Cruisers Forum
 


Reply
  This discussion is proudly sponsored by:
Please support our sponsors and let them know you heard about their products on Cruisers Forums. Advertise Here
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Rate Thread Display Modes
Old 28-03-2013, 15:33   #1
Registered User

Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 2
Leguen Hemidy 38

Can anyone give me any info about these aluminum boats, I am looking at one that looks a good boat just can't find any reviews or info about them or the builder?

Thanks, Nick
Gozo Nick is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-04-2013, 13:45   #2
Registered User
 
Hydra's Avatar

Join Date: May 2009
Location: Lorient, Brittany, France
Boat: Gib'Sea 302, 30' - Hydra
Posts: 1,245
Re: Leguen Hemidy 38

Try to Google "Le Guen & Hemidy". I think these boats were sold as "Brise de Mer 38". Some information is available in French (it was a French yard).

Alain
Hydra is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 14-08-2014, 07:41   #3
Registered User

Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Cherbourg - France
Boat: Le Guen Hémidy, Lévrier de mer, 16 m / 53 ft, "AZAWAKH"
Posts: 157
Send a message via Skype™ to Eric50
Re: Leguen Hemidy 38

Hi Nick,

1rst of all, apologies about the late reply, but just discover your post about Le Guen & Hémidy brand.

This use to be a famous shipyard in the Normandy area, in France, actually the Cotentin area, in Carentan city.

The shipyard does not exists anymore (since end of the 90'), which is kind of sad as they produced very renowned sailboats at their time, more famous than Alubat ovnis during the period to give you an idea.

They had a pretty good reputation in term of quality and performance, higher than their french competitors in the same range of price.

They produce small boat as Pend Duick 600 (6 meters, made from a single folded aluminium plate, interesting try in term of manufacturing, but not convincing in term of performance...), up to 70'+ ones.

Their most famous range in the 80' were the "brise de mer" that had (to be confirmed) 4 sizes (32, 34 or 36 and 38), topped by the brise de mer 44, a center cockpit sloop or cutter rig, with a very nice aft cabin. These boat are very seaworthy and reliable structurally speaking, they are excellent for cruising, not as up to fashion than nowadays boat, but still performing well for cruisers and can be easily blue waters sailing boat.

The decade after they produced the "Lévrier de mer" range starting with a 12 m and ending with 22 m, with 14, 16 & 18 m inbetween. All were J.M. Finot design, inspired by the new (at that time) 60' open monohull class in term of waterlines and with a weight close to ULDB specification (our 53' is reputed to be 8 tons empty...), very fast, seaworthy, reliable, still well reputed.

Le Guen & Hémidy also produced custom boats, and when the shipyard closed, most of the team spreaded in other famous shipyard either in Britanny or Normandy, some guys from the management team went (or created ?) to JFA, in Concarneau, that became famous as well in France, others are still in Normandy, working at the "Allures" shipyard, in Cherbourg, where Azawakh is laying, one of them recognised the boat and asked to visit it to assess the aging and share the feedback after 2 decades of its manufacturing. The guy was pride of the work they made, and we could felt some memories coming up while we were exchanging on the former shipyard.

Today, there is no equivalent in aluminium boatbuilding in France, although they are several shipyards, mainly in term of products, as they are mostly orientated on long range cruising boat and centerboards ones, rather than fast sailing / racing-cruising boat, but if you say "Le Guen & Hémidy" to a sailor in France aged over 40, he'll acknowledge immediately with some admiration.

the range of "Lévrier de mer" was continued by Alubat (Ovnis) up to few years ago, but on custom order only, and I am not sure if any were built actually, on the opposite of the variation with centercockpit ("Cigale") that was on offer and that was recently redesign and still is on offer by Alubat.

Hope this will help you a bit on this shipyard.
__________________
Fair winds
Eric - S/Y Azawakh
Eric50 is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


Advertise Here


All times are GMT -7. The time now is 00:04.


Google+
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8 Beta 1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Social Knowledge Networks
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8 Beta 1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.

ShowCase vBulletin Plugins by Drive Thru Online, Inc.