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Sun Odyssey 50 DS; Sloop or catamaran?

Jeanneau guesses right again in its saga DS. After the success secured by his other brothers of range, it touched the turn to him to the 15 meters. 50 feet of good criterion and balance that pronounce in a sailboat easy to handle and that it offers an habitability that will make us remember the hall a cruise catamaran.

The high-priority challenge for a naval architect is not the one to design the best boat, but the one to obtain it to a reasonable price. The extensive experience of Jeanneau as great manufacturer of series boats has allowed to create this new model whose forms continue being so beautiful and convincing as those of the other models of the Deck-Saloon range that as much success are harvesting. Than 300 units sold more of 54-DS in the last 5 years say much of the acceptance that have the new cruises of Jeanneau. And it is that everything is right its to be. From the right esthetic design of its cover drawn by Garroni, to its careening signed by Briand, proven successfully in models like the Odyssey express 49i.

When seeing it in pantalán it emphasizes his purity of lines immediately, but to the great it waits for us surprise in his interior… What volume. it desires to live it. The hall and the staterooms as much obtain a deep harmony of forms as of atmosphere. The circulation as much inside as outside is comfortable and without jams. We find banister rails in all the sites in which truly they make lack. The experience of a great shipyard notices. The closets, coffers and zones of rammer are also surprising and they do not have competition with other boats of the same length.

The inner clarity is one enjoyed and the clear and upholstered wood decoration conjugates perfectly. As much seated as being standing up a good vision of the outside is obtained doing honor to its abbreviations DS, acronym of Deck-Saloon. In the analyzed configuration of 3 cabins, the two of stern are than correct more, but the one that is really exceptional she is the one of the shipbuilder, located in prow and a step underneath, equipped with bath with separated shower… A true luxury. In its space of port we will discover with affability a small writing-desk next to an ample closet locker.

In the hall the disposition offers a sofa in “Or” against very ample other in the opposite band, next to which is the movable bar whose part superior serves as extension the imposing letter table. The navigation position offers all the surface that we want to arrange to fit the screens and navigation instruments. Nothing else to lower and a step underneath is the kitchen designed in the form of “L” with an immense refrigerator able to store the necessary food for one long adventure.

Under velveteens of the ground we will return to find infinite spaces confined between the reinforcements of contramolde that has been in some points, laminate to the helmet to offer more rigidity and structural security. In the changes of levels of the interior the shipyard has installed courtesy lights LED that besides marking the zones of the hall help to create the so exclusive atmosphere that they offer the interiors us.

The Jeanneau 50-DS has been conceived to be able to be governed with a reduced crew. So reduced that a single person is able to sail it thanks to her aid alone. Coilers of Mayor and Genoa, maneuver resent to bathtub of complete form and double wheel of rudder to sail openwork in both bands well. He is advisable to request in option winches of Genoa electrical then besides being 50 feet, his disposition forces a little the maneuver with the crank.

Sailing, the boat it goes as it soothes, although with very smooth light winds of less than 10 knots he is advisable to start the engine of 110cv with which boat is able to surpass this wind speed. With a little more breeze, the careening seems to wake up and immediately we will obtain 6 knots in the GPS. From force 5 the boat offers good nerve obtaining near 10 real knots and one majestic day's work with excellent passage of wave and great security of navigation.

But the new Jeanneau does not stop surprising to us as we studied its details. In stern for example a coffer dedicated to the life raft has been devised, extremely disguised and immediately access. The eternal dilemma has been solved shiningly on the suitability of its storage.

The new Jeanneau 50DS besides being a safe value in the market, especially when comparing it in front of other European sailboats of smaller vision, offers great facility of navigation, esthetic an unquestionably attractive and habitability without precedents.

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