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Coinciding with the debut of the Portugal Match Cup is the debut of the Swedish Match 40, the specially designed match-racer from legendary Swedish designer Pelle Petterson. When the Portugal Match Cup joined the �04/05 Swedish Match Tour, it agreed to purchase six of the 40-footers from builder Maxi Yachts for use in their regatta.

The Swedish Match 40 has a double-knuckle bow, like the ones displayed on New Zealand, NZL-60, and Alinghi, SUI-64, which helps move hull volume forward to extend lateral stability and sailing length. They also are quite narrow with a beam of 7 feet, 6 inches and displace 8,377 pounds. The working sail area is 645 square feet, which increases by almost 130 square feet when the genoa is hoisted. The spinnaker is a massive 1,076 square feet.

While designed to have similar lines to an America�s Cup Class sloop, the goal was also to create a boat that could be transported in a 40-foot container in hopes of other tour events taking advantage of the specially designed match-racer.

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A new yacht with similar lines and performance to the America's Cup class yachts has been designed for the Swedish Match Tour

A new yacht with similar lines and performance to the America’s Cup class yachts has been designed for the Swedish Match Tour. The Swedish Match 40 is a new custom built match racing yacht designed by Swedish sailing legend Pelle Petterson.

Petterson commented: “I was very excited about the prospect of designing a boat that will be sailed by the world’s top match racing teams at events around the world. The Swedish Match 40 is a unique design based on the most recent America’s Cup class yachts. It provide sailors and teams with a perfect tool to develop their match racing skills on the road to the next America’s Cup in 2007.”

After relying on event-supplied yachts for the first four years of the Swedish Match Tour, a desire arose to design and build an exclusive fleet of boats for the Swedish Match Tour that could provide a consist quality of yacht from event-to-event. The boat also needed be of a “grand-prix” nature, utilizing the latest technology and designed in way that would continue the Swedish Match Tour tradition of holding the racing on short courses in shore-side venues, allowing spectators to see, first-hand, sailing at the highest level. She’s also been designed to fit in a 40ft container allowing a fleet of Swedish Match 40s to be shipped to each event on the tour.

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Just got finished today with my first match racing a pair of Swedish Match 40's. We had five rotating teams of four sailors. One team was the Russian match racing team and their skipper is ranked # 13 in the world. We lost to this team but held on to win the silver beating all the other teams. What a fantastic experience to be racing these magnificent boats with an umpire boat calling the fouls and a committee boat setting the races. We went through the 'dial up' in pre-start as they do in Americas Cup racing sailing in circles and bring the boats head to wind and holding position for minutes at a time to see who could gain an advantage. The owner of these boats owns no less than six of them at a cool $250K each. He also owns a number of other boats and a fleet of Shields which we race on alternate days. Racing again tomorrow and I can't wait to get back out there, WOW!!  

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Swedish match 40 (fleet of 6) - maxi yachts.

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Basic Information

Builder: MAXI YACHTS Category: Racing Sailboat Model Year: 2004 Year Built: 2004 Country: Portugal

LOA: 39' 5" (12.01m) LWL: 31' 6" (9.60m) Beam: 7' 7" (2.31m) Min Draft: 6' 11" (2.11m)

Speed, Capacities and Weight

Displacement: 8289 Pounds

Accommodations

Hull and deck information.

Hull Material: GRP Deck Material: GRP Hull Configuration: Centerboard Hull Designer: Pelle Peterson

Engine Information

Manufacturer: None

Broker's Comments

This is an opportunity to purchase a fleet of 6 identically matched Swedish Match 40 yachts. A chance to set up a match race center or add to an existing fleet.

Construction

Hull Construction:

·          The hull is laminated by hand in a female mould.

·          White, high-temperature Reichhold NGA gelcoat is sprayed up in the moulds.

·          The hull is partially laminated in vinylester, partially in DCPD-Ortho polyester. 

·          A sandwich laminate made of 15mm PVC core is used on the topsides above the turn of the bilges.

