revolution 22 sailboat

Review of Rêvolution 22

Basic specs..

The hull is made of aluminium. Aluminum is strong and forgiving. Where an impact on a fiberglass hull will result in major gelcoat damage and possible cracking, an aluminum hull will probably only have a scratch or a small bend. The only concern is electrolysis. Ensure that you have proper sacrificial anodes installed.

The boat equipped with a fractional rig. A fractional rig has smaller headsails which make tacking easier, which is an advantage for cruisers and racers, of course. The downside is that having the wind from behind often requires a genaker or a spinnaker for optimal speed.

DaggerBoard

The Rêvolution 22 is equipped with a daggerboard keel. A daggerboard is a lifting keel that can be lowered and raised, allowing the boat to enter shallow waters as well.

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Un cockpit spacieux Afin de vivre autant à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur, le Rêvolution 22 possède un cockpit de taille plus que généreux pour cette longueur de coque : 2,45 m de long par plus de 2,8 m de large. Du jamais vu dans cette catégorie. Il est équipé de coffres sur toute la longueur tribord

Solidité et facilité d'entretien

Le Rêvolution 22 est construit en aluminium semi épais : 6 mm pour la coque et 5 mm pour le pont et le roof. Cela fait du Rêvolution 22 un voilier qui n'a peur de rien. Résistant, solide et léger, l'aluminium est le matériau idéal pour un voilier de croisière. Pour la sécurité, une crash box est présente à l'avant, formée par la cloison étanche.

Rarement utilisé dans cette taille de bateau, car souvent trop cher par rapport à un bateau de taille équivalente en polyester, l' aluminium semi épais est sans doute le meilleur matériau à tous points de vues. AFEP Marine a donc mis en place des processus et des innovations en matière d'aménagement intérieur qui permettent au Rêvolution 22 d'être proposé à un tarif similaire à celui d'un voilier en polyester de la même catégorie.

Le Rêvolution 22 a une coque en aluminium semi épais et un revêtement de pont et de vaigrage intérieur en liège projeté . Étanche, antidérapant, anticondensation, antihumidité, isolant acoustique et thermique, le liège projeté permet au Rêvolution 22 d'être un bateau confortable et pratique.

Le liège projeté se nettoie avec un balais brosse ou un nettoyeur haute-pression et ne demande aucun entretien particulier. Avec l'aluminium qui ne demande aucun soin courant, le Rêvolution 22 est un voilier simple et fonctionnel. Fini les corvées d'entretien, profitez de votre bateau pour naviguer...

Un voilier passe partout... avec des sensations de glisse nouvelles

Le Rêvolution 22 ne ressemble à aucun autre bateau de plaisance classique.

Grâce à David RAISON et à son expérience sur un bateau similaire, le Rêvolution 22 donne accès à des sensations de navigation inconnues jusqu'à présent.

Cette carène puissante, avec sa largeur maximum donne un bateau avec une grande raideur à la toile, de quoi amuser les plus exigeants des navigateurs et à rassurer les pères.

Avec sa taille raisonnable, sa quille relevable et ses doubles safrans , vous pouvez gagner les endroits les plus reculés pour échouer le bateau sans peur d'abîmer sa coque en aluminium semi épais.

Une personnalisation à l'infini

Longévité et écologie.

L'aluminium épais et le liège , connus depuis de nombreuses années pour leurs qualités intrinsèques et leur durabilité, sont des matériaux en perpétuelle évolution, tant dans leurs mises en oeuvre que dans les nouvelles applications développées.

Longévité Les bateaux en aluminium, plus solides, résistent mieux dans le temps et possèdent une durée de vie plus longue que des bateaux en polyester ou en bois. Le liège projeté est un matériaux naturel qui résiste bien dans le temps. 100% étanche à l'eau et 75% respirant, le liège projeté ne provoque pas de zones humides même s'il y a des infiltrations. Il est donc imputrescible, pas la peine de penser à refaire les vaigrages ou le pont tous les 10 ou 15 ans comme avec des matériaux classiques.

Écologie La récolte du liège ne nécessite jamais l'abattage des arbres protégeant ainsi les forêts où ils sont élevés. La forêt de liège fixe plus de 20 millions de tonnes de carbone par an. Le liège respecte le concept de durabilité, connu comme le Triple Bottom Line produit du développement économique, développement social et le développement environnemental.

