RP 44

On Monday September 22^nd 2003 Soca Sailboats Limited proudly launched its latest custom built sailboat, ‘Storm’.  Storm is a one off, 44ft Racing Sailboat designed by the world-renowned  company, Reichel-Pugh Yacht Design, of San Diego, California.  The Sailboat has been built entirely from Carbon fiber and Herex foam in SP Systems Ampreg 22 epoxy. All the parts were vacuum consolidated over fully surfaced molds and post cured in a large oven at Soca Sailboats fully equipped facility. Full engineering was provided by SP Technologies of the UK, with equipment specifications and system installation drawings coming from Reichel-Pugh Yacht Design.

Soca Spars a subsidiary of Soca Sailboats built the carbon pre-preg mast, boom, spinnaker pole and reaching strut. The engineering for these was completed by Bruce Thompson and Keith Carew, formerly of BMW Oracle Americas Cup syndicate.

Paul Amon, Managing Director of Soca Sailboats is an experienced engineer, as well as an avid sailboat racer from England. He has once again incorporated his passion for sailing with his ability as a professional craftsman in this project. His projects have earned Soca Sailboats the reputation for high quality finish, attention to detail and on time performance. It was on this merit that a contract was negotiated with Mr. Les Crouch of San Diego, who placed his confidence in Soca Sailboats for this custom built project.  

Storm is the latest in the line of high profile projects completed at Soca Sailboats Limited The past projects include; the tooling and production of the Henderson 30 Sport-boat of which thirty were built and exported to the USA. A modified version of the Henderson 30 was chosen by Merriweather Racing of UK to race charter in the Caribbean; the Custom Henderson 35 “Crash Test Dummies” which campaigned with great success throughout the Caribbean; the innovative VARA Rudder System and (CRO) Contained Retractable Outboard Unit; finally, the LS10 a modified version of the famous S&S designed Tarten Ten. Now in production is the SOCA MR15 a multi role youth dinghy designed in collaboration with the leading dinghy designer Phil Morison to suit the needs of the Caribbean Sailing Schools and a training dinghy for other Olympic classes.

Southern Caribbean Sailboats Limited has explicitly proven that they rank with the best custom builders in the world when it comes to producing high performance sailboats. They are the perfect choice to make for your next project whether it is a custom designed one off, a limited run production or a full production boat, including all the necessary tooling. They will ensure state of the art methods are used in a full range of materials and a high level fit and finish at an affordable price. 

Storm is the Winner of the following Regattas:
Key West Race Week in January 2004 fresh out the box
Angostura Tobago Race Week 2004
Antigua Race Week 1st in Class Racing Class II 2005

For further information contact the factory at (868) 627-0092 or at sales@socasailboats.com