·          Bi-axial and Triaxial E-Glass is used as reinforcement.

·          The direction of the axial reinforcement is dictated by the major loadpaths of the structure.

·          Hull laminate reinforcements are added at the centreline joint, in the keelbox area, at the rudder bearing and around the mastbase. Hull is topcoated in white in areas where crew is working.

·          The hull internals are hand laminated into the hull.

·          All hull internals are made of PVC foam cored multiaxial glassfiber reinforced polyester.

·          One pair of primary longitudinal stringers makes up a backbone from the stern to the forward ring frame.

·          Two secondary stringers stiffen the hull panels at the turn of the bilge.

·          Six ringframes and bulkheads are sparsely spaced through the hull.

·          A longitudinal mastbase girder extends from the front of the keelbox under the mast bulkhead to a transverse stiffener

Finish of Hull Centreline Joint & Keel:

·          Polished hull joint above the waterline.

·          Sanded hull joint below the waterline.

·          The keel is primed with epoxy paint.

Deck Construction:

·          The deck is laminated by hand in a female mould with integrated antislip surfaces.

·          The deck is laminated in DCPD-Ortho polyester.

·          A sandwich laminate made of 15mm PVC core is used in all horizontal surfaces.

·          Biaxial and Triaxial E-Glass is used as reinforcement.

·          Chopped Strand Mat is used in around recesses for hatches.

·          All fittings are fixed in either single laminates or a sandwich with a high-density PVC core.

·          The deck is glued to the hull using polyester putty, and subsequently laminated on the inside along the sheerline.

·          The deck includes grooves and platforms for hatches and lids.

·          The deck has a recess for two self-bailers.

·          The steering pedestal is integrated with the deck laminate.

·          The deck internals are hand laminated into the hull.

·          All deck internals are made of PVC foam cored multiaxial glassfibre reinforced polyester.

·          One pair of primary longitudinal stringers makes up a backbone from stern to the first webframe.

·          Local single laminates are used where fittings are attached.

·          The main sheeting point is attached on top of a bulkhead.

·          Structural members are positioned in close proximity to the winches.

Keel & Rudder:

·          The keel box is hand laminated with glassfibre reinforced polyester. 

·          The assembly is then hand laminated into the hull and deck.

·          The bottom edge of the keelbox is wedge-shaped.

·          Two transverse bulkheads are hand laminated either side of the keelbox extending to the primary stringers.

·          Composite keel with a cast iron keel fin attached by bolts to a lead bulb.

·          The fin and bulb is painted with a base primer.

·          The assembly is then epoxy filled and faired.

·          The keel fin-bulb joint is joined with filler and molten lead.

·          The keel fin is housed in the keel box, which is integrated with the deck.

·          In the raised position the hull rests close to the bulb in the cradle, hence the whole yacht and cradle fits into a 40´ container. In the lowered position, a wedge shape in the keel ensures zero play.

·          In the event of running aground the energy is absorbed by a polyurethane impact moulding aft in the keel box.

·          Hand laminated rudder blade using Biaxial and Unidirectional E-Glass reinforcement in a polyester resin.

·          Double tapered aluminium rudderstock with three wings welded to the stock.

·          The wings of the stock are laminated to one half of the rudder before assembly.

·          The blade halves are laminated and glued together.

·          Keels modified to be easily fixed down.

Propulsion & Steering :

·          Lewmar draglink steering system.

·          The steering wheel is attached to the bevel head gear, which in turn rotate a torque tube attached to a reduction gearbox. The reduction gearbox actuates the draglink which connect to a cast aluminium tiller arm.

·          The steering pedestal is integrated into the deck moulding.

·          The aluminium alloy rudder stock is mounted in self-adjusting needle bearings in the hull and a needle bearing in the deck. 

·          5-spoke wheel with cover.

Plumbing Systems

Bilge Pumps:

·          The yacht has double manual membrane 1 ½” (38mm) bilge pumps fitted in the sides of the cockpit.

·          The strainers have integral non-return valves and are fitted in the bilges close to the keelbox.

