Hull construction is simple, with just four plywood planks each side – one on the bottom, two intermediates, plus vertical hull sides
The Ace 30 is a new design intended to bring the scow bow concept, popular among offshore racing machines, to IRC yachts
Scow bow designs are still very rare in the UK and mostly elsewhere in northern Europe. The exception is France, especially on the Atlantic coast, where their distinctive spatula-shaped forward sections are an increasingly common sight on Mini 650s, Class 40s and IMOCA 60s.
Scow designs are now even pushing into the cruising domain. The Mojito 650, for instance, is a detuned version of the phenomenally successful Maxi 650 that took five of the top nine places in the last Mini Transat, with demand outstripping the rate at
