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Outbound 52

Outbound 52 is a 52 ′ 0 ″ / 15.9 m monohull sailboat designed by Tim Kernan and built by Outbound Yachts starting in 2008.

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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)

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Quick Look: Outbound 52

• By Jeremy McGeary
• Updated: September 13, 2007

To provide the sailing characteristics it sought in its follow-up boat to the Outbound 44/46, Outbound Yachts turned to racing-design wunderkind Kernan Yacht Design. Within the moderately proportioned and moderate displacement hull that emerged, Outbound has fitted a two- (or optional, three-) cabin arrangement of generously apportioned spaces. A semi-raised saloon is a few steps down from the center cockpit, and in the deep, central areas athwart the cockpit, a safe passageway galley and a workshop flank a large engine and machinery space.

On deck, a hard windshield protects the forward end of the cockpit and a Solent rig permits a choice between canvas options to suit the prevailing winds or whims. www.outboundyachts.com

Outbound 52 Specs

LOA: 52′ LWL: 47′ 10″ Beam: 13′ 3″ Draft: 15′ 4″ Sail Area: 1312 Displacement: 40,000 Water: 225 gal Fuel: 250 gal

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Outbound 52

The outbound 52 is a 52.0ft cutter designed by tim kernan and built in fiberglass by outbound yachts since 2008..

The Outbound 52 is a light sailboat which is a good performer. It is stable / stiff and has a good righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a bluewater cruising boat. The fuel capacity is excellent. There is an excellent water supply range.

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The Outbound 52 is a Modern Classic Couple’s Cruiser

With the 44/46 well established, Lambert decided to design and build an Outbound in the 50-foot plus range. He turned to young yacht designer Tim Kernan for the boat that would end up as the Outbound 52. The 52 is the big sister of the 44/46 but with a difference.

Kernan took the concept of an easily driven hull, with a moderate beam, and Veed sections below the water and elaborated on it to create a boat that would be fast, stable and very seakindly. He and Lambert did not set out to design a floating condo, instead they were creating a voyaging boat for knowledgeable sailors. I know that when I first laid eyes on the 52, I could tell it had true blue water pedigree and when I first sailed the boat, in light air, it showed true thoroughbred performance yet was easy to sail.

The 52 has a large rig with a fully battened mainsail, a 125 percent genoa and a staysail. Both headsails are on roller furling units and all headsail sheets and control lines and the single line furling system on the mainsail can be handled from the safety of the cockpit.  Couples often stand watches alone, so it is prudent to be able to sail efficiently without leaving the safety of the cockpit.

Down below, the saloon has an L-shaped dinette to port with a centerline bench so six adults can sit for dinner around the folding table.  There is a bench settee to starboard and just aft is the forward-facing chart table where radios, satphone, a chart plotter and sailing instrument repeaters can be mounted.

The after cabin will be the master suite and has a large centerline double bed, a small sitting bench, ample handing and storage space and a head with a large separate shower. You could move in here and be comfortable at home for years.  One of the benefits of such an aft cabin is the reduced noise while sailing, which translates into better off-watch naps and better sleeping conditions in boisterous anchorages when the anchor chain is talking up a storm.

The forward guest cabin is nearly as commodious as the aft cabin and has all the comfort and storage any visiting couple would need, plus its own head and shower. There is a small single cabin just aft of the chart table for a young person or temporary offshore passage-making crew; this will be the best sea berth on the boat.

One of the benefits of the raised desk saloon design is the amount of room freed up below the saloon floor for tanks and batteries. The 52 has tanks for 200 gallons of water and 250 gallons of fuel. That’s a lot of both.  This places all of the weight of water, fuel and batteries (1,000 amp hours) right over the boat’s center of gravity where it belongs.

Two hundred gallons of water will last a crew of four on a long passage for at least 20 days. With the 110-hp diesel auxiliary engine burning about a gallon-per-hour at seven knots, the 52 will have a safe motoring range of almost 1500 miles.

The 52 is built in China in traditional Chinese style with tons of varnished teak, a teak-and-holly sole, many drawers and cabinets and a very warm and classic yacht-style finish. If you have been belowdecks on a Passport or a Hylas, you will see a similarity in both the amount of teak and the fine craftsmanship in the 52.