·          Bilge pumps modified with 2 x inlets in bow and stern.

Accommodation

Crew Area in Front of Mast:

·          21mm plywood floor.

·          Painted white using topcoat.

·          Non-slip finish on walking surface.

·          Finger hole.

·          Floor reinforced with fiberglass to support bowman jumping in.

Deck Equipment

·          I: 43’ / 13.1m.

·          J: 13’2” / 4m.

·          P: 44’4” / 13.5m.

·          E: 13’9” / 4.2m.

·          Mast is fractionally rigged with a keel stepped mast base.

·          Seldén C5L 193x102mm mast section made of anodised aluminium which is tapered above the hounds.

·          Headbox with sheaves for main halyard, clevis pin for backstay, crane length 750 mm.

·          Windex, crane length 750mm.

·          At the hounds there is a nose fitting for the headstay, spinnaker leadblock.

·          Plate for shroud T-Terminal attachment.

·          One sheavebox for topping lift.

·          2 sets of anodised aluminium airfoil sectioned spreaders. Sweep angle 19°.

·          Diagonals fitted in seats in spreader bases.

·          Mast section can be split below lower spreader pair.

·          2 x Spinpole eyes.

·          Cast aluminium alloy gooseneck with reef hooks.

·          Aluminium alloy maststep.

·          Cast aluminium alloy vang attachment.

·          Cast aluminium alloy mastring with attachments for tierods, mast blocks, halyards and a seal.

·          Tie rods.

·          Anodised aluminium alloy boom section 230x65mm  custom designed for the SM40.

·          Cast aluminium alloy outboard end with 3 sheaves for outhaul and 2 reef lines. 

·          Cast aluminium alloy inboard end.

·          Vang fitting.

·          Webbing for mainsheet attachment. Webbing for the clew comes with sails.

Standing Rigging:

·          Discontinuous stainless steel 1 x 19 strands wire rigging.

·          Stud-toggle bronze rigging screws.

·          Forestay, 7mm, fork terminal – fork terminal.

·          Backstay, 5mm, eye terminal – fork terminal.

·          2 x V1, 10mm, t-terminal – stud toggle bronze rigging screwns.

·          2 x V2 & D3, 8mm, t-terminal – eye terminal.

·          D1, 8mm, stemball – stud toggle bronze rigging screws.

·          D2, 6mm, stemball – stud toggle bronze rigging screws.

Winches (Andersen):

·          2 x 44 Aluminium standard.

·          2 x 40 Aluminium standard.

·          Mainsail: 43.8m2 / 471ft2.

·          Genoa: 32m2 / 344ft2.

·          Spin: 85m2 / 915ft2.

·          All yachts in fleet have 1 set of sails.

·          Storage of large articles through hatch in cockpit floor.

·          Foot rails incorporated in aforementioned hatch.

·          There is a GRP moulded foredeck hatch guided by tracks.

·          The vertical sides on the cockpit contain GRP mouldings that can be used for storage of loose equipment.

·          A hatch is provided in the deck above the rudderstock and bearings for service and inspection.

·          A loosely fitted lid is placed on top of the keelbox recess in the deck.

·          For sliding foredeck hatch.

Stainless Steel Fittings:

·          2 x 25mm pipe bends are fitted in the bow either side of the headstay attachment.

·          2 x 25mm foot rail is fitted along the sheerline of the foredeck.

·          2 x 25mm handles for spinnaker pole storage.  

·          1 x 30mm umpire cage which include mooring points is fastened aft of the helmsman.

·          2 x Deck protruding chain plates with holes for 2x fork turnbuckles. Fitted to the main ring frame.

·          1 x Deck protruding bow chainplate. Holes for 1x headstay fork terminal and 1x sail attachment.

·          2 x Backstay attachments.

·          3 x Latches for hatches in cockpit.

·          12 x Studs to ensure both cockpit hatches are secured in a fixed position.

·          Forward and aft M20 keel securing bolt in the top of keelbox.

·          M20 bolts for joining the bulb and keel fin.

