The new generation Sailors are far more nature consciense than ever, since the global warming is threatening our planet and polar ice melting at an incredible speed, we all have to be energy efficient and consume less fossil fuels in order to save our planet,  since we have nowhere else to go, we better behave less selfish and more eco – friendly, right…?  A displacement motoryacht needs huge amount of energy to cruise gracefully in blue waters however a sailing yacht, a catamaran or a trimaran which can be as fast as a motoryacht with the right wind and let you enjoy interactive sailing with mother nature.
We believe that sailing yachts are becoming more and more wind efficient with electronic sail controls and are eco friendly with ever improving technologies, as well as lightweight and hitech yacht building materials such as carbon kevlar and epoxy bonding materials. The epoxy laminated Composite materials which are recently introduced into the yacht building industry are lightweight and resistent to wear and tear of seawater, when compared to steel , aluminium or laminated wood construction materials.
The teak is still number one preference of any yacht builder for its resistence to seawater as prime material however there are alternative composite materials which is Teak lookalike and even more resistent than natural fiber of tropical forests which are under extinction…
Either power yacht or a sailing yacht the hull is the most important element of a boat for long term consideration and the new advances in Yacht designing and building has reached unparalelled levels of competence, the bigger and faster the better is the main motto of many yacht building companies and yacht charter houses such as Akasiayachting, Atolyachts, Barcomar, Marenostrum and Stellamaris are leading the way to far more advanced fuel efficiency and lightweight Technologies. (more…)