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Outbound 52 Voyager

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MEASUREMENTS

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The new Outbound 52 Voyager offers sailors a true raised dinette with panoramic views, galley up, VIP stateroom, centerline forward owners stateroom, and a large but offshore safe aft cockpit. Also included is the workshop that has become so popular on our 46 over the past 20 years. Experienced sailors know the added safety that comes with good sailing performance.

The new Outbound 52 Voyager offers sailors a true raised dinette with panoramic views, galley up, VIP stateroom, centerline forward owners stateroom, and a large but offshore safe aft cockpit. Also included is the workshop that has become so popular on our 46 over the past 20 years. Experienced sailors know the added safety that comes with good sailing performance. The ability to sail off a lee shore, to fetch a safe harbour that is dead upwind, or to shorten a passage to within the available weather window are key safety factors that should not be overlooked when selecting your next yacht. Comfort With deliveries, living aboard, and racing in our background, our first goal is to develop a well behaved and easily driven yacht … not just for speed but for the safety that comes with performance and control. Our second goal is to create as much comfort as possible … not just for living aboard, but to reduce fatigue on offshore passages and ensure a well rested crew. Fighting Fatigue The solid fiberglass construction and elegant hand crafted interior of an Outbound offers the displacement required to give the yacht an easy and forgiving motion but its lines and parameters define performance … long waterline, moderate beam, high righting moment, proper weight distribution, and efficient foils. At Outbound Yachts we tackle safety from a performance and ergonomic point of view … yachts that can get out of their own way, not to mention adverse weather, and that fight fatigue with simple systems and excellent ergonomics are simply safer for the cruising couple. Add construction with the finest materials and a beautiful hand-crafted interior, and you’ll have a fun, safe, and comfortable yacht that will be the envy of any anchorage. System Simplicity Adding to our fatigue fighting philosophy, great emphasis is placed on system simplicity and access. A work bench ensures that the generous galley counters are reserved for cooking.

Engine Tankage

946 gallons

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hull Construction

Deck Colour

NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT

Navigation Lights

Depth Instrument

Speed Instrument

Wind Instrument

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

Battery Charger

Shore Power

Holding Tanks

GENERAL EQUIPMENT

Fire Extinguisher

ACCOMMODATION

Displacement(kgs)

19050.88 kgs

ABOUT OUTBOUND 52 VOYAGER

The Outbound 52 Voyager is 52 feet long and has a 16 feet beam. The Outbound 52 Voyager. This vessel comes equipped with battery charger, shore power, holding tanks, battery, bilge pump, anchor, spray hood, fire extinguisher, fenders as well as being equipped with navigation lights, depth instrument, speed instrument, compass, wind instrument.

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The new Outbound 52 Voyager offers sailors a true raised dinette with panoramic views, galley up, VIP stateroom, centerline forward owners stateroom, and a large but safe offshore cockpit that aft cockpit sailors prefer.

https://outboundyachts.com/voyager/

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Divers recover 5 bodies from wrecked superyacht off Sicily; 1 still missing

APTOPIX Italy Boaters Missing Italian firefighter scuba divers bring ashore, in the green bag, the body of one of the victims from the British-flagged vessel Bayesian, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. The yacht was hit by a violent sudden storm and sank early Monday, while at anchor off the Sicilian village of Porticello near Palermo, in southern Italy. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli) (Salvatore Cavalli/AP)

PORTICELLO, Sicily — (AP) — Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found the bodies of five passengers Wednesday, leaving one still missing as questions intensified about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.

Rescue crews brought four body bags ashore at Porticello. Salvatore Cocina, head of the Sicily civil protection agency, said a fifth body had been located. Divers on-scene said they would try to recover it on Thursday while continuing the search for the sixth.

The discovery made clear the operation to search the hull on the seabed 50 meters (164 feet) underwater had quickly turned into a recovery one, not a rescue, given the amount of time that had passed and with no signs of life over three days of searching.

The Bayesian, a 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged yacht, went down in a storm early Monday as it was moored about a kilometer (a half-mile) offshore. Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout.

