Malango 8.70

The new design of Pierre ROLLAND

Fast, clever, comfortable....

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Description
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Malango 8.70 is first an easy sailboat, designed for a day or a weekend sailing...

Malango 8.70 offers an amazing cockpit which has been designed in two parts : one at the aft for sailing pleasures, one in the center to propose a secure farniente or discovery of the sea.

Malango 8.70 can fulfil any sailing desire : family sailing or competitive racing...

The interior of Malango 8.70 proposes luminous accommodation able to receive a family for a week end (4 berths - a kitchen with a sink and a two burners gaz hob, a navigation table and a separate marine toilet).

Between her two rudders which allow an exceptional road stability, Malango 8.70 hides her inflatable tender who can get out or in with a single rope.

Her self tacking jib is very easy for sailing.

The 'Malango 8.70 project' has been prepared during two years beetween Denis Bourgigot and Pierre ROLLAND to obtain a stable and powerfull hull, designed for offshore racing, able to provide a high level of performance in a very secure boat.

Three versions are available : fix keel or pivoting keel for Malango 8.70.

Interior accomodation

Silhouette and deck layout

Standard version : description and inventory

Hull and deck (vacuum infusion method)

White hull is of single spin GRP (glass resin composite) with local areas moulded reinforcements to strenghten the structure.
White Deck is sandwich construction GRP + foam), with moulded non-slip finish.
Teck covered cockpit seats, 2 lockers, engine control lever, manual bildge pump, cold water cockpit shower.
2 polyester rudders with carbon head fixed on transom.

Accommodations

Saloon : symetrical layout with two straight seetees (1,80m x 0,52m) - moveable wood table with storage, round opening TI port in coachroof.
Galley on portside with laminate work top and moulded wood fiddles, stainless steel sink, two burners gaz hob, 40L top opening insulated GRP icebox, opening TI port in coachroof.
Table chart on starboard side with space for instruments, 6 switchs 12 V electrical panel protected with breakers, opening TI port in coachroof.
Fore cabin : triangular double berth (2,00m x 1,30m).
Isolated Heads compartiment : GRP washbassin, marine toilet, locker for bathroom accessories, hooks and mirror.
100 l rotomoulded water tank.

Motor and Electricity

Motor
Yanmard 15cv bi-cylinders with Z-drive transmission. Fuel tank capacity 30 l.
Engine compartment with foam soundproofing with 4 hatchs for accessibility (each side, front and top)
Electricity
One 70 amp service and engine battery, 6 switchs 12 V electrical panel protected with breakers (table chart), 4 electric lights with independant switch.
Battery charged by the engine alternator - navigation lights at the top of the mast.

Rigging

Closed stainless steel pulpit, two sheathead stainless steel guardrails with three stainless steel stanchions each side, two stainless steel pushpit at aft end of cockpit.
Stainless steel fittings,jib and mainsail tracks, two triple jammers, sticks Spinloch.
Harken chrome plated winches as followed : 2 halyards winches (30), 2 sheets winches (40).
4 aluminium mooring cleats.

Spars

Anodised aluminium mast 3,5kg deck-stepped with double larges pushing spreaders.
Stainless steel support pillar in saloon.
Anodised aluminium boom with 3 "automatic" reefing lines.

Security

Electrical bilge pump in motor compartment.
Manual bilge pump in the cockpit.
1 compas on cockpit table.

Fix Keel, twin keel or pivoting keel version

Fix Keel : Cast iron keel fixed with inox bolts.
Pivoting keel : Pivoting cast iron keel moved by hydraulic jack.

Technical specifications

Designer : Pierre ROLLAND

Hull Length : 8,70 m
Hull Beam : 3,45 m
Ballast : 850 kg
Light displacement : 2,8 T
Draft (fix keel) : 1,80 m
Draft (pivoting keel): 2,30 m - 1,00 m
Draft (twin keel): 1,50 m or 1,30 m
Design sail area : 56 m2
Mainsail area : 31 m2
Genoa area : 25 m2
Solent area : 17 m2
Asymmetric Spinnaker area : 75 m2
Max Inboard motorisation power : 14 cv

Waterlines of Malango 8.70: click on the photo ( 1,4 Mo)

Download documentation

Malango documentation PDF format : 2600 Ko

Download the powerpoint of Malango 8.70 ! (3160 ko)

Price without VAT 2010

Malango fix keel standard version : from shipyard

61 278,00 €

Staccato or Ker-O-Zen ? Fix keel or swinging keel ?

On May 03 2008 take the opportunity to compare , between Concarneau and "les Glenan", two Malango 870 :

The same boats but Staccato as a fix keel and Ker-O-Zen as a swinging keel.

With 10 to 15 knots of wind from SE, we were able to compare the two Malango 870, from upwind to downwind. Heading, speed, nothing has helped to differentiate both as the performances were comparable.

Anchoring at the "Glenan", the two Malango 870 were pulling their tender out for the pleasure of childrens...

Then, how to choose ?.... When come the time to approach the beach, may be you could opt for the pivoting keel ...and beach to have a quiet night...

You can see more photos, and vidéos !