On sait que l’aluminium demande beaucoup d’énergie pour sa fabrication, mais qu’il est recyclable à 100% et avec très peu d'énergie. La durée de vie d’un bateau en aluminium épais est estimée à au moins 60 ans.

Le liège projeté peut prendre la couleur souhaitée par le propriétaire qui peut ainsi donner à son bateau une personnalité unique aussi bien au niveau du pont qu'au niveau des couleurs des vaigrages. Quand à l' aluminium , il est le matériau idéal pour répondre à toutes les envies des futurs propriétaires des voiliers Rêvolution.

Chaque Rêvolution 22 sera unique par ses couleurs et ses personnalisations d'aménagements.

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CRUISER-RACER CONFUSION: Scow Bow Revolution 29 and Gunboat G4 Capsize

This is something I ask myself quite often: can a modern truly cutting-edge high-performance racing sailboat also be a cruising boat? In certain ways, of course, the old ideal of the true cruiser-racer, per the glory days of the Cruising Club of America rating rule and boats such as Carleton Mitchell’s famous yawl Finisterre , evaporated many decades ago. Yet still it is an ideal that both boatbuilders and boat owners incessantly aspire to somehow realize in a modern context, and it is fascinating to watch how these aspirations manifest themselves. Take, for example, the Revolution 29 (see image up top), a new cruising design developed in France that is directly based on David Raison’s radical scow-bowed Mini 6.5 in which he won the Mini Transat in 2011.

Raison’s Mini was not just radical in appearance; it was radically fast and won the 2011 Transat by a large delta, setting a new course record in the process. This success was so significant that other important monohull racing classes—Open 60s, Class 40s, TP 52s—pretty quickly banned scow bows for fear their existing fleets would instantly be rendered obsolete. Development of the concept continues however within the Mini class, which has long been a leading hotbed of high-performance monohull sailing innovation.

David Raison arrives in Brazil aboard TeamWork Evolution in 2011 after crushing the rest of the Mini fleet

What’s interesting about the scow bow, of course, is that it is one of those few racing innovations that immediately and obviously has critical advantages in the cruising market. As in: if you make the bow of any boat much wider you have lots more space inside for accommodations.

Interior of the Revolution 29. A whole lot of space for a boat this small. Note there is also a predecessor design, the Revolution 22, more directly based on the 22-foot racing Mini

But putting a scow bow on a cruising boat obviously doesn’t instantly make it a “cruiser-racer.” What makes the scow bow super-competitive is that it facilitates a boat’s ability to plane, and the other key factor in that equation is always weight. Or rather the lack of it. Load up a boat with lots of furniture and gear and you will seriously inhibit its ability to plane regardless of what shape its bow is. As always, a certain balance must be achieved and compromises must be made.

To get an idea of what a competitive scow-bow boat looks like under sail, watch this viddy here of TeamWork Evolution drag-racing against a conventional Mini.

You should note in particular the boat’s insanely huge sail plan. Prototype Minis are renowned for these, and obviously the rig on any reasonable cruising boat would want to be quite a bit smaller. One question in my mind is whether you in fact need all the extra sail area to make the scow bow fast. Could it be that with more cruiser-sized sails the scow bow might actually be slower than a conventional bow?

The new G4 does its flying thing

Another question being openly discussed right now, thanks to Gunboat and its new G4 foiling catamaran , is whether foils make any sense on a “cruiser-racer.” As I mentioned in my previous post on the boat, it is the first fully foiling boat with any sort of accommodations, and Gunboat has been marketing it as a coastal cruiser-racer. And now in its racing debut at St. Bart’s the svelte little beast has capsized in dramatic fashion, which has prompted some forum trolls as well as a few otherwise polite people to wonder out loud how this could possibly be termed a cruising boat.

Wipe Out from Gunboat on Vimeo .

Watch the viddy here first and then ask yourself: did the boat capsize because it was foiling, or did it capsize because the crew was unable to release the mainsheet for some reason? To me it definitely looks like the latter and that this would have happened, given the issue with the sheet, to any performance cat whether it was airborne or not.

