| 71 MARINE Voodoo Yachts Phone: 07 575 9339 Mobile: 0274 987 021 Email: info@mounteng.co.nz • Machining • Stainless Steel • Structural • Tank Fabrication • Pipework • Manufacturing • Maintenance • Fitting 1 Mangatawa Link Road, Mt Maunganui Hurford’s are proud to support Voodoo Yachts Hurford’s are a third-generation, family run business with over 100 years’ experience in timber products from marine plywood & joinery timbers, aswell as timber decking, cladding and flooring solutions. A leading wholesale distributor offering an innovative, extensive range across multiple species. Contact us and let us know how we can help you with your next project. Hurfords.co.nz info@hurfords.co.nz @hurfordsnz 0800 Hurford (487 3673) The Experts in Marine Technology For supply, installation and support of all commercial and recreational marine electronics throughout NZ 07 577 0250 sales@baymarineelectronics.co.nz www.baymarineelectronics.co.nz Proudly Partnered with Voodoo Yachts Your Local Glass Specialist − Marine, Commercial, Residential 52 Whakakake Street, Tauranga | sales@bayglaze.co.nz | 07 543 3361 T T Hugh de Lacy Redefining fast luxury Voodoo Yachts has built a global image around its range of fast, luxury adventure models. It took just 36 hours for a Voodoo Yachts model XF75 to set a record for crossing the Tasman Sea from the Bay of Islands to Australia’s Gold Coast in May of last year. A normal expedition motor yacht would take six to seven days for the same journey, but Voodoo Yachts has built a global image around its range of fast, luxury adventure models. All catamarans, the eight models on offer feature Voodoo’s Xpedition Wing hydrofoil which is the key to their unmatched speed, range, efficiency and capability, coupled with supreme luxury on the single-level main deck, where cockpit, galley, saloon and helm merge seamlessly. “We’ve taken the very best of every class of boat and successfully combined them into one, creating a range of highly capable and efficient adventure boats, with exceptional range at high speed,” Voodoo Director Mitch Pachoud says. “For an owner this creates a higher level of freedom; with any amount of time they have, an owner has more choices for how to spend it. “The speed of the designs reflects the hulls refined to match the hydrofoil, which acts like an underwater wing lifting between 50% and 60% of the boat’s weight out of the water. “Through this we get a great combination of foil-generated lift and low drag, and stability and robust systems from the part of the boat that’s in the water. “The boats we produce are unique in the world, and their performance and luxury are drawing interest and sales from right around the world.” Voodoo Yachts operates a factory in Tauranga that employs 75 people covering the huge range of skills and plant needed to produce such boats: design, mechanical engineering, naval architecture, composite laminating, boatbuilding, interiors, cabinetmaking, joinery, stainless steel fabrication, painting, electrical and engineering. Mitch’s father, Dave Pachoud, founded the company, initially called Pachoud Yachts, in Rotorua in 1987, pursuing a dream of building high-tech, high-quality custom boats for the top end of the market. His first boat was a 36ft monohull motor launch that, when finished, generated competition to acquire it from among three potential buyers. With the returns from the sale, Dave set up a factory in Rotorua and began creating a variety of monohulls and catamarans whose popularity saw the company quickly outgrow its original premises, prompting Dave to move to a purpose-built waterfront shipyard in Tauranga. By the first decade of the new millennium, Pachoud Yachts had demonstrated its mastery of high-tech marine design by producing everything from racing yachts to helicats and high-performance vessels, and even a superhi-tech open ocean rowboat. From a background in construction, Mitch joined his father in the business in 2017 when they founded Voodoo Yachts, to better focus on the development of hydrofoiling yachts. The boats can hit speeds of up to 60mph, and during the record-setting dash to Australia last year averaged 36-38 knots on the first leg to Lord Howe Island, and 25 knots on the second leg to the Gold Coast in rough weather.
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