Anchoring & Mooring Equipment:

·          4 x 12mm 6m long mooring ropes.

·          4 x Fenders.

Covers, Canvas & Cushions :

·          Canvas mainsail cover. 

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The Sweden Yachts 40 combines modern design and materials with traditional comfort and high performance. The Sweden Yachts 40 is built on the same successful concepts as the Sweden Yachts 42 and 45 with the same live aboard comfort. This includes the much favoured “easy to handle” sail plan with self-tacking jib.

Every Sweden Yachts 40 is built to the owner’s specification, with choices of installations to match any desire for ease of handling, speed and comfort. The high-standard specification can, among others, be extended with different keel and rigg options.

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The interior layout of the Sweden Yachts 40 is both practical and spacious. The standard layout provides three double berths along with a comfortable dining area, galley, navigation table and two shower rooms. At Sweden Yachts we pride ourselves on being adaptable to our customer’s bespoke requirements, any layout can be altered to suit the customer.

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On Christmas that year, Morris — who would go on to found Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, and become a leading figure in the American evangelical movement — began what he would later describe as “inappropriate sexual behavior” with Clemishire while he was staying at her parents’ home in Oklahoma. Clemishire said Morris told her to come see him in his room before bed, and she was the type of girl who listened to instructions from trusted adults.

But 25 years later, when Clemishire hired an attorney and threatened to sue Morris, accusing him of repeatedly molesting her as a child, a lawyer representing Morris responded by blaming Clemishire for what happened to her, according to 2007 correspondence obtained by NBC News.

“It was your client,” wrote lawyer J. Shelby Sharpe, referring to Clemishire at age 12, “who initiated inappropriate behavior by coming into my client’s bedroom and getting in bed with him, which my client should not have allowed to happen.”

The Feb. 6, 2007, letter was one in a series of exchanges that year between Sharpe and Gentner Drummond, a lawyer who represented Clemishire at the time. Clemishire said in an interview last week she had been seeking $50,000 in restitution from Morris to cover the cost of counseling. Morris, through his lawyer, instead offered to pay $25,000, but the talks fell apart, Clemishire said, because she was not willing to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

Drummond, who is now Oklahoma’s attorney general, confirmed Clemishire’s description of the 2007 negotiations and declined to comment further. 

Reached by phone Monday, Sharpe said that he had no recollection of the $25,000 settlement offer or NDA demand and that he no longer represents Morris. He denied knowing at the time that Clemishire had been a child when Morris began engaging in sexual behavior with her. However, the initial correspondence Drummond sent to him stated clearly that Clemishire was “twelve years old” when the abuse began.

“I don’t ever remember seeing that,” Sharpe said after a reporter read the document to him. After a reporter offered to share a copy of the messages, Sharpe said he did not have time to read them and declined to share an email address.

“I can tell you that the letters that you’ve seen, they speak for themselves,” said Sharpe, who has also served as a personal attorney to Paige Patterson , a Southern Baptist Convention leader accused of mishandling or concealing sexual assaults that date back to the late 1980s. “I will not amplify beyond those letters, because they speak for themselves.”

Morris did not respond to messages.

Clemishire went public with her accusations last month in a post published by the church watchdog site The Wartburg Watch . Morris responded with a statement admitting to “inappropriate sexual behavior” and saying he had long ago confessed and repented. Gateway Church leaders initially said Morris had been “open and forthright about a moral failure he had over 35 years ago” but later said they did not know Clemishire was a child at the time.

Within days, Morris resigned as senior pastor of the megachurch he started in 2000, and Gateway elders hired an outside law firm to investigate the matter.

Lawrence Swicegood, a Gateway spokesperson, said church leaders had not seen the 2007 letters between Drummond and Sharpe. Swicegood said that before Clemishire went public with her story last month, “the current Elders did not have all the facts.”