Actually in this image it looks like that helicopter might have been a precipitating cause

Gunboat CEO Peter Johnstone, post flip

So maybe we shouldn’t be focussing on the foils so much. After all, as I understand it the G4 was originally developed as a straight performance cat and the flying foils were added later in the process. Like the AC72s in the last America’s Cup go-round, the G4 wasn’t born a foiler, but evolved into one. Also, of course, it is perfectly obvious that the boat capsized because it was being raced and not cruised. The crew was pushing the boat to its limits, and just because it has a limit (like any boat) doesn’t mean it can’t be cruised. For example, I have a friend who once owned a heavy full-keeled Tayana 37 that was dismasted during a distance race because he declined to take his spinnaker down when conditions got strong. The spinnaker in a gust just pulled the mast right off the boat. Which obviously doesn’t mean you can’t go cruising in a Tayana 37.

I think the real question to ask is: is there a point at which a boat becomes too performance-oriented to really be termed a cruiser? Which really is just another way of asking: what exactly is a cruiser-racer?

Back in the days of Carleton Mitchell and the very conservative CCA rule it was a pretty simple concept. A cruiser-racer was a boat designed to cruise that you could also race, and basically all you had to do to do that was take a ton of crap off the boat and—if you were very serious—bend on different sails. Back in those salad days, that was all it took to be competitive at the highest levels of racing.

These days there are many more variations of the species. There is a vast universe of older boats racing mostly under the PHRF rule in local beer-can series that are very obviously cruising boats that are being raced just for fun. We have a few what I call “captive venues,” the best example being Swans, where there is a small universe of very active racing focussed usually around a brand, where an honest-to-God cruising boat can engage in some pretty serious racing with other cruising boats. We have fancy expensive “performance cruisers” with luxurious interiors that can be raced if desired with minimal changes to the boat (this is pretty much the category the larger Gunboat cats fall into). We have a few even more insanely expensive performance cruisers with wholly interchangeable interiors for both cruising and racing. (I have even seen boats with interchangeable keels!) We have various folding trimarans with cramped accommodations that can be raced in various events. We have families with small children cruising around the world in modified open-class ocean racers. We have “buckets” where enormous super-yachts, obviously designed for cruising in the most obscenely opulent sense of the term, can race against each other.

And on and on and on. The market for sailboats that can be both raced and cruised has become so complex and variegated it is impossible to say where it begins and ends.

Really the only advice I can give to help make sense of this spectrum is that the terms “cruiser-racer” and “racer-cruiser” should not be used interchangeably. Rather we should agree on two specific definitions. As in a cruiser-racer is a boat designed to cruise that can also be raced, and a racer-cruiser is a boat designed to race that can also be cruised.

The G4 I think is certainly a racer-cruiser, and perhaps to some it is an extreme example, but I for one would be very happy taking it out for a week’s worth of high-octane gunkholing.

IN OTHER DEVELOPMENTS: There’s some buzz on the Sailing Anarchy forums that the Gunboat 55 Rainmaker , abandoned after being dismasted back in January , has been spotted again, afloat, but with her coachroof torn away (remember, this is an open-bridgedeck boat, the roof is merely shelter). There’s even one guy claiming the boat has been towed in somewhere, but so far there’s no confirmation of this. I have heard confirmation of the boat’s being spotted, and of the damaged coachroof, from the boat’s designer Nigel Irens via third parties.

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The scow bow helps the boat surf, especially sailing off the wind. But how is it beating into steep seas?

@Damon: That is the question, for sure. Even if it’s still fast to windward, I bet it’s not exactly comfortable. One advantage of the shape is the waterline area is likely very symmetrical when the boat is heeled, but I guess the bow must pound something fierce.

I think the answer to your question is, yes.

This type of fast – cruising, would be different than what cruising has evolved into since the Finessterre days.

Today, cruising can mean a life choice/commitment of living for decades on a sailboat. The cruising sailboat that must serve as a home at sea has evolved into a complicated and commodious(and expensive), vessel.

To cruise in a high performance boats like you’ve posted, means going light. Backpacking as compared to RV-ing. The speed could be a whole new adventure and lure for younger sailors. But it will come at a cost of comfort and maybe will become less of a time commitment, as back packing is(not many backpack open-ended, for decades).

It appears less people today are jumping into the life choice cruising mantra of the 60’s and 70’s. Yet sailing is as popular as ever with young and old(around me).

I see this notion of a lighter, smaller, faster(cheaper), sailboat on a ‘sail’, as having appeal to a new generation of sailors my kids(and their friends) age, as they grow into a life(and the means), that includes sailing.

