THE PERFECT FOIL

Creating the perfect blue-water sailing yacht is not a matter of chance. It requires a team of specialists working in harmony under the direction of a knowledgeable owner. Fortunately, Canova had such a team. Her owner, a passionate sailor with more than 42 years’ experience, had previously owned nine yachts from notable yards such as Baltic, Swan and Wally. He raced some, but pure cruising is his real love and he had hoped to circumnavigate in his previous Canova , a 117ft Baltic.

“The first was a great blue-water cruiser,” the owner explains, “but in reality it was a traditional semi-custom cruising yacht with little focus on performance, and difficult to sail short-handed. So I decided to start again with a new , larger, with much better performance and focused entirely on blue-water cruising – nothing more.” By now, he knew exactly what he wanted: “Optimum seagoing comfort; easy maintenance in remote areas; lots of shade in the cockpit; tenders stowed below