Gateway sex abuse scandal

• Pastor Robert Morris confesses to "inappropriate sexual behavior" after Cindy Clemishire accuses him of molesting her as a child in the 1980s.
• Morris resigns as senior pastor of Gateway Church.
• In secret recording , a Gateway elder says accepting Morris' resignation was "one of the most difficult decisions in my life.”
• Emails reveal Clemishire's attempts to seek restitution from Morris in 2005.
• Morris asked his accuser how much her silence would cost , a phone transcript shows.

While the internal review is underway, four Gateway officials have agreed to take leaves of absence from the board of elders, the church announced last month . One is pastor James Morris, Robert Morris’ son. The three others served on the board of elders during the critical period from 2005 to 2007 when Clemishire was seeking damages.

“Gateway Church is committed to protecting people — first and foremost children and the most vulnerable,” Swicegood said in an email. “Abuse simply cannot be tolerated.”

Clemishire, now 54, sees the 2007 letter from Sharpe as part of a pattern of Morris and his associates’ attempting to make her feel guilt and shame for what he did to her.

“They don’t look at a child as someone to protect,” Clemishire said.

Clemishire said she struggled for years with “profound confusion” over what Morris did, believing for nearly two decades that she was to blame. She said Morris molested her more than 100 times over 4½ years. After the first encounter on Christmas in 1982, Clemishire said, “it just progressed to a lot of kissing and touching and inserting fingers into my body.” She said Morris pressured her to have intercourse, but she refused. Morris has acknowledged “kissing and petting” and argued that the number of incidents was a fraction of what Clemishire alleges.

Clemishire said that in the mid-2000s, after years of counseling and after having watched a television interview about grooming and sex abuse, she realized what happened to her was a crime.

She began writing to Morris at his Gateway Church email address in 2005, asking that he compensate her for the trauma she says he inflicted. In 2007, she hired Drummond to make a formal demand, according to documents provided to NBC News by Boz Tchividjian, the lawyer she hired last month. 

On Jan. 30, 2007, Drummond wrote to Sharpe on behalf of Clemishire, using her legal name at the time, Cindy Clemishire McCaleb. Drummond detailed the sexual abuse Clemishire says she suffered from 1982 to 1987 and how Morris “led her to believe that they were having a special relationship that had to remain secret.”

“Morris convinced Ms. McCaleb that she was responsible for what he did to her,” Drummond wrote, “and he convinced her that she was the offender.”

Drummond attached a draft of a lawsuit he said Clemishire planned to file if Morris failed to respond within 15 days.

"Reverend Morris began sexually assaulting Ms. McCaleb, who was then twelve years old." Gentner Drummond, Jan. 30, 2007

Sharpe responded a week later, on Feb. 6, 2007, with his letter casting Clemishire as the one who initiated sexual contact with Morris.

"It was your client who initiated inappropriate behavior by coming into my client's bedroom and getting in bed with him, which my client should not have allowed to happen." J. Shelby Sharpe, Feb. 6, 2007

Sharpe also claimed in the letter that Clemishire “acted inappropriately with two other men who stayed in her home between 1982 and 1987,” when she was between the ages of 12 and 17. And Sharpe wrote that Clemishire had “confessed her conduct” to Glenda Faulkner, a woman who attended Shady Grove Church near Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1980s, when Morris was a pastor there. 

Faulkner, now Glenda Faulkner-Woodliff — a licensed counselor who later attended Gateway — did not respond to messages requesting comment.

In an interview, Clemishire disputed Sharpe’s characterizations. She said two other men touched her inappropriately at her home when she was a child, but she said she did not initiate those interactions. In one instance, Clemishire said, it was Morris who instructed her, when she was 13, to go into a bedroom at her childhood home where another traveling evangelist was staying. Once she was inside, she said, the man, whom she declined to name, began to kiss her but eventually pulled away and told her she was too young.

In another instance, in 1986, Clemishire said, another man who was staying with her family climbed on top of her while she was sleeping on a sofa bed next to his 3-year-old daughter. She believed he planned to rape her, but she said the man suddenly got off of her.

“I really think God intervened,” Clemishire said. “God made him feel like someone was walking by, and he just rolled off of me and left.”

