Name: WASZP - the one design foiler
Brand: WASZP
Price: 11400.00 USD
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WASZP goes global

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Five months since the shipment of the first productions WASZP's - here's where we are at…

Production Update

It’s been a very busy time for the WASZP team over the past few months.

Since the first boats left the factory at the end of June we have now shipped nearly 200 WASZP’s.

It’s been a massive task but we have been thrilled by the strong support and enthusiastic feedback from the first batch of WASZP owners.

As at the end of October, here are some of the key statistics:

Total Boats shipped: 167

Countries: 24

Top 5 countries – USA (41 boats), New Zealand (26), Australia (17), Italy (13), Uruguay (10)

Areas: Europe (33%), Asia Pacific (29%) North America (28%), South America 10%

Europe: Italy (13), Switzerland (8), Norway (7), UK (6), Germany (4), Sweden (4), Spain (4), Netherland (3), France (2), Austria (1), Finland (1), Ireland (1), Poland (1)

Asia Pacific: New Zealand (26), Australia (17), Japan (3), China (2), Hong Kong (1)

North America: USA (41), Bermuda (3), Canada (2)

South America: Uraguay (10), Chile (4), Argentina (2)

In the USA, the biggest single country, California currently has the most boats of any state with 6 but there is some nice spread with fleets in:

New England - 10 boats in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
Mid Atlantic – 6 boats in New York, New Jersey and Maryland
South East - 8 boats in Virginia, Florida and Tennessee
Mid West – 5 boats in Illinois and Michigan
South West – 4 boats in Texas, Colorado and Montana
West – 8 boats in California, Montanna and Hawai
In November containers are heading to the USA, Australia and New Zealand plus a further 50 boats have been committed for shipment by end December, so we are on target for 250 WASZP’s shipped in the first 6 months.

Watch a video update from WASZP designer Andrew McDougall along with footage from Sydney Harbour and WASZP sailors around the world.

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Local Support

As we expand, it is important that sailors have access to support in their local areas.

So we have begun appointing Ambassadors to help support WASZP sailors across the world.

These shops and local sailors are in place to provide demonstrations, answer questions, assist with ordering and provide local stocks of spare parts.

So far we have coverage in 10 countries with many more in progress.

You can find a full list of current WASZP Ambassadors on the Contact page

WASZP in New Zealand going off

WASZP has taken off in New Zealand with a fantastic group of enthusiastic sailors jumping aboard.

In fact there will be just on 50 WASZP’s on New Zealand waters by Christmas!

Local Ambassador Mike Pasco from NZ Sailing has been instrumental in this growth with 2 containers of boats heading down south, along with numerous individual orders.

With a sensational community building through the NZL WASZP Facebook page, the New Zealand WASZP fleet is well advanced in setting up its local Class Association, with their first big hitout at the upcoming Sir Peter Blake Regatta.

To get a taste of WASZP sailing NZ style, see the lads from Predictwind taking on an epic 30mn downwinder here

Here is a little from one of the sailors, Nick Olsen.

"On the day we would have had 20-30 knots. It was a very challenging sail. Sailing the WASZP was myself, Jon Bilger and Andrew Brown.
We did anywhere from 20min to 1 hour in the boat. It took us about 6 hours with some stops for boat adjustments on the beach early on and plenty of capsizes.
The wind against tide made it really hard with that much breeze, the waves were a pretty steep half metre at times maybe bigger, it took some pretty aggressive steering to keep the boat from shooting out the next wave, if you got it wrong it was swim time."

Nice things

Whilst our most important benchmark is the fun experiences and excitement that WASZP sailors are having, it also pleasing to get some independent feedback.

The WASZP has recently received some accolades including:

Yachts & Yachting (UK) – Dinghy of the Year – 2016
Foiling Week Awards (Italy) – Best Production Boat – 2016
China Cup Awards – Performance Boat of the Year – 2016
WASZP is also a finalist in the Sailing World (USA) Boat of the Year – 2017 (results yet to be announced).

Here is a one pager from Sailing World Editor Dave Reed:

Class & Racing

Based on the geographic spread and number of boats hitting the water the WASZP has notionally achieved the criteria to be accepted as a World Sailing (ISAF) recognised internal class.

The cut-off for consideration in 2016 was end June so we have missed that deadline but are working to ensure that early acceptance will be achieved in 2017.

The International WASZP Class Association will be formed over coming months with financial and administrative support funded by WASZP to drive a co-ordinated approach to global class development.

Already sailors in many countries are working on establishing local associations via their country authorities.

We are well progressed on the first WASZP international event.

A Notice of Race will be available shortly but pencil in early August 2017 for a trip to Lake Garda, Italy.