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Depending on your perspective, SA is a richly eclectic melting pot, offering a varied consortium of personalities and exciting boats, or it is a drunken hodge podge of jackasses and half-ass boats. And also depending on said view, this boat, the SMAK 30 is one or the other. I'm voting for the former. The following report comes from Kevin Peet of the RNZYS. Enjoy. The new Smak 30 was a bar talk project; we started talking about canting keels over a few rums. After seeing the performance of Wild Oats, we decided to research boats and came up with the SMAK 30 (Smak is the initials of the owners). We started with a 26-foot hull then redesigned by the Syndicate and then build it to suit the canting keel. The hull and decks are foam core and carbon chain plates and carbon mast and retractable prod. All up the Smak weighs 1100kg with 350 kgs lead on a 2.2m canting keel. The keel cants at about 40 degrees. We have fitted a lifting centreboard just in front of the keel. The sail programme is run by 2 of the owners that work at Doyle Sails NZ. We had our first race over the weekend; it was a 45mile round Waiheke race. Top speed for the day was 18 knots in around 20 knots of breeze. The Smak performed exceptional well giving the 40 footers a run. The SMAK is intended to race at the RNZYS mainly concentrating on harbour courses although we will race in short handed and coastal races complying to cat 3 safety requirements.
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