It was that incident, Clemishire said, that eventually led her to confide in Faulkner-Woodliff, also a family friend. Faulkner-Woodliff asked whether anyone else had ever touched her that way, Clemishire said. Clemishire then reluctantly explained what Morris had done to her, she said. Afterward, Clemishire said, Faulkner-Woodliff insisted that she tell her parents.

That’s how, in March 1987, her father learned that Morris had been sexually abusing her, Clemishire said. She said her father was enraged and contacted Olen Griffing, the senior pastor at Shady Grove Church, to demand that Morris step out of ministry.

Clemishire remembers getting a call from Morris’ wife, Debbie, a few days later. 

Debbie told her, “I forgive you,” she said.

“I’ll never forget that,” Clemishire said. “They wanted me to believe that I — me, the child — was responsible for what happened. And they’ve never stopped trying to make me believe that.”

Griffing, now in his 80s, later served as a pastor and elder under Morris at Gateway Church. He did not respond to messages.

Clemishire’s older sister was living with her family in 1987 and corroborated Clemishire’s account of conversations that took place that year among her sister, her parents, Faulkner-Woodliff, Griffing and the Morris family.

In the years since then, Morris has repeatedly told a sanitized and, at times, distorted version of the story. He has spoken often from the pulpit of struggling with sexual immorality and having to step out of ministry in 1987. But in public tellings, he says sinful pride was the reason, omitting mention of his years of sexual contact with a child.

In a sermon at Gateway on June 10, 2017 , in a message titled “The Principle of Honesty,” Morris described going through a “restoration process” about seven years into his marriage — which would have been in 1987. Morris said God told him he needed to confess “everything that I’ve ever done” to two people: Griffing, the former Shady Grove senior pastor, and his wife, Debbie.

He said he told Debbie, “I need to tell you who you really married.”

The confession took several hours, Morris said in the 2017 sermon, but he did not mention specific sins from the pulpit.

“I’ll never forget what she said,” Morris said, setting up a line that drew laughter from the Gateway congregation. “She said, ‘Robert, I knew you were bad when I married you. I didn’t know you were that bad.’”

When he told that story again on Aug. 28, 2022 , in a sermon titled “Passing the Purity Test,” Morris presented his openness about his past failings as something congregants should emulate.

In that sermon, he recounted the Old Testament story of King David’s son Amnon, who is said to have raped his half-sister Tamar when she was a teenager. After he raped her, the Scripture says, Amnon’s love for Tamar turned to intense hatred, Morris said.

Morris presented the passage as a cautionary tale for “young ladies” in his congregation — a warning about what can happen when girls allow men to have sex with them before marriage.

“When love turns to lust and lust is fulfilled, then love can turn to hate, and here’s why,” Morris said. “One of the reasons, young ladies, that he loves you is he respects you. The very thing that the world tells you to give him so you can keep him could be the very thing that causes you to lose him.”

Because, he said, “you can’t love someone you don’t respect.”

As she has watched Morris grow in power, prominence and wealth over the years, Clemishire said, she has always believed none of it would have been possible had he not hidden the truth of what he did to her.

On Feb. 16, 2007, Sharpe, Morris’ lawyer, sent a follow-up letter to Drummond indicating a desire to keep her allegations out of court. He proposed settling the matter through “Christian arbitration consistent with 1 Corinthians 6:1-8,” referring to a Bible passage evangelicals often cite to argue it is immoral to sue other Christians.

Sharpe said he had one goal with the suggestion: “I was at the time trying to reach a good resolution for everybody.”

But Clemishire, who did not agree to the arbitration, believes the true goal had been to keep her quiet and protect Morris from the types of repercussions he has faced since she went public last month.

“I don’t think there was any true repentance or sorrow for what happened,” Clemishire said.

Otherwise, she said, “that would not have been the response.”

Mike Hixenbaugh is a senior investigative reporter for NBC News, based in Maryland, and author of "They Came for the Schools."

Antonia Hylton is a correspondent for NBC News.