Speed is good and will take skill to tame(I love 4kts)!

I have cruised and raced my light, go fast boat for 25 years, loved every minute.

I am drawing a 42′ idea, 14′ beam, looking at 10-12 as a good speed for us elders (me 69, she 66). assy lee boards, unstayed rig, two winches, lots of hatches and deck openings. I built an Atkin Ingrid in 1969-74 and sailed her from San Fran to NZ. As a sailmaker who raced 5O5 at WC level for awhile, the slowness and poor performance upwind of that double ender shape was always tough to trade for some speed. not to mention low and wet. When i hitched a ride from Tahiti to Maui on a Cal 39 it really showed me how nice the speed could be for comfort as well. Better wave synch etc.

thirty years of windsurfing speed and early foiling tri’ experience (Longshot) leave a deep impression about how fast we can go… but 10-12 will do for this stage of my ocean travel dreams. plus, samantha isn’t comfortable with the whole concept yet. got to make it comfy. our Westsail 42 is growing on her, and she’s getting used to that scale of living aboard .

thus, i’d love to hear from anyone who has had some experience with these shapes in head seas. i’m right there with the french concept. so happy to let them find out these things before my paper becomes a boat.

bob johnstone sailed the grot baer across oceans. he probably wasn’t in a hurry. but he must have been comfy enough. if you are truly voyaging, and not sight seeing on a plan, you rarely need to go to weather. it’s a choice. you just have to be flexible about destination and time, no schedules. with today’s weather magic on the net there is even more choice of routing underway for comfort… as long as you are more about the voyage than the destination. obviously i approve of aimless wandering… and have a wife who loves the easy sailing, hates the other bit, and is willing to just be out there,

if that is what it takes to bring her on board happily, i’m on with it. it’s all a bunch of compromises, for senior citizens like us to be voyaging viable for another bunch of years, then end up in freemantle or perth with a nice liveaboard until you can’t get up/down/in/out, that suits us.

i expect our vessel will sail very well. a good compromise.

and that pounding thing. i see mushy pushing, throwing the spray off. the slab side forward when heeled? might that pound? i busted the bow bulkheads out of a ranger 37 pounding to weather. once. maybe mushing is better.

i really am imagining all of it more and more. hope to feel the water doing whatever it wants ASAP.

I was watching the wave action and the helmsman action. He did the right thing to release the main but it was not enough. Secondly the person responsible for the genoa sheet was pulling in when he should release. It does appear that the chopper is the culprit to give them dirty air washed down from the blades. Lastly why is it that not a single one was wearing lifejacket in this kind of boat. It is a different class of sailing and may not appeal to some mundane sailors but is it such fun to the adventurous types. Keep it up!

I think anyone who’s ever noticed the sink and wood trimmed mirror down below in a J 24 knows the Johnstone’s tendency to put accomodations into boats which aren’t really safe to cruise in.

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Revolution 29

Pause before you dismiss this ‘bathtub’ of a boat – she has some pedigree. back in 2011, her designer david raison, won the mini transat in teamwork , which featured the same scow-like bow..

Buoyed by this success, Raison launched the rather spartan Revolution 22 as a cruising yacht and the world looked away. The 29, however, is a tempting prospect, as the curved   bow gives her plenty of volume while her aluminium construction and lifting keel make her both sturdy and versatile. The fit-out of the interior is also a real step up on the 22 and the general impression is of a roomy, practical yacht – the only drawback being the rather open-plan nature of the saloon/forward berth.

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Revolution 29, a surprising round bow!

With its round bow, the Revolution 29 offers extraordinary habitability. Visit this new model at the Paris Boat Show.

It's hard not to be attracted by this round bow. But what is this boat that forgot to be pointed? The Revolution 29 breaks the codes of traditional naval architecture . This hull plan, brought back into fashion by the architect David Raison for the Mini Transat , does not leave anyone indifferent. Built in aluminum by the AFEP yard in La Rochelle , the Revolution 29, after his little brother on the 22nd which appeared last year, is trying to adapt this hull to a cruising sailboat .

On the water, the interest of this type of bow is to lengthen the flotation as soon as the boat heels. And as a longer boat goes faster... The Revolution must be faster than a similar size boat. OK for a racing boat, but what's the point on a cruising boat like this?

