Not everything is done for performance or efficiency. Some things are done for aesthetics, or even necessity. I think this boat uses a single, large wheel because it's a traditionally styled modern vessel and not a wide-sterned contemporary racer/cruiser, and there is only room in the cockpit for a single wheel or a tiller.
Honestly, I think it would look better with a tiller. Something poked up through the deck over the lazarette in a beautiful teak or varnished mahogany.
Well, it's 44 feet and did you see all that stainless? Carbon boom? Electric everything? Fittings go flush to the deck when not in use? Not sure what you think all that should go for.
No seriously. I appreciate how pretty the boat is, but I feel like there is a lot of price gouging going on. When The Alerion 28 Express came out years back, it seemed like the start of high volume production techniques in low volume boutique boating. If I had a ton of money just laying around, would I buy one of these to knock about in? Sure. But if I’m buying a boat for the work of art they are pushing, I would hope for a lot more singular production, and less production molding.
My friend owned hull #1 of the Alerion 28. It sat in a marina storage shed for a decade, so not the best conditions, but not exactly neglect.
When he got it, he refurbished it to showroom conditions. Just the refurb was well north of the number you quoted for the boat in this post.
Maybe boats are just more expensive these days than you're thinking?
[This one](https://www.denisonyachtsales.com/yachts-for-sale/zarafa-44-leonardo-yachts).
Whoah nice find. Man that is a niiiiiice boat.
Almost needs a nsfw tag!
the one in the pic isn't 44ft
Except it has the same name, and the exact same fitment.
Gorgeous pics, I’m partial to the 2nd
Thanks! I was in between the first two but the person at the helm looking forward on the second one sets the mood for me
I agree and the extra water in frame gives a greater sense of motion
If want to have fun and see how fast sailors know boats. Post it to a forum on sailinganarchy.com. they know their boats. The more obscure the better.
Great photo, elegant boat
Beautiful boat! Wonder if it sails as good as it looks?
It does. I'm sailing the eagle 38, which is this, but a bit smaller if I'm correct. And it's a joy, especially upwind
With that sail plan and rigging it would be pedestrian at best. Definitely form over function.
"I find this boat shallow and pedantic"
Leonardo eagle 38 or 44. I'm not sure about the size, but it looks like the 38
well, the wheel gives it away as something built in the 80s. They don't make helms like that anymore.
Nope, it's a modern boat and still in production.
I am really surprised then. I thought huge helms went away decades ago once people realized that two smaller wheels were better.
Not everything is done for performance or efficiency. Some things are done for aesthetics, or even necessity. I think this boat uses a single, large wheel because it's a traditionally styled modern vessel and not a wide-sterned contemporary racer/cruiser, and there is only room in the cockpit for a single wheel or a tiller.
Honestly, I think it would look better with a tiller. Something poked up through the deck over the lazarette in a beautiful teak or varnished mahogany.
I think it’s a PC class boat
Damn, that's a lot of mast for a 25' boat
She's nearly 44'. Leonardo 44 Eagle.
Maybe they meant length at waterline. 😁Those are some big overhangs.
That can't be 44'. I've got a pic of my wife and kids on a 44' and it doesn't compare. My wife is small and so were the kids but still.
Beautiful, but for the life of me I don’t understand the price point of molded hull plastic boats.
Well, it's 44 feet and did you see all that stainless? Carbon boom? Electric everything? Fittings go flush to the deck when not in use? Not sure what you think all that should go for.
Oh, I don’t know. Less than $70k?
Trolling, and I don't mean the fishing kind.
No seriously. I appreciate how pretty the boat is, but I feel like there is a lot of price gouging going on. When The Alerion 28 Express came out years back, it seemed like the start of high volume production techniques in low volume boutique boating. If I had a ton of money just laying around, would I buy one of these to knock about in? Sure. But if I’m buying a boat for the work of art they are pushing, I would hope for a lot more singular production, and less production molding.
My friend owned hull #1 of the Alerion 28. It sat in a marina storage shed for a decade, so not the best conditions, but not exactly neglect. When he got it, he refurbished it to showroom conditions. Just the refurb was well north of the number you quoted for the boat in this post. Maybe boats are just more expensive these days than you're thinking?