FALCON TENDERS MISS LEBLANC
Think limousine tender and you usually imagine a cabin cocooned inside a low curved coachroo£ “We are demonstrating that it doesn't always have to be that way, director Mark Pascoe says. “Tenders can feel unusually comfortable and in fact not like a boat at all.” Falcon Tenders’ “beach-club limousine” disrupts the genre. The familiar profile lines of a limo – measured and powerful – are an illusion. From above you see two broad L-shaped sofas facing each other across a cabin decked with slate. In the forward cockpit, where the driver perches, a crimson console bristling with four nav screens faces a sink, fridge and storage. All this leaves room for easy access through folding steps forward and a large aft deck with two ergonomic sun loungers. The bathing platform includes a stowable ladder and a towing post.
LOA 34'9”
Beam 9’ 10”
Draft 1’ 10” to 2’ 9”
Speed 40 knots
Lifting weight 8,818lb
Engines 2 x Yanmar 4LV, 250hp
Passengers 16
GIACOMO CASTOLDI ON THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE WATER-JET TENDER
My grandfather founded BCS (in Italy) in the 1950s – an agricultural equipment manufacturer. An avid boater, he imported one of the first water-jet drives, tested it and decided to develop his own system, resulting in the creation of BCS's marine division, the Castaldi company. The water-jet has always been popular in commercial and military markets, thanks to
