This solid safety rails his exciting new cruising catamaran from South Africa is loosely based on a Dean 5000 cat that a Hungarian cruiser/entrepreneur, Tamas Hamor, sailed around the world and managed in the charter trade with his wife, Sara.
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This new cat from South Africa offers a very sophisticated cruising boat in a thoroughly modern design package
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The Xquisite X5 made it’s U.S. debut at the U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis last week. Check out this video tour that was produced a little earlier during the Cannes Yachting Festival in September 2016.
In 2010, the Dean 5000 became a big hit at the La Rochelle boat show, but then the actual launch of this model got bogged down with the various problems at the yard which eventually led to its demise. Phoenix Marine, a major South African manufacturer (in the composites fabrication and shipyard sector) bought the rights to the plans and asked architect Rudolf Jonker to take up the project and design a completely new boat within the existing lines: the Xquisite X5. We were able to get a first look and try her out in some great weather conditions.