New product : Neel Trimaran - Launch of Neel 60

The NEEL 60 is a lightweight craft with sleek lines and all the sailing qualities of its smaller brother the NEEL 45 – High Performance, a lightness of touch and comfortable sea keeping.

INTERIOR AMBIANCE:

Interior by Franck Darnet Design, combining a contemporary feel with sober and refined materials. The dress code is “Sport Chic”
The elegant saloon cabin offers a wide panoramic view.

The main living area is on the same level as the cabins, allowing functional and fluid movement around the interior—unique for a cruising multihull craft. The central kitchen is equipped with a convivial bar area.

Two tables (one of which is convertible into a cocktail table) can host up to twelve diners.
The two L-shaped sofas face each other in a highly comfortable volume. A large chart table is situated in the centre, looking out to sea with panoramic view of 220°.

The owner’s suite is majestic, boasting a large double bed with a view of the horizon through a bay window 2.5 metres wide. Light fills the space, inviting the outside world into its embrace.

The cabin has a separate toilet and a bathroom with shower looking out to sea through a vertical panel.
Each of the other cabins has its own private bathroom with toilet.

A staircase leads to the central hull where the engine room and the technical area are housed. Here is also to be found the independent crew cabin with its private bathroom. This section is entirely self-contained for the comfort of guests and crew alike.

The layout is highly functional with generous, conserved living spaces for maximum hospitality. The concept is unique, responding to the requirements of crewed charter usage as well as for family cruising, with different versions available
— 5 cabins + 1 crew cabin
— 4 cabins (1 suite and three guest cabins) + 1 crew cabin
— 3 cabins (2 suites and 1 guest cabin) + 1 crew cabin
Floats may also be fitted out as an option with 2 bunks per float

EXTERIOR DESIGN:

Access to the cockpit is through a wide sliding glass door. The large table accommodates 10 guests comfortably seated on a U-shaped bench. The cockpit has a kitchen with sink, fridge and hotplate. There is a wide sunbathing area to starboard. The skirt of the central hull platform offers a large swimming deck of 2.45 metres by 1.30 metres equipped with a bathing ladder.

To port there is a space for storing the dinghy with a rotating electric loading crane for completely stowing the ancillary craft in order to protect it from bad weather while sailing.

At the rear of the side floats, there are stowage bins for leisure facilities (canoes, windsurfing or paddle board gear) with quick and direct access to the sea by the skirts.

Access to the flybridge is via a staircase from the cockpit, providing extra security.

This communal area of 33 square metres contains both the helm and a table for eight people with a bench convertible into a wide sunbathing zone. The helm groups all systems for manoeuvering such that the comfort of guests is never disturbed.

Each side float has large deck access hatches to extra space which can serve as storage for sails, diving equipment (compressor) or be converted into additional sleeping cabins (two single bunks per float).

A “High Performance” option is available with a net weight gain of 1.1 tonnes:
Carbon mast with rail and trolleys and harken ball races, carbon canoe boom, textile standing rigging , Dyneema running rigging, pulpit carbon helm wheel, mainsail, genoa and staysail in Hydranet (Spectra / Dacron) Genaker and gennaker fittings, winches Harken Performa, fixtures in composite core.

The NEEL 60 is very easy to operate even with a reduced crew thanks to deck equipment and electric winch control at the helm on the flybridge. Remote control of the engine and bow thruster from the flybridge facilitates docking manoeuvres.

NEEL Exclusive features:
Saloon and berth cabins on a single level.
A bathroom with shower for each cabin , making 6 bathrooms for the 5 cabins + crew cabin version of the craft

The crew area is entirely self-contained and has direct access to the technical area
Stowage for leisure facilities with direct access to the sea by the float skirts to aft

A stepless swim platform on the same level as the cockpit

A large storage capacity (53 cubic metres) for long-duration storage in the side floats

Not to mention the performance and comfort going out to sea!
 

About NEEL Trimarans

NEEL trimarans is designing and building cruising trimarans.

Founded and managed by Eric Bruneel, NEEL-TRIMARANS is based in La Rochelle, the capital city of sailing in France.

NEEL-TRIMARANS surrounded itself with the best equipment and service suppliers for the construction of its trimarans.

Eric Bruneel, Entrepreneur

 Eric Bruneel has more than 30 years of experience in the design and construction of multihulls, of which 26 (1983-2009) were devoted to the development of Fountaine-Pajot SA, the world leader of cruising catamarans, whose 2000th unit was delivered in August 2009, listed on Alternex Paris New York Stock Exchange in June 2007. He has been successively Export and General Manager of the company, where he took an active part in catamarans creation and development.

Meanwhile, in 2003, he designed and built the fifty-foot trimaran “Trilogic” aboard which he won his class in the OSTAR 2004 solo transatlantic race as well as the 2005 Rolex Fastnet Race. He was also placed second in the 2006 Route du Rhum.

It is the combination of these experiences in the world of yachting and racing that led to the idea of a fast and comfortable cruising trimaran.

Source Neel