DÜSSELDORF SHOW REPORT
LOA: 29ft 3in (8.91m) BEAM: 8ft 10in (2.70m) ENGINE: Diesel/petrol inboard 370-440hp TOP SPEED: 47 knots PRICE: from £215,000 ex VAT CONTACT: www.windyboats.com
When you witness Windy’s new 29 Hurácan, it could hardly be the work of anyone else. Designed by Espen Øino, it ticks all the classical Windy boxes with a step-free deepvee hull, a choice of petrol or diesel inboard engines, a deep, secure cockpit and a finely raked foredeck. As you would expect, a stepthrough screen enables that cockpit to occupy the full beam here and the way the space is used is again very classical.
At the forward end, a pair of rotating offshore helm seats backs onto a starboard dinette and a corner seat to port. That port seat can also be specced as a compact wet bar with a sink, a top-loading fridge and a bin. And in common with other Windy sportscruisers, the big aft sunpad integrates with the aft end of the dinette, leaving the port side deck nice and open, and enabling you to slide the backrest fore and aft one-handed.
Given the potent profile of the new 29, the accommodation also looks pretty good. The port galley sidesteps the issue of restricted headroom by positioning the sink at the aft end, beneath the curved aperture for the sliding door. There’s a decent bit of workspace too, plus a quick-grab chest fridge beneath the cockpit deck, within easy reach of your left hand. And if you want to use this boat for weekending, there’s a permanent open-plan double in the V of the bow, plus a starboard heads compartment with
