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Joubert Daimien Ii

Estimated price for orientation: 206 090 $

Category: Cruisers
Class: Sail

Joubert Daimien Ii

India is a semi-custom 50’ steel schooner built by M.E.T.A. ship yards of France and designed by Michel Joubert. Construction is lapstrake steel. The hull is round bilge, fin keel with external skewed rudder. She was commissioned in 1983 following the design of the famous yacht designer Michel Joubert and constructed at the META shipyard in France and put into service.

META built these boats supported by big wheels at the bow and stern, so the hull was slowly rotated during construction, making it convenient to work on. Steel hull plating is 4 mm – 6 mm thick (thinner above water line) welded clinker (overlap) style rolled steel with 8mm x 6 cm frames spaced 46 cm apart. The plates are fully welded, inside and out, with the overlaps such that water does not stay on the interior welds (to avoid corrosion).

India has been schooner rigged with oversized rigging and short powerful masts and spreaders. This set up together with a schooner rig enables easy handling of sails in all conditions witth a small crew offering maximum safety at sea.

Due to the solid steel construction with substantial hull thickness and through the dense arrangement of stringers and frames, it is particularly suitable for use in Arctic and Antarctic waters and built for all waters of this planet.

This has been proven by Damien, Pagan, Issuma and other her sisters carrying out charters and expeditions even in winters in north and south polar regions.