A True Performance Yacht Designed by the Dream Team

Combining the naval architecture excellence of Farr Yacht Design, the leading edge design of Studio Suppanen and our 25 years of experience in building high quality blue-water Performance Yachts is an exciting prospect for us at Finngulf. We are sharing this process on the blog you are reading. After deliberation and a number of serious discussions with some of the best designers in the industry, we chose to follow a new path for us in terms of the design process used to develop our new yacht. Farr Yacht Design was one of the obvious choices after we had decided to go back to our roots and once again create a serious Performance Yacht. After meeting the design team in Annapolis I really felt that they understood the brief. "Design a very fast Performance Yacht, one that is clearly faster in all conditions than the current models, whilst retaining the classic lines and without compromising handling and comfort below deck." A tough brief for sure, but enlisting the help of award winning designer Ilkka Suppanen really enabled proper planning of ergonomics and tweaking the interior still maintaining comfort and usability of the yacht. Please return to see more images of the boats in build starting November 1st. Anders Kurtén
CEO of Finngulf Yachts

Links:

www.farrdesign.com
www.suppanen.com
FG43 is out now! The launch party was held on May 1st, 2008. This site is dedicated to following the design- and building process of the performance yacht. We continue to update this site until the opening of FG43 section on Finngulf site.

Still Alive & Kicking

4.4.2009Anders Kurten

Wake me up when September comes

17.9.2008Anders Kurten

Fabulous Crash!

12.7.2008Anders Kurten

European Yacht of the Year 2009

10.7.2008Anders Kurten

First Sea Trial Video

12.5.2008

Launch Day Videos

1.5.2008

It's always a team effort

26.4.2008Jyrki "JJ" Jarvi

A Sunny Day in Southern Finland…

22.4.2008Anders Kurtén

Insane, Mad, Scramble Towards the Finishing Line

22.4.2008Anders Kurtén

Pimp my ride

20.4.2008Anders Kurtén

It fits!

1.4.2008Anders Kurtén

Composite is king

31.3.2008Anders Kurtén

God is in the details

19.3.2008Anders Kurtén

Hull #3 is 100 per cent!

21.2.2008Anders Kurtén

The Deck Mould is Ready

20.2.2008Anders Kurtén

New 3D rendering

8.2.2008Anders Kurtén

Sweet Relief!

1.2.2008Anders Kurtén

Hull #1 is well underway, Hull #2 is now out of the mold.

29.1.2008Anders Kurtén

Father Christmas came to visit - hull #1 out of the mold

23.12.2007Anders Kurtén

Farr Comments on FG43 Design Brief

17.12.2007Jim Schmicker and Alan Salisch

The FG43 Rig Packages

23.11.2007Mike Feldman

The deck plug is ready!

18.11.2007Anders Kurtén

The skipper of FG43 #1 speaks his mind

24.10.2007Timo Kotilainen

The Production Mould Is Detached

18.10.2007Vicke Ruokolahti

FG43 interior

16.10.2007Ilkka Suppanen

Finngulf 43 Press Conference at the Annapolis Boat Show

5.10.2007Anders Kurtén

The hull plug is ready!

8.9.2007Vicke Ruokolahti

A true performance yacht designed by the dream team

10.8.2007Anders Kurtén

Finngulf 43 launch scheduled for May 1st 2008

5.8.2007Anders Kurtén

To Helsinki, Finland
Shipping in May 2008.

Next available boat rolls out in October 2008. Please contact us at for availability.