The Revolution 29 measures only 8.90 m, but offers living space, both on deck and in the cabin, that is far superior to sailboats of equivalent size! The descent into the cabin is truly amazing: the saloon with the Breton bed at the bottom, deliberately left open, is truly spectacular. The porthole that surrounds the whole offers a beautiful view on the outside with even a vision towards the front.

On this boat, the sail plan is very far back, so that the mast sponge is located at the level of the galley. Similarly, the keel well is located in the sink cabinet. It is a ballasted keel that can be tilted with a hydraulic cylinder. No hindrance to implement a square on the front.

The version presented at the Paris boat show has a single aft cabin, but the architect imagines a future model with a second cabin instead of the large starboard hold, reducing the bathroom a little.

Carefully crafted in aluminum (admire the detail of the tiller...), this hull can be fitted out according to the needs of boaters. And the good news of the show is the signature of the sale of the first model by the shipyard on the occasion of the show. The assurance of seeing the production of the second model..

Approval version Cat B 6 persons basic price 128 000 euros TTC

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Hull type:   cat hull weight:   1800 lbs length:   25’ beam:   8’4” draft:   11” fuel capacity:   80 gallon hp rating:    unlimited, revolution 25 standard equipment:, revolution 25 hull w/80gal fuel capacity center console w/(8) rod holders, storage areas & grab handle carbon fiber dash panels w/ mini led push button (8) usb and 12v accessory plugs led navigation/anchor lights insulated livewell w/ fill & pro air ss pull up cleats (5), ss friction hinges & latches auto bilge pumps (2) seadek in storage lockers rear deck rod locker custom bucket seats w/ sliding bases on aluminum frame hydraulic jackplate w/ custom gauge cranking battery 34m house battery 31dm, motor options, mercury racing 450r sm 1.60 mercury racing 400r sm 1.75 mercury racing 300r sm 1.75 mercury 400 verado hd 1.75 mercury 350 verado hd 1.75 mercury racing 250r sm 1.75, controls & prop options, vessel view link, comm module, harness, j-box, steering, race control, hd hub kit prop - bravo 1 fs (250-400hp) prop - max5 st (250-450hp) - required w/450r, trailer option, coastline tandem axle - simmons welded w/alu fenders, custom wheels & tires, std spare, hull options, 80” riser box w/(4)side access doors, insulated livewell & seat cushion mid-tower & 80" deck box w/large top hatch,(2)side access doors, (1)insulated storage, (1) insulated live well & cushion wide gunnel extensions w/rod storage & led lighting, gps options, simrad nss16 evo3 w/ total scan transducer simrad nss12 evo3 w/ total scan transducer simrad go12 xse w/3-1 transducer simrad go9 xse w/3-1 transducer satellite chip - tx, common rigging options, shockwave s5 suspension bases power pole blade anchors wetsounds audio systems minn kota riptide trolling motors lithium ion batteries custom fiberglass color match coolers, cushion & ss strap kit led light strips in storage areas led underwater lighting wade ladder w/flip up step alumimum frame rear bench seat, removable seadek kit-cockpit, front & rear decks - standard layout and details powder coated boat tubing (most colors) low/med burn bar w/optional led light bar tall burn bar w/optional led light bar, seadek step up, collapsable, zip-open shade top contact us   for additional rigging options, pricing and orders, * specs and pricing subject to change prior to bulid..

Evolution 22

Evolution 22 - Vela 77 / STW002494

cabin cruiser

cruising/regatta

overall length

hull length

waterline length

standard draft

minimum draft

displacement

diesel tank

mast height

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standard version

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Evolution 22

Evolution 22 is a 21 ′ 9 ″ / 6.6 m monohull sailboat designed by Julian Everitt and built by Evolution Yachts Ltd. between 1978 and 1984.

Rig and Sails

Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.

The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

• SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
• D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
• LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
• LOA: Length overall in feet
• Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

Cruiser racer with fully retractable keel (locked down for sailing) allows the boat to float in only 10” of water and take the ground upright. Some have a masthead rig. Images supplied by the designer.

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Evolution 22

The evolution 22 is a 21.75ft masthead sloop designed by julian everitt and built in fiberglass by evolution yachts ltd. (uk) between 1978 and 1984., 90 units have been built..

The Evolution 22 is a moderate weight sailboat which is slightly under powered. It is stable / stiff and has a low righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a day-boat.

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