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Wauquiez Centurion 40 |
Brief details |
Builder |
Henri Wauquiez, Neuville en Ferrain, France |
The Centurion 40 is a fast, elegant and highly seaworthy cruiser designed by Rob Humphreys and Ed Dubois, built by the quality French manufacturer Henri Wauquiez. Although she has seven berths, she is ideal for two couples, as she has separate heads by the fore and aft cabins. The eaxample illustrated has the optional shallow draught lead bulb keel. |
LOA |
39' 7" |
Sail area |
1,098 sq ft main and genoa |
LWL |
32' 10" |
Rig |
Sloop |
Beam |
13' 5" |
Cabins |
Forecabin, forward heads, saloon, aft heads and aft cabin |
Draught |
5' 3" |
Berths |
7 |
Displacement |
9.5 tons |
Engine |
Volvo diesel |
Ballast |
3.6 tons |
BHP |
59 |
Keel type |
Lead Scheel keel and spade rudder |
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Wauquiez is named after Henri Wauquiez, who built his first yacht in 1965. Wauquiez boats were always more expensive than those from other French builders, the company sometimes being referred to as a boutique yacht builder. Wauquiez aimed to build boats with the same combination of performance and quality as Nautor Swans. Most early Wauquiez boats were designed by Holman & Pye, and many of the later boats by Ed Dubois. Beneteau acquired Wauquiez in 1997, and sold the company on in 2008 to Group Experton-Revollier, a major French industrial company. Wauquiez is still currently building cruising yachts from 42 to 57 feet.
The Centurion 40 was designed by a collaboration of Ed Dubois and Rob Humphreys, and was said to be a fast cruising derivative of the very successful One Ton Cup racer "Jade", a Humphreys design. The result is a fast cruising boat with serious offshore abilities. Henri Wauquiez himself owned a Centurion 40 for many years, his own boat only being sold on after his death in 1999.
The Centurion 40 is one of a series of Centurion branded yachts built by Wauquiez over the years in sizes ranging from 32 to 61 ft. The 40 was built with either a deep lead keel giving 7' 6 draught or a lead bulbed keel giving just 5' 3 " draught - this yacht being the much more practical for cruising shallow keel option. The keel is a "Scheel keel", this type of keel being a modified bulb with a concave upper section giving some of the hydrodynamic advantages of a wing keel without the wing keel's serious disadvantages when drying out.
The Centurion 40 was built from 1988 to 1993, with 33 boats built. There was also a later Centurion 40S
model built from 2002 to 2007 with over 100 built. |
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