Feeling 39

Unlike their younger sisters Feeling 39 designed by renowned expert on high-speed sailing vessels of Philippe Briand. This circumstance radically affected the seaworthiness of this cruiser — Feeling 39 is not only able to walk significantly steeper for wind than most of her classmates, she still makes it faster than others. Its driving characteristics on acute courses sufficient to classify this boat to a class of high speed cruisers (performance cruiser). In the foreign press Feeling 39 sometimes called the "bloated boat", referring to the fact that its handling characteristics (and, especially, acceleration dynamics on the wind) the behavior of the yacht like it was a light skiff. The firm outlined the concept of this yacht is as Multihull fraction, and later coined the term "manimaran", implying that that the boat, being odnoklubnikom, combines the features of a catamaran — like: shallow draft (70 cm with raised keel), very large internal volumes and outstanding dynamics under sail.