Finngulf 43 Press Conference at the Annapolis Boat Show

Anders Kurtén
CEO of Finngulf Yachts I am currently in Annapolis, USA, the self proclaimed "sailing capital of the world", having just finished a press conference for the US yachting journalists on my favourite subject of the moment, the new Finngulf 43. Interest was extremely good and most of the major sailing magazines had a representative present. As these things typically go, I gave the journalists a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation highlighting the design brief, the concept driving the central design choices and some thoughts on positioning relative to the current competition. Jim Schmicker, Senior Naval Architect at Farr Yacht Design followed me with a very interesting presentation, giving the designers viewpoints on our joint "baby". It was also good to sit down with the extremely talented team at Farr Yacht Design who has all been working so hard for the last couple of months on our project, internally referred to as "Farr Design number 620." I was happy to be able to personally convey my gratitude towards their overall talent and great work ethic without which we would be far behind schedule at this point. Today was also a good day sales wise because I was able to confirm the sixth signed contract on the new FG43 with a Finnish client. Six boats under contract is quite a reasonable achievement considering that the boat itself doesn't even exist yet. I can't quite start resting on my laurels yet because I promised the Board of Directors that I would sell 10 boats off the drawings, so I have 4 more to go before May 1st, 2008. Anybody out there seriously interested please email me at sales(at)finngulf.com. We are currently looking at September/October 2008 deliveries for the next available 43.