Tripp 56 Offshore Performance Cruiser - A Rare Opportunity

Tripp 56' by Turner Yachts:  A High-Performance Head Turner

This Bill Tripp designed 56' will provide  fast rides in a Newport to Bermuda Racing, yet still allow family and friends to kick back in a beautifully-appointed interior when cruising.

Turner Yachts of Ontario, Canada, built this boat to meet both needs.  The Turner 56', a performance cruiser, sports a raised-saloon with a nearly flush main-deck atop a very fast hull shape. The primary aspects contributing to this yacht's high-performance: high-tech light-weight construction, a lifting keel that enables a deep draft while sailing and a generous yet manageable sail-plan with carbon fiber spars. 

This yacht was designed and rigged to enable short-handed sailing.  She is a fantastic boat, capable of going anywhere; shorthanded, with a small crew or racing offshore or around the buoys. There is a large and comfortable cockpit with hydraulic-controlled cockpit table that hides away when not in use. The twin wheels allows for better visibility and easy access to the stern boarding / swim platform.  

This yacht has a gorgeous cherry wood interior with teak and holly cabin soles. The "U" shaped gourmet galley is perfectly designed for safe use during offshore sailing.  A large navigation desk with displays and complete top-of-the-line electronics can easily serve as a mobile office.  The large forward Owner’s Stateroom with an island queen berth and ensuite head with a separate stall shower makes for very comfortable life aboard. There are also two port and starboard aft guest cabins with comfortable double berths and a 2nd head and shower.  

This custom yacht is as capable racing offshore as it is cruising around the world, while doing both in eloquent style.

"Entrada" a Turner 56' by Tripp Yacht Design

Mr. Bill Tripp designed Entrada and its sister ships with the full expectation of meeting the aggressive designed weight and measure criteria. It was the desire of the Owners to cruise extensively while at the same time to enjoy the performance characteristics inherent in what they believed made the best offshore sailing vessels. They would undertake to race Entrada in such notable offshore events as the Newport-Bermuda Race, the Marblehead-Halifax Race and Antigua Race Week.

Entrada was built utilizing an engineered composite laminate consisting of 100% aramid fibers with carbon fiber reinforcements in the way of structural beams and other structural components. Each aramid fabric orientation was custom designed and engineered to meet the required mechanical properties for the given load bearing areas. These fabric stacks are embedded in an epoxy resin matrix and are machine impregnated to an exacting 65% fiber to 35% resin ratio resulting in extremely high tensile and compressive strengths. The large composite structures were then vacuum bagged and baked in an oven at approximately 90 degrees Celsius for a dwell period of approximately 12 hours each ensuring all fiber bundles were completely permeated by the epoxy resin matrix. Critical areas and components such as composite chain plates were designed as a part of the hulls laminate structure so they are integral to the hull in order to maximize the strengths of these structures. Once all the structural components were joined together, the complete vessel was then baked again thereby ensuring the bonding of these pieces fully exploited the compressive and tensile strengths. The laminate was analyzed by an independent lab and found the vacuum bagging process yielded an air entrapment/content of near to zero. Result: the densest and strongest hull possible. 

This is an important part of the build process to understand as these design and construction details guaranteed conveyance of the vessels rigidity and strength values intended by the designer. You will see as you read through the detail of the attached inventory list, the efforts and care employed during this build and you will come to realize that Entrada and her sister ships are extremely sophisticated, specialized and extraordinary boats that yield only the best in performance, safety, comfort and balance so often desired in sailing vessels in pursuit of the ultimate goal of achieving proper yacht designation and yet so often missing. Entrada is one of only a handful of those uniquely qualified yachts built to date that enjoys such status. 

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