hometown of St. Augustine, Florida. If all goes well, he’ll set a waypoint that passes just to the south of Bermuda; from there, his route will take him around the great capes, back to Bermuda and on to St. Augustine. His goal: to be back in time to pay his 2018 income taxes.

Kiwi Spirit II is a sweet looking boat. The hull, rig and custom hard dodger are carbon-fiber. Below, the teak bulkheads and furniture are foam cored to save weight. A large saloon table to port, island counter on the center line and nav station to starboard are designed to provide lots of handholds and places to brace oneself at sea. Aft to starboard is a guest cabin with twin bunks, to port is a full-on workshop. Forward of the mast, the boat is for the most part bare, with just a double berth to port with stout-looking lee cloths. In the bow, there’s space for sails for now, but it will eventually be finished as a head an shower.

From stem to stern, Kiwi Spirit II looks set to sail, and Stanley says he’s ready to go. It’s time, he said, to get the job done.

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Kiwi Spirit Yacht | 53' Finot 2017

FC 53 built by Finot-Conq is a fast comfortable cruiser racer that was desinged to go round the world single handed, she boasts a good galley, large stateroom forward with bed to port up forward of the salon and another double berth aft, on the stbd side, The port aft is a walk in workshop with acess to engine and generator..

Large fixed hard carbon fibre dodger protects the crew from the elements, with twin wheels this vessel is capable of single handed control or as a comfortable family cruiser. 

Denison Yachting is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Sparkman & Stephens, LLC.

Denison Yacht Sales offers the details of this yacht in good faith but can’t guarantee the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of this boat for sale. This yacht for sale is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal from that yacht market without notice. She is offered as a convenience by this yacht broker to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a specific yacht for sale.

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• Yacht Details: 53' Finot 2017
• Location: Portsmouth, RI
• Engines: VOLVO
• Last Updated: Oct 30, 2023
• Asking Price: $1,350,000
• Max Draft: 12'

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• Beam: 17' 3''
• Hull Material: Composite
• Fuel Tank: 2 x 350|liter
• Fresh Water: 2 x 300|liter
• Single Berths: 2
• Double Berths: 1

Kiwi spirit is water ballasted with 1 ton of water, she has a empty displacement of 8.8 to 10 tons depending on equipment on board, 

top of mast to deck is 70' 6" she has 36,000 BTU'S of air conditioning 

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Fully Battened Mainsail staysail 2nd  staysail Gennaker  asym code 0 storm trysail

Engine room is located under the cockpit, behind the companionway from deck to salon. It is accessible by removing the companionway and acess hatches in the starboard aft Cabin.The engine room is lined with a flame retardant insulation material. Volvo Penta 75 CV  1200 hours  Volvo Penta sail drive Gori prop 20x15x3   Sleipner Bow and Stern thrusters

4 24 volt Lithium Ion House batteries 120 A alternator

1 12 volt 100 AH start battery diesel 294L port side fwd plus 294L starboard side aft located under salon. Holding Tank. 39L in sft head tank and 69 L in owners head  Water 2 tanks 345L in aft tank and 370 L in forward tank

2 water pressure pumps  water maker installed port side aft cabin.

Boat is equipped with twin helm stations with twin rudders 

B and G 2000 Wind instruments  B and G autopilot with backup Type 2A linear drive auto pilot  B and G 12 inch chartplotter at wheel  B and G 9 inch chartplotter at nav table  Iridium Ph  Sat ph Cobham WS 320 Wireless wind  2 Watt and Sea Hydro generators  Twin ritchie compasses.

Vessle is equipped with two electrical systems  24 volt and 240 Volt  two 600 watt hydro generators for power  Generator  Electrically controlled swing keel  twin master volt invertors invert 24 volt to 240 volt 

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#video MOSCOW METRO ‘Spirit of a City’

LIMERICK band Moscow Metro have released a video for ‘Spirit of a City’ from the forthcoming EP of the same name. “‘Spirit Of A City’ explores several dark themes – feeling trapped by your situation, death and loss, social tensions and escaping the aftermath of a failed relationship,” says the band. Meeting through mutual friends, the quartet’s early rehearsals took place in a storage warehouse, a ten foot by ten metal box that shook with sound vibrations, leading to the inspiration for their name. Today Moscow Metro’s music is epic in sound and universal in language. In the coming months Moscow Metro will tour Ireland and Germany, playing Whelan’s Dublin on March 13 and Nenagh Arts Centre on March 29 before moving on to play Karrera Klub, Berlin, May 24 and joining The National and Warpaint at The Maifeld Derby Festival in Mannheim on May 30.

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