Fifteen people escaped in a lifeboat and were rescued by a nearby sailboat. The body of the ship's chef, Recaldo Thomas of Antigua, was recovered Monday.

Thomas was born in Canada, according to his cousin David Isaac, but visited his parents’ homeland of Antigua as a child, and moved permanently to the tiny eastern Caribbean island in his early 20s. Italian officials previously listed Antigua and Canada as the nationality of people on board.

The fate of six missing passengers had driven the search effort, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch , his 18-year-old daughter and associates who had successfully defended him in a recent U.S. federal fraud trial.

Lynch’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Termini Imerese Public Prosecutor's Office investigators were acquiring evidence for their criminal investigation, which they opened immediately after the tragedy despite no formal suspects having been publicly identified.

Questions have abounded about what caused the superyacht, built in 2008 by Italian shipyard Perini Navi, to rapidly sink, when the nearby Sir Robert Baden Powell sailboat was largely spared and managed to rescue the survivors.

Giovanni Costantino, head of The Italian Sea Group, which owns the ship maker, blamed human error for the disaster, which he said took 16 minutes. “The ship sank because it took on water. From where, the investigators will say,” he told RAI state television after he met with prosecutors.

Costantino cited AIS ship tracking data which he said showed the Bayesian had taken on water for four minutes when a sudden gust of wind flipped it and it continued taking on water. The ship straightened up slightly and then went down, he said.

But was it merely the case of a freak waterspout that knocked the ship to its side and allowed water to pour in through open hatches? What was the position of the keel, which on a large sailboat like the Bayesian might have been retractable to allow it to enter shallower ports?

“There’s a lot of uncertainty as to whether it had a lifting keel and whether it might have been up,” said Jean-Baptiste Souppez, a fellow of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects and the editor of the Journal of Sailing Technology. “But if it had, then that would reduce the amount of stability that the vessel had, and therefore made it easier for it to roll over on its side,” he said in an interview.

The captain of the sailboat that rescued survivors said his craft sustained minimal damage — the frame of a sun awning broke — even with winds that he estimated reached 12 on the Beaufort wind scale, which is the highest hurricane-strength force on the scale.

He said he had remained anchored with his engines running to try to maintain the ship’s position as the forecast storm rolled in.

“Another possibility is to heave anchor before the storm and to run downwind at open sea,” Karsten Borner said in a text message. But he said that might not have been possible for the Bayesian, given its trademark 75-meter (246-foot) tall mast.

“If there was a stability problem, caused by the extremely tall mast, it would not have been better at open sea,” he said.

Yachts like the Bayesian are required to have watertight, sub-compartments that are specifically designed to prevent a rapid, catastrophic sinking even when some parts fill with water.

The underwater search continued in dangerous and time-consuming conditions. Because of the wreck’s depth, which requires special precautions, divers working in pairs could only spend about 12 minutes at a time searching, though reinforcements outfitted with special equipment to enable longer dives were on the wreck Wednesday.

In all, some 27 divers took rotations, including four who helped with recovery after the 2012 Costa Concordia disaster off Tuscany. They called the Porticello wreck a “little Concordia,” fire crews said in a statement.

The limited dive time was aimed in part at avoiding decompression sickness, also known as the “bends,” which can occur when divers stay underwater for long periods and ascend too quickly, allowing nitrogen gas dissolved in the blood to form bubbles.

“The longer you stay, the slower your ascent has to be,” said Simon Rogerson, the editor of SCUBA magazine. He said the tight turnaround time suggested the operation's managers were trying to limit the risks and recovery time after each dive.

“It sounds like they’re operating essentially on no decompression or very tight decompression, or they’re being extremely conservative,” he said.

Divers were also working with debris floating around them, limited visibility and air tanks on their backs.

“We are trying to advance in tight spaces, but any single thing slows us down,” said Luca Cari, spokesman for the fire rescue service. “An electric panel could set us back for five hours. These aren’t normal conditions. We’re at the limit of possibility.”

Winfield reported from Rome and Kirka from London. Associated Press journalists Trisha Thomas in Rome; Andrea Rosa in Porticello; and Anika Kentish in St. John’s, Antigua, contributed to this report.

This story has been corrected to reflect that Thomas was born in Canada, not Antigua.

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